282a (280b).    Sides of head ("cheeks") laterally ridged, temple absent (Fig.A), gena posteriorly

             produced into a lamina; antenna clubbed, all preclub segments of flagellum at right angles

             to longitudinal axis; scutellum anteriorly with 2 deep pits; second dorsal plate of petiolate

             abdomen very large, covering most of dorsum, dorsally somewhat fused with the 1st dorsal

             plate........................................................……........................ Pteromalidae (Asaphinae)....[also see 294]

 

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                                 A

 

282b.    Sides of head rounded laterally; notauli (= longitudinal sutures of the mesonotum

             separating the median area from the lateral area) incomplete and wide apart; marginal vein

             widened in basal part (Fig.A); clypeal margin often with deep incision and asymmetric

             teeth; dorsum of thorax reticulate, almost bare, without bristles (Fig.B)..........................

            ..............................……….................... Pteromalidae  (Pteromalinae / Miscogasterinae)....[also see 294]

 

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                                       A                                         B