The Turkish Bethylidae (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea) fauna, with the new records of Epyrinae and Scleroderminae
Author
Can, İlyas
text
Zootaxa
2022
2022-08-02
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.5169.5.3
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Epyris niger
Westwood, 1832
Diagnosis:
Body length 4.1 mm (
Fig. 1a
). Head and mesosoma black (
Fig. 1b
); mandible apically yellow except for basal half brown; antenna brown; forewing hyaline, veins yellowish; legs brown, apically light brown; metasoma entirely black. Mandible with four apical teeth. Eye with erect setae. Head and thorax dull and densely coriaceous, puncture small and sparse. Anterior corners of the dorsal pronotal area in round angle. Foveae of mesoscutoscutellar suture separated with median carina and distant from each other less than their half own (
Fig. 1c
). Terga I and II smooth without punctures; remained terga smooth with inconspicuous punctures and distal sparse long hairs. Forewing without radial 1 vein; second radial cross vein & radial sector vein slightly arched and long (
Fig. 1d
).
Material examined:
Turkey
,
Tokat
,
Central district
,
600 m
,
20.VII.2006
,
1♀
.
Distribution:
Egypt
,
England
,
Germany
,
France
,
Iran
,
Italy
,
Hungary
,
Romania
(
Nagy 1970
; Samadi-Afshar
et al.
2012). Now, it is recorded for the first time from
Turkey
.