Author, year, journal with original description

Ashmead, W.H., 1904, Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, 1:344

Type species

Ametallon chapadae Ashmead (lectotype female in the United States National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.)

Synonym names

None

Diagnosis

Clypeus delimited by a groove laterally and dorsally; female gaster with first tergite dorsally sharply margined anterolaterally, and with strong reticulation below margin; supracoxal flanges more or less enlarged and membranous; forewing with long admarginal setae; species are usually non-metallic yellow or brown

Number of species

Distribution

Neotropical region: Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, U.S.A. (southern Florida)

Biology

Reared from galls and seeds, presumably as parasitoids on insect larvae

Literature

Ashmead, W.H., 1904. Classification of the chalcid flies. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, 1:344

Hansson, C. 2004. Eulophidae of Costa Rica, 2. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 75:1-536 (Ametallon is treated on pp. 13-34)

Ametallon sculpturatum Hansson, first gastral tergite in female, arrows point at sharp anterodorsal margin	Ametallon oratum Hansson, base of gaster, paratype female	Ametallon sculpturatum Hansson, paratype female	Ametallon oratum Hansson, paratype female
Ametallon sculpturatum Hansson, head frontal, paratype female