Revision of the West Palaearctic species of Rhoptromeris Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Eucoilinae)
Author
Costa Baião, Guilherme
Author
Forshage, Mattias
text
Journal of Natural History
2018
J. Nat. Hist.
2018-04-13
52
17 - 20
1201
1224
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2018.1447154
journal article
10.1080/00222933.2018.1447154
1464-5262
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Rhoptromeris armeniaca
(Belizin), 1966
Diagnosis
Known from a single female deposited in ZIN.
Type
specimen small, brown, with slender build. Scutellum partly obscured by a glued wing, scutellar plate very narrow, dorsal surface of scutellum smooth. Anteroventral cavity of metapleura present. First flagellomere subequal to second, third flagellomere smaller than first two, fourth subequal to third. Front and middle legs missing.
The poor condition of the type made its study inconclusive. The specimen is most similar to
R. villosa
due to the small, slender body and narrow scutellar plate, but differs in the proportion of antennal segments. No specimens similar to the
holotype
were found among the material examined from Western and Northern Europe or from the Macaronesian islands. We suggest that it is either a representative of an eastern species or an aberrant specimen of
R. villosa
.
Distribution
The
holotype
and only known specimen was collected in
Armenia
.
Biology
Rhoptromeris armeniaca
is probably a parasitoid of
Chloropidae
, as are other known
Rhoptromeris
species.