Scrapter minutissimus sp. nov.

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Fig. 13

Diagnosis

The male of S. minutissimus sp. nov. can be separated from other species of this group by the combination of the following characters: antenna unmodified, hind tibia simple and black, hind basitarsus yellowish (Fig. 13A) and S7 without apicolateral lobes (Fig. 13D). The female is unknown.

Etymology

Named for the very small body size of the species.

Type material (3 specimens)

Holotype

SOUTH AFRICA: ♂, Leliefontein, slope, yellow + white trap, 30.22520° S, 18.13572° E, 25 Sep. 2003, C. Mayer (SANC).

Paratypes

SOUTH AFRICA: 1 ♂, Leliefontein, plain, white trap, 30.23391° S, 18.16476° E, 7 Sep. 2003, C. Mayer (RCMK); 1 ♂, Remhoogte, plain, white trap, 30.23453° S, 18.16499° E, 11 Sep. 2003, C. Mayer (RCMK).

Description

Male

BODY LENGTH. 3.5–4.3 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 (Fig. 13A).

MESOSOMA. Integument black. Mesoscutal disc impunctate, strongly sculptured and matt. Mesoscutum, scutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum and propodeum sparsely covered with long, greyish, erect hair (Fig. 13A).

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

LEGS. Integument black, tarsi, fore tibia anteriorly (posteriorly brown), mid and hind tibia basally and apically yellow to yellowish-brown (Fig. 13A). Hind tibia unmodified. Vestiture greyish-white.

METASOMA. Integument black, apical margins of terga partly translucent dark reddish-brown (Fig. 13C). Disc of T1 without hair; T2–T4 basally with a broad and dense band of very fine, short, erect, silverish hair covering about half of the terga; apical tergal hair bands missing on all terga (Fig. 13C). Terga impunctate, sculptured and matt; terga with narrow and slightly sculptured, shiny apical tergal depression (Fig. 13C). S3–S5 without distinct apical hair fringes.

TERMINALIA. Genitalia (Fig. 13B), S7 (Fig. 13D) and terminal plate of S8 (Fig. 13E) as illustrated.

Female

Unknown.

Distribution

The species is only known from the Kamiesberg Mountains.

Floral hosts

Unknown.

Seasonal activity

September.