Revision of the Neotropical species of the tribe Euderomphalini (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae)
Author
HANSSON, C.
Author
LASALLE, J.
text
Journal of Natural History
2003
2003-03-31
37
6
697
778
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930110096744
journal article
10.1080/00222930110096744
1464-5262
5274114
978AA7CC-7167-41BE-AC06-FFEE13D1A599
Entedononecremnus unicarinatus
sp. n.
(figures 123, 134)
Diagnosis
Mesoscutum and scutellum with numerous scattered setae; stigmal vein long and narrow (figure 123); propodeum with a complete median carina, narrow anteriorly and gradually widening towards hind margin of propodeum, posterior part of carina impressed (as in
hansoni
(figure 128)); first gastral tergite with one carina from basal carina (figure 134).
Female
(length of body =
1.7 mm
)
Colour.
Scape and pedicel yellowish brown, flagellum missing. Frons and vertex dark with metallic bluish green tinges.
Mesosoma
dark with golden-purple tinges. Coxae, femora and tibiae dark and metallic; tarsal segments 1–3 pale, segment 4 infuscate. Fore wing infuscate below stigmal vein. First gastral tergite metallic bluish green with purple tinges, remaining tergites dark with golden-purple tinges.
Head.
Antennae missing in
type
specimens.
HE
/
MS
/WM: not measurable. Frons and vertex with strong reticulation. Frontal suture absent. POL/
OOL
/POO: 2.8/2.7/1.0. Occipital margin rounded. WH/WT=1.0.
Mesosoma
.
Mesoscutum and scutellum rather flat dorsally, with strong reticulation. Mesoscutum 0.5× as long as wide, with numerous scattered setae. Scutellum 0.8× as long as wide, with numerous scattered setae. Axilla advanced 0.6× its length in front of scuto-scutellar sulcus. Fore wing speculum closed below; costal cell with setae on ventral surface; submarginal vein with three setae; LW/LM/HW: 2.2/1.0/1.5; PM/ST=0.2. Propodeum with a complete median carina, narrow anteriorly and gradually widening towards hind margin of propodeum, posterior part of carina impressed, propodeal surface reticulate; propodeal callus with two setae.
Metasoma.
First gastral tergite smooth and shiny, with a single median carina from basal carina; tergites 2–5 with strong small-meshed reticulation and with a narrow smooth and shiny stripe along hind margin; MM/LG=1.0–1.1.
F 128–138.
Entedononecremnus
and
Sifraneurus
spp.
(128–131) Propodeum: (128)
E. hansoni
; (129)
E. bimaculatus
; (130)
E. parfer
; (131)
E. reticulatus
. (132)
E. unicus
, gastral tergite 1; (133)
E. hansoni
, gastral tergites 1+2; (134)
E. unicarinatus
, gastral tergites 1+2; (135)
E. bimaculatus
, gastral tergite 1; (136)
E. depressus
, gastral tergite 1; (137)
S. strigifer
, head, frontal,
X
; (138)
S. strigifer
, head and antenna, lateral,
X
. bc, basal carina.
Material examined
H:
X
,
Brazil
:
Santa Catarina
,
Nova Teutonia
,
23 November 1949
,
F. Plaumann
(BMNH)
.
P: 1
X
from same locality as holotype but collected
24 November 1949
(BMNH). The
holotype
has fallen to pieces but most pieces are glued to a card, the only parts missing are right antenna and left flagellum; the
paratype
is also damaged, with entire head and right fore wing gone
.