Ademon Haliday, 1833

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Genus Ademon Haliday, 1833

Ademon Haliday, 1833: 266. Type species: Bracon decrescens Nees von Esenbeck, 1812 (1811), by monotypy; type destroyed.

Lytacra Foerster, 1863: 266. Type species: Lytacra stygia Foerster, 1863, by monotypy and original designation.

Giardinaia de Stefani-Perez, 1902. Type species: Giardinaia urinator de Stefani, 1902, by monotypy.

Analostania Viereck, 1916. Type species: Analostania tenuipes Viereck, 1916, by monotypy and original designation.

Diagnosis.

Heavily-sculptured body with presence of an epicnemial carina (= prepectal carina), more or less developed ventrally; occipital carina complete dorsally; malar suture absent; crenulate depression above eye present; vein SR1 of forewing incomplete, not reaching the wing margin and resulting in an open marginal cell; medio-posteriorly scutellum with continuation of lateral elevated area; hind tibia, tarsus and tarsal claws very slender; second metasomal tergite distinctly longer than third tergite and second metasomal suture distinct ( Wu et al. 2014; Wharton 2021).

Distribution.

Afrotropical, Nearctic, Oriental and Palaearctic Regions (van Achterberg and Prinsloo 2012).