Yelicones Cameron 1887

Genus Yelicones Cameron, 1887 Yelicones Cameron 1887: 387; van Achterberg, 1995: 147; Quicke et al. 1997. Type species. Yelicones violaceipennis Cameron, designated by Viereck (1914). Rhopalotoma Cameron 1911: 318. Type species, Rhopalotoma crassitarsis Cameron, monotypic. Pectenopius Fischer 1961: 156. Type species, Pectenopius paradoxus Fischer, original designation. Diagnosis. Following van Achterberg,1995 and Quicke et al., 1997, the genus Yelicones can be recognized by the following combination of characters—mandibles with a small accessory third tooth; hind wing with vein 2m-cu (Figs 3B, 5B, 5C, 6, 7D, 10D, 11, 12C); shortened fore tarsi (Figs 6, 7D, 10A); second, third and fourth tarsal segments very short, telotarsus enlarged (Fig. 10D); hind basitarsus laterally compressed (Fig. 10D); claws pectinate; ovipositor not or hardly exserted (Figs 3A, 5G, 10D).