Gasteruption coloratum
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Gasteruptiidae
Genus: Gasteruption
Name
Gasteruption coloratum Zhao & Achterberg & Xu, 2012 sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Type material
Holotype, ♀ (ZJUH), “[China:] Xinjiang, Kuerle, 1985, En-zhen Wang”.
Diagnosis
Head subtruncate medio-posteriorly; posteriorly vertex moderately convex in lateral view (Fig. 71); head black dorsally; hind coxa and femur yellow- or orange-brown; hind tibia black and subbasally ivory and less swollen (Fig. 74); hind basitarsus mainly ivory and only basally dark brown and second segment medially ivory (Fig. 74); metasoma yellow-brown; mesoscutum rather densely setose laterally (Fig. 73); mesopleuron red-brown and weakly sculptured (Fig. 72); ovipositor sheath about 4.0 times as long as hind tibia and tarsus combined, 1.9 times as long as metasoma and about 7.0 times as long as hind tibia; apical 0.5 of hypopygium of female slit-like incised, ; occipital carina obsolescent medio-dorsally (Fig. 76).
Description
Holotype, female, body length 14.0 mm, of fore wing 6.5 mm.
Head. Head directly narrowed behind eyes and weakly curved laterally (Fig. 76); temple 0.6 times as long as eye in dorsal view; vertex and frons with satin sheen and rather sparsely very finely punctulate; vertex convex posteriorly (Fig. 71) and without a depression medio-posteriorly (Fig. 76); occipital carina narrow and non-lamelliform medio-dorsally (Fig. 71); third antennal segment 1.7 times as long as second segment; forth antennal segment 1.5 times as long as third segment; fifth antennal segment 1.1 times as long as third segment (Fig. 78); eye setose (Fig. 71); OOL 1.3 times as long as diameter of posterior ocellus; minimum width of malar space 0.2 times as long as second antennal segment; clypeus without directly depression.
Mesosoma. Length of mesosoma 2.2 times as long as its height; length of propleuron 0.8 times as long as mesoscutum in front of tegulae (Fig. 72); side of pronotum with satin sheen and sparsely finely punctulate, slightly rugulose, antero-ventrally distinctly rugose especially, with a distinct antero-lateral tooth; mesoscutum with satin sheen and moderately densely punctate, interspaces with small punctulate and finely rugulose (Fig. 73); posteriorly and laterally with rugulose-punctate, scutellum with punctate and irregularly rugulose; propodeum reticulate-rugose, medio-longitudinal carina indistinct.
Wings. Fore wing: first discal cell parallel-sided and with outer posterior corner rounded (Fig. 77).
Legs. Hind coxa matt, moderately slender and with transversely rugose dorsally; length of hind femur, tibia and basitarsus 4.0, 4.6 and 5.0 times as long as their width, respectively (Fig. 74); middle tarsus 1.3 times as long as middle tibia.
Metasoma. Ovipositor sheath 1.3–1.4 times as long as body, 1.9 times as long as metasoma and 7.0 times as long as hind tibia.
Colour. Red-brown; head black; antenna (except for first black basal segment) dark brown; mandible orange brown, apex dark brown; legs mainly orange brown, fore and middle tibiae laterally with ivory longitudinal patches; hind tibia black, subbasal patch ivory, basitarsus mainly ivory and basally dark brown, second tarsomere medially ivory; metasoma orange brown; ovipositor sheath black-brown, besides of apically brown; pterostigma dark brown.
Male. Unknown.
Distribution
Palaearctic China (Xinjiang).
Etymology
Named after the multi-coloured hind legs; “coloratus” is “coloured” in Latin.
Original Description
- Zhao, K; Achterberg, C; Xu, Z; 2012: A revision of the Chinese Gasteruptiidae (Hymenoptera, Evanioidea) ZooKeys, 237: 1-123. doi
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