Review of Smicromorpha Girault (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae) with description of a new species from India
Author
Binoy, C.
0000-0002-4999-1971
Insect Ecology and Ethology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Calicut, Kerala- 673635, India. & Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Malabar Christian College, Kozhikode, Affiliated to University of Calicut, Kerala- 673001, India. sant @ mccclt. ac. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4999 - 1971
sant@mccclt.ac.in
Author
Santhosh, S.
0000-0002-4999-1971
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Malabar Christian College, Kozhikode, Affiliated to University of Calicut, Kerala- 673001, India. sant @ mccclt. ac. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4999 - 1971
sant@mccclt.ac.in
Author
Nasser, M.
0000-0002-6460-1839
Insect Ecology and Ethology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Calicut, Kerala- 673635, India. & drnasher @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6460 - 1839
drnasher@gmail.com
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-06-23
4991
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4991.1.6
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Smicromorpha eudela
Naumann, 1986
(
Figs 32–38
)
FIGURES 32–38.
Smicromorpha eudela
Naumann
, holotype ♀: 32, habitus, lateral view; 33, head, frontal view; 34, antenna; 35, head, dorsal view; 36, mesosoma, dorsal view; 37, wings; 38, type labels. Scale bar: Fig. 32: 1 mm; Fig. 33: 200 μm; Figs 34–37: 500 μm.
Smicromorpha eudela
Naumann 1986: 176
Material examined
(images).
Australia
:
Northern Territory
,
Nourlangie Creek
,
8km
of
Mt. Cahill
(
12.52ºS
&
132.47ºE
)
26.x.1972
,
Coll. D. H. Colless
(
ANIC
,
holotype
♂
,
ANIC
Type No.
7590)
.
Diagnosis. Male
. Body length
4.1 mm
, length of fore wing
2.2 mm
; colour ranging from pale yellowish to orange without brown and black markings; femoral teeth pale orange; setation short, scattered, with adpressed setae on mesosoma and hind femur; flagellar setae very short. Head with small eyes, malar space long, but without malar carina (
Figs 32, 33
); antennal scrobe deep, margin acarinate, widely separated from inner edge of eye (
Fig. 33
); POL and LOD respectively 0.7× and 1.3× OOL (
Fig. 35
); frons with longitudinal groove between median ocellus and antennal scrobe; eyes well separated, maximum interocular distance (on vertex) 0.75 × as great as minimum distance (at mid-length of face); flagellum 6-segmented with fl
1
transverse and remaining flagellomeres longer than wide, flagellar setae short (
Fig. 34
); pronotal collar acarinate; mesoscutum and scutellum areolate-rugose; sternau- lus absent; propodeum broadly concave posteriorly, spiracular sulci distinct; fore wing infuscate except basally with dense brown setae (
Fig. 37
); MV punctiform and forming acute angle with SMV, stump of basalis absent; hind coxa 2× long as wide; femur 2.3× as long as wide with weak ventral process without serrulation; petiole 3.3× as long as wide and 3.7× as high, dorsally minutely reticulate punctate; transverse lamina indistinct.
Female
. Unknown.
Distribution.
Australian (
Australia
).
Host.
Unknown.