Review of the odd chrysidid genus Loboscelidia Westwood, 1874 (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae, Loboscelidiinae)
Author
Kimsey, Lynn S.
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ZooKeys
2012
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.213.2985
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.213.2985
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Loboscelidia pecki
sp. n.
Figures 21433
Type material.
Holotype male: Viet Nam: Tuyen Quang Prov., 360 m, Na Hang Reserve, 16-20 May 1997, FIT, S. B. Peck, 97-10 (CNC).
Diagnosis.
This species is characterized by the absence of the cu-a vein and having a submedially curved medial vein, characters shared with
Loboscelidia cinnamonea
. It can be distinguished from
Loboscelidia cinnamonea
by Rs 3
x
as long or longer than R, scape 3
x
or shorter as long as broad, scrobal sulcus present and the fore and midtibiae without flanges.
Male description.
Body (Fig. 2) length 2 mm; forewing length 2.5 mm. Head: length 2
x
height in side view (Fig. 14); eye asetose; frontal projection rectangular in front view; frons smooth, not microstriate; vertex without transverse fovea, posterior expansion strongly curved in profile; frons with ridge extending from vertex along inner eye margin; gena without scale-like setae; scape striate, length 2.9
x
breadth; flagellomere I length 2.2
x
breadth; flagellomere II length 2
x
breadth; flagellomere XI length 4
x
breadth. Mesosoma: pronotal length 0.9
x
breadth, with lateral fold separating dorsal from lateral surface, about as wide as head in dorsal view; scutum with notauli reaching posterior margin; scutellum with fine dense striae laterally; metanotum with three medial ridges enclosing roughened medial area, smooth laterally, 0.4-0.5
x
as long as scutellum; mesopleuron with scrobal sulcus; propodeum without transverse dorsal carina; legs (Fig. 2) smooth, polished; forefemoral flange 0.6 x femur length, flange maximum width 0.8
x
width of tubular part of femur; foretibial flange 0.8
x
tibia length, flange maximum width 0.7 x width of tubular part of tibia; midfemoral flange 0.7
x
femur length, flange maximum width 0.7
x
width of tubular part of femur; midtibial flange 0.9
x
femur length, flange maximum width 0.7
x
width of tubular part of tibia; hindfemoral flange 0.8
x
femur length, flange maximum width 0.7
x
width of tubular part of femur; hindtibial flange equal to femur length, flange maximum width 1.3
x
width of tubular part of tibia; hindtibia with two longitudinal carinae on posterior margin; hindcoxa without longitudinal carina on inner medial surface; forewing (Fig. 33) R1 length as long as R; cu-a length absent; Rs length 3.2
x
R length; Cu+M length 0.8
x
A length; medial vein present, submedially curved. Color: Body dark brown; wing membrane brown-tinted, paler along vein remnants, veins brown.
Etymology.
The species is named after the collector, Stuart Peck.