Foersteria Szépligeti, 1896

Yan, Cheng-Jin, He, Jun-Hua & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2013, Two genera Foersteria Szépligeti, 1896 and Polydegmon Foerster, 1862 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Brachistinae) from China, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 3683 (2), pp. 178-184 : 179

Foersteria Szépligeti, 1896

Foersteria Szépligeti, 1896: 148 ; Shenefelt, 1970: 273; van Achterberg, 1990: 7 –13; Papp, 1997: 110 –111; Belokobylskij, 1998: 440 –442, 467–468. Type species: Foersteria flavipes Szépligeti, 1896 .

Diagnosis. Length of body 2.6–4.5 mm; antennal segments 25–30; occipital carina nearly complete and strongly curved towards hypostomal carina but reduced ventrally, and usually nearly reaching hypostomal carina; occipital flange medium-sized to wide, more or less protruding below mandible; pronope wide, elliptical or near round and situated near anterior rim; precoxal sulcus absent; vein CU1b of fore wing present; hind trochantellus and femur with strong and complete longitudinal carina; tarsal claws simple or with small acute lobe; hind coxa without dorsal tooth; ventro-posterior rim of third metasomal tergite not differentiated from its epipleuron and at most obliquely striate; second and third tergites densely setose; length of ovipositor sheath 0.5–1.5 times fore wing.