Binarea Brullé, 1846

Type species Binarea spinicollis Brullé, 1846 .

Binarea Brullé, 1846: 470; Shenefelt and Marsh 1976: 1267; Yu et al. 2016.

Diagnosis. Occipital carina completely absent. Maxillary palp long and narrow; third labial segment shortened. Scapus of antenna more or less distinctly depressed, with deep excision and dense pubescence on inner apical margin. Pronotum dorsally with single thick and obtuse projection. Propleuron anteriorly with two hook-like pointed teeth. Notauli reduced posteriorly. Propodeum without areolation. Precoxal furrow absent or very shallow. Hind coxa without dorsal projections and basoventral tubercle. First discal cell of fore wing shortly petiolate anteriorly. Hind wing vein m-cu present, short, slanted towards base of wing; marginal cell with transverse vein r; vein M + CU distinctly longer than vein 1-M. Second metasomal tergite with two shallow sublateral convergent furrows reaching second suture.

Distribution. Neotropical region. Four recognised species.