Omphale Haliday, 1833

Jamali, Mohd Majid, Zeya, Shahid Bin & Andrabi, Syed Aasif Hussain, 2022, The genus Omphale Haliday (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Eulophidae) from India with description of four new species, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 8 (2), pp. 229-243 : 230

Genus Omphale Haliday, 1833

Omphale Haliday, 1833:339 . Type species— Omphale salicis Haliday , by monotypy.

Smaragdites Westwood, 1833:419 . Type species— Smaragdites admirabilis Westwood , by monotypy. Synonymy by Graham, 1963:240.

Secodes Fӧrster, 1856:78 , 81. Type species— Secodes fagi Fӧrster , by monotypy. Synonymy by Graham, 1963:240.

Holcopelte Fӧrster, 1856:78 . Type species— Elachistus obscurus Fӧrster, 1841:40 , by monotypy and original designation. Synonymy by Hansson, 2004:142.

Euderomyia Girault, 1913:176 . Type species— Euderomyia carlylei Girault , by monotypy and original designation. Synonymy by Bouček, 1988:727.

Chrysocharoideus Ashmead, 1904:370 . Type species— Chrysocharis thoracicus Ashmead , by original designation. Synonymy by LaSalle & Schauff, 1992:12.

Chrysocharomyia Dodd , in Girault, 1915:207. Type species— Chrysocharomyia elongata Girault , by original designation. Synonymy by Bouček, 1988:727.

Paromphale Girault & Dodd , in Girault, 1915:211. Type species— Paromphale flavicorpus Girault , by original designation. Synonymy by Bouček, 1988:727.

Raphaelonia Girault, 1924:173 . Type species— Raphaelonia sulcatiscutum Girault , by monotypy. Synonymy by Bouček, 1988:727.

Eugerium Graham, 1959:202 . Type species— Cirrospilus isander Walker , by original designation. Synonymy by Hansson, 1996:5.

Exodontomphale Bouček, 1984:65 . Type species— Exodontomphale taborskyi Bouček , by original designation. Synonymy by Schauff, 1991:61.

Diagnosis: Female: Body pale yellow to dark brown, rarely black. Head with frontal grooves weakly to strongly V-shaped; scrobal grooves always ending separately on frontal grooves, rarely united before frontal grooves ( Fig. 1A); clypeus usually set off from surrounding by distinct suture ( Fig. 3A). Antenna ( Figs 1C, 2C) weak, tapering distally, either with three funiculars and two clavomeres, or with four funiculars and one clavomere; clava with a long spicula. Mesosoma shiny, with finely engraved reticulation, the meshes of which may be lengthened in various direction; pronotum strongly reduced dorsally; propodeum smooth, slightly convex transversely, without median carina. Fore wing with long setae, especially on marginal vein; marginal setae long; sparse pilosity below marginal vein; postmarginal vein well developed, rarely shorter than stigmal vein. Gaster sessile, usually oval to long lanceolate.

Male: Similar to female except sexual dimorphism and antenna with elongated whorled setae on the flagellomeres.

Host: Parastioids of cecidomyiids ( Hansson & Shevtsova, 2012).

Distribution: Worldwide.