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Drowned in a farmland pool
Body length: 3.6 mm
Forewing length: 3.5 mm

[Shaw & Huddleston 2012]
Mouth opening not present between clypeus and mandibles.
Labrum not concave.
Mandibles meeting when closed and generally overlapping at the tips.
Mandibles always bidentate although sometimes appearing unidentate.
Second submarginal cell fused with third.
1Rs meeting or almost meeting the pterostigma then 2Rs+3Rs strongly curved so that marginal cell is short.
Notauli usually well developed.
Posterior transverse carina of mesosternum usually absent.
Gaster in form of carapace.
Forewing with only two submarginal cells.
Marginal cell of forewing not divided.
Vein 1M not angled centrally.
Hindwing with cu-a + Cu present.
Forewing with 3Rs complete, distinct to wing margin.
Marginal cell broad.
Second submarginal cell not small.
Forewingwith two submarginal cells.
First tergite of gaster petiolate, its spiracles at about mid-segment or behind.
Euphorinae (except Centistini)

[Tobias in Medvedev, 1986]
Radial cell on forewing lacking accessory cell.
Maxillary palps 4—6-segmented. [it seems there are 5]
Labial palps always more than one segmented. [not visible, assumed]
Mandibles small, oral cavity between them and clypeus not developed.
Head small, much shorter than half length of thorax.
Antennae not articulated on special projections of frons.
Only one (1st) radiomedial vein developed.
First abdominal segment basally with long thin pedicel.
Radial cell on forewing often greatly reduced.
Parasite of adult insects, sometimes (beetles, bugs) also their larvae.
First abdominal segment much shorter, distinctly shorter than hind tibia, usually several times shorter than it.
Forewing always with one radiomedial vein.
Second and 3rd abdominal tergites most often less developed and not concealing apical tergites. [?]
Clypeus of usual shape, not projecting forward.
Mandibles not long, touching, not intersecting, apically with 2 denticles.
Eyes not projecting forward, head (in dorsal view) bulged.
Abdomen not compressed.
Legs of usual shape, sometimes femora thickened.
Mesonotum at least partially or also other thoracic sclerites smooth.
Mediocubital vein on forewing sclerotized like or almost like anal and basal veins.
Ovipositor usually half as long as abdomen, almost straight.
Ovipositor valves long and somewhat broader than stylet.
Radial cell on forewing reduced.
Eyes not pubescent.
Venation posterior to basal vein, including recurrent vein normally developed.
Radiomedial vein originating from radial vein.
(Tribe Perilitini).

Scape not enlarged or slightly enlarged, not longer than distance from antennal base to anterior ocellus.
Head distinctly transverse (2 times as wide as long), behind eyes distinctly, almost rectilinearly narrowed.
Temples 1/3 as long as eyes.
Scape as long as distance from it to anterior ocellus.
Propodeum steeply sloping, its posterior vertical part much larger than anterior horizontal part.
Discoidal cell small, approximately equaling brachial cell.
Recurrent vein antefurcal, separated from radiomedial vein by its length.
Occiput punctate.
Scutellum rugose punctate.
Parasites of adult beetles of family Coccinellidae.
Dinocampus
Dinocampus coccinellae Schrank