Subfamily MEROSCALPELLINAE Zevina, 1978

Meroscalpellinae Zevina, 1978b: 1343.

Diagnosis.

Capitulum with 14 or 13 plates, reduced in differing stages or proportions; carina with two umbo positions; females considered rarer than hermaphrodites; males saclike, usually without plates, rarely with two or four reduced plates.

Type genus.

Meroscalpellum Zevina, 1978b: 1346.