Dichogaster Beddard, 1888

• Male pores paired in seminal grooves on xviii or xvii/xviii; prostatic pores 2 pairs at the ends of seminal grooves.
• Female pore single or paired on xiv.
• Oesophagus with a 2 gizzards anterior to septum viii/ix.
• One pair of discrete extramural calciferous gland present.
• Each calciferous gland trilobed, a vertically reniform lobe in each of segments xv-xvii with a common duct opening into gut in xvi.
• Supra-intestinal gland absent.
• Typhlosole lamelliform simple.
• Spermathecal pores paired in viii-ix.
• Genital markings sometime present.
• Six species recorded in India viz.,