A review of Stephanidae (Hymenoptera: Stephanoidea) from India, with the description of five new species Author Binoy, C. 0000-0002-4999-1971 Insect Ecology and Ethology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Calicut, Kerala, 673635, India. & Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Malabar Christian College, Kozhikode, Affiliated to University of Calicut, Kerala, 673001, India. sant @ mccclt. ac. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4999 - 1971 sant@mccclt.ac.in Author Achterberg, C. Van State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology and Ministry of Agriculture / Key Lab of Agricultural Entomology, Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China. Author Kumar, P. Girish Western Ghat Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Eranhipalam, Kozhikode, Kerala, 673006, India. Author Santhosh, S. 0000-0002-4999-1971 Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Malabar Christian College, Kozhikode, Affiliated to University of Calicut, Kerala, 673001, India. sant @ mccclt. ac. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4999 - 1971 sant@mccclt.ac.in Author Sheela, S. Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700053, India. text Zootaxa 2020 2020-08-25 4838 1 1 51 journal article 8731 10.11646/zootaxa.4838.1.1 662e3cfb-c54c-4b01-ab00-a707ca9bf448 1175-5326 4403367 CBB2E456-150B-4D8F-AC3E-4F6D13217C6C Family Stephanidae Leach, 1815 Stephanida Leach 1815: 142 . Type genus: Stephanus Jurine, 1800 . Stephanidae : Haliday 1839 . Diagnosis. Body slender; head with 5 protuberances (“coronal teeth”) along the ocellar area; head subspherical to oval; antenna with 23–40 flagellomeres; small protruding clypeus; frons and temple with or without ivory streaks; neck and pronotum anteriorly with or without emargination, emargination either weak or strong; hind leg with elongated hind coxa and usually a medially swollen femora, coxa annulate to weakly striate, femora armed with large teeth-like process and several denticles ventrally, tibia with or without an oblique submedial acarinate or carinate impression; first metasomal tergite fused with the sternite (except in genus Schlettererius Ashmead ), more or less elongate and cylindrical; pygidial process present in some genera; ovipositor and ovipositor sheath long with or without a subapical band (modified from van Achterberg 2002 ; Aguiar 2006 ). Distribution. Cosmopolitan, but mainly restricted to tropical and subtropical areas ( van Achterberg 2002 ).