Stalk-eyed wasps-review of a largely unnoticed group of morphologically bizarre chalcidoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae: Axima) Author Arias-Penna, Diana Carolina Department of Entomology, 320 Morrill Hall, 505 S. Goodwin Ave., University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. Author Pape, Thomas Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, DK- 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. E-mail: tpape @ snm. ku. dk Author Krogmann, Lars State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Entomology, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany. text Zootaxa 2014 2014-09-25 3866 4 583 590 journal article 4338 10.11646/zootaxa.3866.4.8 b3aeebb0-e3ac-4d28-b818-2078770d69b3 1175-5326 4930615 44180882-335E-41D2-AACA-F43358A82FDA Key to females of Axima noyesi species group 1 Head produced dorsolaterally into tubular process bearing eye at apex........................( noyesi species group) …2 - Head not produced dorsolaterally into tubular process, eye in normal position.......................................................................................( spinifrons species group, see key in Ashmead 1904 , pp. 458–459) 2 Mesoscutum without median carina. Mesoscutellar process dorsally pointed....................................................................................................... A. diabolus ( Yoshimoto & Gibson, 1979 , fig. 3) - Mesoscutum with median carina at least slightly indicated. Mesoscutellar process dorsally rounded ( Fig. 2 ).............. 3 3 Median mesoscutal carina slightly indicated ( Fig. 8 ), laterally flanked by rows of piliferous punctures (rounded depressions). Mt5 and Mt6 with distinct setation ( Fig. 10 )............................................ A. noyesi Subba Rao, 1978 - Median mesoscutal carina more distinctly raised ( Fig. 7 ), laterally flanked by rows of piliferous foveae (subrectangular depressions). Mt5 bare, Mt6 with few scattered setae ( Fig. 9 )..................... A. sidi Arias-Penna, Pape & Krogmann , sp. n.