Fig 1. A. niger (Masi)	Fig 2. A. niger - Hind femur
Fig 3. A. mitys (Walker)	Fig 4. A. nasutus (Holmgren)
Fig 5. A. nasutus - Frons	Fig 6. A. nasutus - Pronotum

Antrocephalus Kirby, 1883

Taxonomy

Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Chalcididae: Haltichellinae

Diagnosis

Frons with strong horse-shoe shaped carina, running from above, behind front ocellus along inner margin of eyes (Fig. 5).
Hind femur either uni or bilobed or without distinct lobe (Fig. 2).
Pronotum regularly convex; pronotal carina with paired strong or weak tubercles in the middle, these tubercles weak or indistinct in non typical species (Fig. 6).

Biology / Hosts

Mainly attack Lepidoptera occasionally Aphididae (Ceratovacuna lanigera) and Apidae (Apis cerana) (Noyes, 2016).

Distribution

Africa, Australia, New Guinea, South America, South Europe and South Asia (Boucek, 1988; Narendran, 1989).

References

• Bouček, Z. (1988). Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). A biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. CAB International, Wallingford, Oxon, U.K., Cambrian News Ltd; Aberystwyth, Wales. 832 pp.
• Narendran, T.C. (1989). Oriental Chalcididae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Zoological Monograph. Department of Zoology, University of Calicut, Kerala, India. 441 pp.
• Noyes, J.S. (2016). Universal Chalcidoidea Database. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/chalcidoids (accessed on 28/9/2016).