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5. Scutum with notauli . Amisega Cameron 
Scutum without notauli . Mesitiopterus Ashmead 
6. Pronotum with transverse anterior groove, female with normal 
wings; propodeal tooth broad, subtriangular (fig. 2) . 
. Adelphe Moscary 
Pronotum without transverse carina, female brachypterous, 
propodeal tooth slender and digitate . 
. Nesogyne Krombein 
7. RS stub sclerotized for less than half marginal cell length (if vein 
is extended by its traces and wing crease to wing margin); outer 
veins of discoidal cell faint or barely indicated (fig. 6); tarsal 
claws various. 8 
RS stub sclerotized for more than half marginal cell length (if 
vein is extended by its traces and wing crease to wing margin); 
outer veins of discoidal cell usually sclerotized (figs. 4, 5, 7); 
claws simple . 14 
8. Last visible tergum spiculate along apical margin; claws simple 
. 9 
Last visible tergum not spiculate along apical margin; claws 
dentate (Elampinae) . 10 
9. Tongue exserted and reaching near base of abdomen, last visible 
tergum subapically depressed on either side of midline; 
females with three normally visible terga, males with four 
(Parnopinae) . Parnopes Latreille 
Tongue short, not exserted; last visible tergum not subapically 
depressed; both sexes with three normally visible terga 
(Chrysidinae) . Gaullea Buysson 
10. Hindtarsal claw long and slender, with a medial, nearly per¬ 
pendicular tooth; frons with close punctation along inner eye 
margins (punctures less than one puncture diameter apart; 
scutellum not anteriorly carinate . 
. Hedychridium Abeille de Perrin 
Hindtarsal claw without a single, medial, nearly perpendicular 
tooth; other characteristics various . 11 
11. Medial vein essentially straight or weakly curved; hindtibia and 
usually midtibia with a definite pit on inner surface toward apex; 
female S-III usually with a nodular apicomedial projection 
... Hedychrum Latreille 
Medial vein strongly arched; hindtibia and midtibia without a pit 
on inner surface; female S-III without an apicomedial projec¬ 
tion . 12 
