Oxyscelio asperi

Small hymenopteran insects: body length of females 3.35-3.6 mm. Antenna of females with a mace. It features a weak median buccal roller, subparallel to the edges of the eye. Metascutellum smooth and concave. The body is mostly black. Scape and legs are brown. Antennae 12-segmented. The mandibular palps consist of 4 segments, and the labial palps are 2-segmented. In the fore wing, the submarginal vein is distant from the margin and has a very short marginal vein. There is a characteristic frontal depression on the head. The species was first described in 2013 by the American entomologist Roger Barks ( Roger A. Burks , Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus , Ohio , USA ) ^{[1] [2]} .

• Dodd AP (1931). The genus Oxyscelio Kiefer, its synonymy and species, with a description of one new genus (Hymenoptera: Proctotrypoidea). - Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 42: 71-81.
• Burks, RA, Masner L. , Johnson, NF & Austin, AD Systematics of the parasitic wasp genus Oxyscelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae sl), part III: African fauna (Eng.) // ZooKeys: Journal. - Sofia: Pensoft Publishers, 2016 .-- Vol. 565. - P. 29-71. - ISSN 1313-2970 . - DOI : 10.3897 / zookeys.565.7185 .

• Oxyscelio Kieffer, 1907 BioLib. Date of treatment April 8, 2016.