Scrapter glareus Davies, 2005

Fig. 9

Scrapter glareus Davies, 2005: 166–168, figs 27–30, holotype ♂ (type locality: Knersvlakte, 30 km N of Vanrhynsdorp, South Africa) (SANC).

Diagnosis

The male of S. glareus can be separated from other species of this group by the combination of the following characters: antenna unmodified, hind tibia simple and yellow with a brown spot on the back side, hind basitarsus yellowish (Fig. 9A), form of S7 (Fig. 9D). The female is unknown.

Material examined

No additional material examined.

Description

Male

BODY LENGTH. 5.6–5.8 mm.

HEAD. Head slightly wider than long. Integument black, except mandible partly dark reddish-brown. Face densely covered with long, greyish-white, erect hair. Malar area medially narrow, almost linear. Antenna dorsally dark brown, ventrally yellowish-brown except last two to three flagellar segments completely or largely brown.

MESOSOMA. Integument black. Mesoscutal disc densely but shallowly punctate (i = 1.0–1.5 d), strongly reticulate and matt. Mesoscutum, scutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum and propodeum sparsely covered with long, greyish, erect hair (Fig. 9A).

WINGS. Slightly yellowish-brown; wing venation and stigma yellowish-brown.

LEGS. Integument black, tarsi, tibiae and femora apically yellow, tibia posteriorly with large brown spot (Fig. 9A). Hind tibia unmodified. Vestiture greyish-white.

METASOMA. Integument black, apical margins of terga partly translucent dark yellowish to reddish-brown (Fig. 9C). Disc of T1 without hair; T2–T4 basally with a broad and dense band of very fine, short, erect, silverish hair covering about 2/3 of the terga; apical tergal hair bands missing on all terga (Fig. 9C). Terga impunctate, sculptured and slightly matt; terga with broad and superficially sculptured, shiny apical tergal depression (Fig. 9C). S3–S5 without distinct apical hair fringes.

TERMINALIA. Genitalia (Fig. 9B), S7 (Fig. 9D) and terminal plate of S8 (Fig. 9E) as illustrated.

Female

Unknown.

Distribution

The species is only known from the Knersvlakte, a semi-desert plane in southern Namaqualand.

Floral hosts

Unknown.

Seasonal activity

September.