Review of Afrotropical sceliotracheline parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae) Author van Noort, Simon https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6930-9741 Research and Exhibitions Department, South African Museum, Iziko Museums of South Africa, PO Box 61, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa & Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Private Bag Rondebosch, 7701, Cape Town, South Africa svannoort@iziko.org.za Author Lahey, Zachary https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9402-9570 Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, 1315 Kinnear Road, Columbus, Ohio 43212, USA Author Talamas, Elijah J. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1048-6345 Division of Plant Industry, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL, USA Author Austin, Andrew D. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia Author Masner, Lubomir Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, K. W. Neatby Building, Ottawa, Ontario K 1 A 0 C 6, Canada Author Polaszek, Andrew https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7171-3353 Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, UK Author Johnson, Norman F. Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, 1315 Kinnear Road, Columbus, Ohio 43212, USA text Journal of Hymenoptera Research 2021 2021-12-23 87 115 222 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.87.73770 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.87.73770 1314-2607-87-115 7137A82A62E34958A48CB05BEA80FE60 DF6504D9294F5C7F8148AAA6C0D3E01B 5811667 Pulchrisolia Szabo , 1959 Fig. 28 Pulchrisolia Szabo , 1959: 395 (original description. Type: Pulchrisolia maculata Szabo , by monotypy and original designation); Masner 1964 : 11 (treated as a synonym of Sceliotrachelus Brues); Masner and Huggert 1989 : 108 (description, species list); Vlug 1995 : 73 (catalogued, catalogue of world species); Veenakumari, Buhl and Mohanraj 2019: 453 (key to genera of the Isolia -cluster, keyed); Lahey et al. 2019b : 42, 43, 44, 45 (description, key to genera of the Isolia -cluster, key to species). Diagnosis. Fore wing with very short, tubular R vein terminating in a knob and at least some microtrichia of the fore and hind wings in the form of short, scale-like pegs; distinctive colour of the adult (most species are yellow, orange, red, or a combination thereof); frontal ledge present on the lower frons in all but one species; interantennal process present, bilobed in most species; and tract of dense setae on the metatibia. Figure 28. Pulchrisolia robynae male paratype (SAMC) (SAM-HYM-P035656) A habitus, lateral view (inset: data labels) B habitus, dorsal view C head, anterior view D head, ventral view E antennae F fore wings. Species richness. Pulchrisolia ankremos Lahey, 2019 (Ghana, Ivory Coast). Pulchrisolia asantesana van Noort & Lahey, 2019 (South Africa). Pulchrisolia diehoekensis van Noort & Lahey, 2019 (South Africa). Pulchrisolia ellieae Lahey, 2019 (Madagascar). Pulchrisolia maculata Szabo , 1959 (Kenya, Tanzania). Pulchrisolia nephelae Lahey, 2019 (Benin, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Mali, Nigeria). Pulchrisolia robynae van Noort & Lahey, 2019 (South Africa) (Fig. 28 ). Pulchrisolia sanbornei Lahey & Masner, 2019 (South Africa). Pulchrisolia teras Lahey, 2019 (Madagascar). Pulchrisolia valerieae Polaszek & Lahey, 2019 (Zambia). Distribution. Endemic to the Afrotropical region: Benin, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia ( Lahey et al. 2019b ). Biology. Unknown. Key to species of Pulchrisolia . Lahey et al. (2019b) .