New species and new records of Platygastrinae and Sceliotrachelinae from Togo (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae)
Author
Buhl, Peter Neerup
text
African Invertebrates
2014
2014-03-30
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.5733/afin.055.0106
journal article
10.5733/afin.055.0106
2305-2562
Leptacis fusiformis
Buhl, 2005
Leptacis fusiformis
: Buhl 2005: 287
.
Material examined:
1♀
TOGO
,
Région des Plateaux
,
NE of Badou
, at creek
Okpabè
(
07°35'19"N
00°07'17"E
),
20.iv.
2008
, 370 m, creek bank in remains of secondary rainforest, swept
;
1♀
Région des Plateaux
, Abriwa
Nko
, about
5 km
N of Badou
, at creek
Ègnulu–Agbadja
(
07°37'18"N
00°36'13"E
),
24.iv.
2008
, 310 m, swept in cocoa and avocado plantation.
Both M. von Tschirnhaus
.
Hitherto, known only from the
holotype
(Republic of South Africa). The specimens from
Togo
are smaller (about
0.7 mm
) and have less slender antennae than the
holotype
, head about twice as wide as long, 1.3× as wide as mesosoma, fore wing 3.25× as long as wide, with marginal cilia 0.4× width of wing, and female metasoma slightly shorter than rest of body (20:21)
.