A revision of the Chinese Aulacidae (Hymenoptera, Evanioidea)
Author
Chen, Hua-yan
Author
Turrisi, Giuseppe Fabrizio
Author
Xu, Zai-fu
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Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Aulacidae
Pristaulacus calidus
sp. n.
Figs 13, 14-19, 20-23, 122
Material examined.
Holotype, ♂ (IZCAS), CHINA: Yunnan, Cheli, 560 m, 26.IV.1957, Da-hua Liu, IOZ(E) 1903971.
Etymology.
From the Latin adjective
"calidus"
, meaning
"hot"
, a noun in apposition.
Diagnosis.
Antenna black with scape yellowish-orange; metasoma black with posterior margin of first tergite brown; forewing hyaline with a small dark brown spot under stigma; occipital margin concave, with a wide and deep medial groove; pronotum with one anteroventrally projecting tooth-like process; pretarsal claw with five tooth-like processes; forewing with vein 2-rs+m short, cells SM2 and D1 slightly separated.
Description.
Holotype. Male. Body length 12.1 mm; forewing length 7.1 mm.
Colour. Antenna black with scape yellowish-orange; head black with clypeus dark brown; mesosoma black; metasoma black with posterior margin of first tergite brown; mandible brown with teeth darker; palpi black; fore leg, tibia and tarsus of mind leg and tarsus of hind leg yellowish-brown, remainder of legs dark brown to black; forewing hyaline with a small dark brown spot under stigma; hind wing hyaline.
Head. From above, 1.2
x
wider than long, shiny; lower interocular distance 1.4
x
eye height; malar space 0.4
x
eye height; occipital margin concave, with a wide and deep medial groove; temple, from above, rounded, distinctly longer than eye length; occipital carina 0.5
x
diameter of an ocellus; POL:OOL=0.9; lower frons and clypeus densely and finely punctate, remainder of head largely smooth with sparse and fine punctures; A3 3.5
x
longer than wide; A4 5.8
x
longer than wide, and 2.0
x
longer than A3; A5 5.6
x
longer than wide, and 1.9
x
longer than A3.
Mesosoma. Pronotum coarsely areolate-rugose, with one anterior short tooth-like process on lateroventral margin; propleuron shiny and smooth ventrally, finely rugose on dorsal surface; mesoscutum mostly transverse-carinate, coarsely areolate-rugose along transscutal fissure and on sides, anterior part slightly emarginate medially, rounded laterally; notauli deep and wide; scutellum transverse-carinate in middle, coarsely areolate-rugose on anterior and posterior margin; axillae, metanotum, propodeum, mesopleuron and metapleuron coarsely areolate-rugose; forewing with vein 2-rs+m short, cells SM2 and D1 slightly separated; hind wing veins faint to absent; hind coxa transverse-carinate; hind basitarsus 10.0
x
longer than wide, and 1.3
x
of tarsomeres 2-5; pretarsal claw with five tooth-like processes.
Metasoma. Smooth, shining, with fine white pubescence on segment 2 to apex; petiole elongate, 5.7
x
longer than wide.
Female. Unknown.
Distribution.
China (Yunnan).
Biology.
Collected in April. Host not known.