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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Type species.</paragraph>
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and
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Etymology.</paragraph>
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Named after the transparent stigma which distinguishes the new genus from other genera of
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. Masculine gender.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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can be distinguished from other genera of
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by the following combination of characters: clypeus medially with one tooth (Fig.
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); F1-F5 more than twice as long as broad; each flagellomere with two (in females) or three (in males) rows of MPS (Figs
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,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Vitreostigmus kangarooislandi holotype, female A habitus, lateral view B head, frontal view C head, dorsal view D propodeum, dorsal view E mesosoma, dorsal view F antenna G fore wing, dorsal view. Scale bars: 200 µm." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.90.82582.figure3" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/677675" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">3F</figureCitation>
,
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); pronotal collar delimited by transverse pronotal carina and with some additional incomplete transverse striae (Figs
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,
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); mesoscutellum without frenal area, broadly touching transscutal articulation with small fovea separating disc of metascutellum from transscutal articulation (Figs
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,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 4. Vitreostigmus kangarooislandi paratypes females A head and mesosoma, dorsal view B head and mesosoma, dorsal view C head, dorsal view D habitus, lateral view. Scale bars: 200 µm." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.90.82582.figure4" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/677676" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">4B</figureCitation>
); propodeum long, about 0.50
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as long as broad; postspiracular furrow well developed (Figs
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,
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); lower metepisternum with propodeal foramen oval, posteriorly narrower than anteriorly (pear-like shape); surface of lower metepisternum irregularly carinated, two additional carinae originate submedially from anterior margin of propodeal foramen, going forward in parallel and turning outwards to anterior margin of metacoxal foramen (Fig.
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); fore wing with at least two infumations; stigma large, elongated, and transparent (Fig.
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); tip of hypopygium reaching about 0.75
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of length of gaster, but its tip narrow, fingerlike, projecting (Fig.
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); ovipositor about 0.8
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as long as metasoma (Figs
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,
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).
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Figure 2.</emphasis>
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holotype, female
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habitus, lateral view
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head and mesosoma, dorsal view
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head, frontal view
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clypeus, frontal view
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antenna, lateral view
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propodeum, dorsal view (arrow indicates postspiracular furrow)
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lower metepisternum, posteroventral view
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fore wing, dorsal view
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hypopygium, lateral view
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posterior part of metatibia and metatarsi, lateroventral. Scale bars: 200
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.
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In the key of
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(1988)
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goes to couplet 19 (page 121) but differs from
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by having, e.g., more intensive metallic color, pronotal collar carinated, long propodeum, and stigma transparent, and from
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by having antennae inserted above lower margin of eye and stigma elongated and transparent and ovipositor shorter than metasoma.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Figure 3.</emphasis>
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holotype, female
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habitus, lateral view
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head, frontal view
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">C</emphasis>
head, dorsal view
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propodeum, dorsal view
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mesosoma, dorsal view
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antenna
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fore wing, dorsal view. Scale bars: 200
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.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Generic description.</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Female.</emphasis>
Body length excluding ovipositor 2.12-2.66 mm; length of ovipositor 0.78-0.96 mm. Body light brown yellow. At least part of vertex, upper face, lower face laterally, posterior part of mesoscutal midlobe, posterior half of mesoscutellum, axilla, callus posterior to spiracle, propodeum and metapleuron blue green violet. Pronotal collar, lateral lobe of mesoscutum, lower mesepisternum, and metasomal tergites at least with weak violet tint. Fore wing with at least a brown macula under parastigma and around stigmal vein; submarginal vein light brown, marginal and postmarginal vein light brown yellow to white, stigmal vein translucent, sometimes appearing white.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Head</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
Vertex and at least upper face reticulate; malar space, temple, and gena coriaceous; occiput alutaceous. Temple 0.23-0.38
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as long as eye. Eyes separated by 1.02-1.11
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their own height, inner eye margins slightly diverging dorsally. Face with white setation; setae long and lanceolate, denser on lower face (Figs
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,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Vitreostigmus kangarooislandi holotype, female A habitus, lateral view B head, frontal view C head, dorsal view D propodeum, dorsal view E mesosoma, dorsal view F antenna G fore wing, dorsal view. Scale bars: 200 µm." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.90.82582.figure3" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/677675" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">3B</figureCitation>
). Scrobes shallow, not deeper than scape breadth, upper margin below imaginary line connecting dorsal margins of eyes; interantennal process reaching to about 0.33
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of scrobes length. Clypeus delimited by weak sulcus laterally and posteriorly, medially with one tooth. Malar space 0.45-0.50
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as long as breadth of oral fossa and 0.37-0.44
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as long as eye height. Occipital carina present and well developed. Torulus inserted above ventral level of eye, but below centre of face. Anellus breadth slightly narrower than F1 breadth. F1-F5 more than twice as long as broad. Each segment with two rows of MPS; micropilosity area very small and restricted to third claval segment. First claval segment with two rows of MPS, the other two with one row of MPS. Ocelli small, POL 1.31-1.39
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as long as OOL, OOL 1.68-2.25
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as long as POD.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Mesosoma</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
Mesosoma 2.13-2.20
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as long as broad, covered irregularly with sparse relatively long white setae dorsally. Pronotum 0.80-0.85
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as broad as mesoscutum. Pronotum with pronotal collar well delimited by transverse pronotal carina; pronotal neck about as long as pronotal collar. Pronotal collar with some incomplete transverse striae. Mesoscutal midlobe reticulate with narrow smooth anterior part usually hidden under pronotal sclerite. Mesoscutal lateral lobes striate. Notauli well developed, foveated and whitish. Mesoscutellum with foveated marginal rim and without frenal area; anterior margin broadly touching transscutal articulation with small fovea separating disc of mesoscutellum from transscutal articulation; breadth of anterior mesoscutellar margin about half of posterior breadth of mesonotum. Mesoscutellum reticulate dorsally, with denser reticulation posteriorly, with two rows of several setae submedially. Axilla reticulate-striate. Scutoscutellar sulcus separating axillae foveate-septated. Propodeum long, about 0.50
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as long as broad, irregularly longitudinally striate. Callus with smooth sculpture bearing long setation. Propodeal spiracle small and rounded, about 1.30
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as far from anterior margin of propodeum as spiracle diameter. Postspiracular furrow developed as deep sulcus. Metacoxal flange developed as sharp flange. Lower metepisternum (Fig.
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) with propodeal foramen oval, posteriorly narrower than anteriorly (broad pear-like shape), its anterior end below imaginary line drawn across posterior margin of metacoxal foramina; metacoxal foramina as far from each other as anterior diameter of propodeal foramen. Lower metepisternum anteriorly delimited by transverse concave carina connecting anterior margins of metacoxal foramina; medially carina rising in front of metafurcal pit. Surface of lower metepisternum with several irregular and incomplete transverse and longitudinal carinae; two additional carinae originate submedially from anterior margin of propodeal foramen, going forward in parallel and turning outwards to anterior margin of metacoxal foramen. Metatibia with two spurs, but shorter spur minute, about 0.33
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as long as longer spur; longer spur shorter than basimetatarsus. Fore wing about 2.60
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as long as wide, with infumation ventrad to parastigma and around stigmal vein; setae on disc dense and brown; speculum small reaching more or less only to end of parastigma; basal cell bare; basal setal line with a few setae dorsally; basal vein present but rudimentary, visible only as sclerotized fold in its posterior part; marginal vein 0.78-0.92
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as long as postmarginal vein and 1.38-1.47
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as long as stigmal vein; stigma large and elongated, 2.78-5.00
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as long as broad; uncus with four uncal sensilla in row; venation pale brown, stigma vein posteriorly and stigma transparent (in some specimens white due to drying).
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Metasoma</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
Petiole transverse, several times broader than long. Metasoma slightly longer than mesosoma. Gaster with very shallow alutaceous sculpture; Gt1-Gt4 incised medially; tip of hypopygium reaching about 0.66-0.75
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of length of gaster, but its tip narrow, fingerlike, projecting. Ovipositor about 0.80
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as long as metasoma.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Male.</emphasis>
Only the male of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">V. kangarooislandi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is known. Color and sculpture similar to females, sometimes more extensively metallic; antenna with scape shorter, hardly reaching ventral margin of anterior ocellus; combined length of pedicel and flagellum about 2.5
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as long as breadth of head; stigma large and broadly ovoid and brown; propodeum with irregular reticulate sculpture; all gastral tergites margins straight; funicular segments of the large male with three rows of MPS.
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="75" type="comments">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Comments.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Vitreostigmus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName authorityName="Pagliano &amp; Scaramozzino" authorityYear="1989" class="Insecta" family="Megastigmidae" genus="Bortesia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Bortesia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="75" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Bortesia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
share several characters: single median tooth on clypeus, stigma lengthened in female, and ovipositor upturned and no longer than gaster (
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1071/ZO9661199" author="Riek, EF" journalOrPublisher="Australian Journal of Zoology" pageId="0" pageNumber="75" pagination="1199 - 1206" refId="B26" refString="Riek, EF, 1966. A new genus of gall-forming megastigmine Torymidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Australian Journal of Zoology 14: 1199 - 1206, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1071/ZO9661199" title="A new genus of gall-forming megastigmine Torymidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea)." url="https://doi.org/10.1071/ZO9661199" volume="14" year="1966">Riek 1966</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Boucek, Z" journalOrPublisher="A biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. CAB International (Wallingford)" pageId="0" pageNumber="75" refId="B5" refString="Boucek, Z, 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). A biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. CAB International (Wallingford)" title="Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera)." year="1988">
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1988
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). However,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Bortesia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
have the antennae inserted above the centre of face, a short pronotal collar which is bluntly angled (Fig.
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), mesoscutellum anteriorly as broad as mid lobe of mesoscutum posteriorly, notauli almost meeting scutoscutellar sutures, and a short propodeum about 0.25
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as long as broad and smooth to finely reticulate with no striae. Additionally, females of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Bortesia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
have the stigma brown to bright brown (Fig.
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), funiculars F2-F7 at most 2
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as long as broad and bearing only one row of MPS (Fig.
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).
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Bortesia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
females are non-metallic or at most with metallic hue while females of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Vitreostigmus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
exhibit metallic coloration. In addition to the characters listed above, males of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Bortesia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
differ from males of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Vitreostigmus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in exhibiting extensive metallic coloration (Fig.
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), scape shorter than F1 (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 6" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figure 6. Bortesia similis A female habitus, lateral view B female head, antennae and mesosoma, frontal / dorsal view C female fore wing, dorsal view D male habitus, dorsal view E male habitus, lateral view F male head, frontal view G male antenna, lateral view. Scale bars: 200 µm." figureDoi="10.3897/jhr.90.82582.figure6" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/677678" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">6F</figureCitation>
), funicular segments flattened laterally, broadened and ventrally convex, and MPS partially sunken in funicular segments (Fig.
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).
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