Author, year, journal with original description

Girault, A.A., 1916, Societas Entomologica, 31:35

Type species

Emersonella lemae Girault (lectotype female in the United States National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.)

Synonym names

Testudicida De Santis

Diagnosis

Antenna with all flagellomeres distinctly separated; male scape with sensory area confined to apicoventral part; antennal scrobes distinct and narrow, joining below frontal suture; frontal suture situated high up on frons, straight or slightly down-curved laterally; propodeum usually with short longitudinal grooves along anterior margin; metanotum with a complete longitudinal carina medially

Number of species

Distribution

Nearctic and Neotropical regions, with the majority of species in the Neotropical region

Biology

Egg parasitoids of Chrysomelidae and Curculionidae (Coleoptera)

Literature

Girault, A.A., 1916. Notes on described chalcidoid Hymenoptera with new genera and species. Societas Entomologica, 31:35-38

Hansson, C. 2002. Eulophidae of Costa Rica, 1. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 67:1-290 (Emersonella is treated on pp. 21-81)

Emersonella desantisi Hansson, antenna female	Emersonella transversa Hansson, arrows point at longitudinal median carina on metanotum	Emersonella planiceps Hansson, non-type female	Emersonella planiceps Hansson, thoracic dorsum, non-type female
Emersonella planiscuta Hansson, head frontal, non-type female	Emersonella genaora Hansson, paratype female	Emersonella janzeni Hansson, paratype female	Emersonella mediofasciata Hansson, paratype female
Emersonella metallica Hansson, paratype female