Conidarnes, a new oriental genus of Sycophaginae (Hymenoptera, Agaonidae) associated with Ficus section Conosycea (Moraceae)
Author
Farache, Fernando Henrique Antoniolli
Author
Rasplus, Jean-Yves
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ZooKeys
2015
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.539.6529
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.539.6529
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Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Agaonidae
Conidarnes sp. ex Ficus sundaica
Fig. 16
Material
examined.
5♂: INDONESIA: E. Kalimantan: Kutai Nature Reserve, 0.37° 117.27°, 1978, Bingham M., ex
Ficus sundaica
Bl. v. beccariana (King) det. Corner, Wiebes Coll. N°3543 (RMNH).
Description.
Female. Unknown.
Male. Size and colour. Body length 3.1 mm. Antennae yellow orange. Head and mesosoma mostly black, with metallic blue lustre. Legs mostly dark brown, proximally darker. Metasoma brown.
Head
. Scape 5.3
x
as long as wide. Antennae inserted just below the middle line of compound eyes. Supraclypeal area shorter than clypeus and narrow. Face sculpture reticulate. Scrobe with a median longitudinal sulcus, extending from median ocellus to interantennal area.
Mesosoma. Pronotum sculpture alutaceous, engraved. Pronotum elongated, nearly twice as long as high in lateral view. Mesoscutum and mesoscutellum sculpture reticu
late
. Notauli complete. Frenal sulcus crenulated. Metascutellum long, rectangular to trapezoidal. Anterior margin of propodeum crenulated. Propodeum sculpture slightly reticulate to smooth. Propodeum without a median line.
Biology.
This species was reared from
Ficus sundaica
Blume v. beccariana (King).
Comments.
We have examined only males, but they clearly belong to an undescribed species. Since we described
Conidarnes
species mostly based on females, we prefer not to describe this species until more specimens are found.