Oxyscelio grandis
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Platygastridae
Genus: Oxyscelio
Name
Oxyscelio grandis (Dodd) – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
- Hoploteleia grandis Dodd, 1913: 176 (original description); Kieffer 1926[1]: 367, 378 (description, keyed).
- Oxyscelio grandis (Dodd): Dodd 1931[2]: 75 (generic transfer); Galloway 1976[3]: 99 (type information).
Description
Female. Unknown.
Male. Mesosoma + metasoma length 3.38 mm (n=1).
Lateral pronotal area sculpture: anteriorly smooth, posterodorsal corner with dense microsculpture, ventral corner with irregular carinae. Posterior border of central pronotal area: directed anteriorly, protruding at corner of epomial carina and transverse pronotal carina. Mesoscutum anteriorly: not steep, forming less than a right angle. Median mesoscutal carina: absent. Mesoscutellar rim: not expanded. Mesoscutellar rim medially: without notch. Mesofemoral depression: longitudinally striate dorsally, smooth ventrally. Metascutellum shape: slightly emarginate posteriorly, concave but elevated posteriorly. Metascutellar setae: absent. Metascutellum sculpture: with large smooth posterior fovea. Coxae color brightness: same color as femora. Lateral propodeal carinae: broadly separated, not parallel anteriorly. Setae in metasomal depression: absent. Anterior sculpture of metasomal depression: absent. Median propodeal carina: absent. Major sculpture of mesoscutal midlobe anteriorly: umbilicate foveate. Major sculpture of mesoscutal midlobe posteriorly: umbilicate foveate. Microsculpture of mesoscutal midlobe anteriorly: granulate. Microsculpture of mesoscutal midlobe posteriorly: absent. Major sculpture of mesoscutellum centrally: umbilicate foveate; absent. Major sculpture of mesoscutellum peripherally: umbilicate foveate. Microsculpture of mesoscutellum centrally: absent. Microsculpture of mesoscutellum peripherally: absent. Fore wing apex at rest: unknown.
T1 midlobe longitudinal carinae: unknown. T3 metasomal flanges: absent. T4 metasomal flanges: absent. T5 metasomal flanges: absent. T6 metasomal flanges: absent. T7: with a pair of sharply defined spine-like posterolateral projections.
Diagnosis
Male: Median carina of mesoscutum absent. Mesoscutellum without granulate sculpture. T1 lateral carina not expanded. T7 with narrow and elongate posterior spines.
Link to distribution map
[http://hol.osu.edu/map-full.html?id=5022]
Material examined
Holotype, male: H. grandis: AUSTRALIA: QLD, nr. Cairns, foliage / jungle, Gordonvale (Nelson), 8.V.1913, sweeping, A. P. Dodd, SAMA DB 32-001588 (deposited in SAMA).
Comments
Oxyscelio grandis is known only from a broken male specimen consisting only of a mesosoma and metasoma, which was its state when described by Dodd (1913)[2]. These parts are sufficient to establish that no other known Australian specimens belong to this species. The elongate T7 spines are unlike those of any member of the atricoxa-group, suggesting that this species likely belongs to another species group, or that it is not closely related to any other known Australian Oxyscelio. This species is excluded from the phylogenetic analysis due to the very large amount of missing data.
Taxon Treatment
- Burks, R; Masner, L; Johnson, N; Austin, A; 2013: Systematics of the parasitic wasp genus Oxyscelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae s.l.), part II: the Australian and southwest Pacific fauna ZooKeys, 331: 1-266. doi
Other References
- ↑ Kieffer J (1926) Scelionidae. Das Tierreich. Vol. 48. Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin, 885 pp. 119
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Dodd A (1931) The genus Oxyscelio Kieffer, its synonymy and species, with a description of one new genus (Hymenoptera: Proctotrypoidea). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 42: 71–81. 112
- ↑ Galloway I (1976) The types of Australian species of the subfamily Scelioninae (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae). Queensland Journal of Agricultural and Animal Sciences 33(1): 83–114. 114
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