Aspicera danielssoni Ros-Farré & Pujade-Villar, 2013

ROS-FARRÉ, P. & PUJADE-VILLAR, J., 2013, <strong> Revision of the genus <em> Aspicera </ em> Dahlbom, 1842 (Hym.: Figitidae: Aspicerinae) </ strong>, Zootaxa 3606 (1), pp. 1-110 : 22-23

Aspicera danielssoni Ros-Farré & Pujade-Villar n. sp.

( Figs 49a & b )

Type material: (3♂). HOLOTYPE male ( PDL) 13/VII/1959, Budaörs , HUNGARY, Solymosne leg. ; PARATYPES: (2♂) HUNGARY: 1♂ ( PDL) 26/V/1959, Taváros , Solymosne leg. ; 1♂ ( UB) 19/IX/1963, Veszlev csárda , Moczár leg.

Diagnosis. Aspicera danielssoni belongs to the group of species with sharp longitudinal carinae on occiput, sharp transverse carinae on lateral surface of pronotum, scutellar disc flat in lateral view and notauli transversely carinate. A. danielssoni is similar to A. longispina , but A. danielssoni is a small insect (males<2.7mm., females unknown), having scutum and notauli sharply carinate transversely, while A. longispina is robust (males>3.0mm., females> 3.4mm.), with weak or absent transverse carinae on scutum and notauli weakly carinate transversely.

Description

Length. Male 2.3–2.7 mm; female unknown.

Coloration. Head and mesosoma black. Metasoma dark reddish brown. Scape and pedicellum dark brown, flagellomeres medium brown. Coxa and trocanter black to dark brown, remaining leg segments medium to light brown. Wing veins medium brown.

Head. Frons conspicuously rugose, coriaceous. Lateral frontal carinae straight, divergent. Area between compound eye and lateral frontal carinae with transverse carinae. Gena in lateral view rounded, slightly expanded, coriaceous, with transverse carinae. Vertex not incised, with sharp rugose sculpture or transverse rugae and some coriaceous microsculpture. Ocelli quite prominent. Occiput coriaceous, longitudinal carinae of dorsal 1/3 variable between rugose and straight, variable sharp transverse carinae on basal 2/3.

Antenna. Filiform. F1 sharply excavated. Antennal formula: 10(7): 3.5(5): 12.5(5): 9(4.5): 10(4.5): 10(4.5): 10(4.5): 10(4.5): 10(4): 8.5(4): 8(4): 8(4): 8(4): 12(4)

Mesosoma. Lateral surface of pronotum coriaceous with transverse rugose carinae. Subpronotal plate not projected, dorsal margin pubescent. Scutum coriaceous, with transverse carinae. Lateral line complete, very conspicuous. Antero-admedian lines sharp, prominent, reaching 1/3–1/2 scutum length, straight; median ridge sharp. Notauli and median mesoscutal furrow with sharp transverse carinae and weak small transverse rugae. Area between notauli not prominent in lateral view. Parascutal sulcus very wide, ending near anterior end of notauli, with scattered setae, weakly alutaceous mostly on anterior half. Mesopleuron sculptured on ventral area and anterior 1/3 smooth on dorsoposterior area. Scutellum 0.95 to 1.1 times scutum length, emarginate. Scutellar foveae slightly alutaceous, scutellar pits deep. Interfoveal carina prominent continuing along scutellar disc and first 2/3 of scutellar spine. Scutellar disc flat, coriaceous, with two sharp longitudinal carinae on each side, straight in lateral view, at the same level as scutellar spine. Scutellar spine long, slender, 0.75–0.8 times length of scutellar disc, striate longitudinally, straight in lateral view.

Wing. Wing membrane slightly yelowish. Radial cell 2.2–2.6 times longer than wide. Wing pubescence not reduced. Marginal pubescence dense. R1 long. R2 straight, Rs+M weakly pigmented.

Derivatio nominis. Dedicated to Roy Danielsson, colleague and friend of us; we are very thankful for his patience on the loans of the material studied here.

Biology. Unknown.

Distribution. Western Palaearctic: Hungary.

Figures

FIGURE 49. Aspicera danielssoni Ros-Farré & Pujade-Villar n. sp.: (a) head and mesosoma in lateral view, (b) mesosoma in dorsal view.