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<mods:affiliationid="77A8C89D62F6A1F5C91FBF9B9B0D409A">Division of Plant Industry, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL, USA</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:affiliationid="5B55D63356559781D0B330ACB885CC17">Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, UK</mods:affiliation>
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The subfamily is poorly defined with no confirmed synapomorphic characters uniting the currently included taxa. Many, but not all, sceliotracheline genera possess foamy structures, which, among platygastroids, are limited to
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). The following characters can be loosely used for a broad definition: the form of the female antennal clava, which is often abrupt, massive and usually obviously 3- or 4-merous; a very stout habitus, similar to the form present in the subfamily
), at most a sharp lateral edge. There is a very short (sometimes almost absent) to a long, well developed (especially in species with 10 antennomeres) apically knobbed submarginal vein in
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