(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Braconidae; Subfamily: Khoikhoiinae)
1A
1B
Clypeus without medial tooth (Sania) ...8
2A
2B
Medial lobe of mesoscutum lacking longitudinal row of large punctures posteromedially …3
3A
3B
Notauli crenulations weak and partly effaced …Khoikhoia oligospilos Sharkey
4A
Mesopleuron entirely rugosopunctate or rugose …5
4B
Mesopleuron at least partly smooth with punctures …6
5A
Middle lobe of scutum smooth with punctures anteromedially, otherwise rugosopunctate …Khoikhoia turneri Mason
5B
Middle lobe of scutum entirely rugosopunctate …Khoikhoia townesi Mason
6A
Mesosoma entirely black except tegula somewhat paler …Khoikhoia semiadusta Mason
6B
Mesosoma partly brown …7
7A
Median tergite 1 mostly smooth with weak microsculpture …Khoikhoia solata Mason
7B
Median tergite 1 mostly rugose …Khoikhoia lission Mason
8A
Discrimen smooth or with a few barely perceptable crenulae …9
8B
9A
Metapleuron mostly rugose, lacking a large smooth lightly punctate area …Sania capensis Mason
9B
Metapleuron partly rugose but with a large smooth lightly punctate area …Sania browni Sharkey
10A
Shape of scape flared apicoanteriorly with expanded apical surface …11
10B
Shape of scape not flared apicoanteriorly and lacking expanded apical surface …12
11A
Median tergite 1 partly smooth posterolaterally, rugose anteriorly; posterolateral margin straight …Sania masneri Sharkey
11B
Median tergite 1 completely rugose; posterolateral margin curved …Sania marjoriae Mason
12A
Median tergite 1 partly smooth posterolaterally, rugose anteriorly …Sania masoni Sharkey
12B
Median tergite 1 completely rugose …Sania henryi Mason
Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)
Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).
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