Epimicta Foerster

Zheng, Min-Lin, Chen, Jia-Hua & Achterberg, C. Van, 2013, The discovery of the rare genus Epimicta Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in China, with a description of a new species, Zootaxa 3613 (2), pp. 190-194 : 193

Key to species of the genus Epimicta Foerster

1. Ovipositor sheath about as long as metasoma; East Palaearctic......................... E. longicaudalis Tobias, 1998

- Ovipositor sheath distinctly shorter than metasoma (Fig. 10).................................................. 2

2. Notauli incomplete, short, ending on disk in front of medio-posterior depression of mesoscutum; posterior mesopleural furrow smooth or nearly so, at most superficially crenulate; New World............................................... 3

- Notauli complete, extending to posterior margin of mesoscutum; posterior mesopleural furrow distinctly crenulate (Fig. 5); Old World.......................................................................................... 4

3. Head entirely black; mandibles dark yellow to yellow brown; frons usually rugose; U.S.A., Canada................................................................................................... E. griffithsi Wharton, 1994

- Head yellow except very dark brown area surrounding ocelli; mandibles whitish yellow; frons smooth; U.S.A............................................................................................ E. konzaensis Kula, 2005

4. Medio-posterior depression of mesoscutum long, present on anterior half of mesoscutum longitudinally(Fig. 7); sculpture on third metasomal tergite much coarser (Fig. 6); vein SR1 of fore wing is distinctly sinuate (Fig. 8); East Palaearctic........................................................................................... E. sulciscutum sp. nov.

- Medio-posterior depression of mesoscutum not on anterior half of mesoscutum; sculpture on third tergite less coarser; vein SR1 of fore wing is less sinuate; Palaearctic........................................ E. marginalis (Haliday, 1839)