Moczariella, a bizarre new genus of Mesitiinae (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) from Arab Peninsula
Author
Barbosa, Diego N.
Author
Azevedo, Celso O.
text
Zootaxa
2014
3860
3
291
297
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3860.3.7
3a708fcd-ed88-40cd-bd44-db24ca43eed5
1175-5326
230995
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Moczariella
Barbosa & Azevedo
,
gen. nov.
Description
.
Male
. Head longer than wide. Mandible with inconspicuous lower condyle. Clypeus without lateral lobe. Distance between antennal foramina as long as antennal foramen diameter, flagellomeres caliciform. Vertex with post-ocellar depression. Gena with medially incomplete ventral occipital carina. Mesoscutum with notauli weakly impressed. Propodeal disc without lateral and posterior transverse carinae; propodeal spiracle placed laterally. Metapleuron without upper endofragmal pit. Claws single; apical margin of arolium truncate. Hypopygium with posterior margin convex. Genitalia with ventral arm of paramere narrower than dorsal one; ventral arm of cuspis wide; aedeagus aligned with paramere apex, apex angulate; apodeme divergent apically; basal ring with dorsal half distinctly longer than ventral half.
Female
. Unknown.
Type
species.
Moczariella centenaria
Barbosa & Azevedo
,
sp. nov.
Species included.
Type
species only.
Etymology.
The name
Moczariella
is in honor to László Móczár, the main contributor to the taxonomy of
Mesitiinae
.