Revision of New World Helava Masner & Huggert (Platygastridae, Sceliotrachelinae)
Author
Talamas, Elijah J.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1048-6345
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA / ARS c / o USNM, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 20560, U. S. A.
billy.jenkins@GMAIL.COM
Author
Masner, Lubomir
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, K. W. Neatby Building, Ottawa, Ontario K 1 A 0 C 6, Canada
text
Journal of Hymenoptera Research
2016
2016-12-19
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.53.10217
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.53.10217
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Helava
simplex Masner & Talamas
sp. n.
Figures
55-60
Description
.
Female body length: 0.94-1.24 mm (n=12). Number of female clavomeres: 4. Setation of frons anterior to ocellar triangle: present. Setation of vertex posterior to lateral ocellus: dense. Hyperoccipital carina: absent. Pronotum in dorsal view: present mostly as lateral shoulders. Dorsoventral band of dense setation on posterior part of lateral pronotum: absent. Setation of pronotal cervical sulcus: sparse to absent. Width of dorsal mesopleuron in lateral view: about equal ventrally and dorsally to 1.5 times as wide ventrally. Longitudinal striation on dorsal mesopleuron: present. Transepisternal line: present. Mesofurcal pit: present. Notaulus: absent. Rs+M in fore wing: absent. Wings: macropterous. Rs+M in hind wing: absent. Color of legs: yellow; yellowish brown. Foamy structures of lateral propodeum: smaller than hairy metapleuron. Median tubercule on T2: present. Setation of anterior T2: interrupted medially. Lateral patch on T2: absent. Foamy structures on S1: absent. Transverse felt field on anterior S2: present as transverse strip. Shape of S2 in lateral view: broadly convex.
Diagnosis.
Helava simplex
is the only macropterous species in the genus without a pigmented basal vein in the fore wing (Figure
60
).
Etymology.
The epithet "
Helava simplex
" is given to this species in reference to the absence of several character states (notaulus, foamy structures).
Link to distribution map.
http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=354385
Material examined.
Holotype
, female:
CHILE
:
Araucania
Reg.,
Malleco Prov.
, site
649, 14km
E Malalcahuello National Reserve
,
1570m
,
13.IX-31.XII.1982
, trap,
A. Newton
&
M. Thayer
, USNMENT00989195 (deposited in CNCI)
.
Paratypes
:
CHILE
:
14 females
, CNC424734-424740, 424742-424743, 424943-424945, 494812, USNMENT00989190 (CNCI)
.