Handbook of Nearctic Chalcidoidea

Notes: ovipositor is horizontal or curved

ovipositor directed horizontally (in most species not extended beyond apex of metasoma (gaster)); tegula a nearly oval disc; forewing not folded longitudinally.

Chalcididae

1.Chalcidoidea

2.Epitranus clavatus

future couplets

Head projecting as 2 "horns" (surro... ... Dirhininae

Hindtibia squarely truncate, at ape... ... Haltichellinae

Hindtibia obliquely truncate at ape... ... Chalcidinae

ovipositor curved dorsally over metasoma (gaster); tegula narrowly extended forward; forewing often folded longitudinally.

Leucospidae

2.Leucospis birkmani