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3. Genus Coccygomimus 



Figure 299,a 



Pimpla of many authors, not of the genotype. 



Ephialtes of certain American authors, not of the genotype. 



Coccygomimus Saussure, 1892, In Grandidier, Histoire physique, naturelle et 



politique de Madagascar, vol. 20 (Hym6nopteres), pt. 1, pi. 14, fig. 12. Type: 



Coccygomimus madecassus Saussure; monobasic. 

 Habropimpla Cameron, 1900, Mem. Proc. Manchester Lit. Philos. Soc, vol. 44, 



p. 96. New synonymy. Type: Habropimpla bilineata Cameron; monobasic. 

 Lissotheronia Cameron, 1905, Spolia Zeylanica, vol. 3, p. 139. Type: Lissotheronia 



flavipes Cameron; monobasic. 

 Phytodiaetoid.es Morley, 1913, Fauna of British India . . . Hymenoptera, vol. 3, 



p. 221. New synonymy. Type: (Phytodiaetoides megaera Morley) = 



flavipalpis (Cameron) ; monobasic. 

 Pimplidea Viereck, 1914, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 83, p. 117. Type: Pimpla 



pedalis Cresson; original designation. 

 Liotheronia Enderlein, 1919, Sitz.-Ber. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin, vol. 1919, 



p. 147. New synonymy. Type: Liotheronia kriegeri Enderlein; original 



designation. 

 Dihyboplax Enderlein, 1919, Sitz.-Ber. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin, vol. 1919, 



p. 148. New synonymy. Type: Dihyboplax flavipennis Enderlein; original 



designation. 

 Neogabunia Brethes, 1927, Ent. Mitt., vol. 16, p. 322. New synonymy. Type: 



Neogabunia paulislana Brethes. 

 Opodactyla Seyrig, 1932, Mem. Acad. Malgache, vol. 11, p. 60. Type: Pimpla 



(Opodactyla) waterloti Seyrig; original designation. 

 Oxy pimpla Noskiewicz and Chudoba, 1951, Polskie Pismo Entomologisczne, vol. 



21, p. 42, 56. New synonymy. Type: Pimpla turionellae Linnaeus; mono- 

 basic. 



Front wing 3.2 to 17.5 mm. long; inner margin of eye weakly con- 

 cave above antennal socket; labrnm hidden beneath clypeus; cheek 

 usually long; mandible broad, its apical teeth approximately equal; 

 notaulus weak or absent, without a distinct crest at its front end; 

 median longitudinal carinae of propodeum usually present basally, the 

 propodeum otherwise without carinae (except sometimes for a sub- 

 lateral longitudinal ridge) ; hind femur without a tooth beneath; tarsal 

 claws of both sexes large, simple, without an enlarged hair with a 

 flattened tip; abdomen usually with close punctures but sometimes 

 sparsely punctured or almost impunctate; ovipositor approximately 

 straight, its tip not sharply curved downward. 



This is a worldwide genus with many species. Their habitat is 

 usually in woods, on low vegetation near the ground. Females spend 

 much time on the ground and on low vegetation. The usual hosts 

 are probably pupae and prepupae under ground litter. All the species 

 give off a strong, pungent odor when captured. Many of the species 

 are very common. 



