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<mods:title>The genus Quartinia Ed. Andre, 1884 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae) in Southern Africa. Part V. New and little known species with incomplete venation</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Gess, Friedrich W.</mods:namePart>
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<taxonomicName LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:45124B59-75AE-45BE-9E16-81908C6FFC73" authority="Gess, 2011" authorityName="Gess" authorityYear="2011" class="Insecta" family="Masaridae" genus="Quartinia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Quartinia aenea" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="32" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aenea" status="sp. n.">Quartinia aenea</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="3" pageNumber="32">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 1521" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figures 15 - 21. Quartinia aenea 15 ♀, lateral view (x 16) 16 ♂, lateral view (x 21) 17 ♀, dorsal view (x 16) 18 ♂, dorsal view (x 16) 19 ♀, head, front view (x 22) 20 ♂, head, front view (x 23) 21 ♂, tergum VII, dorsal view (x 24)." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/11286" pageId="3" pageNumber="32">Figs 15-21</figureCitation>
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="32">Holotype.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="32">
♀, NAMIBIA: 10 km west of Aus (
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,
<geoCoordinate degrees="16.09" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="555" value="16.09">16.09E</geoCoordinate>
), 7.ix.2002 (F. W. and S. K. Gess) (visiting yellow fls of
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Compositae" genus="Leysera" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Asterales" pageId="3" pageNumber="32" phylum="Magnoliophyta" rank="species" species="gnaphalodes">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="32">Leysera gnaphalodes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(L.) L.,
<taxonomicName genus="Asteraceae" lsidName="" pageId="3" pageNumber="32" rank="genus">Asteraceae</taxonomicName>
) [AMG].
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="3" pageNumber="32" type="paratypes">
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="32">Paratypes:</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="32">
NAMIBIA: c 15 km W Aus on road to
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[bucht] (
<geoCoordinate degrees="26.37" direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="555" value="-26.37">26.37S</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="16.06" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="555" value="16.06">16.06E</geoCoordinate>
), 21.ix.2003, 1 ♂ (visiting yellow fls,
<taxonomicName genus="Asteraceae" lsidName="" pageId="3" pageNumber="32" rank="genus">Asteraceae</taxonomicName>
); NW Aus, drainage channel (
<geoCoordinate degrees="26.37" direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="555" value="-26.37">26.37S</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="16.12" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="555" value="16.12">16.12E</geoCoordinate>
), 17.ix.2005, 1 ♀ (visiting yellow fls
<taxonomicName authorityName="Linnaeus" authorityYear="1763" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Compositae" genus="Leysera" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Asterales" pageId="3" pageNumber="32" phylum="Magnoliophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="32">Leysera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
[
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="32">tenella</emphasis>
DC.],
<taxonomicName genus="Asteraceae" lsidName="" pageId="3" pageNumber="32" rank="genus">Asteraceae</taxonomicName>
); 10 km west of Aus (
<geoCoordinate degrees="26.39" direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="555" value="-26.39">26.39S</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="16.09" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="555" value="16.09">16.09E</geoCoordinate>
), 7.ix.2002, 39 ♀♀, 1 ♂ (visiting yellow fls of
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Compositae" genus="Leysera" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Asterales" pageId="3" pageNumber="32" phylum="Magnoliophyta" rank="species" species="gnaphalodes">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="32">Leysera gnaphalodes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(L.) L.,
<taxonomicName genus="Asteraceae" lsidName="" pageId="3" pageNumber="32" rank="genus">Asteraceae</taxonomicName>
); Klein-Aus Vista (26.39S 16.12 E), 8.ix.2002, 4 ♀♀ (visiting small yellow daisy [
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Ptinidae" genus="Dimorphotheca" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Coleoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="32" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="polyptera">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="32">Dimorphotheca polyptera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
DC.],
<taxonomicName genus="Asteraceae" lsidName="" pageId="3" pageNumber="32" rank="genus">Asteraceae</taxonomicName>
); SW Klein-Aus Vista (
<geoCoordinate degrees="26.44" direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="555" value="-26.44">26.44S</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="16.10" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="555" value="16.1">16.10E</geoCoordinate>
), 24.ix.2003, 1 ♀ (visiting yellow fls of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Linnaeus" authorityYear="1763" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Compositae" genus="Leysera" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Asterales" pageId="3" pageNumber="32" phylum="Magnoliophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="32">Leysera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName genus="Asteraceae" lsidName="" pageId="3" pageNumber="32" rank="genus">Asteraceae</taxonomicName>
) - (all F. W. and S. K. Gess) [all AMG].
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="32">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="32">
Small (2.7-3.2 mm). Fore wing with Cu1a and 2
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="32">m-cu</emphasis>
present but attenuate, much thinner than other veins, and with 2
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="32">m-cu</emphasis>
interrupted before reaching M. Head and mesosoma greenish-metallic. Tegula with posterior inner corner inwardly produced and angular, in dorsal view not attaining level of suture between mesoscutum and scutellum. Both sexes with head and dorsum of propodeum lacking white markings.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection lastPageId="4" lastPageNumber="33" pageId="3" pageNumber="32" type="description">
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="32">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="32">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="32">Female</emphasis>
(
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 1521" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figures 15 - 21. Quartinia aenea 15 ♀, lateral view (x 16) 16 ♂, lateral view (x 21) 17 ♀, dorsal view (x 16) 18 ♂, dorsal view (x 16) 19 ♀, head, front view (x 22) 20 ♂, head, front view (x 23) 21 ♂, tergum VII, dorsal view (x 24)." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/11286" pageId="3" pageNumber="32">Figs 15, 17, 19</figureCitation>
): Head and mesosoma dark metallic green with, depending on the angle of illumination, reddish-bronze lustre; gaster black. The following are whitish-yellow: underside of antenna; in a few specimens narrow transverse band, medially interrupted, on anterior margin of pronotum and in all specimens minute spot on postero-dorsal angle of same; tegula anteriorly and posteriorly; a minute to small spot postero-medially on scutellum; scutellar lamella laterally; posterior bands not reaching sides on terga I - IV (that on tergum I widest, those of terga II - IV anteriorly produced medially and laterally). Light ferruginous are: apex of femur of all legs, most of tibia of fore and middle legs, base and apex of hind leg, fore tarsomeres (in part). Darker ferruginous are: mandible distally; upper side of antenna; median band on hind tibia; tarsomeres (in part). Wings very lightly browned, slightly iridescent; veins brown.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="32">Length 3.04-3.2 mm (average of 3: 3.13 mm); length of fore wing 2.1 mm; hamuli 4.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="32">
Head in front view 1.24
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as wide as long; microreticulate (shagreened); moderately shiny; with punctures barely discernable. POL: OOL = 1: 0.77. Clypeus 1.6
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
as wide as long (to bottom of emargination); dorsal margin exceeding by about diameter of antennal socket level of an imaginary line joining top of antennal sockets; distal margin widely and shallowly emarginate, narrowly laminate.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="33">
<pageBreakToken pageId="4" pageNumber="33" start="start">Mesosoma</pageBreakToken>
microreticulate (shagreened) like head; moderately shiny; with punctures slightly more obvious than on head.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="33">Gaster finely microreticulate, very indistinctly punctured, moderately shiny.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="33">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="33">Male</emphasis>
(
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 1521" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figures 15 - 21. Quartinia aenea 15 ♀, lateral view (x 16) 16 ♂, lateral view (x 21) 17 ♀, dorsal view (x 16) 18 ♂, dorsal view (x 16) 19 ♀, head, front view (x 22) 20 ♂, head, front view (x 23) 21 ♂, tergum VII, dorsal view (x 24)." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/11286" pageId="4" pageNumber="33">Figs 16, 18, 20, 21</figureCitation>
): Coloration and markings as in female, with in addition the following whitish-yellow markings: short band on anterior margin of pronotum; small spot on humeral angle and streak at top of mesopleuron (both in one specimen only); short transverse bands on terga V and VI. Apex of tergum VII and parameres ferruginous. Surface sculpture and puncturation as in female.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="33">Length 2.7 mm; length of fore wing 1.8 mm.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="33">
Head 1.28
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
as wide as long; POL: OOL = 1: 0.82.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="33">Tergum VII with a deep V-shaped slit; lateral lobes smoothly rounded apically. Sterna atuberculate.</paragraph>
<caption httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/11286" pageId="4" pageNumber="33" start="Figures 1521" startId="F3">
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="33">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="33">Figures 15-21.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="33">Quartinia aenea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="33">15</emphasis>
♀, lateral view (
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
16)
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="33">16</emphasis>
♂, lateral view (
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
21)
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="33">17</emphasis>
♀, dorsal view (
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
16)
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="33">18</emphasis>
♂, dorsal view (
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
16)
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="33">19</emphasis>
♀, head, front view (
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
22)
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="33">20</emphasis>
♂, head, front view (
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
23)
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="33">21</emphasis>
♂, tergum VII, dorsal view (
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
24).
</paragraph>
</caption>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="4" pageNumber="33" type="etymology">
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="33">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="33">
The name
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="33">aenea</emphasis>
, a Latin female adjective meaning bronze- or ore-coloured, refers to the greenish-metallic appearance of the head and mesosoma.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="4" pageNumber="33" type="geographic distribution">
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="33">Geographic distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="33">
As far as indicated at present the species appears to be restricted to the area around Aus in south-western Namibia, in the Desert and Succulent Steppe of
<bibRefCitation author="Giess, W" journalOrPublisher="Dinteria" pageId="10" pageNumber="39" pagination="1 - 114" refId="B10" refString="Giess, W, 1971. A preliminary vegetation map of South West Africa. Dinteria 4: 1 - 114" title="A preliminary vegetation map of South West Africa." volume="4" year="1971">Giess (1971)</bibRefCitation>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="4" pageNumber="33" type="floral associations">
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="33">Floral associations.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="33">
<taxonomicName genus="Asteraceae" lsidName="" pageId="4" pageNumber="33" rank="genus">Asteraceae</taxonomicName>
(
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Ptinidae" genus="Dimorphotheca" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="33" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="33">Dimorphotheca</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Linnaeus" authorityYear="1763" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Compositae" genus="Leysera" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Asterales" pageId="4" pageNumber="33" phylum="Magnoliophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="33">Leysera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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