Revision of Trichiscus Benoît, 1956 (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae)
Author
Azevedo, Celso O.
text
Zootaxa
2014
3802
3
318
334
journal article
45670
10.11646/zootaxa.3802.3.2
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1175-5326
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Trichiscus suzannae
Benoît, 1986
(
Figs 10
,
23–25
)
Trichiscus suzannae
Benoît, 1986
: 294
(key), 295 (description), 296 (
Figs 3-4
); Gordh & Móczár, 1990: 266 (catalog).
Description.
MALE. Length
2.5 mm
. Head and mesosoma almost black, metasoma dark castaneous; wings subhyaline. Clypeus with median lobe concave (bidentate), apical margin thick in frontal view, medially with wide trapezoidal polished area; median carina absent. Frons coriaceous, punctures small, shallow and inconspicuous. Frons with anterior median small callus. Vertex slightly convex. Notaulus present on anterior half of mesoscutum. Propodeal disc rugose. Hypopygium (
Fig. 10
) with posterior margin with short and concave emargination. Genitalia (
Figs 23–25
). Basal parameral expansion ill-defined, virtually absent. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex laminar, surface vertical, apex spine-shaped. Aedeagal dorsal body with three pairs of apical lobes, outer pair laminar, apex sharpened slightly curved ventrad in lateral view, ventral margin with subrectangular expansion; ventral pair laminar, apex rounded in lateral view; inner pair membranous, hairy.
FEMALE unknown.
Material examined.
Holotype
♂:
Congo Belge
: P.N.A. [=Parc National Albert], Kanyabayongo (Kabasha),
1760 m
.,
7-xii-1934
, G.F. de Witte: 878 (
MRAC
). New material:
UGANDA
, Entebe, Lake Victoria,
XI.1971
, M. Falke (
PMAE
).
Remarks.
This species was known only from the
holotype
. Now it is recorded for the first from
Uganda
in a place about
340 km
far from
type
locality.