Anthobosca nigrimacula
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Tiphiidae
Genus: Anthobosca
Name
Anthobosca nigrimacula Kimsey – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Anthobosca nigrimacula Kimsey, Lynn S., 2009, Zootaxa 2175: 16-16.
Diagnosis
Diagnosis. Diagnostic features of Anthobosca nigrimacula include flagellomere VII with a small tyloid, and flagellomere II 1.5 x as long as broad. The species most closely resembles toliarensis and castanea based on the short flagellomere XI, black and white clypeus, bicolored flagellum and apically white paramere.
Description
Male. Body length 7–8 mm. Head: inner eye margin slightly emarginate; flagellomere I 1.2 x as long as broad, flagellomere II 1.5 x as long as broad, flagellomere XI twice as long as broad; flagellomeres vii–xi each with one tyloid; clypeus evenly convex medially, apex narrowly truncate. Mesosoma: hindleg unmodified. Metasoma: segment 1 longer than broad; hypopygium apically narrowly rounded, margin spinose. Genital capsule (Figs. 13, 23, 33): gonocoxa broadest apically, nearly parallel-sided in dorsal view; aedeagus narrow, about 7 x as broad as long, apical lobes narrowly separated; volsella dorsal lobe extending diagonally from behind dorsal lobe of gonocoxa toward paramere, largely obscured by paramere and gonocoxa in lateral view; paramere basal part 3 x as long as broad and narrowest submedially apical lobe 2.4 x as long as broad in ventral view. Punctation: Body with dense small, contiguous punctures. Vestiture: silvery. Coloration: head, mesosoma and metasoma black, with pale yellow to whitish markings; clypeus with irregular whitish medial and lateral spots; mandible white with dark apex; underside of scapal apex whitish; whitish band along inner eye margin; flagellum bicolored, top black, underside orange; small whitish spot behind eye near vertex; pronotum with wide transverse whitish band along posterior margin and ventral whitish spot; scutum with medial whitish spot; Tegula and wing vein bases white; tarsi, palps and tibial spurs whitish; tibiae and trochanters partly whitish; paramere apical lobe whitish. Female. Unknown.
Materials Examined
Type material. Holotype3: MADAGASCAR: Toliara Prov., Réserve Spéciale de Cap Sainte Marie, 12.3km262 w Marovato, 200m, 11–15 /ii/2002, 253454 S 45106 E, Fisher Griswold et al., malaise trap, BLF 5504 (CAS). Paratype3: same data as holotype (CAS).
Distribution
Distribution. Map 5.
Etymology
Etymology. The species name refers to the coloration of the clypeus.
Taxon Treatment
- Kimsey, Lynn S.; 2009: Review of the Malagasy Anthobosca, the Bizarre and the Sublime (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae: Anthoboscinae), Zootaxa 2175: 16-16. doi
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