Parascleroderma, Kieffer, 1904

Key to species of Parascleroderma from Russia (males)

1. Body brown-orange; mandibles, legs, and antennae yellow. Median clypeal lobe angular. Pedicel long, 2.5 times as long as wide. Eyes large, almost equal in maximum diameter to head in lateral view; ocelli very large, up to 0.30–0.33 width of frons. Pronotum without transverse carina, rounded. Notaulus distinct only posteriorly. Metapectal–propodeal complex elongated. Hypopygium with straight posterior margin and small lateral stalks. Genitalia barely elongated, apical part of aedeagus undivided, distal part of harpe elongated. Body length 3.0 mm............. P. astrakhanicum sp. nov.

– Body dark or black-brown; mandibles, legs, and antennae dark brown, distally light brown, tarsi yellow-brown. Median clypeal lobe obtuse, almost arcuate in dorsal view, with small low rounded median callus. Pedicel short, 1.5 times as long as wide. Eyes moderate, smaller in maximum diameter than head in lateral view; ocelli small, about 0.1 width of frons. Pronotum with weak transverse carina. Notaulus entirely distinct. Metapectal– propodeal complex wider than its length. Hypopygium with slightly incurved posterior margin and large lateral stalks. Genitalia broad, apical part of aedeagus noticeably divided into two lobes, distal part of harpe flattened and rounded. Body length 2.5 mm............. P. austrouralicum sp. nov.