Synopsis of Incertosulcus Móczár, 1970 (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae)
Author
Barbosa, Diego N.
Author
Azevedo, Celso O.
text
Journal of Natural History
2020
2020-11-02
54
21 - 22
1363
1393
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2020.1794073
journal article
10.1080/00222933.2020.1794073
1464-5262
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Incertosulcus saintjohni
(
Móczár, 1977
)
comb. nov.
Sulcomesitius saintjohni
Móczár, 1977
, 23: 139, 143, 154–156, figs. 1, 53–54. Typerepository: MRAC (
Figure 4
(b)).
Material examined
♂
Kenya
,
Coast Prov
[ince],
Funzi Island
, near sea level,
4.57389°S
,
39.43830°E
,
sweep net
, n[ea]r
Funzi
,
Primary
school, 7
Jul
[y] 2002,
Coll
[ector]: ICIPE/NMK
Funzi Island
Expedition
(NMKE)
.
Description
Male.
Body length
4.6 mm
. Forewing 3.0 mm. Colour: wings bi-banded; pronotum and mesonotum orange; metasoma dark castaneous; head and metapectal-propodeal complex dark castaneous nearly black. Head: head as long as wide. Malar space as long as VOL, parallel. Median clypeal lobe quadrate. Antenna long; pedicel fusiform; flagellomere I longer than pedicel; flagellomeres long. Eye small [0.5 × LH], circular. Frons strongly foveolate. Ocelli large [DAO 0.5 × POL]. Mesosoma: dorsal pronotal area foveolate, with anterior corner angled, lateral margin incurved, and posterior margin sinuous; longitudinal pronotal sulcus complete. Anteromesoscutum weakly foveolate, as long as mesoscutellum; longitudinal antero-mesoscutal sulcus incomplete. Mesoscutellum foveolate. Metapectal-propodeal complex 0.5 × as long as wide; metapostnotum with longitudinal ridge between metaposnotal median carina and metaposnotal-propodeal suture; posterior spine of metapectal-propodeal complex short, thick. Metasoma: tergum I with ventral surface areolate; tergum II with dorsal surface punctured, ventral surface punctured. Hypopygium with anterior spiculum long and wide. Genitalia: paramere ventral arm short, sinuous; dorsal arm of paramere as long as ventral, filamentary. Aedeagus slender, with apex aligned with paramere apex, apical margin angled, and apical sickle process short, lateral of margin of basal portion outcurved.
Distribution
Kenya
and
South Africa