(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chrysidoidea; Family: Bethylidae; Subfamily: Mesitiinae)
Pycnomesitius Móczár, 1971. Type species: Mesitius peringueyi Kieffer, 1913, by monotypy and original designation.
Afrotropical and Western Palaearctic regions. Afrotropical records: Madagascar, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania. Also Israel.
Unknown.
Argaman, Q. 2003. Generic synopsis of Mesitinae [sic] Kieffer, 1914 (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae). Entomofauna 24: 61–96.
Barbosa DN & Azevedo CO. 2012. Revision of Mesitiinae (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) from Madagascar, with description of eleven new species. Zootaxa 3417: 1-44
Móczár , L. 1971. Pyncomestius new genus from Bethylidae (Hymenoptera). Acta Biologica. Szeged. 17: 167-169.
Next genus: Sulcomesitius
