Review of the species of Pediobius (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) having extreme dorsal setation and description of a new species from East Africa Author Gumovsky, Alex 0000-0003-0646-3631 Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 15 Bogdan Khmelnitsky St., 01601 Kiev- 30, Ukraine & School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Corresponding author. entedon @ gmail. com; gumovsky @ izan. kiev. ua; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0646 - 3631 entedon@gmail.com text Zootaxa 2021 2021-07-14 4999 5 423 438 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4999.5.2 1175-5326 5119468 62A00C35-E6C8-4378-81DE-F0320D58885B setigerus species group (new) Diagnosis. Mesoscutum and/or mesoscutellum with strong, spiky bristles ( Figs 1–7 ), anteromedial margin of mesoscutellum with a notch: small ( P. setigerus and P. multisetis , Figs 3B , 5 ) or deep and bordered by tooth-like projections ( P. erinaceus , Figs 6C , 7B ); antenna with F3 broadly attached to first claval segment, so the funicle is functionally 2-segmented and the clava is functionally 3-segmented ( Fig. 4 ). Additionally, head wider than mesosoma, faintly sculptured to smooth, with distinct X-shaped frontal sutures ( Figs 2E , 4D ); lower face moderately narrowed, antennae inserted somewhat below or at the level of lower eye margins ( Fig. 2E ); sculpture of dorsum faint to alutaceous. Species included. Pediobius setigerus , P. multisetis , P. sp. aff. multisetis , and P. erinaceus sp. n.