New species of Prototilla Schuster, 1949 from Argentina and diagnoses of the genus based on male and female (Hymenoptera: Bradynobaenidae: Typhoctinae: Eotillini)
Author
Torréns, Javier
Author
Fidalgo, Patricio
Author
Roig-Alsina, Arturo
Author
Brothers, Denis J.
text
Zootaxa
2012
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.215056
9518f767-ef4a-4879-a21d-72b3f5f8233a
1175-5326
215056
Prototilla
Schuster, 1949
Prototilla
Schuster 1949
: 69
–70. Additional citations:
Mickel 1968
(mention);
Brothers 1970
,
1974
(mention);
Martinez & Fritz 1974
(mention);
Fernandez 2000
,
2001
,
2002
(list);
Brothers 2006
(key);
Torréns & Roig-Alsina 2009
(mention).
Type
species:
Prototilla anomala
Schuster, 1949
by original designation and monotypy.
Diagnosis.
Male
. Head with ocelli. Antennal scape smooth, without ventral longitudinal carina. Horizontal face of prosternum strongly projecting anteriorly, with a small semicircular projection posteriorly. Mid coxae moderately separated by a distance equal to half maximum width of femur. Fore wing with three submarginal cells (
Figs 6, 7, 10
).
Hind
wing with vein
1RS
proclinate, median cell apically produced, extending beyond origin of distal hamuli-group; median cell with three veins arising from it (
RS
,
M
and
Cu
) (
Fig. 32
; see
Fig.
9
in
Schuster 1949
). Tarsal claws each with ventral tooth (see
Fig.
13
in
Schuster 1949
). T7 with surface convex (Figs 2, 5, 12). Genitalia with basal ring anteroventrally acutely emarginate (
Fig. 16
).
Female
. Head without ocelli. Pronotum rectangular with humeral tubercle pronounced and well defined (
Fig. 22
). Mesopleural carina extending from anterior margin to posterior margin of sclerite (
Figs 25, 27
). Mid coxae widely separated by a distance of 1.3 × maximum width of mid femur. Tarsal claws smooth, without teeth. S6 with latero-posterior margin smooth, without denticles.