Loboscelidia fulgens
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Chrysididae
Genus: Loboscelidia
Name
Loboscelidia fulgens Kimsey, 2012 sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Type material
Holotype male: Viet Nam: Tuyen Quang Prov., 360 m, Na Hang Reserve, 16–20 May 1997, FIT, S. B. Peck, 97-10 (CNC). Paratypes: 3 males same data as holotype; 1 male: 20-24 May 1997, 97-13; 1 male: 300 m, 97-17; 1 male: Ha Tinh, Huong Son, 450 m, 18°22'N, 105°13'E, 22 April-1 May 1998, L. Herman, LT (BME, CNC).
Diagnosis
This is one of four species, including Loboscelidia bakeri, Loboscelidia guangxiensis and Loboscelidia reducta that completely lack a medial vein. Loboscelidia fulgens can be separated from Loboscelidia guangxiensis in males by the shorter Rs vein, 1.5× as long as R, versus twice as long in Loboscelidia guangxiensis, and having well-developed tibial flanges, which are lacking in Loboscelidia reducta. Loboscelidia fulgens can be immediately distinguished from Loboscelidia bakeri by lacking the uniquely up-domed propodeum characteristic of Loboscelidia bakeri.
Male description
Body length 1.5–2.0 mm; forewing length 2.0–2.5 mm. Head (Fig. 5): length 1.8× height in side view; eye asetose; frontal projection rectangular in front view; frons smooth, not microstriate; frons with low ridge extending from vertex along inner eye margin; vertex with transverse fovea, posterior expansion strongly curved in profile; gena without scale-like setae; scape striate, length 2.9× breadth; flagellomere I length 2× breadth; flagellomere II length 1.8× breadth; flagellomere XI length 3× breadth. Mesosoma: pronotal length 0.8× breadth, without lateral carina, narrower than head in dorsal view; scutum with notauli reaching posterior margin; scutellum with fine dense striae laterally; metanotum with medial ridge, impunctate laterally, 0.4× as long as scutellum; mesopleuron without scrobal sulcus; propodeum without transverse dorsal carina; legs (Fig. 38) smooth, polished; forefemoral flange 0.5× femur length, flange maximum width 0.6× width of tubular part of femur; foretibial flange 0.5× tibial length, flange maximum width 0.4 x width of tubular part of tibia; midfemoral flange absent; midtibial flange 0.6× femur length, flange maximum width 0.5× width of tubular part of tibia; hindfemoral flange 0.8× femur length, flange maximum width 0.6× width of tubular part of femur; hindtibial flange 0.8× femur length, flange maximum width 0.7× width of tubular part of tibia; hindtibia with two longitudinal carinae on posterior margin; hindcoxa without longitudinal carina on inner medial surface; forewing (Fig. 26) R1 length 0.4× R length; cu-a absent; Rs length 1.4× R length; Cu+M length 0.6× A length; medial vein present, flat medially. Color: body brown to reddish brown; wing membrane brown-tinted, untinted along vein remnants; veins brown.
Etymology. The species name, Loboscelidia fulgens, refers to the shining integument (Latin, adj).
Original Description
- Kimsey, L; 2012: Review of the odd chrysidid genus Loboscelidia Westwood, 1874 (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae, Loboscelidiinae) ZooKeys, 213: 1-40. doi
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