329 lines
50 KiB
XML
329 lines
50 KiB
XML
<document id="E5DD4F1BE8C21519D1A52D250B5F83AE" ID="10.11646/zootaxa.4255.1.1SLASH10872" ID-CLB-Dataset="33184" ID-DOI="10.5281/zenodo.556479" ID-GBIF-Dataset="4a65facc-ae9e-4379-a86f-0d8d34f58096" ID-ISSN="1175-5326" ID-Zenodo-Dep="556479" ID-ZooBank="3EF97DA3-EF37-4D91-8689-2AB9151D1440" IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="felipe" IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe" IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="felipe" checkinTime="1492764100625" checkinUser="plazi" docAuthor="Gibson, Gary A. P." docDate="2017" docId="03C187CB2245CF09FF78F9EEFCFF4A0F" docLanguage="en" docName="zootaxa.4255.1.1SLASH10872.pdf" docOrigin="Zootaxa 4255 (1)" docStyle="DocumentStyle:5EBBA59367AD13919D70D935FA04F6A3.14:Zootaxa.2013-.monograph" docStyleId="5EBBA59367AD13919D70D935FA04F6A3" docStyleName="Zootaxa.2013-.monograph" docStyleVersion="14" docTitle="Merostenus (Merostenus) platyscapus Gibson, 2017, n. sp." docType="treatment" docVersion="8" lastPageNumber="45" masterDocId="FFF8FFB3226CCF25FFEFFF9BFFBC4937" masterDocTitle="Synonymy of Reikosiella Yoshimoto under Merostenus Walker (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eupelmidae), with a checklist of world species and a revision of those species with brachypterous females" masterLastPageNumber="65" masterPageNumber="1" pageNumber="42" updateTime="1698439028211" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
|
||
<mods:mods id="19A0578CB4B5DEFF56E78C36FC1CB115" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
|
||
<mods:titleInfo id="86B605EE6A97510596A0F327A532F191">
|
||
<mods:title id="F3145DE37EC10170FFD0648AAE9D8511">Synonymy of Reikosiella Yoshimoto under Merostenus Walker (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eupelmidae), with a checklist of world species and a revision of those species with brachypterous females</mods:title>
|
||
</mods:titleInfo>
|
||
<mods:name id="6235DEB5DD5EDD046524074080C0D055" type="personal">
|
||
<mods:role id="718805D1CBD65F7C964B687619D660FE">
|
||
<mods:roleTerm id="A238F187E739CD2B2294E98A0048D82B">Author</mods:roleTerm>
|
||
</mods:role>
|
||
<mods:namePart id="3655381AC3F109E417FF647B9843BF5E">Gibson, Gary A. P.</mods:namePart>
|
||
</mods:name>
|
||
<mods:typeOfResource id="5372BE713943528321F1FCD7CD3048B1">text</mods:typeOfResource>
|
||
<mods:relatedItem id="713CB8E5715AAFACC33D2642B1F36076" type="host">
|
||
<mods:titleInfo id="B6C608016CE4719D873F250F751143E5">
|
||
<mods:title id="CD5AD23BC7796636EE22B08DC823056A">Zootaxa</mods:title>
|
||
</mods:titleInfo>
|
||
<mods:part id="DC2892F2305AC37888A8E9F4A42B04A9">
|
||
<mods:date id="D42AD6333943F2372FFE8E1D26C56568">2017</mods:date>
|
||
<mods:detail id="EFFB801ED3567DBA866E23691E38FDD7" type="volume">
|
||
<mods:number id="4F8DCDDD10556E79F607E88DBCE409EF">4255</mods:number>
|
||
</mods:detail>
|
||
<mods:detail id="E3F7359984C73F43328F7420D6A32EF0" type="issue">
|
||
<mods:number id="73C9E9D4F5A96D74DC41481DFCF3FF21">1</mods:number>
|
||
</mods:detail>
|
||
<mods:extent id="5C930C06D2C85E0B414017C2C92A3B5E" unit="page">
|
||
<mods:start id="DA9D898C5CF7F2BB63BA2172A5F5852C">1</mods:start>
|
||
<mods:end id="0BF3351A3DABB35C5B20C98B73DC1141">65</mods:end>
|
||
</mods:extent>
|
||
</mods:part>
|
||
</mods:relatedItem>
|
||
<mods:classification id="984BEE55C3B6E13FDEFD9650769A2FCA">journal article</mods:classification>
|
||
<mods:identifier id="E35A9056EF31235C4A34C85C137E2CDC" type="CLB-Dataset">33184</mods:identifier>
|
||
<mods:identifier id="F3AFEF0EF4C4BB5EADD20E400B2C20D3" type="DOI">10.5281/zenodo.556479</mods:identifier>
|
||
<mods:identifier id="C41E62FAE6E25CED9AA43D390356C591" type="GBIF-Dataset">4a65facc-ae9e-4379-a86f-0d8d34f58096</mods:identifier>
|
||
<mods:identifier id="8A53418AC1ACD1D4213F8C2C67704AE2" type="ISSN">1175-5326</mods:identifier>
|
||
<mods:identifier id="992228232C868EDC283E8945E155716F" type="Zenodo-Dep">556479</mods:identifier>
|
||
<mods:identifier id="E9902EB1E2993E70A0CAE5F5ED66E90D" type="ZooBank">3EF97DA3-EF37-4D91-8689-2AB9151D1440</mods:identifier>
|
||
</mods:mods>
|
||
<treatment id="03C187CB2245CF09FF78F9EEFCFF4A0F" ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6049208" ID-GBIF-Taxon="128682240" ID-Zenodo-Dep="6049208" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03C187CB2245CF09FF78F9EEFCFF4A0F" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C187CB2245CF09FF78F9EEFCFF4A0F" lastPageId="44" lastPageNumber="45" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">
|
||
<subSubSection id="C37265562245CF0CFF78F9EEFEA84F87" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" type="nomenclature">
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD736DD2245CF0CFF78F9EEFD824FB8" blockId="41.[151,574,1653,1713]" box="[151,574,1653,1679]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">
|
||
<heading id="D09F81B12245CF0CFF78F9EEFD824FB8" bold="true" box="[151,574,1653,1679]" fontSize="11" level="1" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" reason="1">
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2245CF0CFF78F9EEFD824FB8" bold="true" box="[151,574,1653,1679]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C684D5E2245CF0CFF78F9EEFE484FB8" box="[151,500,1653,1679]" class="Insecta" family="Eupelmidae" genus="Merostenus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="platyscapus" status="sp. nov." subGenus="Merostenus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2245CF0CFF78F9EEFF0D4FB8" bold="true" box="[151,177,1653,1679]" italics="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">M</emphasis>
|
||
. (
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2245CF0CFF26F9EEFEEA4FB8" bold="true" box="[201,342,1653,1679]" italics="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">Merostenus</emphasis>
|
||
)
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2245CF0CFE87F9EEFE484FB8" bold="true" box="[360,500,1653,1679]" italics="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">platyscapus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A22F57B42245CF0CFE14F9EEFD824FB8" box="[507,574,1653,1679]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" rank="species">n. sp.</taxonomicNameLabel>
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
</heading>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD736DD2245CF0CFF78F903FEA84F87" blockId="41.[151,574,1653,1713]" box="[151,276,1688,1713]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">
|
||
<figureCitation id="13532A582245CF0CFF78F903FEA84F87" box="[151,276,1688,1713]" captionStart="FIGURES 90 – 97" captionStartId="42.[151,264,1562,1585]" captionTargetBox="[227,1360,193,1540]" captionTargetId="figure@42.[226,1360,193,1541]" captionTargetPageId="42" captionText="FIGURES 90 – 97. M. (Merostenus) platyscapus n. sp. ♀. 90 – 93, holotype: 90, lateral habitus; 91, head, frontolateral; 92, antenna; 93, pronotum to scutellar-axillar complex, dorsolateral. 94 – 96, 2016 - 70: 94, scutellar-axillar complex to propodeum plus wings; 95, mesosoma, lateral; 96, gaster, dorsal. 97, apex of mesotibia and basal four tarsomeres (holotype)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/556491/files/figure.png" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">Figs 90–97</figureCitation>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection id="C37265562245CF0CFF78F946FE2C4EC5" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" type="materials_examined">
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD736DD2245CF0CFF78F946FD974E55" blockId="41.[151,1437,1757,2034]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">
|
||
<materialsCitation id="3B003C802245CF0CFF78F946FBF24FC1" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="1457571766" box="[151,1102,1757,1782]" collectionCode="BMNH" country="South Africa" location="Mossel Bay" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-female="1" stateProvince="Cape Province" typeStatus="holotype">
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2245CF0CFF78F946FEFA4FC1" bold="true" box="[151,326,1757,1782]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">
|
||
<typeStatus id="54D3887F2245CF0CFF78F946FF6E4FC1" box="[151,210,1757,1782]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">Type</typeStatus>
|
||
material.
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2245CF0CFEA2F946FE084FC1" box="[333,436,1757,1782]" italics="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">
|
||
<typeStatus id="54D3887F2245CF0CFEA2F946FE084FC1" box="[333,436,1757,1782]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" type="holotype">Holotype</typeStatus>
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
<specimenCount id="9D6EFD542245CF0CFE53F945FE6D4FC2" box="[444,465,1758,1781]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" type="female">♀</specimenCount>
|
||
(
|
||
<collectionCode id="ED79AE182245CF0CFE0FF945FD864FC1" box="[480,570,1758,1782]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">BMNH</collectionCode>
|
||
). [
|
||
<collectingCountry id="F37F764D2245CF0CFDBBF946FD574FC1" box="[596,747,1757,1782]" name="South Africa" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">South Africa</collectingCountry>
|
||
] “
|
||
<location id="8EB760062245CF0CFCECF946FC304FC1" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03C187CB2245CF09FF78F9EEFCFF4A0F:8EB760062245CF0CFCECF946FC304FC1" box="[771,908,1757,1782]" country="South Africa" name="Mossel Bay" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" stateProvince="Cape Province">Mossel Bay</location>
|
||
, |
|
||
<collectingRegion id="49ACF83F2245CF0CFC49F945FBF24FC1" box="[934,1102,1757,1782]" country="South Africa" name="Western Cape" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">Cape Province</collectingRegion>
|
||
</materialsCitation>
|
||
.
|
||
<materialsCitation id="3B003C802245CF0CFBB5F945FD974E55" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="1457571753" collectingDate="1922" collectingDateMax="1967" collectingDateMin="1922" collectionCode="NHMUK" collectorName="January & S. Africa. & R. E. Turner. & Brit. Mus." country="South Africa" location="Glued" municipality="Gibson" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" specimenCode="NHMUK010353723" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-female="1" stateProvince="Cape Province" typeStatus="holotype">
|
||
|
|
||
<collectorName id="269D530B2245CF0CFB88F945FB034FC1" box="[1127,1215,1758,1782]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">January</collectorName>
|
||
, 1922. /
|
||
<collectorName id="269D530B2245CF0CFACDF945FA334FC1" box="[1314,1423,1757,1782]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">S. Africa.</collectorName>
|
||
|
|
||
<collectorName id="269D530B2245CF0CFF78F899FE984E2E" box="[151,292,1794,1817]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">R.E. Turner.</collectorName>
|
||
|
|
||
<collectorName id="269D530B2245CF0CFED2F89AFE0F4E2E" box="[317,435,1793,1818]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">Brit. Mus.</collectorName>
|
||
|
|
||
<date id="FFD6101D2245CF0CFE22F89AFDFD4E2D" box="[461,577,1793,1818]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" value="1922" valueMax="1967">
|
||
<collectingDate id="EF92E9F52245CF0CFE22F89AFDFD4E2D" box="[461,577,1793,1818]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" value="1922" valueMax="1967">1922—67</collectingDate>
|
||
</date>
|
||
. /
|
||
<specimenCode id="DBCE9EA62245CF0CFD8FF89AFCF54E2D" box="[608,841,1793,1818]" collectionCode="NHMUK" country="United Kingdom" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34665" name="Natural History Museum, London" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">
|
||
<collectionCode id="ED79AE182245CF0CFD8FF89AFD764E2D" box="[608,714,1793,1818]" country="United Kingdom" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34665" name="Natural History Museum, London" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">NHMUK</collectionCode>
|
||
010353723
|
||
</specimenCode>
|
||
/
|
||
<typeStatus id="54D3887F2245CF0CFC8BF899FC444E2D" box="[868,1016,1794,1818]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" type="holotype">HOLOTYPE</typeStatus>
|
||
<specimenCount id="9D6EFD542245CF0CFBEDF899FBAB4E2E" box="[1026,1047,1794,1817]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" type="female">♀</specimenCount>
|
||
|
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2245CF0CFBDEF899FBF44E2E" box="[1073,1096,1794,1817]" italics="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">M</emphasis>
|
||
. (
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C684D5E2245CF0CFB8CF899FB594E2E" box="[1123,1253,1794,1817]" class="Insecta" family="Eupelmidae" genus="Merostenus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2245CF0CFB8CF899FB594E2E" box="[1123,1253,1794,1817]" italics="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">Merostenus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
) |
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C684D5E2245CF0CFAE7F89AFA304E2D" box="[1288,1420,1793,1818]" class="Insecta" family="Eupelmidae" genus="Merostenus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="platyscapus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2245CF0CFAE7F89AFA304E2D" box="[1288,1420,1793,1818]" italics="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">platyscapus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
|
|
||
<collectingMunicipality id="6BB3ACA72245CF0CFF78F8BEFF524E09" box="[151,238,1829,1854]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">Gibson</collectingMunicipality>
|
||
”.
|
||
<location id="8EB760062245CF0CFEEAF8BEFEF64E09" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03C187CB2245CF09FF78F9EEFCFF4A0F:8EB760062245CF0CFEEAF8BEFEF64E09" box="[261,330,1829,1854]" country="South Africa" municipality="Gibson" name="Glued" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" stateProvince="Cape Province">Glued</location>
|
||
by right side to card rectangle; entire but left hind leg including coxa detached from body and glued separately to point; contorted.
|
||
</materialsCitation>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD736DD2245CF0CFF28F8F5FE2C4EC5" blockId="41.[151,1437,1757,2034]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">
|
||
<materialsCitation id="3B003C802245CF0CFF28F8F5FDF44EB2" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="1457571762" box="[199,584,1901,1926]" country="South Africa" location="South Africa" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" specimenCount="3" specimenCount-female="3" typeStatus="paratype">
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2245CF0CFF28F8F5FE854EB2" box="[199,313,1902,1925]" italics="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">
|
||
<typeStatus id="54D3887F2245CF0CFF28F8F5FE854EB2" box="[199,313,1902,1925]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" type="paratype">Paratypes</typeStatus>
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
(
|
||
<specimenCount id="9D6EFD542245CF0CFEA2F8F5FED34EB1" box="[333,367,1902,1926]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" type="female">3♀</specimenCount>
|
||
).
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2245CF0CFE67F8F6FD984EB1" bold="true" box="[392,548,1901,1926]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">
|
||
<collectingCountry id="F37F764D2245CF0CFE67F8F6FD984EB1" box="[392,548,1901,1926]" name="South Africa" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">South Africa</collectingCountry>
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
. E
|
||
</materialsCitation>
|
||
.
|
||
<materialsCitation id="3B003C802245CF0CFDB9F8F5FA8D4EB2" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="1457571755" box="[598,1329,1901,1926]" collectingDate="1932-12" collectorName="Katberg, R. E." country="South Africa" elevation="1219" location="Cape" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Cape" typeStatus="paratype">
|
||
<collectingRegion id="49ACF83F2245CF0CFDB9F8F5FD334EB1" box="[598,655,1902,1926]" country="South Africa" name="Western Cape" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">Cape</collectingRegion>
|
||
Prov.,
|
||
<collectorName id="269D530B2245CF0CFD0BF8F6FC3C4EB2" box="[740,896,1901,1926]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">Katberg, R.E.</collectorName>
|
||
Turner:
|
||
<quantity id="4C909B382245CF0CFC09F8F5FB804EB1" box="[998,1084,1901,1926]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.2192" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" unit="ft" value="4000.0">
|
||
<elevation id="0045D1EE2245CF0CFC09F8F5FB804EB1" box="[998,1084,1901,1926]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.2192" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" unit="ft" value="4000.0">4000 ft</elevation>
|
||
</quantity>
|
||
,
|
||
<date id="FFD6101D2245CF0CFBA5F8F5FB0E4EB1" box="[1098,1202,1902,1926]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" value="1932-12">
|
||
<collectingDate id="EF92E9F52245CF0CFBA5F8F5FB0E4EB1" box="[1098,1202,1902,1926]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" value="1932-12">XII.1932</collectingDate>
|
||
</date>
|
||
, Brit. Mus
|
||
</materialsCitation>
|
||
.
|
||
<date id="FFD6101D2245CF0CFAD0F8F6FA204EB1" box="[1343,1436,1901,1926]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" value="1933" valueMax="1969">1933-69</date>
|
||
(1♀ BMNH, NHMUK010353724);
|
||
<date id="FFD6101D2245CF0CFDA7F80AFD5C4E9D" box="[584,736,1937,1962]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" value="1933-01-15" valueMax="1933-01-30" valueMin="1933-01-15">15–30.I.1933</date>
|
||
, Brit. Mus. 1933-108 (1♀ BMNH, NHMUK010353725).
|
||
<materialsCitation id="3B003C802245CF0CFF78F82EFE374EC5" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="1457571760" collectingDate="1923-08-15" collectingDateMax="2070" collectingDateMin="1923-08-15" collectionCode="BMNH, NHMUK" collectorName="Pondoland & R. E. Turner & Brit. Mus." country="South Africa" location="Port St. John" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" specimenCode="NHMUK010353726" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-female="1" stateProvince="Cape" typeStatus="paratype">
|
||
<collectorName id="269D530B2245CF0CFF78F82EFEAE4EF9" box="[151,274,1973,1998]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">Pondoland</collectorName>
|
||
,
|
||
<location id="8EB760062245CF0CFEC5F82DFE6B4EF9" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03C187CB2245CF09FF78F9EEFCFF4A0F:8EB760062245CF0CFEC5F82DFE6B4EF9" box="[298,471,1973,1998]" country="South Africa" name="Port St. John" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" stateProvince="Cape">Port St. John</location>
|
||
,
|
||
<date id="FFD6101D2245CF0CFE1FF82EFD124EF9" box="[496,686,1973,1998]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" value="1923-08-15" valueMax="1923-08-31" valueMin="1923-08-15">
|
||
<collectingDate id="EF92E9F52245CF0CFE1FF82EFD124EF9" box="[496,686,1973,1998]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" value="1923-08-15" valueMax="1923-08-31" valueMin="1923-08-15">15–31.VIII.1923</collectingDate>
|
||
</date>
|
||
,
|
||
<collectorName id="269D530B2245CF0CFD28F82DFCE74EFA" box="[711,859,1974,1997]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">R.E. Turner</collectorName>
|
||
,
|
||
<collectorName id="269D530B2245CF0CFC9CF82EFC484EFA" box="[883,1012,1973,1998]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">Brit. Mus.</collectorName>
|
||
1923-463 (
|
||
<specimenCount id="9D6EFD542245CF0CFB7CF82DFB084EF9" box="[1171,1204,1974,1998]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" type="female">1♀</specimenCount>
|
||
<collectionCode id="ED79AE182245CF0CFB27F82DFAA34EFA" box="[1224,1311,1974,1997]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">BMNH</collectionCode>
|
||
,
|
||
<date id="FFD6101D2245CF0CFAD7F82EFA2B4EF9" box="[1336,1431,1973,1998]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" value="2016" valueMax="2070">
|
||
<collectingDate id="EF92E9F52245CF0CFAD7F82EFA2B4EF9" box="[1336,1431,1973,1998]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" value="2016" valueMax="2070">2016-70</collectingDate>
|
||
</date>
|
||
,
|
||
<specimenCode id="DBCE9EA62245CF0CFF78F842FE384EC5" box="[151,388,2009,2034]" collectionCode="NHMUK" country="United Kingdom" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34665" name="Natural History Museum, London" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">
|
||
<collectionCode id="ED79AE182245CF0CFF78F842FEBF4EC5" box="[151,259,2009,2034]" country="United Kingdom" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34665" name="Natural History Museum, London" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">NHMUK</collectionCode>
|
||
010353726
|
||
</specimenCode>
|
||
)
|
||
</materialsCitation>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<caption id="DF1766552246CF0FFF78F981FAAC4F59" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/556491/files/figure.png" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" targetBox="[227,1360,193,1540]" targetPageId="42">
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD736DD2246CF0FFF78F981FAAC4F59" blockId="42.[151,1436,1562,1646]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2246CF0FFF78F981FEEB4F07" bold="true" box="[151,343,1562,1585]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">FIGURES 90–97.</emphasis>
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C684D5E2246CF0FFE8EF987FD334F06" box="[353,655,1563,1585]" class="Insecta" family="Eupelmidae" genus="Merostenus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="platyscapus" status="sp. nov." subGenus="Merostenus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2246CF0FFE8EF987FECA4F06" box="[353,374,1564,1585]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">M</emphasis>
|
||
. (
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2246CF0FFE61F987FDB84F06" box="[398,516,1564,1585]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Merostenus</emphasis>
|
||
)
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2246CF0FFDF8F980FD334F06" box="[535,655,1563,1585]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">platyscapus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A22F57B42246CF0FFD77F987FD6E4F06" box="[664,722,1564,1585]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" rank="species">n. sp.</taxonomicNameLabel>
|
||
♀.
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2246CF0FFD10F980FC824F06" box="[767,830,1563,1585]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">90–93</emphasis>
|
||
, holotype:
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2246CF0FFC57F980FC6D4F07" bold="true" box="[952,977,1563,1584]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">90</emphasis>
|
||
, lateral habitus;
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2246CF0FFB6BF980FB214F07" bold="true" box="[1156,1181,1563,1584]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">91</emphasis>
|
||
, head, frontolateral;
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2246CF0FFA93F980FA294F07" bold="true" box="[1404,1429,1563,1584]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">92</emphasis>
|
||
, antenna;
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2246CF0FFF1BF9A1FEB14F78" bold="true" box="[244,269,1594,1615]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">93</emphasis>
|
||
, pronotum to scutellar-axillar complex, dorsolateral.
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2246CF0FFCDEF9A1FCCD4F67" box="[817,881,1594,1616]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">94–96</emphasis>
|
||
, 2016-70:
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2246CF0FFC0EF9A1FC464F78" bold="true" box="[993,1018,1594,1615]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">94</emphasis>
|
||
, scutellar-axillar complex to propodeum plus wings;
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2246CF0FFEFEF9C3FE964F5A" bold="true" box="[273,298,1624,1645]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">95</emphasis>
|
||
, mesosoma, lateral;
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2246CF0FFE14F9C3FDA84F5A" bold="true" box="[507,532,1624,1645]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">96</emphasis>
|
||
, gaster, dorsal.
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2246CF0FFD5AF9C3FD724F5A" bold="true" box="[693,718,1624,1645]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">97</emphasis>
|
||
, apex of mesotibia and basal four tarsomeres (holotype).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</caption>
|
||
<subSubSection id="C37265562246CF0FFF28F900FE434FEF" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" type="etymology">
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD736DD2246CF0FFF28F900FE434FEF" blockId="42.[151,1437,1691,2004]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2246CF0FFF28F900FEF24F83" bold="true" box="[199,334,1691,1716]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Etymology.</emphasis>
|
||
A combination of
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2246CF0FFDCBF900FDDB4F83" box="[548,615,1691,1716]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">platys</emphasis>
|
||
(broad) and
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2246CF0FFD15F907FCFA4F84" box="[762,838,1692,1715]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">scapus</emphasis>
|
||
(stem), in reference to the very strongly compressed scape of females of this species.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection id="C37265562246CF0EFF28F978FE264EEA" lastPageId="43" lastPageNumber="44" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" type="description">
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD736DD2246CF0EFF28F978FE7D4BFA" blockId="42.[151,1437,1691,2004]" lastBlockId="43.[151,1437,151,2013]" lastPageId="43" lastPageNumber="44" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2246CF0FFF28F978FEE54FCB" bold="true" box="[199,345,1763,1788]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Description.</emphasis>
|
||
FEMALE (habitus:
|
||
<figureCitation id="13532A582246CF0FFDABF978FD244FCC" box="[580,664,1763,1788]" captionStart="FIGURES 90 – 97" captionStartId="42.[151,264,1562,1585]" captionTargetBox="[227,1360,193,1540]" captionTargetId="figure@42.[226,1360,193,1541]" captionTargetPageId="42" captionText="FIGURES 90 – 97. M. (Merostenus) platyscapus n. sp. ♀. 90 – 93, holotype: 90, lateral habitus; 91, head, frontolateral; 92, antenna; 93, pronotum to scutellar-axillar complex, dorsolateral. 94 – 96, 2016 - 70: 94, scutellar-axillar complex to propodeum plus wings; 95, mesosoma, lateral; 96, gaster, dorsal. 97, apex of mesotibia and basal four tarsomeres (holotype)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/556491/files/figure.png" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Fig. 90</figureCitation>
|
||
). Length =
|
||
<quantity id="4C909B382246CF0FFCF2F978FC154FCC" box="[797,937,1763,1788]" metricMagnitude="-3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.3" metricValueMax="2.5" metricValueMin="2.1" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" unit="mm" value="2.3" valueMax="2.5" valueMin="2.1">2.1–2.5 mm</quantity>
|
||
. Head (
|
||
<figureCitation id="13532A582246CF0FFBEEF978FBE84FCC" box="[1025,1108,1763,1788]" captionStart="FIGURES 90 – 97" captionStartId="42.[151,264,1562,1585]" captionTargetBox="[227,1360,193,1540]" captionTargetId="figure@42.[226,1360,193,1541]" captionTargetPageId="42" captionText="FIGURES 90 – 97. M. (Merostenus) platyscapus n. sp. ♀. 90 – 93, holotype: 90, lateral habitus; 91, head, frontolateral; 92, antenna; 93, pronotum to scutellar-axillar complex, dorsolateral. 94 – 96, 2016 - 70: 94, scutellar-axillar complex to propodeum plus wings; 95, mesosoma, lateral; 96, gaster, dorsal. 97, apex of mesotibia and basal four tarsomeres (holotype)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/556491/files/figure.png" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Fig. 91</figureCitation>
|
||
) dark brown or at most with very slight purple to bluish luster on frontovertex under some angles of light; in frontal view subquadrate, about 1.2× as wide as high, and in lateral view lenticular, about 1.6× as high as long, but with lower face abruptly angled relative to much longer, uniformly curved frontovertex; frontovertex and parascrobal region along about dorsal half of scrobal depression smooth and shiny except sometimes for scattered setiferous pits, and frons at least with small depression below anterior ocellus and sometimes with more distinct sulcus extending partly between ocellus and scrobal depression, but about ventral half of parascrobal region and scrobal depression strongly, transversely reticulate-rugose, scrobes and dorsal surface of interantennal prominence above level of toruli finely coriaceous, and remainder of interantennal prominence and lower face more or less granular; sculptured part of parascrobal region, more strongly sculptured part of interantennal prominence, and lower face uniformly setose with dark setae, but frontovertex and smooth part of parascrobal region with only sparse, scattered dark setae sometimes originating from shallow depressions or pits, and scrobal depression and more finely sculptured part of interantennal prominence bare; scrobal depression deep, abruptly inclined above interantennal prominence, with lateral margin directed dorsally near lateral limit of torulus to differentiate distinct parascrobal region along lower inner orbit, but dorsally more ^-like incurved toward median and separated from anterior ocellus by distance similar to LOL; ratio of OOL: POL: LOL: MPOD = 1.5: 3.25: 1.9: 1.0. Antenna (
|
||
<figureCitation id="13532A582247CF0EFCAAFE2CFC2B48E7" box="[837,919,439,464]" captionStart="FIGURES 90 – 97" captionStartId="42.[151,264,1562,1585]" captionTargetBox="[227,1360,193,1540]" captionTargetId="figure@42.[226,1360,193,1541]" captionTargetPageId="42" captionText="FIGURES 90 – 97. M. (Merostenus) platyscapus n. sp. ♀. 90 – 93, holotype: 90, lateral habitus; 91, head, frontolateral; 92, antenna; 93, pronotum to scutellar-axillar complex, dorsolateral. 94 – 96, 2016 - 70: 94, scutellar-axillar complex to propodeum plus wings; 95, mesosoma, lateral; 96, gaster, dorsal. 97, apex of mesotibia and basal four tarsomeres (holotype)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/556491/files/figure.png" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Fig. 92</figureCitation>
|
||
) dark brown; scape foliaceously compressed, about 1.6× as long as greatest width, broadest apically and narrowed basally, with ventroapical margin extending to apex of fl1 when flagellum held at right angle to scape, the inner surface uniformly coriaceous-alutaceous, setose, and in one plane, but outer surface with expanded region thinner, bare, and more finely sculptured than dorsally thicker, setose part; pedicel about twice as long as wide and about as long as combined length of basal three funiculars; flagellum robust with fl1–fl8 subequally long and strongly transverse, with clava about 1.75× as long as wide and almost as long as combined length of apical four funiculars. Labiomaxillary complex dark brown but mandibles lighter, reddish.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD736DD2247CF0EFF28FD43FACD4E32" blockId="43.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">
|
||
Mesosoma (
|
||
<figureCitation id="13532A582247CF0EFEBFFD4CFE1E4BC7" box="[336,418,727,752]" captionStart="FIGURES 90 – 97" captionStartId="42.[151,264,1562,1585]" captionTargetBox="[227,1360,193,1540]" captionTargetId="figure@42.[226,1360,193,1541]" captionTargetPageId="42" captionText="FIGURES 90 – 97. M. (Merostenus) platyscapus n. sp. ♀. 90 – 93, holotype: 90, lateral habitus; 91, head, frontolateral; 92, antenna; 93, pronotum to scutellar-axillar complex, dorsolateral. 94 – 96, 2016 - 70: 94, scutellar-axillar complex to propodeum plus wings; 95, mesosoma, lateral; 96, gaster, dorsal. 97, apex of mesotibia and basal four tarsomeres (holotype)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/556491/files/figure.png" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Fig. 90</figureCitation>
|
||
) yellowish-brown to dark brown with variably extensive and distinct violaceous to purple lusters. Pronotum (
|
||
<figureCitation id="13532A582247CF0EFE80FD67FE7E4A23" box="[367,450,764,789]" captionStart="FIGURES 90 – 97" captionStartId="42.[151,264,1562,1585]" captionTargetBox="[227,1360,193,1540]" captionTargetId="figure@42.[226,1360,193,1541]" captionTargetPageId="42" captionText="FIGURES 90 – 97. M. (Merostenus) platyscapus n. sp. ♀. 90 – 93, holotype: 90, lateral habitus; 91, head, frontolateral; 92, antenna; 93, pronotum to scutellar-axillar complex, dorsolateral. 94 – 96, 2016 - 70: 94, scutellar-axillar complex to propodeum plus wings; 95, mesosoma, lateral; 96, gaster, dorsal. 97, apex of mesotibia and basal four tarsomeres (holotype)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/556491/files/figure.png" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Fig. 93</figureCitation>
|
||
) completely sclerotized; collar bare, smooth and shiny dorsomedially but neck, lateral panels, and collar posteriorly meshlike coriaceous and sparsely setose. Mesoscutum (
|
||
<figureCitation id="13532A582247CF0EFB80FC84FB7F4A0F" box="[1135,1219,799,824]" captionStart="FIGURES 90 – 97" captionStartId="42.[151,264,1562,1585]" captionTargetBox="[227,1360,193,1540]" captionTargetId="figure@42.[226,1360,193,1541]" captionTargetPageId="42" captionText="FIGURES 90 – 97. M. (Merostenus) platyscapus n. sp. ♀. 90 – 93, holotype: 90, lateral habitus; 91, head, frontolateral; 92, antenna; 93, pronotum to scutellar-axillar complex, dorsolateral. 94 – 96, 2016 - 70: 94, scutellar-axillar complex to propodeum plus wings; 95, mesosoma, lateral; 96, gaster, dorsal. 97, apex of mesotibia and basal four tarsomeres (holotype)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/556491/files/figure.png" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Fig. 93</figureCitation>
|
||
) with lateral lobes strongly ^-like angulate from midline, more deeply anteriorly than posteriorly, but carinately margined dorsolongitudinally to abruptly upcurved transverse region along anterior margin, the upcurved region carinate laterally behind spiracle and medially evident as triangular surface between angulate lateral lobes; shiny and smooth with line of 3–5 setae in row along inner inclined surface and similar row of setae along outer inclined surface. Scutellar-axillar complex (
|
||
<figureCitation id="13532A582247CF0EFDC7FC4FFDC04ADB" box="[552,636,980,1005]" captionStart="FIGURES 90 – 97" captionStartId="42.[151,264,1562,1585]" captionTargetBox="[227,1360,193,1540]" captionTargetId="figure@42.[226,1360,193,1541]" captionTargetPageId="42" captionText="FIGURES 90 – 97. M. (Merostenus) platyscapus n. sp. ♀. 90 – 93, holotype: 90, lateral habitus; 91, head, frontolateral; 92, antenna; 93, pronotum to scutellar-axillar complex, dorsolateral. 94 – 96, 2016 - 70: 94, scutellar-axillar complex to propodeum plus wings; 95, mesosoma, lateral; 96, gaster, dorsal. 97, apex of mesotibia and basal four tarsomeres (holotype)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/556491/files/figure.png" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Fig. 94</figureCitation>
|
||
) with scutellum lowly convex posteriorly and tapered anteriorly with abruptly inclined sides forming mediolongitudinal carina over about anterior two-thirds that extend to near transscutal articulation, with dark setae only on convex portion anterior to frenum; axillae elongate-slender, wedgelike with abruptly inclined sides forming mediolongitudinal carina along length and with line of setae along outer surface dorsally. Fore wing (
|
||
<figureCitation id="13532A582247CF0EFE04FBFFFDFD4D4B" box="[491,577,1124,1149]" captionStart="FIGURES 90 – 97" captionStartId="42.[151,264,1562,1585]" captionTargetBox="[227,1360,193,1540]" captionTargetId="figure@42.[226,1360,193,1541]" captionTargetPageId="42" captionText="FIGURES 90 – 97. M. (Merostenus) platyscapus n. sp. ♀. 90 – 93, holotype: 90, lateral habitus; 91, head, frontolateral; 92, antenna; 93, pronotum to scutellar-axillar complex, dorsolateral. 94 – 96, 2016 - 70: 94, scutellar-axillar complex to propodeum plus wings; 95, mesosoma, lateral; 96, gaster, dorsal. 97, apex of mesotibia and basal four tarsomeres (holotype)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/556491/files/figure.png" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Fig. 94</figureCitation>
|
||
) extending flat on mesosoma over base of propodeum to about level of posterior margin of spiracle; disc brownish, about 2.3× greatest width, the surface distinctly roughened to undulating but bare except for setose submarginal vein extending most of length, and tapered apically to acute angle. Mesopectus with white setae ventrally and linearly along acropleural sulcus; acropleuron (
|
||
<figureCitation id="13532A582247CF0EFB0BFB54FA8A4DDF" box="[1252,1334,1231,1256]" captionStart="FIGURES 90 – 97" captionStartId="42.[151,264,1562,1585]" captionTargetBox="[227,1360,193,1540]" captionTargetId="figure@42.[226,1360,193,1541]" captionTargetPageId="42" captionText="FIGURES 90 – 97. M. (Merostenus) platyscapus n. sp. ♀. 90 – 93, holotype: 90, lateral habitus; 91, head, frontolateral; 92, antenna; 93, pronotum to scutellar-axillar complex, dorsolateral. 94 – 96, 2016 - 70: 94, scutellar-axillar complex to propodeum plus wings; 95, mesosoma, lateral; 96, gaster, dorsal. 97, apex of mesotibia and basal four tarsomeres (holotype)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/556491/files/figure.png" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Fig. 95</figureCitation>
|
||
) broadly curved posteriorly to level of anterior margin of mesocoxa, meshlike reticulate to obliquely strigose anteriorly and more meshlike coriaceous elsewhere except smooth and shiny medially. Metanotum (
|
||
<figureCitation id="13532A582247CF0EFB6AFA8CFB664C07" box="[1157,1242,1303,1328]" captionStart="FIGURES 90 – 97" captionStartId="42.[151,264,1562,1585]" captionTargetBox="[227,1360,193,1540]" captionTargetId="figure@42.[226,1360,193,1541]" captionTargetPageId="42" captionText="FIGURES 90 – 97. M. (Merostenus) platyscapus n. sp. ♀. 90 – 93, holotype: 90, lateral habitus; 91, head, frontolateral; 92, antenna; 93, pronotum to scutellar-axillar complex, dorsolateral. 94 – 96, 2016 - 70: 94, scutellar-axillar complex to propodeum plus wings; 95, mesosoma, lateral; 96, gaster, dorsal. 97, apex of mesotibia and basal four tarsomeres (holotype)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/556491/files/figure.png" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Fig. 94</figureCitation>
|
||
) with dorsellum vertically raised over apex of scutellum with paramedial longitudinal carinae. Metapleuron (
|
||
<figureCitation id="13532A582247CF0EFB75FAA7FB574C62" box="[1178,1259,1340,1365]" captionStart="FIGURES 90 – 97" captionStartId="42.[151,264,1562,1585]" captionTargetBox="[227,1360,193,1540]" captionTargetId="figure@42.[226,1360,193,1541]" captionTargetPageId="42" captionText="FIGURES 90 – 97. M. (Merostenus) platyscapus n. sp. ♀. 90 – 93, holotype: 90, lateral habitus; 91, head, frontolateral; 92, antenna; 93, pronotum to scutellar-axillar complex, dorsolateral. 94 – 96, 2016 - 70: 94, scutellar-axillar complex to propodeum plus wings; 95, mesosoma, lateral; 96, gaster, dorsal. 97, apex of mesotibia and basal four tarsomeres (holotype)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/556491/files/figure.png" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Fig. 95</figureCitation>
|
||
) bare, meshlike coriaceous to coriaceous-reticulate, with anterior margin reflexed as slender, smooth flange over about ventral half behind posterodorsal margin of acropleuron, and smoothly curved into similar flange above metacoxa so as to differentiate a transverse-rectangular, setose, ventral region between acropleuron and anteroventral angle of metapleuron. Legs (
|
||
<figureCitation id="13532A582247CF0EFE95FA57FE714CD3" box="[378,461,1484,1509]" captionStart="FIGURES 90 – 97" captionStartId="42.[151,264,1562,1585]" captionTargetBox="[227,1360,193,1540]" captionTargetId="figure@42.[226,1360,193,1541]" captionTargetPageId="42" captionText="FIGURES 90 – 97. M. (Merostenus) platyscapus n. sp. ♀. 90 – 93, holotype: 90, lateral habitus; 91, head, frontolateral; 92, antenna; 93, pronotum to scutellar-axillar complex, dorsolateral. 94 – 96, 2016 - 70: 94, scutellar-axillar complex to propodeum plus wings; 95, mesosoma, lateral; 96, gaster, dorsal. 97, apex of mesotibia and basal four tarsomeres (holotype)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/556491/files/figure.png" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Fig. 90</figureCitation>
|
||
) with front leg mostly brown except apex of tibia and tarsus lighter, more yellowish, middle leg similar to front leg except tibia more extensively to entirely yellowish-brown to yellow, and hind leg with femora brown but coxa yellowish at least apically, and tarsus and tibia mostly to entirely yellow; mesotibia without distinct apical pegs in any specimen (
|
||
<figureCitation id="13532A582247CF0EFD5DF9ACFCB74F67" box="[690,779,1591,1616]" captionStart="FIGURES 90 – 97" captionStartId="42.[151,264,1562,1585]" captionTargetBox="[227,1360,193,1540]" captionTargetId="figure@42.[226,1360,193,1541]" captionTargetPageId="42" captionText="FIGURES 90 – 97. M. (Merostenus) platyscapus n. sp. ♀. 90 – 93, holotype: 90, lateral habitus; 91, head, frontolateral; 92, antenna; 93, pronotum to scutellar-axillar complex, dorsolateral. 94 – 96, 2016 - 70: 94, scutellar-axillar complex to propodeum plus wings; 95, mesosoma, lateral; 96, gaster, dorsal. 97, apex of mesotibia and basal four tarsomeres (holotype)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/556491/files/figure.png" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Fig. 97</figureCitation>
|
||
); metacoxa with two separate bands of white setae, one ventrolaterally and one dorsolongitudinally. Propodeum (
|
||
<figureCitation id="13532A582247CF0EFCF5F9C7FCD74F43" box="[794,875,1628,1653]" captionStart="FIGURES 90 – 97" captionStartId="42.[151,264,1562,1585]" captionTargetBox="[227,1360,193,1540]" captionTargetId="figure@42.[226,1360,193,1541]" captionTargetPageId="42" captionText="FIGURES 90 – 97. M. (Merostenus) platyscapus n. sp. ♀. 90 – 93, holotype: 90, lateral habitus; 91, head, frontolateral; 92, antenna; 93, pronotum to scutellar-axillar complex, dorsolateral. 94 – 96, 2016 - 70: 94, scutellar-axillar complex to propodeum plus wings; 95, mesosoma, lateral; 96, gaster, dorsal. 97, apex of mesotibia and basal four tarsomeres (holotype)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/556491/files/figure.png" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Fig. 94</figureCitation>
|
||
) long, medial length about 0.5× distance between transscutal articulation and posterior margin of dorsellum; posterior margin shallowly, broadly incurved, and anterior margin slightly raised medially as transverse flange behind dorsellum, with plical and callar regions indistinctly differentiated and similarly meshlike coriaceous-reticulate; callus with spiracle abutting lateral margin and opening faced laterally, with white setae between spiracle and posterolateral margin of propodeal foramen.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD736DD2247CF0EFF28F88BFCF24E8E" blockId="43.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">
|
||
Metasoma with petiole transverse-quadrangular. Gaster (
|
||
<figureCitation id="13532A582247CF0EFCB8F894FC634E1F" box="[855,991,1807,1832]" captionStart="FIGURES 90 – 97" captionStartId="42.[151,264,1562,1585]" captionTargetBox="[227,1360,193,1540]" captionTargetId="figure@42.[226,1360,193,1541]" captionTargetPageId="42" captionText="FIGURES 90 – 97. M. (Merostenus) platyscapus n. sp. ♀. 90 – 93, holotype: 90, lateral habitus; 91, head, frontolateral; 92, antenna; 93, pronotum to scutellar-axillar complex, dorsolateral. 94 – 96, 2016 - 70: 94, scutellar-axillar complex to propodeum plus wings; 95, mesosoma, lateral; 96, gaster, dorsal. 97, apex of mesotibia and basal four tarsomeres (holotype)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/556491/files/figure.png" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Figs 90, 96</figureCitation>
|
||
) dark brown or with variably distinct violaceous, blue to purple lusters dorsally; tergites meshlike coriaceous to coriaceous-imbricate with transverse line of long dark setae except about basal half of basal tergite more finely sculptured and syntergum uniformly setose; syntergum in dorsal view (
|
||
<figureCitation id="13532A582247CF0EFDFBF8E7FDD94EA2" box="[532,613,1916,1941]" captionStart="FIGURES 90 – 97" captionStartId="42.[151,264,1562,1585]" captionTargetBox="[227,1360,193,1540]" captionTargetId="figure@42.[226,1360,193,1541]" captionTargetPageId="42" captionText="FIGURES 90 – 97. M. (Merostenus) platyscapus n. sp. ♀. 90 – 93, holotype: 90, lateral habitus; 91, head, frontolateral; 92, antenna; 93, pronotum to scutellar-axillar complex, dorsolateral. 94 – 96, 2016 - 70: 94, scutellar-axillar complex to propodeum plus wings; 95, mesosoma, lateral; 96, gaster, dorsal. 97, apex of mesotibia and basal four tarsomeres (holotype)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/556491/files/figure.png" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Fig. 96</figureCitation>
|
||
) with posterior margin transverse; supra-anal plate not visible; ovipositor sheaths yellowish, projecting only slightly beyond syntergum.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD736DD2247CF0EFF28F85FFE264EEA" blockId="43.[151,1437,151,2013]" box="[199,410,1988,2013]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">MALE. Unknown.</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection id="C37265562240CF09FF28FF0CFD5D4987" box="[199,737,151,176]" pageId="44" pageNumber="45" type="distribution">
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD736DD2240CF09FF28FF0CFD5D4987" blockId="44.[151,1437,151,824]" box="[199,737,151,176]" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2240CF09FF28FF0CFEDC4987" bold="true" box="[199,352,151,176]" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">Distribution.</emphasis>
|
||
AFROTROPICAL:
|
||
<collectingCountry id="F37F764D2240CF09FDA6FF0CFD614987" box="[585,733,151,176]" name="South Africa" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">
|
||
<collectingRegion id="49ACF83F2240CF09FDA6FF0CFD364987" box="[585,650,151,176]" country="Tanzania" name="Kusini Unguja" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">South</collectingRegion>
|
||
Africa
|
||
</collectingCountry>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection id="C37265562240CF09FF28FF27FE3249E2" box="[199,398,188,213]" pageId="44" pageNumber="45" type="biology_ecology">
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD736DD2240CF09FF28FF27FE3249E2" blockId="44.[151,1437,151,824]" box="[199,398,188,213]" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2240CF09FF28FF27FEAD49E2" bold="true" box="[199,273,188,213]" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">Hosts.</emphasis>
|
||
Unknown.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection id="C37265562240CF09FF28FF44FCFF4A0F" pageId="44" pageNumber="45" type="discussion">
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD736DD2240CF09FF28FF44FCFF4A0F" blockId="44.[151,1437,151,824]" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2240CF09FF28FF44FE8749CF" bold="true" box="[199,315,223,248]" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">Remarks.</emphasis>
|
||
Although the species description is based on four females, one is mounted on a card triangle upside down and two of the other three are contorted so that several features are described based on just one female. However, antennal structure readily distinguished females from those of all other brachypterous
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C684D5E2240CF09FB07FEB2FAD64877" box="[1256,1386,297,320]" class="Insecta" family="Eupelmidae" genus="Merostenus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="44" pageNumber="45" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2240CF09FB07FEB2FAD64877" box="[1256,1386,297,320]" italics="true" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">Merostenus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, the scape being foliaceously compressed and the flagellum having strongly transverse funiculars (
|
||
<figureCitation id="13532A582240CF09FB57FED7FAB14853" box="[1208,1293,332,357]" captionStart="FIGURES 90 – 97" captionStartId="42.[151,264,1562,1585]" captionTargetBox="[227,1360,193,1540]" captionTargetId="figure@42.[226,1360,193,1541]" captionTargetPageId="42" captionText="FIGURES 90 – 97. M. (Merostenus) platyscapus n. sp. ♀. 90 – 93, holotype: 90, lateral habitus; 91, head, frontolateral; 92, antenna; 93, pronotum to scutellar-axillar complex, dorsolateral. 94 – 96, 2016 - 70: 94, scutellar-axillar complex to propodeum plus wings; 95, mesosoma, lateral; 96, gaster, dorsal. 97, apex of mesotibia and basal four tarsomeres (holotype)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/556491/files/figure.png" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">Fig. 92</figureCitation>
|
||
). Females of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C684D5E2240CF09FF78FEEAFE8948BF" box="[151,309,367,392]" class="Insecta" family="Eupelmidae" genus="Merostenus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="44" pageNumber="45" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="longistylus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2240CF09FF78FEEAFE8948BF" box="[151,309,367,392]" italics="true" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">M. longistylus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
also have the scape obviously compressed, but the flagellum has more elongate funiculars similar to the other treated species (
|
||
<figureCitation id="13532A582240CF09FE20FE0FFD96489A" box="[463,554,404,429]" captionStart="FIGURES 56 – 65" captionStartId="34.[151,264,1870,1893]" captionTargetBox="[227,1360,193,1849]" captionTargetId="figure@34.[226,1360,193,1849]" captionTargetPageId="34" captionText="FIGURES 56 – 65. M. (Merostenus) longistylus n. sp. ♀: 56 & 57, 2016 - 65: 56, dorsal habitus; 57, head, frontolateral. 58 & 59, holotype: 58, lateral habitus; 59, antenna. 60 – 62, 2016 - 64: 60, pronotum and mesoscutum, dorsolateral; 61, scutellar-axillar complex to base of gaster plus wings; 62; mesosoma, lateral. 63, mesoscutum to base of gaster plus wings (2016 - 72). 64, apex of mesotibia and tarsus (2016 - 67). 65, gastral apex, dorsal (2016 - 66). [Gt 6 = sixth gastral tergite, sbp = subanal plate, spp = supra-anal plate]" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/556487/files/figure.png" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">Fig. 59</figureCitation>
|
||
). Females of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C684D5E2240CF09FD3AFE0EFC39489A" box="[725,901,404,429]" class="Insecta" family="Eupelmidae" genus="Merostenus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="44" pageNumber="45" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="platyscapus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2240CF09FD3AFE0EFC39489A" box="[725,901,404,429]" italics="true" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">M. platyscapus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
also differ from the other four Afrotropical
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C684D5E2240CF09FF78FE22FEB948E7" box="[151,261,441,464]" class="Insecta" family="Eupelmidae" genus="Merostenus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="44" pageNumber="45" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="excavatus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2240CF09FF78FE22FEB948E7" box="[151,261,441,464]" italics="true" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">excavatus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
-group species in apparently having a bare metapleuron. However, as discussed under monophyly and relationships of the
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C684D5E2240CF09FE62FE46FE4748C3" box="[397,507,477,500]" class="Insecta" family="Eupelmidae" genus="Merostenus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="44" pageNumber="45" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="excavatus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2240CF09FE62FE46FE4748C3" box="[397,507,477,500]" italics="true" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">excavatus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
species-group, there is a setose region below the metapleuron between the acropleuron and metacoxa (
|
||
<figureCitation id="13532A582240CF09FE33FE64FD8E4B2F" box="[476,562,511,536]" captionStart="FIGURES 90 – 97" captionStartId="42.[151,264,1562,1585]" captionTargetBox="[227,1360,193,1540]" captionTargetId="figure@42.[226,1360,193,1541]" captionTargetPageId="42" captionText="FIGURES 90 – 97. M. (Merostenus) platyscapus n. sp. ♀. 90 – 93, holotype: 90, lateral habitus; 91, head, frontolateral; 92, antenna; 93, pronotum to scutellar-axillar complex, dorsolateral. 94 – 96, 2016 - 70: 94, scutellar-axillar complex to propodeum plus wings; 95, mesosoma, lateral; 96, gaster, dorsal. 97, apex of mesotibia and basal four tarsomeres (holotype)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/556491/files/figure.png" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">Fig. 95</figureCitation>
|
||
) that might represent a secondarily differentiated part of the metapleuron. Scutellar-axillar structure is unique among the species treated, with each elongate-slender axilla as a dorsolongitudinally carinate angulate lobe and with the scutellum narrowed into a similarly slender carinate lobe over almost the anterior two-thirds (
|
||
<figureCitation id="13532A582240CF09FDD1FDF7FD2B4BB3" box="[574,663,620,645]" captionStart="FIGURES 90 – 97" captionStartId="42.[151,264,1562,1585]" captionTargetBox="[227,1360,193,1540]" captionTargetId="figure@42.[226,1360,193,1541]" captionTargetPageId="42" captionText="FIGURES 90 – 97. M. (Merostenus) platyscapus n. sp. ♀. 90 – 93, holotype: 90, lateral habitus; 91, head, frontolateral; 92, antenna; 93, pronotum to scutellar-axillar complex, dorsolateral. 94 – 96, 2016 - 70: 94, scutellar-axillar complex to propodeum plus wings; 95, mesosoma, lateral; 96, gaster, dorsal. 97, apex of mesotibia and basal four tarsomeres (holotype)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/556491/files/figure.png" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">Fig. 94</figureCitation>
|
||
). The single uncontorted female appears to have both the anterior margin of the mesoscutum (
|
||
<figureCitation id="13532A582240CF09FE3AFD14FD9B4B9F" box="[469,551,655,680]" captionStart="FIGURES 90 – 97" captionStartId="42.[151,264,1562,1585]" captionTargetBox="[227,1360,193,1540]" captionTargetId="figure@42.[226,1360,193,1541]" captionTargetPageId="42" captionText="FIGURES 90 – 97. M. (Merostenus) platyscapus n. sp. ♀. 90 – 93, holotype: 90, lateral habitus; 91, head, frontolateral; 92, antenna; 93, pronotum to scutellar-axillar complex, dorsolateral. 94 – 96, 2016 - 70: 94, scutellar-axillar complex to propodeum plus wings; 95, mesosoma, lateral; 96, gaster, dorsal. 97, apex of mesotibia and basal four tarsomeres (holotype)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/556491/files/figure.png" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">Fig. 93</figureCitation>
|
||
) and the propodeum behind the dorsellum raised such that V-like margins are formed, into which the posterior margin of the pronotum and dorsellum, respectively, fit into when the mesonotum is arched. However, better preserved and mounted specimens are required to confirm this structure. Although males are unknown, it is quite possible they have the metapleuron partly setose anteroventrally, as discussed under monophyly and relationships of the
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C684D5E2240CF09FDC5FCBAFD244A0F" box="[554,664,801,824]" class="Insecta" family="Eupelmidae" genus="Merostenus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="44" pageNumber="45" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="excavatus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B91CEACF2240CF09FDC5FCBAFD244A0F" box="[554,664,801,824]" italics="true" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">excavatus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
species-group.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
|
||
</document> |