Revision of Afrotropical Dyscritobaeus Perkins, 1910 (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae)
Author
Tortorici, Francesco
Author
Caleca, Virgilio
Author
Noort, Simon Van
Author
Masner, Lubomir
text
Zootaxa
2016
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4178.1.1
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orientalis
-group
s.l.
The following species belong to the
orientalis-
group s.s because they have a preoccipital lunula, characteristic of species of the
orientalis
-group
s.l.
, and in females they share with
D. orientalis
the specillum on T2; the metascutellum is visible in dorsal view, triangular; and a large metanotal spine is present. Regarding the fore wing of
D. orientalis
, in
Fig. 37
a we show the slide micrograph (taken by V. Caleca in 1989) of one of the two fore wings mounted on the original slide of the holotype of
Mirotelenomus orientalis
Dodd
preserved at SAMA. Comparing this image to that shown by
Mineo
et al.
(2009
; pg. 174, fig. 5), the wing shape and the fringe are very different and it is clear that the latter specimen does not belong to
D. orientalis
.