Belongs within: Lyciscidae.
Parepistenia is a primarily Southern Hemisphere genus of chalcidoid wasps. Specific hosts are as yet unknown, though some species have been raised from logs containing beetle borings (Bouček 1988).
Characters (from Bouček 1988): Eyes short, rounded-subtriangular, at most nearly 1.4 times as long as broad; antenna with eight distinct segments between pedicel and clava; occipital margin rounded; lower face rather short inc1uding the converging genae, regularly convex between antennal socket and lower end of eye; gena without strong lateral carina; notaular grooves complete; epipygium of gaster short, with cerci at base; ovipositor not produced.
Parepistenia Dodd in Girault 1915 [incl. Austrogerrhus Bouček 1958]B88
|--*P. varicornis Dodd in Girault 1915 [incl. Epistenia aedicule Girault 1927]B88
|--P. annulicornis (Girault 1913) [=Platygerrhus annulicornis]B88
|--P. arenae (Girault 1932) [=Thaumasura arenae]B88
|--P. australiensis (Girault 1913) [=Platygerrhus australiensis]B88
|--P. camilli (Girault 1925) [=Epistenia camilli]B88
|--P. corticis (Girault 1925) [=Epistenia corticis]B88
|--P. devannyi (Girault 1937) [=Epistenia devannyi]B88
|--P. froudei (Girault 1929) [=Platygerrhus froudei]B88
|--P. fulviventris (Girault 1915) [=Platygerrhus fulviventris]B88
|--P. incola (Girault 1929) [=Platygerrhus incola]B88
|--P. inusitata (Girault 1937) [=Epistenia inusitata]B88
|--P. miripes (Girault 1922) [=Epistenia miripes]B88
|--P. nigriaenea (Girault 1915) [=Epistenia nigriaenea]B88
|--P. pallidicoxa (Girault 1929) [=Platygerrhus pallidicoxa]B88
|--P. pulchripes (Girault 1927) [=Thaumasura pulchripes; incl. *Austrogerrhus gloriosus Bouček 1958]B88
|--P. resplendens (Gourlay 1928) [=Thaumasura resplendens]B88
|--P. speciosissima (Girault 1927) [=Epistenia speciosissima]B88
`--P. tasmaniensis (Girault 1913) [=Platygerrhus tasmaniensis]B88
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[B88] Bouček, Z. 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera): A biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. CAB International: Wallingford (UK).