Dissomphalus Ashmead, 1893

Azevedo, Celso O., 2017, Review of Dissomphalus Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) from Panama, with key to the Central American species, Zootaxa 4335 (1), pp. 1-72 : 6

Genus Dissomphalus Ashmead, 1893

Dissomphalus Ashmead, 1893: 41 –42. Type-species: Dissomphalus xanthopus Ashmead , by original designation.

Ecitopria Wasmann, 1899: 55–56, 127. Type-species: Ecitopria crassicornis Wasmann, by monotypy. Synonymized by Evans, 1955: 290.

Psilobethylus Kieffer in Kieffer & Marshall, 1906: 461 –462. Type-species: Psilobethylus luteus Kieffer , by monotypy. Synonymized by Terayama, 1995: 888.

Thaumatepyris Kieffer, 1910a: 47. Type-species: Thaumatepyris punctatus Kieffer , by monotypy. Synonymized by Evans, 1964: 41.

Glenobethylus Kieffer, 1910a: 50. Type-species: Glenobethylus montanus Kieffer , by monotypy. Synonymized by Evans, 1964: 41.

Parisobrachium Kieffer, 1914b: 237 , 424. Type-species: Rhabdepyris ? albipes Kieffer, by monotypy. Synonymized by Azevedo, 2008: 784.

Parecitopria Oglobin, 1930: 15 . Type-species: Parecitopria azarai Oglobin , by monotypy. Synonimized by Evans, 1964: 41.

Diagnosis. Male. Body robust. Clypeus prominent, median lobe sometimes ill-defined. Metasoma relatively wide and short; second tergo sometimes with tergal process (depressions, pits, tufts of setae, tubercles). Hypopygium with three stalks. Genitalia wide; paramere simple or bilobate; aedeagus complex, composed by ventral ramus and dorsal body. Female. Head longer than wide. Eye small, with from one to about 25 facets. Mesonotum short, transverse, posterior margin gently convex at broad junction with propodeum; anterior margin of propodeum not embracing sides of mesonotum to any appreciable extent. Genitalia with aedeagus divided into dorsal body and ventral ramus.