Revision of New World Helava Masner & Huggert (Platygastridae, Sceliotrachelinae)
Author
Talamas, Elijah J.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1048-6345
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA / ARS c / o USNM, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 20560, U. S. A.
billy.jenkins@GMAIL.COM
Author
Masner, Lubomir
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, K. W. Neatby Building, Ottawa, Ontario K 1 A 0 C 6, Canada
text
Journal of Hymenoptera Research
2016
2016-12-19
53
1
24
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.53.10217
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.53.10217
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Helava aureipes Masner & Talamas
sp. n.
Figures
24-28
Description
.
Female body length: 0.95-1.36 mm (n=20). Male body length: 0.98-1.10 mm (n=20). Male antenna: apically clubbed. Number of antennomeres in male club: uncertain, 3. Number of female clavomeres: 4. Setation of frons anterior to ocellar triangle: present. Setation of vertex posterior to lateral ocellus: dense. Hyperoccipital carina: absent. Pronotum in dorsal view: present mostly as lateral shoulders. Dorsoventral band of dense setation on posterior part of lateral pronotum: absent. Setation of pronotal cervical sulcus: sparse to absent. Width of dorsal mesopleuron in lateral view: about equal ventrally and dorsally to 1.5 times as wide ventrally. Longitudinal striation on dorsal mesopleuron: present. Transepisternal line: present. Mesofurcal pit: present. Notaulus: percurrent. Rs+M in fore wing: nebulous. Wings: macropterous. Rs+M in hind wing: nebulous. Color of legs: yellow. Foamy structures of lateral propodeum: smaller than hairy metapleuron. Median tubercule on T2: present. Setation of anterior T2: interrupted medially. Lateral patch on T2: absent. Foamy structures on S1: absent. Transverse felt field on anterior S2: present. Shape of S2 in lateral view: broadly convex.
Diagnosis.
Helava aureipes
and
H. allomera
are the only two South American species with notauli. They can be separated from each other by the transepisternal line, which is absent in
H. allomera
and present as a distinct groove in
H. aureipes
.
Etymology.
The epithet "
Helava aureipes
" is given to this species in reference to the golden colour of the legs.
Link to distribution map.
http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=354390
Material examined.
Holotype
, female:
CHILE
:
Araucania
Reg.,
Malleco Prov.
,
1200m
,
37.809°S
73.016°W
,
Nahuelbuta National Park
,
9.I-12.I.2000
,
Malaise trap
,
D. Webb
&
D. Yeates
, USNMENT00989205 (deposited in CNCI)
.
Paratypes
:
CHILE
:
25 females
,
88 males
, CNC424741, 425033-425101, 494411-494451, 494813, USNMENT00989206 (CNCI)
.