First Survey Of The Neotropical Species Of Microchelonus Szépligeti With Descriptions Of Twenty-Five New Species (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Cheloninae)
Author
Papp, Jenő
text
Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
2016
2016-08-10
62
3
217
344
http://dx.doi.org/10.17109/azh.62.3.217.2016
journal article
10.17109/AZH.62.3.217.2016
2064-2474
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Microchelonus paululus
(
McComb, 1968
)
(Figs 340–342)
Chelonus (Microchelonus) paululus
McComb, 1968: 11
(in key) and 92 (description) fm, type locality:
USA
,
Florida
,
Pascocounty
,
MoonLake
, femaleholotype (and 6 f +
3 m
paratypes
) inCanadianNationalCollection, Ottawa, 1 fparatypeinHNHM (by exchange); examinedtheparatypeinHNHM.
Microchelonus paululus
(McComb)
:
ShENEfElt 1973: 895
(comb. n., literature up to 1968).
PAPP 1999: 187
(in key), 2010: 166 (in key).
Additional features to the original description
(McComb l.c.) – f. Body
2.2–2.3 mm
long. Penultimate 2–3 flagellomerescubic: aslongasbroad (cf. Fig. 336). Headindorsalview twiceasbroadaslong, eyesomewhatlongerthantemple (16:14), templerounded, vertex andocciputrugulo-substriolated (Fig. 341). Scutellum (unevento) rugulose, rugose (cf. Figs 73, 372). Hindfemur 3.1 timesaslongasbroad (cf. Fig. 403). Forewing: pterostigma wide, 2–2.2 timesaslongaswideandissuing
r
justdistallyfromitsmiddle,
r
somewhat longerthan
3–SR
,
1–R1
0.6–0.7 timesaslongaspterostigma (Fig. 340). Carapaceindorsal viewlessbelly, 1.7 timesaslongasbroadaboutmedially, apicalllyrounded, areolate- rugulose (Fig. 342). Legsyellow, hindtibiadistallyfaintlybrownish. Tegulabrown.
m. Similartothefemale. Body 4 mmlong. Antennawith 19 antennomeres. Penultimateflagellomere 1.3 timesaslongasbroad. Forewing: pterostigma 2.3 timesaslongas wide. Apicalforamenofcarapaceelliptic, 1.6 timesaswideashigh. Tegulayellow.
Hostunknown.
Distribution
–
USA
:
Florida
, *
Costa Rica
.
Taxonomic position
– According to the describer
M. paululus
stands close to
M. cushmani
(McComb)
(McComb l.c.). In the key to the female
Microchelonus
species
M. paululus
runs to
M. cavei
Papp
, see couplets 127 (126) – 129 (128).