Doddifoenus wallacei, a new giant parasitoid wasp of the subfamily Leptofoeninae (Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae), with a description of its mesosomal skeletal anatomy and a molecular characterization
Author
Krogmann, Lars
Author
Burks, Roger A.
text
Zootaxa
2009
2194
21
36
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.189452
973006b3-b816-4b15-8cd1-70db726a54c8
1175-5326
189452
926C03BD-80C8-4A85-8976-7161EE4D252B
Subfamily
Leptofoeninae
Handlirsch
Pelecinellinae Ashmead, 1899: 201. Leptofoenidae Handlirsch, 1925: 744. Leptofoenini Bouċek, 1958: 355–356.
Leptofoeninae
Bouċek, 1988
: 268
.
Diagnosis.
Head subcubic with parascrobal crests; inner eye margins not conspicuously diverging; mesosoma, metasoma and ovipositor extremely elongate; wings with postmarginal vein longer than marginal vein, extending to apex of wing and short, sessile stigmal vein; petiole elongate, at least twice as long as wide, laterally with a row of long setae.
Genus
Doddifoenus
Bou
ě
ek
Doddifoenus
Bouċek, 1988
: 268
–269.
Type
species by original designation:
Leptofoenus australiensis
Dodd, 1927
.
Diagnosis.
Body shiny metallic; pronotum smooth laterally; basal tarsomeres only about as long as or shorter than second tarsomeres of respective tarsi; female with metasomal tergite 9 mobile and elongate.
Key to world species of
Doddifoenus
Bou
ě
ek:
1. Profemur with small ventral spine (
Fig. 5
C); forewing lacking sclerotized spur on parastigma ................................ 2
- Profemur without ventral spine; forewing with sclerotized spur on parastigma [Australasia:
Papua New Guinea
] .....
.....................................................................................................................................
Doddifoenus rex
Bouċek, 1988
2. Metasomal tergites without white spots (
Fig. 2
A); mesoscutellum with mesal channel (
Figs 3
E, 4A); antenna without white flagellomeres (
Fig. 2
D) [Indomalaya:
Laos
,
Thailand
] ....................................
Doddifoenus wallacei
sp. n.
- Metasomal tergites with conspicuous white spots; mesoscutellum without mesal channel; antenna with white flagellomeres [Australasia: Northeastern
Australia
]......................................
Doddifoenus australiensis
(Dodd, 1927)