Monolexis
A small genus with less than 20 species known [1].
References
- , “Taxapad 2012, Ichneumonoidea 2011. Database on flash-drive.”. www.taxapad.com, Ottawa, Canada., 2012.
Parasitoids of beetle larvae in the families Lyctidae, Bostrichidae, Scolytidae, Buprestidae, Cerambycidae and Cucujidae [1].
References
- , “Systematics, distribution and diversity of the Australasian doryctine wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Doryctinae).”, Records of the South Australian Museum Monograph Series, vol. 8, pp. 1-150, 2004.
Head transverse; ocellar triangle with base larger than its sides; eyes glabrous; occipital carina present, reduced ventrally and not fused with hypostomal carina; postgenal bridge narrow; palpi formula 6-4; scape wide and short, without apical lobe;first flagellar segment almost straight, not shorter than second segment; neck of promesosoma short, slightly convex dorsally; pronotal keel absent; anterior surface of mesonotum subvertical, strongly raised above pronotum; notauli complete, deep, shallow posteriorly; sternaulus distinct, long, straight; prepectal carina present; propodeum without marginated areas, without lateral tubercles; propodeal bridge absent; fore tibia with numerous slender spines; hind coxa with basoventral corner and tooth; hind basitarsus 0.5-0.6 times as long as segments 2-5 combined; fore wing marginal cell slightly shortened; r-m absent; 1m-cu slightly postfurcal, rarely interstitial; 1cu-a postfurcal; 3CU distinctly curved basally; first subdiscal cell open posteroapically; 2cu-a absent; hind wing cu-a present; subbasal cell short; m-cu present, oblique toward base of wing; basal cell narrow apically; RS arising from R; marginal cell without r; in male hind wing without stigma-like enlargement; first metasomal tergite not petiolate, wide, with distinct dorsope; acrosternite about 0.2 times as long as tergite; second suture present, distinctly curved laterally; second tergite without furrows or defined areas; third tergite without transverse furrow; ovipositor longer than metasoma [1].
Small to median size, 1.5-5.0 mm; head moderately cubical, somewhat transverse; occipital carina meeting hypostomal carina; mesoscutum declivous anteriorly; fore tibia with single row of 6-10 stout spines along anterior edge; hind coxa with small but distinct basal tubercle; second metasomal tergum with shallow transverse broadly sinuate groove; basal sternal plate of first metasoma segment less than 0.25 length of tergum; fore win vein r-m absent, vein m-cu reaching 2M beyond 2RS, first subdiscal cell open at apex; hind wing vein M+CU longer than vein 1M, vein cu-a present [2].
References
- , “Systematics, distribution and diversity of the Australasian doryctine wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Doryctinae).”, Records of the South Australian Museum Monograph Series, vol. 8, pp. 1-150, 2004.
- , The Doryctinae of Costa Rica (excluding the genus Heterospilus), vol. 70, 1 vol. Gainsville, Fl.: American Entomological Institute, 2002, p. 319.
Distinguished from other genera without vein r-m in fore wing by having vein m-cu reaching vein 2M beyond vein 2RS [1].
References
- , The Doryctinae of Costa Rica (excluding the genus Heterospilus), vol. 70, 1 vol. Gainsville, Fl.: American Entomological Institute, 2002, p. 319.
Afrotropical, Australasian, Nearctic, Neotropical, Palaearctic, Oceanic, Oriental.