Clypeus extending dorsally to the frontal shelf anteriorly, resulting in absence of face medially (Figs 9, 41); inner orbit of eye without callus or welt (Figs 41, 42); ocelli medium-sized (Figs 10, 42); outer side of eye evenly convex medially (Fig. 41-43); occipital carina absent; length of malar space about half apical width of scapus (Fig. 9); entire propodeum densely and rather coarsely reticulate-rugose (Figs 5, 26, 36); third submarginal cell of fore wing anteriorly distinctly narrower than posteriorly and vein 2r-m distinctly sinuate (Figs 4, 25, 35); vein cu-a of fore wing interstitial and inclivous (Figs 4, 25); hind coxa without longitudinal carina dorsally (Fig. 34); hypopygium of female evenly convex ventrally. Males unknown.

Unknown.

Oriental (four species).

Holotype, ♀ (RMNH), “S. Vietnam: Dông Nai, Cát Tien N. P., c. 100 m, 19–25.iv.2007, Mal. traps, Dong trail, Mai Phu Quy & Nguyen Thanh Manh, RMNH’07”.

Clypeus with wide anchor-shaped black patch medially (Fig. 9); ivory patch at incision of eye extended nearly up to level of posterior ocelli (Fig. 9); pair of ivory spots besides posterior ocellus present (Fig. 10); smooth interspaces between punctures of pronotum and metanotum medio-dorsally about equal to diameter of punctures (Fig. 5); ivory transverse stripe on pronotum narrowly interrupted medio-dorsally and comparatively wide ventrally (Figs 5, 6); first discal cell of fore wing distinctly infuscate (Fig. 4); first subdiscal of fore wing laterally darker than medially (Fig. 4); hind tibia reddish-brown (Fig. 7); ovipositor densely serrate dorsally (Fig. 12). Resembles most Parasapyga walshae and Parasapyga moelleri; it can be easily separated by the larger ivory patch at the incision of the eye (Fig. 9 vs Figs 20, 30) and the reddish-brown hind tibia (Fig. 7 vs Figs 19, 29).

Holotype, ♀, length of body 18.7 mm (of fore wing 11.8 mm).

Head. Antenna with 12 segments and penultimate segment 1.1 times as wide as apical segment in dorsal view (Fig. 8); frons coarsely reticulate; vertex coarsely punctate and with distinct smooth interspaces (Fig. 10); temple coarsely punctate and with wide smooth interspaces; malar space densely punctulate; head narrowed behind eyes (Fig. 10); clypeus spaced punctate and with complete median crest (Fig. 9).

Mesosoma. Length of mesosoma 1.5 times its height (Fig. 3); mesopleuron largely coarsely reticulate-punctate with narrow smooth interspaces; metapleuron densely punctulate anteriorly and coarsely obliquely rugose posteriorly, with a narrow smooth shiny band above it (Fig. 6); pronotum, mesoscutum, scutellum and metanotum coarsely punctate, medially interspaces between punctures about as wide as punctures and sparsely punctulate (Fig. 5); metanotum medially moderately convex and not protruding above level of scutellum (Fig. 3); entire propodeum densely and coarsely reticulate-punctate, medially hardly coarser than laterally (Fig. 5).

Wings. Fore wing: vein 2m-cu moderately postfurcal (Fig. 4).

Legs. Hind basitarsus rather robust (Fig. 7).

Metasoma. Metasoma rather slender in dorsal view (Fig. 2); basal tergites finely punctate and shiny, with smooth interspaces wider than diameter of punctures (Fig. 2); hypopygium 1.3 times as long as fifth sternite ventrally (Fig. 3); ovipositor densely serrate (Fig. 12); ovipositor sheath and ovipositor far exserted (Figs 1, 3).

Colour. Black; ivory: pair of L-shaped lateral patches on clypeus (resulting in a wide black anchor medially), patch at inner orbita of eye extended nearly up to level of posterior ocelli (Fig. 9), shelf of frons anteriorly between antennal sockets, temple largely except narrowly dorsally (Fig. 11), pair of small spots besides posterior ocellus, transverse stripe on pronotum (but narrowly interrupted medially; Fig. 5) and ventrally widened (Fig. 6), small patch on pronotum postero-dorsally, elongate patch on mesopleuron antero-dorsally, elongate patch near tegula, axilla, lateral patch of metanotum and elongate apical patch on fore femur; metasoma orange red; inner side of fore femur and tibia, tarsi and hind tibia largely reddish-brown; fore coxa densely yellowish setose ventrally; veins and pterostigma, dark brown; basal cells, middle of first subdiscal cell and basal half of first submarginal cell of fore wing subhyaline or slightly infuscate; remainder of fore wing dark brown (Fig. 4).

Male. Unknown.

Vietnam.

Named in honour of the scientific illustrator, Erik-Jan Bosch (Leiden) because of his excellent illustrations of Hymenoptera.

Holotype, ♀ (BMNH), “Type”, “[India], Sikkim, Tukvar, 4000 ‘[ft], iv.[19]01, ex Möller, Bingham Coll.”, “Parasapyga mölleri Turn., Type”, “B.M. Type Hym. 15.1268”.

Clypeus with wide anchor-shaped black patch medially and largely black latero-dorsally (Fig. 20); ivory patch at incision of eye nearly extending up to level of anterior ocellus (Fig. 20); pair of ivory spots besides posterior ocellus absent (Fig. 21); ivory transverse stripe on pronotum widely interrupted medio-dorsally and narrow ventrally (Figs 16, 17); propodeum entirely black latero-dorsally (Fig. 17); first discal cell of fore wing distinctly infuscate and first subdiscal laterally as dark as medially (Figs 13, 15); metasoma rather wide in dorsal view (Fig. 13).

Holotype, ♀, length of body 15.2 mm (of fore wing 10.6 mm).

Head. Antenna with 12 segments and penultimate segment 1.2 times as wide as apical segment in dorsal view (Fig. 18); frons rather coarsely reticulate-rugose; vertex coarsely reticulate-punctate (Fig. 21); temple coarsely punctate; malar space densely punctulate; head directly narrowed behind eyes (Fig. 21); clypeus coarsely punctate and dorsally with median crest (Fig. 20).

Mesosoma. Length of mesosoma 1.5 times its height (Fig. 14); mesopleuron largely coarsely reticulate; metapleuron densely punctulate anteriorly and coarsely obliquely costate posteriorly, with a moderately wide smooth shiny band above it (Fig. 17); pronotum, mesoscutum, scutellum and metanotum coarsely reticulate-punctate, smooth interspaces between punctures of pronotum and metanotum medio-dorsally mostly distinctly narrower than diameter of punctures (Fig. 16); metanotum medially distinctly convex and distinctly protruding above level of scutellum (Figs 14, 17); entire propodeum densely and rather coarsely reticulate-rugose (Fig. 16).

Wings. Fore wing: vein 2m-cu far postfurcal (Fig. 15).

Legs. Hind basitarsus rather slender (Fig. 19).

Metasoma. Metasoma rather wide in dorsal view (Fig. 13); basal tergites finely punctate and shiny, with smooth interspaces wider than diameter of punctures (Fig. 13); hypopygium 1.2 times longer than fifth sternite ventrally (Fig. 14); ovipositor unknown (broken in holotype).

Colour. Black; ivory: L-shaped lateral patch on clypeus, patch at incision of eye extending nearly up to level of anterior ocellus (Fig. 20), shelf of frons anteriorly between antennal sockets, temple (except posteriorly) and up to upper level of eye (Fig. 22), transverse stripe on pronotum (except wide interruption medially; Fig. 16, and narrowed ventrally), small patch on mesopleuron antero-dorsally, minute patch near tegula, axilla, lateral patch on metanotum, apical patch on fore femur and small basal patch on fore tibia; metasoma dark red; palpi brown; tarsi yellowish-brown; remainder of femora and tibiae, veins and pterostigma, dark brown; fore coxa densely golden setose; apical 0.6 of fore wing dark brown and remainder subhyaline (Fig. 15).

Male. Unknown.

India (Sikkim).

Holotype, ♀ (RMNH), “[Indonesia:] S. Sumatra, Res. Lampongs, Mt. Tanggamoes, 22.vii–5.viii.1935, M.E. Walsh”, “Parasapyga mölleri Turn. subsp. walshae v. d. Vecht, ♀”, “Holotype of subsp. n. walshae”.

Clypeus with wide anchor-shaped black patch medially and ivory latero-dorsally (Fig. 30); ivory patch at incision of eye remains far from level of anterior ocellus (Fig. 30); pair of ivory spots besides posterior ocellus absent (Fig. 31); ivory transverse stripe on pronotum widely interrupted medio-dorsally (Fig. 26) and narrow ventrally (Fig. 27); propodeum with irregular ivory patch latero-dorsally (Fig. 27); first discal cell of fore wing subhyaline and first subdiscal laterally as pale as medially (Figs 23, 25); metasoma rather wide in dorsal view (Fig. 23); ovipositor densely serrate dorsally.

Holotype, ♀, length of body 18.7 mm (of fore wing 11.9 mm).

Head. Antenna with 12 segments and penultimate segment 1.2 times as wide as apical segment in dorsal view (Fig. 28); frons moderately reticulate; vertex coarsely reticulate-punctate (Fig. 31); temple coarsely punctate; malar space densely punctulate; head directly narrowed behind eyes (Fig. 31); clypeus coarsely punctate and with complete median crest (Fig. 30).

Mesosoma. Length of mesosoma 1.5 times its height (Fig. 24); mesopleuron largely coarsely reticulate; metapleuron densely punctulate anteriorly and coarsely obliquely costate posteriorly, with a narrow smooth shiny band above it (Fig. 27); pronotum, mesoscutum, scutellum and metanotum coarsely punctate-reticulate, interspaces between punctures of pronotum and metanotum medio-dorsally mostly absent (Fig. 26); metanotum medially slightly convex and not protruding above level of scutellum (Fig. 24); entire propodeum densely and rather coarsely reticulate-rugose (Fig. 26).

Wings. Fore wing: vein 2m-cu just postfurcal (Fig. 25).

Legs. Hind basitarsus rather robust (Fig. 29).

Metasoma. Metasoma comparatively wide in dorsal view (Fig. 23); basal tergites finely punctate and shiny, with smooth interspaces wider than diameter of punctures (Fig. 23); hypopygium 1.4 times longer than fifth sternite ventrally (Fig. 24); ovipositor densely serrate dorsally.

Colour. Black; ivory: pair of L-shaped lateral patches on clypeus, patch at inner orbita up to top of incision of eye (Fig. 30), shelf of frons anteriorly between antennal sockets, temple except dorsally (Fig. 32), transverse stripe on pronotum (except wide interruption medially; Fig. 26, and narrowed ventrally), small patch on pronotum postero-dorsally, elongate patch on mesopleuron antero-dorsally, patch on border of propodeum and metapleuron, small patch near tegula, axilla, lateral patch on metanotum, elongate apical patch on fore and middle femora and elongate basal patch of fore tibia; metasoma orange red; palpi brown; middle and hind tarsi yellowish-brown; remainder of femora and tibiae, veins and pterostigma, dark brown; fore coxa densely golden setose; first submarginal cell apically, marginal cell and second and third submarginal cells of fore wing dark brown, area below it brown and remainder largely subhyaline (Fig. 25).

Male. Unknown.

Indonesia (Sumatra).

Holotype, ♀ (RMNH), “Indonesia: N. Sumatra, Ketambe, c 400 m, near N. P. Gn. Leuser, Mal. trap, vi.1994, Y. v. Nierop & C. v. Achterberg, RMNH’95”.

Clypeus with rather narrow anchor-shaped black patch medially (Fig. 41); (Fig. 36) and comparatively wide ventrally (Fig. 37); first discal cell of fore wing subhyaline (Fig. 35); hind tibia black; metasoma comparatively slender in dorsal view (Fig. 33); ovipositor with comparatively widely separated serrations (Fig. 40). Differs from the other known species by the rather narrow anchor-shaped black patch of the clypeus, the narrowly interrupted ivory transverse stripe on the pronotum and the dark brown hind tarsus.

Holotype, ♀, length of body 13.9 mm (of fore wing 9.8 mm).

Head. Antenna with 12 segments and penultimate segment 1.2 times as wide as apical segment in dorsal view (Fig. 38); frons moderately reticulate; vertex coarsely reticulate-punctate (Fig. 42); temple coarsely punctate; malar space densely punctulate; head narrowed behind eyes (Fig. 42); clypeus rather coarsely reticulate and with nearly complete median crest (Fig. 41).

Mesosoma. Length of mesosoma 1.6 times its height (Fig. 34); mesopleuron largely coarsely reticulate-punctate; metapleuron densely punctulate anteriorly and coarsely obliquely rugose posteriorly, with a wide smooth shiny band above it (Fig. 37); pronotum, mesoscutum, scutellum and metanotum coarsely reticulate-punctate, interspaces between punctures of pronotum and metanotum medio-dorsally present, sparsely punctulate and usually 0.5–1.0 times as wide as punctures (Fig. 36); metanotum medially moderately convex and not protruding above level of scutellum (Fig. 34); entire propodeum densely and rather coarsely reticulate-rugose, medially coarser than laterally (Fig. 36).

Wings. Fore wing: vein 2m-cu just postfurcal (Fig. 35).

Legs. Hind basitarsus comparatively slender (Fig. 39).

Metasoma. Metasoma comparatively slender in dorsal view (Fig. 33); basal tergites finely punctate and shiny, with smooth interspaces wider than diameter of punctures (Fig. 33); hypopygium as long as fifth sternite ventrally (Fig. 34); ovipositor with rather widely separated serrations (Fig. 40).

Colour. Black; ivory: pair of wide c-shaped lateral patches on clypeus (resulting in a comparatively narrow black anchor medially; Fig. 41), patch at inner orbita up to top of incision of eye (Fig. 41), shelf of frons anteriorly between antennal sockets, temple largely except narrowly dorsally (Fig. 43), transverse stripe on pronotum (but comparatively narrowly interrupted medially (Fig. 36) and ventrally comparatively wide (Fig. 37)), small patch on pronotum postero-dorsally, elongate patch on mesopleuron antero-dorsally, patch on border of propodeum and metapleuron, small patch near tegula, axilla, lateral patch on metanotum, elongate apical patch on femora, fore femur largely ventrally and elongate basal patch on fore and middle tibiae and outer side of fore tibia subapically largely; metasoma orange red; inner side of fore femur and tibia brown; tarsi largely, veins and pterostigma, dark brown; fore coxa densely silvery setose; first submarginal cell apically, marginal cell and second and third submarginal cells of fore wing dark brown, area below it brown and remainder largely subhyaline (Fig. 35).

Male. Unknown.

Indonesia (Sumatra).

Named in honour of one of the collectors, Yvonne van Nierop (Leiden) for all her collecting efforts in N. Sumatra.