Notes on types of Australian Chartocerus Motschulsky (Hymenoptera: Signiphoridae)
Author
Molin, Ana Dal
Author
Woolley, James B.
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Journal of Natural History
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Chartocerus funeralis
Girault, 1913
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EOL taxon ID: 848103
(
Figure 7
; DOI:10.5281/zenodo.3893731)
Girault (1913a
, p. 224), as
Signiphora funeralis
(original description).
Dahms (1984
, p. 582, 634; 1986, p. 568): notes on
type
material.
Type material.
Holotype
female
,
QM Hy 771 (T4410)
.
Dahms (1984)
describes one slide with a coverslip fragment with the holotype of
S. funeralis
, complete, along with other chalcidoids (identified as
Anagrus armatus
,
Abbella subflavella
and the holotype of
Pseudogramma fasciatipenne
Gir.
) (label: ‘From windows of empty dwellings,
Herberton
,
N.Q.
,
XII.28.1911
, Hy 771 | 3484, 4410, 3484’), and a second slide (not type material) with a fragment containing a male
S. funeralis
partially dissected (head, antenna and one leg) (label: ‘
Signiphora funeralis Gir.
| Indooroopilly | window | VII.5.1933)’ and a separate coverslip with a specimen of
Chartocerus hebes
(as
M. hebes
).
Dahms (1984)
states that T4410 was a duplicate QM accession number for the type specimen and had been cancelled. T3484 refers to the specimen of
Abbella subflavella
.
Description.
Female
. Length
0.74 mm
. The
holotype
has faded to a yellowish tone, but it was originally described as being dark like the other species of
Chartocerus
, with metallic tinge on the head and mesoscutum. Fore wing infuscated except for a small basal area, posteriorly. Head with punctations scattered on face and genae. Scape about 4.5× as long as wide, pedicel 2× as long as wide, ring segments in ratios of 6:4:2:1, resembling
C. kerrichi
, clava 5× as long as wide. Mesoscutum a little more than 3.5× length of scutellum, with scattered small setae; scutellum with 6 faint setae along posterior margin. Fore wing almost 3× as long as wide, marginal fringe roughly ½ width of the wing. Mesobasitarsus less than ½ length of mesotibia, mesotibial spur about 1/3 of the basitarsus. Mt1 bilobed, the two lobes separated smoothly by a concave curve; propodeal sclerite projecting posteriorly gradually.