Rediscovery of Lustrina Kurian (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae), with redescription of L. assamensis Kurian
Author
Rosa, Paolo
Author
Thai, Pham Hong
Author
Mita, Toshiharu
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-01-07
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4718.2.10
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Genus
Lustrina
Kurian, 1955
Lustrina
Kurian, 1955: 86
.
Type
species:
Lustrina assamensis
Kurian, 1955
. Monobasic and original designation.
Lustrina
Kurian
:
Nagy 1968: 168
.
Synonym of
Cleptes
Latreille, 1802: 316
, according to
Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 53
.
Lustrina
Kurian
:
Móczár 1996b: 133
.
Lustrinia
Kurian
: incorrect subsequent spelling by
Wei
et al.
2013: 56
.
Diagnosis
.
Lustrina
is characterized by the combination of the following characters: tarsal claws bifid, with broad, subparallel tooth; mesonotum with dense, deep and contiguous punctures; forewings with two dark brown bands, one basal and one subapical; wing microtrichia long and thick; legs entirely reddish-testaceous, including coxae; metasomal colouration metallic and transversally banded; body and legs covered by elongated, thick and greyish setae. The combination of the following morphological characters is also considered distinctive, even if some characters are shared with few
Cleptes
species groups: POL less than 1.0 MOD; pronotum with transverse basal pit row, with large, subquadrate pits, extending to basolateral margins; mesopleuron with ill-defined scrobal sulcus extended horizontally, formed by enlarged and irregular foveae; smaller irregular foveae continue almost forming a loop as in the
Cleptes asianus
group; metanotal anteromedian pit present; metasomal punctation dense and deep on the second and third tergum.
Distribution.
The only known species,
Lustrina assamensis
, is distributed in the Oriental region from
India
(
Assam
) to
Vietnam
.