Charipinae Dalla Torre & Kieffer, 1910 (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Figitidae) from the Mercantour National Park (Alpes-Maritimes, France), with descriptions of three new species
Author
Ferrer-Suay, Mar
Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Biologia, Departament de Biologia Animal, Avda. Diagonal 645, E- 08028 Barcelona (Spain) mar. ferrer. suay @ gmail. com (corresponding author)
suay@gmail.com
Author
Selfa, Jesús
Universitat de València, Facultat de Ciències Biològiques, Departament de Zoologia, Campus de Burjassot-Paterna, Dr Moliner 50, E- 46100 Burjassot (València) (Spain) jesus. selfa @ uv. es
selfa@uv.es
Author
Villemant, Claire
Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Département de systématique et évolution - UMR 7205, Case postale 50, 57 rue Cuvier F- 75231 Paris Cedex 05 (France) villeman @ mnhn. fr
villeman@mnhn.fr
Author
Pujade-Villar, Juli
Facultat de Biologia, Departament de Biologia Animal, Avda. Diagonal 645, E- 08028 Barcelona (Spain) jpujade @ ub. edu
jpujade@ub.edu
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Zoosystema
2015
2015-03-31
37
1
115
138
http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/z2015n1a5
journal article
10.5252/z2015n1a5
1638-9387
4577554
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A452D294-BA01-4C5B-9B0B-77B4079BFF1C
Alloxysta brachycera
Hellén, 1963
(
Figs 2C
;
3C
)
Alloxysta brachycera
Hellén, 1963: 14
.
MATERIAL
EXAMINED. — (
11♀
). M09-BOR1400-
T3
-M1:
4♀
;
M09-BOR1400-
T5
-M1:
1♀
;
M09-BOR2000-
T4
-M1:
2♀
;
M09-SES2000-
T3
-M1:
1♀
;
M09-SES2000-
T5
-M1:
1♀
;
M10- CAI2000-
T1
-M1:
1♀
;
M10-CAI2000-
T3
-M1:
1♀
. Material deposited at
MNHN
, except for
5♀
deposited at
UB
.
DISTRIBUTION. — Previously known from
Finland
(
Hellén 1963
). First record from
France
.
HOSTS. — Unknown.
DIAGNOSIS. —
Alloxysta brachycera
is characterized by: a completely open radial cell, 2.7 × longer than wide (
Fig. 3C
), pronotal carinae present, propodeal carinae absent, female antenna with rhinaria beginning from F4, F1 longer than pedicel and F2, F2 longer than F3, F3 shorter than F4 (
Fig. 2C
). Male unknown. Similar to
Alloxysta nigrita
(
Thomson, 1862
)
, but the two species can be differentiated by: F2 longer than F
3 in
A. brachycera
(
Fig. 2C
), whereas F2 is shorter than F
3 in
A. nigrita
(
Fig. 2N
); proportions of radial cell: 2.7 × longer than wide in
A. brachycera
(
Fig. 3C
), versus 2.9 × in
A. nigrita
(
Fig. 3N
).