New species of Afrotropical Dryinidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea), with description of a new genus and a new subfamily
Author
Olmi, Massimo
text
African Invertebrates
2007
2007-12-31
48
2
199
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.7667812
2305-2562
7667812
Apoaphelopus mostovskii
sp. n.
Figs 32–34
Etymology: This species is named after Dr Mikhail Mostovski.
Description:
Male
.
Fully winged; length 1.00 mm. Head brown, with mandibles and clypeus testaceous; antennae testaceous-darkened, with segments 1 and 2 yellow-testaceous; mesosoma brown; gaster and legs yellow-testaceous; petiole black.Antennae filiform, very slender and long, shorter than body (
Figs 32
,
33
); antennal segments in following proportions: 6:3:3:3:3:3.5:3:3.5:4:5. Head convex, shiny, without sculpture; occiput very concave, smooth, without sculpture; frontal line absent; occipital carina complete; POL = 2; OL = 1; OOL = 3; minimum distance from eyes to occipital carina = 2; TL = 3; posterior ocelli touching occipital carina; temples very long, shorter than eyes (3:4); mandibles with 1 tooth. Scutum, scutellum and metanotum shiny, completely smooth and without sculpture. Notauli absent. Epicnemium present. Propodeum dull, reticulate rugose. Mesopleura and metapleura shiny, smooth, without sculpture. Forewing (
Figs 32
,
33
) without pterostigma, with costal cell enclosed by pigmented veins, with stigmal vein present and marginal cell open; other veins of forewing absent, veins M and Cu being marked by dark stripes. Hind wing (
Fig. 32
) with costal vein absent, with dark longitudinal median stripe. Basivolsella (
Fig. 34
) with distal process parallel to distivolsella. Palpi absent. Tibial spurs 1, 1, 2.
Figs 37, 38.
Aphelopus varicornis
Brues
, male from Wyoming, Grand Teton Nat. Park: (37) forewing, scale bar = 0.18 mm; (38) hind wing, scale bar = 0.20 mm.
Holotype
: ơ “
SOUTH AFRICA
:
KwaZulu-Natal
,
Louwsberg
,
Gwala Gwala
[
Sanyati
],
27
°
34'S
:
31
°
17.9'E
, alt.
1090 m
,
2–3.vi.2005
,
yellow pan trap
,
M. Mostovski
”; [red] “
Apoaphelopus mostovskii
sp. n.
M. Olmi
det. 2006, ơ” (NMSA).