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Body usually metallic; size ranges from 1 - 48 mm (length) (including ovipositor). |
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Female antenna with 8 - 13 segments (with 2/3 anelli). |
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Antenna with 6 funicular segments. |
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Fore and hind tarsi 5 segmented; spur of fore tibia curved. |
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Head with clypeal margin either straight, emarginated or with median incision; scape either reaching median ocellus or not; toruli either situated in the middle of face or inserted very high. |
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Head with clypeal margin with median incision. |
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Head in dorsal view. |
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Mandible with 3/4 teeth. |
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Pronotum convex / rounded off / elongate / carinate / rectangular; scutellum with or without frenal groove. |
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Mesosoma with incomplete or complete notauli. |
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Propodeum with or without median carina; plicae absent, incomplete or complete. |
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Propodeum with nucha. |
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Fore wing with marginal vein normal or thickened (usually longer than broad); distinct post marginal and stigmal vein; stigma either normal or enlarged; speculum distinct / indistinct. |
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Fore wing with normal stigma. |
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Sessile / subsessile metasoma. |
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Petiolated metasoma. |
