Genus Cothonaspis Hartig

Cothonaspis Hartig, 1839 (1849) IN Germar, Zeitschr. für Ent. 2:186.— Weld, 1952, Cynipoidea 1905 -1950, 242.

Type: Cothonaspis pentatomus Hartig, designation by Foerster, 1869.

Antenna of female 13-segmented; antennal segment 3 slightly shorter than 4; apical segments forming club. Prothorax broadly truncate. Scutellar cup large, ovate, with small pits at lateral margin, cup not reaching as far back as disc; scutellar disc with ridges radiating from cup to margin of rim, punctate-rugose. Wing pubescent, ciliate, radial cell closed; tergite 2 without a hairy ring.