The neotropical genus Sporrongia Gumovsky (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) including two new species and the first biological record
Author
Hansson, Christer
Scientific Associate, Natural History Museum, Department of Life Sciences, London, UK & Biological Museum (Entomology), Lund University, Sweden.
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-11-18
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Sporrongia tobagoiensis
Gumovsky
(
Figs 8–10
,
27
)
Sporrongia tobagoiensis
Gumovsky 1998:32
.
Holotype
female in NHM, examined.
FIGURES 23–27.
Sporrongia
spp.
23–26
.
S. marginata
sp. nov
.
, paratypes;
23
, head and mesosoma in lateral view, female;
24
, part of mesosoma with axilla (=ax) in lateral view, female;
25
, propodeum, female;
26
, illustration of phallobase, part of male genitalia.
27
,
S. tobagoiensis
Gumovsky
, female non-type, thoracic dorsum and head.
Diagnosis.
Female flagellum pale brown and scape white (
Fig. 9
); female with all coxae pale brown (
Fig. 8
); female gaster dark brown (
Fig. 8
).
Description.
See
Gumovsky (1998)
. The additional specimen included here is very similar to the
holotype
of this species and the original description of
S. tobagoiensis
applies well to this non-type specimen.
Distribution
.
Trinidad & Tobago
(
Gumovsky 1998
).
Biology
. Unknown.
Material examined
.
Holotype
female of
S. tobagoiensis
in NHM
(type no. 5.3947).
Additional material:
One
female from
TOBAGO
,
St. Paul
,
Delaford
,
22.vii.1976
,
J.S. Noyes
, collected in secondary forest (
NHM
)
.