Odontepyris Kieffer 1904
Creators: name: Lim, Jongok
name: Shin, Sangchul
name: Lee, Seunghwan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Odontepyris

description: Key to the species of Odontepyris from the Eastern Palaearctic region [Female]   
1. Forewing without areolet............................................................................................................................................. 2  
- Forewing with areolet................................................................................................................................................... 4  
2. Head with almost straight posterior margin in dorsal view; 3rd antennal segment as long as 2nd segment; small,  
 about 3.0mm in body length .................................................................................. O. liukueiensis Terayama [Taiwan] - Head with concave posterior margin in dorsal view; 3rd antennal segment distinctly longer than 2nd segment; relatively large, about 6.0mm in body length.............................................................................................................................. 3 3. Antennal scape about 2.0X as long as 3rd antennal segment; ocelli forming acute triangle anteriorly............................ .......................................................................................................................................... O. fujianus Xu et al. [China]   
 - Antennal scape more than 2.0X as long as 3rd antennal segment; ocelli forming regular triangle............................... ......................................................................................................................................... O. marishi Terayama [Japan]   
4. Head with almost straight posterior margin in the middle............................................................................................ 5  
- Head with concave posterior margin in the middle...................................................................................................... 9  
5. Propodeal disc with distinct three discal carinae.......................................................................................................... 6  
 - Propodeal disc with one discal carina ................................................................................. O. fudoh Terayama [Japan]   
 6. Forewing with basal acute areolet .......................................................................... O. formosicola Terayama [Taiwan]   
- Forewing without basal acute areolt........................................................................................................................... 7  
 7. Head distinctly longer than wide............................................................................. O. hainanus Xiao and Xu [China]   
- Head distinctly wider than long................................................................................................................................... 8  
 8. Forewing with small subrectangular areolet; scutellar pit connected by simple anterior transverse groove without fovea ............................................................................................................................. O. japonicus Terayama [Japan]   
 - Forewing with long ellipsoidal areolet (3.6X as long as wide); scutellar pit connected by thin anterior transverse groove with six foveae between the pits ........................................................................ O. obtusus Xu and He [China]   
 9. Forewing with distinct rectangular areolet................................................................. O. taiwanus Terayama [Taiwan]   
- Forewing with ellipsoidal areolet.............................................................................................................................. 10  
 10. Legs entirely reddish brown; areolet more than 2.5X as long as maximum width... O. rufipedis Xu and He [China]   
- Legs black, except trochanters, tibiae and tarsi brown or testaceous; areolet less than 2.5X as long as maximum width.......................................................................................................................................................................... 11  
 11. Eye strongly protruded; 3rd antennal segment more than 2.0X as long as wide; paramedian discal carinae on propo- deal disc extending nearly transverse carina .................................................................... O. ovatus Xu and He [China]   
 - Eye weakly protruded; 3rd antennal segment less than 2.0X as long as wide; paramedian discal carinae on propodeal disc extending 7/10 of length of disc ....................................................................... O. telortis sp. nov. [ South Korea]
description: Published as part of Lim, Jongok, Shin, Sangchul & Lee, Seunghwan, 2009, New species of Odontepyris Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae), an ectoparasitoid of Telorta divergens (Butler) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) larvae, pp. 49-54 in Zootaxa 2052 on pages 52-53, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.274769