Smicromorpha banksi Naumann, 1986

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Smicromorpha banksi Naumann, 1986

( Figs 16–22 )

Smicromorpha banksi Naumann 1986: 177 .

Material examined (images). Australia: Queensland, 1km South East of Mt. Cook town (15.305ºS & 145.16ºE), 13.x.1980, Coll. J. C. Cardale ( ANIC, holotype ♀, ANIC Type No. 7592) .

Diagnosis. Female. Body length 4.0 mm, length of fore wing 2.3 mm; colour pale yellowish to orange; hind coxa with large outer blackish spot, hind femur with large discal black spot, serrulation black ( Fig. 20 ); setation short, with scattered adpressed setae on mesosoma and hind femur. Head with eyes moderately enlarged ( Figs 16, 17 ); malar space relatively long with malar carina ( Fig. 17 ); antennal scrobe deeply impressed, carinately mar- gined, distant from inner margin of eye; frons with longitudinal impression between median ocellus and antennal scrobe ( Fig. 17 ); vertex and frons minutely reticulate-punctulate; ocelli small, POL and LOD respectively 0.8× and 0.7× OOL ( Fig. 18 );, maximum interocular distance (on vertex) at most twice as great as minimum distance (at mid-length of face); flagellum 6-segmented; flagellomeres very short, transverse; pronotal collar carinate laterally; mesoscutum and scutellum rugose-punctate; sternaulus absent; propodeum convex posteriorly, spiracular sulci in- distinct; fore wing slightly infuscate, STV shorter than and at right angle with MV, stump of basalis present ( Fig. 19 ); hind coxa 4.6× long as wide; hind femur 1.7× as long as wide, without basal prominence, serrulate on ventral margin starting at one third of femoral length, forming two lobes; petiole 4.5× as long as wide, not swollen basally, minutely reticulate-punctulate dorsally; transverse basal lamina distinct ( Fig. 21 ).

Male. Unknown.

Distribution. Australian ( Australia; Papua New Guinea).

Host. Unknown.

Figures

FIGURES 16–22. Smicromorpha banksi Naumann, holotype ♂: 16, habitus, lateral view; 17, head, frontal view; 18, head and mesosoma, dorsal view; 19, fore wing and hind wing; 20, hind leg; 21, petiole, lateral view; 22, type labels. Scale bar: Figs 16, 19: 1 mm; Figs 17, 21: 200 μm; Figs 18, 20: 500 μm.