Small Neotropical subfamily (known only from Chile); rarely collected. The biology is unknown; only one species described: Apozyx penyai Mason, 1978. It may be a cyclostome braconid group related to the Doryctinae (Quicke and van Achterberg, 1990), but it was originally described as a seperate family in the superfamily Ichneumonoidea. Recently, (unpublished) results of a phylogeneric analysis of Braconidae (D.L.J. Quicke, pers. comm.) indicate that it may be the only surviving member of an archaic group near the stem of the Braconidae.
Note. Exceptionally Doryctinae may have vein 2m-cu of fore wing present but vein 2-CU of hind wing is absent.
Drawings:
Apozyx penyai 1, Apozyx penyai Mason, female.