Phanerotomella Szepligeti, 1900 Figs 387-390, 391-401

Phanerotomella Szépligeti, 1900: 59; Shenefelt 1973: 929; van Achterberg 1990: 7; Zettel 1989: 18, 22-26, 58-59, 68-70; Tobias 2000: 439-440; Chen and Ji 2003: 229-231; Ahmad and Shujauddin 2003: 353; Braet et al. 2012: 24-25. Type-species: Phanerotomella longipes Szépligeti, 1900 (examined). Designated by Viereck 1914: 115.

Plesiosphaeropyx Cameron, 1912: 82, 84. Type-species: Plesiosphaeropyx albipalpis Cameron, 1912. Monotypic. Synonymised by De Saeger (1948).

Diagnosis.

Antennal segments (24-)30-60; eyes glabrous; vein 2-R1 of fore wing present (Fig. 391); second submarginal cell more or less triangular and often petiolate (Fig. 391); vein CU1b of fore wing absent, resulting in an open first subdiscal cell (Fig. 387); pterostigma usually comparatively slender; vein r of hind wing absent; vein 1-SR+M of fore wing present; carapace with distinct transverse sutures (Fig. 393); third metasomal tergite without slender lateral teeth, at most corners triangularly protruding latero-posteriorly (Fig. 393).

Distribution.

C & SE Europe, East Palaearctic, Afrotropical (including Malagasy) and Indo-Australian regions.