Loboscelidia incompleta
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Chrysididae
Genus: Loboscelidia
Name
Loboscelidia incompleta Kimsey, 2012 sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Type material
Holotype male: India: Tamil Nadu, Nilgiri Hills, v/1961, P. S. Nathan (CNC).
Diagnosis
The most distinctive and unique feature of this species is the medially incomplete medial vein. Among the species that lack a medial vein entirely, including Loboscelidia bakeri, Loboscelidia fulgens, Loboscelidia reducta and Loboscelidia guangxiensis, Loboscelidia incompleta can be distinguished by the Rs vein twice as long as R (1.5× or less in the other species). It does share the fore and midtibial flanges lacking as in Loboscelidia reducta.
Male description
Body length 2.5 mm; forewing length 3 mm. Head (Fig. 8): length 2× height in side view; eye asetose; frontal projection rectangular in front view; frons with lateral ridge adjacent to eye margin; vertex without transverse fovea, posterior expansion strongly curved in profile; frons without carina or ridge extending from vertex along inner eye margin; gena without scale-like setae; scape longitudinally striate, length 4× breadth; flagellomere I length 2.4× breadth; flagellomere II length 2.2× breadth; flagellomere XI length 3.2× breadth. Mesosoma: pronotal length 1.1× breadth, with lateral carina, nearly as broad as head; scutum with notauli reaching posterior margin; scutellum and metanotum smooth, polished, impunctate; metanotum one-third as long as scutellum propodeum without transverse dorsal carina; mesopleuron without scrobal sulcus; legs polished; forefemoral flange 0.2× femur length, flange maximum width 0.9× width of tubular part of femur; foretibial flange 0.6× femur length, flange maximum width 0.3× width of tubular part of tibia; midfemur without flange; midtibial flange 0.7× tibia length, flange maximum width 0.3× width of tubular part of tibia; hindfemoral flange 0.3× femur length, flange maximum width 0.7× width of tubular part of femur; hindtibial flange 0.7× as long as tibia, flange maximum width 0.5× width of tubular part of tibia; hindtibia with two longitudinal carinae on posterior margin; hindcoxa with/without longitudinal carina on inner medial surface; forewing (Fig. 28) R1 length 0.3× R length; cu-a length absent; Rs length 2.2× R length; Cu+M 0.5× as long as A; medial vein submedially curved, incomplete medially. Color: reddish brown; wing membrane brown-tinted, paler along vein remnants, veins brown.
Etymology
The name refers to the medially interrupted medial vein of the forewing (Latin)
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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