A new species of Calogalesus Kieffer from China (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) with a key to World speciesAuthorFeng, JunAuthorNotton, DavidAuthorXu, Zai-futextZooKeys20166265765http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.626.9771journal articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.626.97711313-2970-626-57FBC28F3A33E84E3A925786023C31E820FBC28F3A33E84E3A925786023C31E820Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Diapriidae
Genus
Calogalesus Kieffer, 1912Calogalesus
Kieffer, 1912b: 6, 43. Type species:
Calogalesus parvulus
Kieffer, 1912, by monotypy;
Kieffer 1912a
: 73;
Kieffer 1916
: 10, 235;
Muesebeck and Walkley 1956
: 338;
Johnson 1992
: 145;
Masner and
GarciaRodriguez
2002
: 116;
Rajmohana 2006
; 36.
Calicuta
Rajmohana & Narendran, 2000a: 22-23, unavailable name;
Rajmohana and Narendran 2000b
: 193; Rajmohana & Narendran, in
Rajmohana 2004
: 519, 521;
Rajmohana 2006
: 36.
Diagnosis.Body mainly blackish-brown, brown or orange, smooth and shiny. Head with antennal shelf strongly projecting, laterally sharply angled and medially divided; frons with a curved carina on each side extending backwards, forming a ledge above upper eye orbit. Mandible bidentate or tridentate, together beak-like, projecting backwards. Antenna 12-segmented in female, 14-segmented in male; with A1 the longest segment. Female antenna without a clearly defined clava, but flagellar segments more or less thickened apically. Notauli distinct, not reaching transscutal articulation. Scutellum with two large anterior foveae. Fore wing with well-developed marginal cilia and two elongate hairless zones. Petiole strongly curved in lateral view.Biology.
This genus shows a nasiform head (elongated with frontal projections) and opisthognathous (backwards directed) beak-like mandibles, which may be associated with digging for hosts and/or bursting from host remains (
Nielsen and Buffington 2011
).
Distribution.
The genus is known from the following biogeographic regions: Afrotropical (
Masner and
GarciaRodriguez
2002
); Australian (
Masner and
GarciaRodriguez
2002
); Malagasy (
Kieffer 1912a
,
1912b
,
1916
;
Masner 1965
;
Gerlach 2013
;
Notton 2014
;
Madl 2015
); Neotropical (
Masner and
GarciaRodriguez
2002
;
Arias-Penna 2003
); Oriental (
Rajmohana 2004
,
2006
;
Rajmohana and Narendran 2000a
,
2000b
;
Rajmohana and Bijoy 2012
;
Rajmohana et al. 2013
).
Remarks.
The genus
Calicuta
was described by
Rajmohana and Narendran (2000a)
without type species designation, without included species and was not explicitly indicated as new. It is therefore an unavailable name. A formal publication of the name was intended but was abandoned following the realization that it was the same genus as
Calogalesus
Kieffer (
Rajmohana 2006
; Rajmohana pers. comm. with Notton). The name
Calicuta
was not made available by any of the subsequent publications of Rajmohana and Narendran cited here.
Key to World species of
Calogalesus