A new species of the genus Petersenidia Lelej (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) from Indonesia, eastward of Wallace’s line
Author
Lelej, Arkady S.
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-07-29
5006
1
101
105
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5006.1.13
1175-5326
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Petersenidia
Lelej, 1992
Petersenidia
Lelej
in
Lelej & Yamane 1992: 628
,
Lelej 1996a: 6
,
1996b: 93
;
2005: 70
, Brothers & Lelej 2017: 96,
Williams
et al.
2019: 39
;
Pagliano
et al.
2020: 255
.
Type
species
Smicromyrme fukudai
Tsuneki, 1972
,
Japan
, by original designation
.
Diagnosis
. MALE. Mesopleuron beneath without precoxal tubercle. S2 laterally with trace of felt line (a few punctures in
P. fukudai
, lacking in
P. hylonome
). T7 with median glabrous area. Volsella without paracuspis, at most with setose tubercle between cuspis and digitus. FEMALE. Propodeum narrower than or as broad as pronotum; scutellar scale distinct; T2 disc with two laterally disposed white to golden setal spots; T2 apex without pale setal band, rarely with sparse fringe or medially interrupted band; pygidium defined by lateral carinae and usually entirely smooth. The pygidium of
Petersenidia
is usually wider and defined by stronger lateral carinae than in
Krombeinidia
.
Remarks
. Like
Krombeinidia
, this large genus is more reliably defined by male morphology than female. Cur- rently the genus
Petersenidia
includes 44 species (
Lelej 2005
;
Pagliano
et al.
2020
), which are widespread in the Oriental region and penetrate to the Eastern Palaearctic. Only
type
species is known in both sexes, while 22 are known in male and
21 in
females. There are no reviews or revision of this large genus.