Review of the species of Pediobius (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) having extreme dorsal setation and description of a new species from East Africa
Author
Gumovsky, Alex
0000-0003-0646-3631
Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 15 Bogdan Khmelnitsky St., 01601 Kiev- 30, Ukraine & School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Corresponding author. entedon @ gmail. com; gumovsky @ izan. kiev. ua; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0646 - 3631
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-07-14
4999
5
423
438
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4999.5.2
1175-5326
5119468
62A00C35-E6C8-4378-81DE-F0320D58885B
setigerus
species group (new)
Diagnosis.
Mesoscutum and/or mesoscutellum with strong, spiky bristles (
Figs 1–7
), anteromedial margin of mesoscutellum with a notch: small (
P. setigerus
and
P. multisetis
,
Figs 3B
,
5
) or deep and bordered by tooth-like projections (
P. erinaceus
,
Figs 6C
,
7B
); antenna with F3 broadly attached to first claval segment, so the funicle is functionally 2-segmented and the clava is functionally 3-segmented (
Fig. 4
).
Additionally, head wider than mesosoma, faintly sculptured to smooth, with distinct X-shaped frontal sutures (
Figs 2E
,
4D
); lower face moderately narrowed, antennae inserted somewhat below or at the level of lower eye margins (
Fig. 2E
); sculpture of dorsum faint to alutaceous.
Species included.
Pediobius setigerus
,
P. multisetis
,
P.
sp.
aff.
multisetis
, and
P. erinaceus
sp. n.