First record of the genus Oodera Westwood, 1874 (Hymenoptera, Pteromalidae, Cleonyminae, Ooderini) from the Arabian Peninsula, with the description of four new species
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Soliman, Ahmed M.
Author
Gadallah, Neveen S.
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Al Dhafer, Hathal M.
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ZooKeys
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.874.35935
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.874.35935
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Oodera Westwood, 1874
Oodera
Westwood, 1874. Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxoniensis: 145. Type species:
Oodera gracilis
Westwood; subsequent designation by
Ashmead (1904
: 288).
Stellophora
Risbec, 1951. Mem. Inst. Er. Afr. Noire 63: 239. Type species:
Stellophora magnifica
Risbec by monotypy. Synonymized by
Boucek
(1958
: 375).
Diagnosis.
Individuals of
Oodera
are diagnosed by the following combination of character states: head with deep scrobes in the form of an inverted V; parascrobal area of the head crested (= corona of
Werner and Peters 2018
); mesosoma dorsally flattened, with pronotum (no.) usually longer than wide, pentagonal (rounded in few cases), without differentiated collar, widened anteriorly and narrowed towards mesoscutum; mesoscutum (msc.) with star-like grooves, arranged radially from almost one point, notauli sulcate, V-shaped, extended to anterior margin of mesoscutellum; axillae conspicuously large, triangular, greatly advanced anterior to mesoscutellum; mesoscutellum (sct.) longitudinally ridged dorsally, with smoother coraceous apex; profemur (fm1.) distinctly enlarged, oval-shaped, with a row of oblique strong black bristles and a comb of peculiar pegs along its outer ventral margin; protibia (tb1.) curved, strongly carinate along its dorsal and ventral margins; mesocoxae with small membranous area anterior to each one; postmarginal vein (pmv.) of forewing slightly longer or slightly shorter than marginal vein (mav.); metasomal petiole very short, membranous medio-ventrally; ovipositor (ovp.) sheaths varying in length among the different species, from shorter than, to distinctly longer than metasomal length (mts.l) (
Boucek
1958
,
1988
;
Gibson 1989
,
2003
;
Boucek
and Rasplus 1991
;
Werner and Peters 2018
).