New species and new records of Platygastrinae and Sceliotrachelinae from Togo (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae)
Author
Buhl, Peter Neerup
text
African Invertebrates
2014
2014-03-30
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.5733/afin.055.0106
journal article
10.5733/afin.055.0106
2305-2562
7649696
Synopeas dorsale
Buhl, 2011
Fig. 72
Synopeas dorsale
: Buhl 2011
b
:109
, 114.
Material
examined:
3♀
1♂
TOGO
,
Région des Plateaux
,
N of KessiboWawa
, at the border to
Ghana
(
N of Badou
), at
river Wawa
(
07°42'11"N
00°35'26"E
),
24.iv.
2008
, 180 m, forest understorey, cocoa plantation and sunexposed vegetable fields, some
Cyperaceae
, swept,
M. von Tschirnhaus
.
Slightly smaller than the
type
material from
Tanzania
(
♀
0.70–0.85 mm
,
♂
0.70 mm
). The material from
Togo
differs in a few details from the
type
material. e.g. in the head being 1.2× as wide as mesosoma, fore wings without marginal cilia, and female metasoma only 1.3× as wide as high. The characteristic mesoscutum of this species is illustrated in
Fig. 72
.