Author, year, journal with original description
Girault, A.A., 1917, Descriptiones Hymenopterorum Chalcidoidicarum Variorum cum Observationibus, III. 10pp. Privately published
Type species
Astichomyiia latiscapus Girault (lectotype female in the United States National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.)
Synonym names
None
Diagnosis
Frontal suture straight and placed close to anterior ocellus; antennal scrobes as distinct and narrow grooves, joining with frontal suture separately; midlobe of mesoscutum with 3-4 pairs of setae; transepimeral sulcus angular
Number of species
Four
Distribution
Neotropical region: Costa Rica, Mexico
Biology
Reared from leafgalls of Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) on Coussapoa villosa (Moraceae), Ficus sp. (Moraceae), Inga spp. (Mimosaceae) and Persea gratissima (Lauraceae)
Literature
Girault, A.A., 1917. Descriptiones Hymenopterorum Chalcidoidicarum Variorum cum Observationibus, III. 10pp. Privately published
Hansson, C. 2002. Eulophidae of Costa Rica, 1. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 67:1-290 (Astichomyiia is treated on pp. 16-20)