Conidarnes subtectae
| Notice: | This page is derived from the original publication listed below, whose author(s) should always be credited. Further contributors may edit and improve the content of this page and, consequently, need to be credited as well (see page history). Any assessment of factual correctness requires a careful review of the original article as well as of subsequent contributions.
If you are uncertain whether your planned contribution is correct or not, we suggest that you use the associated discussion page instead of editing the page directly. This page should be cited as follows (rationale):
Citation formats to copy and paste
BibTeX: @article{Farache2015ZooKeys, RIS/ Endnote: TY - JOUR Wikipedia/ Citizendium: <ref name="Farache2015ZooKeys">{{Citation See also the citation download page at the journal. |
Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Agaonidae
Genus: Conidarnes
Name
Conidarnes subtectae Farache & Rasplus sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Holotype
♀: BRUNEI: Temburong, Kuala Belalong, 4.538° 115.159°, 105m, 23.IV.1997, Hossaert-Mckey M., ex Ficus subtecta, n° JRAS00117 (CBGP).
Diagnosis
Antenna with two anelli. Funicular segments mostly as long as wide or slightly longer than wide. Antennae inserted just below the middle line of compound eyes. Supraclypeal area wide. Mesoscutum and mesoscutellum reticulate. Length of the ovipositor sheaths 0.9× body length.
Description
Female. Size and colour. Body length 1.8 mm. Length of the ovipositor sheaths 1.6 mm. Antennae yellow. Head and mesosoma black, with faint blue, green, and orange metallic lustre. Legs mostly yellow distally. Coxae almost concolorous with body. Femora yellow brown. Metasoma dark brown.
Head. Scape 4.8× as long as wide. Antenna with two anelli. Proximal anellus longer than distal anellus. Funicular segments mostly as long as wide or slightly longer than wide. Terminal antennomere conspicuous. Antennae inserted just below the middle line of compound eyes. Supraclypeal area higher than clypeus, and wide. Face sculpture reticulate. Scrobe without a median longitudinal sulcus.
Mesosoma. Pronotum sculpture reticulate. 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 reticulate. Propodeum with a depressed median line.
Metasoma. Length of the ovipositor sheaths 0.9× body length.
Male. Unknown.
Etymology
The specific name refers to the host fig species.
Biology
Reared from syconia of Ficus subtecta Corner
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
|
