Krokella Huber 1993

KROKELLA Huber, 1993 (Figs 170–175) Krokella Huber, 1993: 349. Type species: Krokella fera Huber, 1993, by original designation. Diagnosis. Face without subantennal sulcus ventral to each torulus and toruli abutting transverse trabecula (Fig. 170a); mandibles in female minute, with a wide gap between them when closed, mandibles in male massive, with a long ventrally serrate dorsal tooth, strongly overlapping when closed (Fig. 171); funicle 5- or 6-segmented, with clava 3-segmented; frenum longitudinally divided by median sulcus and paramedial plates about as wide as long (Fig. 174); fore wing with venation greater than half wing length (Fig. 172); ovipositor distinctly exserted beyond apex of gaster. Male flagellum 9-segmented, with junction between apical two segments wide (Fig. 173). Remarks. Krokella belongs to the Anagrus group of genera. It is one of two genera in the group with venation greater than half the wing length; the other is Neopolynemoidea. Krokella differs in having the fore wing wide, with a somewhat truncated apex (Fig. 172). Neotropical hosts. Unknown. Important reference. Huber (1993).