Conidarnes sp. ex Ficus sundaica
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Agaonidae
Name
Conidarnes Farache & Rasplus, 2015 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Material examined
5♂: INDONESIA: E. Kalimantan: Kutai Nature Reserve, 0.37° 117.27°, 1978, Bingham M., ex Ficus sundaica Bl. v. beccariana (King) det. Corner, Wiebes Coll. N°3543 (RMNH).
Description
Female. Unknown.
Male. Size and colour. Body length 3.1 mm. Antennae yellow orange. Head and mesosoma mostly black, with metallic blue lustre. Legs mostly dark brown, proximally darker. Metasoma brown.
Head. Scape 5.3× as long as wide. Antennae inserted just below the middle line of compound eyes. Supraclypeal area shorter than clypeus and narrow. Face sculpture reticulate. Scrobe with a median longitudinal sulcus, extending from median ocellus to interantennal area.
Mesosoma. Pronotum sculpture alutaceous, engraved. Pronotum elongated, nearly twice as long as high in lateral view. Mesoscutum and mesoscutellum sculpture reticulate. Notauli complete. Frenal sulcus crenulated. Metascutellum long, rectangular to trapezoidal. Anterior margin of propodeum crenulated. Propodeum sculpture slightly reticulate to smooth. Propodeum without a median line.
Biology
This species was reared from Ficus sundaica Blume v. beccariana (King).
Comments
We have examined only males, but they clearly belong to an undescribed species. Since we described Conidarnes species mostly based on females, we prefer not to describe this species until more specimens are found.
Taxon Treatment
- 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
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