Eupsenella jagara Ramos & Azevedo

Ramos, Magno S. & Azevedo, Celso O., 2012, Revision of Eupsenella Westwood, 1874 (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), Zootaxa 3539 (1), pp. 1-80 : 44-45

Eupsenella jagara Ramos & Azevedo , sp. nov.

( Figs 33 , 78, 123)

Description. FEMALE (holotype). Body length 5.62 mm. LFW 4.05 mm.

Coloration. Head dark castaneous almost black; scape, pedicel and flagellum castaneous; mandible dark castaneous; palpi light castaneous; mesosoma dark castaneous almost black; tegula and wing venation dark castaneous; coxae dark castaneous almost black; trochanters light castaneous; profemur dark castaneous almost black; mesofemur, and metafemur dark castaneous; tarsi light castaneous; metasoma dark castaneous.

Head ( Fig. 33 ). Head longer than wide, subrectangular in profile; gena without concavity in profile. Mandible evenly wide, two lowermost teeth larger than upper ones, lower tooth curved inward, lower margin strongly setose. Clypeus coriaceous-punctate, median clypeal lobe broadly truncate, median concavity of median clypeal lobe absent, 0.06 LH, well marked off from frons, median carina present, 0.15 LH. Malar space conspicuous, 0.29 mandibular base, carinate. Antenna 1.38 mm; first five antennomeres in ratio of about 7:8:9:9:9; flagellomere 1 1.0 longer than wide, flagellar pubescence dense, with few outstanding erect setae. Region between torulus and eye slightly concave. Area between the anterior margin of eyes and demarkation of median clypeal lobe 0.11 LH. Eye not protuberant, 0.43 LH, with sparse hairs, located more laterally, lower margin without strong depression. Frons coriaceous-punctate. WH 0.92 LH. WF 0.52 WH. WF 1.19 HE. OOL 1.14 WOT. VOL 0.64 HE. Distance from posterior ocellus to vertex crest 0.67 DAO. Ocelli small, DAO 0.10 WF, ocellar triangle not compact, distance between posterior ocelli 3.25 DAO, anterior ocellus not surpassing imaginary top eye line, posterior ocellus almost reaching vertex. Vertex straight, short setae, 0.14 LH, temple profile slightly convergent in dorsal view, with corner convex, not projected postero-laterad. Hipostomal carina arched, low.

Mesosoma (Fig. 78). Pronotal disc coriaceous-punctate, 0.46 as long as wide, anterior corner rounded, posterior margin concave medially, pronotal disc without short longitudinal furrow. Parapsidal furrow conspicuous only at third posterior part. Notauli parallel to each other. Mesoscutum 1.15 length pronotal disc. Scutellum coriaceous-punctate, 0.95 length pronotal disc, almost flat in profile, posterior margin almost straight medially, scutellar pit elliptical, narrowed, distant each other 9.33 its own diameter. Dorsal axillar surface with fovea oval. Median region elevate, coriaceous-puncticulate, as high as scutellum in profile, with fovea oval laterally. Propodeal disc wider than long; anterior margin without foveolate or transverse furrow; median carina 0.91 length propodeal disc, complete posterad; discal carina 0.41 length propodeal disc, converging posterad, straight; space between median and discal carina confused-rugulose. Mesopleuron with subtegular furrow elliptical; mesepimeral suture almost inconspicuous posterad; mesopleural epicoxal lobe conspicuous. Propleuron with sequence of foveae from anterior margin of prosternum until cervical collar absent. Prosternum with median excavation complete, median suture present. Mesopectus with posterior depression composed by two large foveae almost fused; median suture not evident.

LFW; distal margin of Rs c convex; r-rs vein inclined; R1 b entirely on anterior margin of forewing; Cu b absent; Rs+M vein 1.1 Rs a; M vein 1.0 Rs a; Rs a subperpendicular to anterior margin of forewing; stigma rectangular; distal stigmal margin truncate. Hind wing with four distal hamuli, last hamulus discontinuous each other.

Legs. Profemur swollen, 0.53 as wide as long. Metacoxa with median region 0.64 as wide as long. Metacoxal projection in dorsal region conspicuous, apex rounded.

Metasoma. 0.34 as wide as long.

MALE. Unknown.

Material examined. Holotype ♀. AUSTRALIA, 31.22S 118.47E, W[estern] A[ustralia], 9 Km E by S, Carrabin, 9 Oct [ober] 1981, I.D.Naumann, J.C.Cardale, ex[tracted] ethanol, ANIC.

Distribution. Australia (Western Australia).

Remarks. This species is similar to E. jaburara sp. nov. by having the median clypeal lobe broad, truncate, with median carina, the propodeal disc with median carina and discal carina. However this species has the head elongated, the area between the anterior margin of eyes and demarkation of median clypeal lobe short, the head globoid in profile, the posterior ocelli distant from vertex crest, the median clypeal lobe very broad, with median carina not bifurctaed, whereas E. jaburara sp. nov. has the head not elongated, the area between the anterior margin of eyes and demarkation of median clypeal lobe long, the head subrectangular in profile, posterior ocelli near from vertex crest, the median clypeal lobe broad, with median carina bifurcating anterad.

Figures

FIGURES 27–38. Head in dorsal view. 27. Eupsenella ingura sp. nov. 28. E. iwaidja sp. nov. 29. E. jaadwa sp. nov. 30. E. jaara sp. nov. 31. E. jaburara sp. nov. 32. E. jadira sp. nov. 33. E. jagara sp. nov. 34. E. janda sp. nov. 35. E. kabalbara sp. nov. 36. E. kaibara sp. nov. 37. E. karanja sp. nov. 38. E. karawa sp. nov. (Scale bar = 300 µm).