Colocistis eureka
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Tiphiidae
Genus: Colocistis
Name
Colocistis eureka (Mickel & Krombein) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Glyptometopa eureka Banks, 1912:202. Holotype female; USA: Arizona, Palmerlee (MCZ).
Diagnosis
Colocistis eureka shares the strongly elevated gular carina with Colocistis segredentata. However, in Colocistis eureka the carina is strongly biangular or bidentate versus medially uninterrupted and the meso- metapleural sulcus is faint but distinct, versus absent or incomplete in Colocistis segredentata.
Maleunknown.
Description
Female.
Body length. 9.5–10.0 mm.
Head. Wider than long in anterior view; vertex with lateral foveae consisting of row of large, shallow punctures; occipital carina (Fig. 10) meeting transverse carina at obtuse angle, transverse carina irregular, notched medially between submedial teeth, subtended by irregular rugae toward occiput.
Mesosoma. Pronotal disk 0.4× as long as broad in dorsal view, nearly impunctate, with several scattered punctures; propleura densely punctured; foretibia with two spines laterally; basitarsus with two spines on outer surface; tibial spur 0.9× length of basitarsus; hindcoxa ventral carina extending 0.5 length of coxa, dorsal longitudinal carina broadly elevated basally.
Metasoma. Sternum I without medial groove (Fig. 21).
Color. Reddish brown; vestiture whitish to pale yellow.
Distribution
(Fig. 39). USA: Arizona, Cochise County: Palmerlee; Santa Cruz County: Atascosa Mountain; two specimens were seen (BME, UCRC).
Taxon Treatment
- Kimsey, L; Wasbauer, M; 2013: Revision of the brachycistidine genus Colocistis Krombein, 1942 (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae) Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 33: 1-24. doi
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