Dichoteleas subcoeruleus
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Scelionidae
Genus: Dichoteleas
Name
Dichoteleas subcoeruleus Dodd – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Dichoteleas subcoeruleus Dodd, 1926: 370, 371 (original description); Galloway 1976[1]: 90 (type information); Johnson, 1992: 367 (catalogued, type information).
Description
Color of head: metallic blue. Hyperoccipital carina: absent. Frontal depression: absent. Malar striae: absent. Facial striae: present. Setation of eyes: absent. Sculpture of frons: smooth above interantennal prominence, areolate laterally. Setation of frons: sparsely setose throughout. Submedian carina: present. Interantennal process: undifferentiated. Central keel: absent. Transverse pronotal carina: present. Color of pronotum: dark brown to black. Pronotal cervical sulcus: absent. Mesepimeral sulcus: present. Sulcus along mesopleural carina: foveolate. Mesoscutal suprahumeral sulcus: absent. Mesoscutal humeral sulcus: present as an uninterrupted groove. Median mesoscutal line: present. Color of mesoscutum: metallic blue. Sculpture of mesoscutum: rugulose. Notaulus: complete. Visibility of notaulus: unobscured. Parapsidal line: present. Sculpture of mesoscutellum: smooth. Shape of axillular carinae in lateral view: without a posteroventral hooklike projection. Color of axillular carina: yellow. Sculpture of T3–4: rugulose and finely punctate. Median carina on T1–T4: present.
Diagnosis
This species can be distinguished by the presence of the median mesoscutual line and can be distinguished from D. indicus by the median carina on T1–T4.
Distribution
Australia (Queensland)
Material examined
Holotype, female: Australia: Queensland, Mossman, SAMA 32-00145 (SAMA). Australia: 13 females, 4 males, OSUC 367522, 367527–367542 (ANIC).
Taxon Treatment
- Schwartz, J; Van Noort, S; Johnson, N; 2023: A taxonomic revision of the Old World genus Dichoteleas Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae) ZooKeys, 1182: 183-205. doi
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Other References
- ↑ Galloway I (1976) the types of Australian species of the subfamily Scelioninae (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae).Queensland Journal of Agricultural and Animal Sciences33(1): 83–114.
