Ipsiura Linsenmaier, 1959

Lucena, Daercio A. A., Kimsey, Lynn S. & Almeida, Eduardo A. B., 2016, The Neotropical cuckoo wasp genus Ipsiura Linsenmaier, 1959 (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae): revision of the species occurring in Brazil, Zootaxa 4165 (1), pp. 1-71 : 6

Genus Ipsiura Linsenmaier, 1959

Ipsiura Linsenmaier, 1959: 74 (as subgenus of Pleurocera Guérin-Méneville, 1842 ). Type species: Chrysis marginalis Brullé, 1846 , by original designation.

Ipsiura: Bohart 1966: 142 (as subgenus of Neochrysis Linsenmaier, 1959 ).

Ipsiura: Bohart 1985: 708 ; Kimsey 1985: 275; Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 506.

Revised diagnosis of Ipsiura . Brow with a strong TFC (absent or sometimes residual in Neochrysis and Pleurochrysis ); pronotum with a strong protruding nearly straight lateral carina (rounded or only sharp margins in Exochrysis , Neochrysis and Pleurochrysis ); lateral metanotal tooth adjcent to propodeal tooth (in Exochrysis the metanotal lateral tooth is digitate and pointing away from propodeal angle); lateral propodeal tooth with a large, shallow, elongate fovea latero-posteriorly (regularly punctate in Exochrysis and Pleurochrysis mostly); propodeum without medial tooth (clearly protruding in Exochrysis ); fore and hind femora with a basal fovea (absent in most Pleurochrysis and present only on hind femora in Exochrysis and Neochrysis ); R1 vein of fore wing shorter than the stigma length or absent (clearly longer than stigma in Exochrysis and many Neochrysis and Pleurochrysis ); basolateral margin of T2 without translucent edges, except in I. brevispina and I. longiventris (present in mostly species of Exochrysis , Neochrysis and Pleurochrysis ); male S4 completely exposed (absent in some Pleurochrysis ); male S4 about two-thirds as long as S3 (short in Exochrysis and Neochrysis ); male S4 at least faintly metallic and forming a well sclerotized sclerite (in Exochrysis , Neochrysis and mostly species of Pleurochrysis only a narrow border composed by condensed setae is exposed); male S8 elongated and subtriangular (usually blunt apically in Neochrysis ); genital capsule elongate, composed by long, slender, delicate elements (usually more sclerotized and robust in Exochrysis , and some Neochrysis , varying forms in Pleurochrysis ).