Marietta

Marietta leopardina, from here.

Belongs within: Chalcidoidea.

Marietta is a genus of small wasps including hyperparasitoids of scale insects.

Characters (from Hayat 1983): Antennae five- or six-segmented; eyes glabrous; pronotum composed of a single plate; mesopleurum large, undivided; axillae barely projecting forwards so that their anterior margins are almost in line with anterior margin of scutellum; scutellum at most twice as wide as long and with rounded apex; propodeum at most as long as metanotum, without crenulae in middle of posterior margin; forewing with linea calva; gaster with all terga more or less equally developed, not densely setose.

<==Marietta Motschulsky 1863 GM79
    |--M. angeloni Girault 1932 G32
    |--M. carnesi MH11
    |--M. cowperi (Girault 1923) GM79
    |--M. distonota Girault 1932 G32
    |--M. javensis Girault 1932 GM79
    |    |--M. j. javensis G32
    |    `--M. j. indi Girault 1932 G32
    |--M. leopardina MH11
    |--M. lessingi Girault 1932 G32
    |--M. literata (Girault 1915) GM79
    |--M. maculatipes Girault 1917 GM79
    |--M. peculiaris Girault 1932 G32
    `--M. romae Girault 1932 G32

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[G32] Girault, A. A. 1932. New lower Hymenoptera from Australia and India. Privately published (reprinted Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 293-298).

[GM79] Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 1-400.

Hayat, M. 1983. The genera of Aphelinidae (Hymenoptera) of the world. Systematic Entomology 8: 63-102.

[MH11] Munro, J. B., J. M. Heraty, R. A. Burks, D. Hawks, J. Mottern, A. Cruaud, J.-Y. Rasplus & P. Jansta. 2011. A molecular phylogeny of the Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). PLoS One 6 (11): e27023.