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
1
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4991.1.6
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Smicromorpha lagynos
Naumann, 1986
(
Figs 46–51
)
Smicromorpha lagynos
Naumann 1986: 177
.
Material examined
(images).
Australia
:
Queensland
,
7 km
north of
Hope Vale Mission
(
15.14ºS
&
145.07ºE
),
04.x.1980
,
Coll. J. C. Cardale
(
ANIC
,
holotype
♀
,
ANIC
Type No.
7591)
.
FIGURES 46–51.
Smicromorpha lagynos
Naumann
, holotype ♀: 46, habitus, lateral view; 47, head, frontal view; 48, head, dorsal view; 49, mesosoma and petiole, dorsal view; 50, fore wing; 51, type labels. Scale bar: Fig. 46: 1 mm; Figs 47, 48, 50– 200 μm; Fig. 49: 500 μm.
Diagnosis. Female
. Body length
4.8 mm
, length of fore wing
2.3 mm
; colour pale yellowish to orange except for following: mesoscutum, scapula, axillae and scutellum apically with brownish black patches, hind coxa externally, hind femur with two brown spots joining each other dorsomedially, brownish black, femoral serrulation black, and petiole laterally brownish to black; setation short, with scattered adpressed setae on mesosoma and hind femur (
Fig. 46
). Head with eyes small, malar space moderately enlarged, 0.55× as long as eye, with distinct malar carina; antennal scrobe deep, carinately margined, separated from inner edge of eye by about own width; inner edges of eyes strongly convex, maximum interocular distance (on vertex) at least twice as great as minimum distance (at mid-length of face); frons with longitudinal groove between median ocellus and antennal scrobe (
Fig. 47
); ocelli small with POL and LOD respectively 0.8–0.9× and 0.6–0.7× as long as OOL (
Fig. 48
); flagellum 7-segmented; flagellomeres basal to terminal flagellomere hardly longer than wide, with short setae; pronotal collar carinate later- ally; mesoscutum and scutellum rugose-punctulate; mesopleuron transversely strigose on ventral side, sternaulus absent; propodeum convex posteriorly, spiracular sulci indistinct; fore wing slightly infumate with brown setae, STV shorter than MV, forming slightly obtuse angle with MV, stump of basalis present (
Fig. 50
); hind coxa 3.3–4.2× long as wide; hind femur 1.5–1.7× as long as wide, with blunt basal prominence followed by serrulate margin; peti- ole 3.2–3.3× as long as wide and 3.2–3.7× as long as high, somewhat swollen before mid-length, dorsally punctulate between the sublateral longitudinal ridges (
Fig. 49
); transverse lamina reaching half length.
Male
. Same as female except measurements different and transverse lamina on petiole distinct.
Distribution.
Australian (
Australia
). Oriental (
Indonesia
) (
Noyes 2019
;
Ubaidillah & Kojima 2004
).
Host.
Unknown.