New species of cynipid inquilines of the genus Ufo Melika & Pujade-Villar, 2005 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini)
Author
Melika, George
Author
Tang, Chang-Ti
Author
Yang, Man-Miao
Author
Bihari, Péter
Author
Bozsó, Miklós
Author
Pénzes, Zsolt
text
Zootaxa
2012
3478
143
163
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.215255
59996ab5-57e6-4b94-92fb-385ac9c5c882
1175-5326
215255
Ufo abei
Melika & Pujade-Villar
Figs 30–39
Diagnosis.
Differs from all other
Ufo
species by the smooth, glabrous head (particularly smooth frons) and the short malar space. The body is uniformly reddish brown to black; the head is transversely ovate; the frons is smooth, shiny; the compound eye 1.1´longer than the malar space; the lower face with sparse white setae (
Figs 30–33
); notauli are incomplete, extending maximum to the half length of the mesoscutum (
Fig. 37
); the 2nd metasomal tergite not or very slightly incised posterodorsally.
Distribution and Biology.
Known only from Honshu (Hiroshima),
Japan
; collected from
Q. variabilis
, from an unknown host (Melika
et al
. 2005). Females known only.