Revision of Nearctic species of Lonchodryinus Kieffer 1905, with description of a new species from New Mexico (Hymenoptera: Dryinidae)
Author
Olmi, Massimo
Author
Guglielmino, Adalgisa
text
Zootaxa
2010
2654
30
40
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.198910
bb3b29eb-949d-4e58-83f4-6adfd715ba56
1175-5326
198910
Lonchodryinus politus
Olmi et Guglielmino
,
new species
(
Figs 5, 6
)
Description.
Female
: fully winged; length
2.43 mm
. Completely testaceous. Antennae filiform; antennal segments in the following proportions: 9:5:9:9:9:9:7:7:7:9. Head shiny, smooth, finely punctate, without sculpture among punctures; face without lateral keels; frontal line absent; occipital carina complete; POL = 7; OL = 3; OOL = 6; OPL = 6; TL = 7; greatest breadth of posterior ocelli shorter than OL (2:3). Pronotum shiny, smooth, without sculpture, very short, with posterior surface much shorter than scutum (4:15). Scutum, scutellum and metanotum shiny, smooth, finely punctate, without sculpture among punctures. Notauli incomplete, reaching approximately 0.7 length of scutum. Propodeum reticulate rugose, without a transverse keel between dorsal and posterior surface; posterior surface without longitudinal keels. Forewing hyaline, without dark transverse bands; pterostigma very broad (
Fig. 6
); distal part of stigmal vein about twice as long as proximal part (9:4.5). Fore tarsal segments in the following proportions: 8:2.5:3:5:15. Segment 3 of fore tarsus produced into a hook. Enlarged claw (
Fig. 5
) with a proximal prominence bearing a long bristle. Segment 5 of fore tarsus (
Fig. 5
) with 2 rows of approximately 37 lamellae; distal apex with a group of approximately 7 lamellae. Tibial spurs 1, 1, 2.
FIGURES 5–7.
5, 6.
Lonchodryinus politus
sp. nov.
5: Chela; 6: Pterostigma of holotype, length 0.52 mm. 7.
L. flavus
, pterostigma of a female specimen from New York, Valois, length 0.70 mm. Scale bar 0.08 mm for 5.
Male
: unknown.
Type
locality.
26 mi
. E Carlsbad (New
Mexico
,
USA
)
Type
material.
Female
holotype
! in
TAMU
(it will be transferred to
USNM
).
Hosts.
unknown.
Distribution.
Nearctic region:
USA
.
Material examined.
USA
:
New
Mexico
: Eddy Co.,
26 mi
. E Carlsbad,
17.V.1977
, Malaise trap, female
holotype
(
TAMU
(it will be transferred to
USNM
)!).
Etymology.
politus
is a Latin adjective meaning elegant.