Key to species of the genus Epimicta Foerster 1. Ovipositor sheath about as long as metasoma; East Palaearctic......................... E. longicaudalis Tobias, 1998 - Ovipositor sheath distinctly shorter than metasoma (Fig. 10).................................................. 2 2. Notauli incomplete, short, ending on disk in front of medio-posterior depression of mesoscutum; posterior mesopleural furrow smooth or nearly so, at most superficially crenulate; New World............................................... 3 - Notauli complete, extending to posterior margin of mesoscutum; posterior mesopleural furrow distinctly crenulate (Fig. 5); Old World.......................................................................................... 4 3. Head entirely black; mandibles dark yellow to yellow brown; frons usually rugose; U.S.A., Canada ................................................................................................... E. griffithsi Wharton, 1994 - Head yellow except very dark brown area surrounding ocelli; mandibles whitish yellow; frons smooth; U.S.A. ........................................................................................... E. konzaensis Kula, 2005 4. Medio-posterior depression of mesoscutum long, present on anterior half of mesoscutum longitudinally(Fig. 7); sculpture on third metasomal tergite much coarser (Fig. 6); vein SR1 of fore wing is distinctly sinuate (Fig. 8); East Palaearctic........................................................................................... E. sulciscutum sp. nov. - Medio-posterior depression of mesoscutum not on anterior half of mesoscutum; sculpture on third tergite less coarser; vein SR1 of fore wing is less sinuate; Palaearctic........................................ E. marginalis (Haliday, 1839)

Published as part of Zheng, Min-Lin, Chen, Jia-Hua & Achterberg, C. Van, 2013, The discovery of the rare genus Epimicta Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in China, with a description of a new species, pp. 190-194 in Zootaxa 3613 (2) on page 193, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3613.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/222224