Conidarnes

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Taxonavigation

Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Agaonidae

Name

Conidarnes Farache & Rasplus gen. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile

Type species

Conidarnes santineloi Farache & Rasplus, sp. n.

Diagnosis

Antennae with 13–14 antennomeres (one or two anelli), including a stub or nipple-like terminal flagellomere. Funicular segments slightly longer than wide to transverse. Antennae inserted at the middle line of compound eyes or below. Toruli contiguous. Clypeal margin bilobed. Malar sulcus absent. Petiole very short, transverse. Ovipositor sheaths without a median constriction and depigmentation.

Generic description

Females. Size and colour. Body length 1.5–4.0 mm. Length of the ovipositor sheaths 0.4–6.4 mm. Body colour variable. Antennae mostly yellow, sometimes with orange or brown tinges. Head and mesosoma brown to black, usually with green, blue and orange metallic lustre. Legs yellow to brown. Coxae sometimes concolorous with mesosoma. Wings hyaline, sometimes medially infuscate in males. Metasoma usually brown black, sometimes yellow.
Head. Antenna with 13 or 14 antennomeres (including a stub or nipple-like terminal antennomere), usually with two anelli but sometimes with a single anellus (antennal formula 11263 or 11163). Terminal antennomere (i.e. a nipple-like thirteenth or fourteenth antennomere) sometimes conspicuous. Funicular segments slightly longer than wide to transverse. Face sculpture usually reticulate, sometimes slightly engraved. Upper face sometimes smooth. Antennae inserted at the middle line of compound eyes or below. Toruli contiguous, distance between toruli always smaller than one torulus diameter. Clypeal margin bilobed. Malar sulcus absent.
Mesosoma. Pronotum and mesonotum sculpture variable. Pronotum longer than high in lateral view. Notauli usually complete, but incomplete in Conidarnes laevis sp. n. Mesoscutellar-axillar complex with straight or incurved axillular grooves and transverse frenal sulcus, forming a square mesoscutellum (an apomorphy of Sycophaginae). Mesoscutellum trapezoidal, wider near frenal sulcus and narrower near transscutal articulation. Propodeum transverse. Wings with short and sparse pilosity. Postmarginal vein inconspicuous, stub-like. Marginal vein at least as long as stigmal vein.
Metasoma. Petiolate, petiole very short, transverse. Margin of eighth gastral tergite deeply sinuate, A-like, with thumbnail-like medial flap (epipygium) and with a peg-like cercus arising from the membrane on either side of the epipygium (apomorphy of Sycophaginae). Length of the ovipositor sheaths varying from 0.3× (about as long as the hind tibia) to nearly twice as long as body. Ovipositor sheaths without a median constriction and depigmentation.
Males. Similar to females but usually slender and shorter. Exhibiting different coloration, the mesosoma sometimes mostly yellow. Wings sometimes medially infuscate.

Etymology

The generic name is masculine and derived from Idarnes Walker, 1843, in the same manner than other sycophagine genera (Pseudidarnes Girault, 1927 and Anidarnes Bouček, 1993) and is associated to the prefix Con used for Conosycea, the host plant section of the included species. The origins of the name Idarnes were discussed in Farache et al. (2013).

Key to species

Key to species — F. Farache , J. Rasplus

1		Notauli incomplete (Fig. 6D). Upper face smooth and lower face reticulate (Fig. 6C). Ficus kerkhoveni    laevis sp. n.
–		Notauli complete. Face entirely reticulate    2
2		Sculpture of mesoscutum and mesoscutellum mostly smooth, lateral lobes of mesoscutum engraved reticulate (Fig. 12D). Scrobe with a median longitudinal sulcus, extending from median ocellus to interantennal area (Fig. 12C). Ficus altissima    sulcata sp. n
–		Sculpture of mesoscutum and mesoscutellum reticulate, lateral lobes of mesoscutum reticulate. Scrobe without a median longitudinal sulcus    3
3		Antenna with one anellus (Fig. 7B). Funicular segments mostly transverse (Fig. 7B). Ficus pallescens    santineloi sp. n.
–		Antenna with two anelli. Funicular segments mostly as long as wide or slightly longer than wide.    4
4		Ovipositor approximately 1.5× as long as body (Fig. 1A). Metasoma ventrally yellow and dorsally dark brown (Fig. 1A)    achterbergi sp. n.
–		Ovipositor as long as body or shorter. Coloration of metasoma homogeneously brown    5
5		Ovipositor nearly as long as body (Fig. 10A). Supraclypeal area wide (Fig. 10D). Ficus subtecta    subtectae sp. n.
–		Ovipositor nearly 0.5× as long as body (Figs 3A, 14A). Supraclypeal area narrow (Figs 3D, 14C)    6
6		Antennae inserted near the middle line of compound eyes (Fig. 14C). Supraclypeal area higher than clypeus (Fig. 14C). Propodeum with a reticulate median line, slightly striate, and wider near the anterior margin of the propodeum (Fig. 15D). Ficus sumatrana    sumatranae sp. n.
–		Antennae inserted at the lower line of compound eyes (Fig. 3D). Supraclypeal area shorter than clypeus (Fig. 3D). Propodeum without a well-established median line (Fig. 4B). Ficus involucrata    bergi sp. n.

Original Description

• Farache, F; Rasplus, J; 2015: Conidarnes, a new oriental genus of Sycophaginae (Hymenoptera, Agaonidae) associated with Ficus section Conosycea (Moraceae) ZooKeys, (539): 119-145. doi

Images

Figure 1. Conidarnes achterbergi sp. n., female. A habitus lateral view B antenna C antenna, detail.  Figure 3. Conidarnes bergi sp. n. female. A habitus lateral view B antenna C antenna, detail D head in frontal view E head in dorsal view F mesosoma in lateral view.  Figure 4. Conidarnes bergi sp. n. female. A mesosoma in dorsal view B propodeum and terminal mesosoma in dorsal view C prosternum D detail of venation.  Figure 6. Conidarnes laevis sp. n. female. A habitus lateral view B antenna C head in frontal view D mesosoma in dorsal view (excluding pronotum) E mesosoma in lateral view F wing. Images A, B, C, D, and F by Gunther Fleck.  Figure 7. Conidarnes santineloi sp. n. female. A habitus lateral view B antenna C head in frontal view D head in dorsal view E mesosoma in lateral view F mesosoma in dorsal view.  Figure 10. Conidarnes subtectae sp. n. female. A habitus lateral view B antenna C antenna, detail D head in frontal view E head in dorsal view F mesosoma in lateral view.  Figure 12. Conidarnes sulcata sp. n. female. A habitus lateral view B antenna C head in frontal view D mesosoma in dorsal view E propodeum and terminal mesosoma in dorsal view F detail of venation. Images by Gunther Fleck.  Figure 14. Conidarnes sumatranae sp. n. female. A habitus lateral view B antenna C head in frontal view.  Figure 15. Conidarnes sumatranae sp. n. female. A head in dorsal view B mesosoma in lateral view C mesosoma in dorsal view D propodeum and terminal mesosoma in dorsal view E wing F detail of venation.