Eupsenella baada Ramos & Azevedo

Ramos, Magno S. & Azevedo, Celso O., 2012, Revision of Eupsenella Westwood, 1874 (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), Zootaxa 3539 (1), pp. 1-80 : 23-24

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3539.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0564EF02-FCF9-49A8-BDAC-F432876C16B8
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D887D0-8A25-FF9A-1399-FF26FEE9FE23
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Eupsenella baada Ramos & Azevedo
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Eupsenella baada Ramos & Azevedo , sp. nov.

( Figs 15 View FIGURES 15–26 , 60, 105)

Description. FEMALE (holotype). Body length 8.33 mm. LFW 5.23 mm.

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

Head ( Fig. 15 View FIGURES 15–26 ). Head as long as wide, subrectangular in profile; gena without concavity in profile. Mandible with base wider than apex, two lowermost teeth larger than upper ones, lower tooth curved inward, lower margin strongly setose. Clypeus polished, median clypeal lobe truncate, median concavity of median clypeal lobe absent, 0.06 LH, well marked off from frons, median carina absent. Malar space inconspicuous, 0.13 mandibular base. Antenna 2.38 mm; first five antennomeres in ratio of about 13:13:13:12:12; flagellomere 1 3.25 longer than wide, flagellar pubescence sparse, with many outstanding erect setae. Region between torulus and eye straight. Area between the anterior margin of eyes and demarkation of median clypeal lobe 0.19 LH. Eye not protuberant, 0.40 LH, with sparse hairs, located more laterally, lower margin without strong depression. Frons polished. WH 0.94 LH. WF 0.75 WH. WF 1.67 HE. OOL 0.86 WOT. VOL 0.6 HE. Distance from posterior ocellus to vertex crest 0.5 DAO. Ocelli small, DAO 0.06 WF, ocellar triangle not compact, distance between posterior ocelli 3.33 DAO, anterior ocellus not surpassing imaginary top eye line, posterior ocellus almost reaching vertex. Vertex straight, long setae, 0.27 LH, temple profile slightly convergent in dorsal view, with corner convex, not projected posterolaterad. Hipostomal carina angulate, low.

Mesosoma (Fig. 60). Pronotal collar regular-sized. Pronotal disc polished, long, 0.58 as long as wide, anterior corner rounded, posterior margin concave medially, pronotal disc with short longitudinal furrow. Parapsidal furrow wholly conspicuous. Notauli convergent posterad. Mesoscutum 0.75 length pronotal disc. Scutellum polished, 0.7 length pronotal disc, almost flat in profile, posterior margin almost straight medially, scutellar pit elliptical, narrowed, distant each other 10.5 its own diameter. Polished and shining inside. Metanotum with median region almost flat, coriaceous-puncticulate, lower than scutellum in profile, with fovea oval laterally. Propodeal disc wider than long; anterior margin without foveolate or transverse furrow; median carina 0.49 length propodeal disc, incomplete posterad; discal carina 0.23 length propodeal disc, parallel to median carina, straight; space between median and discal carina confused-rugulose. Mesopleuron with subtegular furrow elliptical; mesepimeral suture wholly conspicuous; mesopleural epicoxal lobe inconspicuous. 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 evident. Wings. Macropterous. Forewing ( Fig. 105 View FIGURES 103–112 ) with 1M cell subpentagonal; 1M and 1R1 cells aligned basally; C cell widening distally; 1R1 cell present, slightly longer than 2R1 cell, evenly wide; Rs b straight; 2R1 cell 0.16 LFW; distal margin of Rs c angulate; r-rs vein inclined; R1 b arching distally; Cu b absent; Rs+M vein 1.3 Rs a; M vein 1.11 Rs a; Rs a slightly inclined toward tegula; stigma rectangular; distal stigmal margin truncate. Hind wing with five distal hamuli, last hamulus discontinuous each other.

Legs. Profemur swollen, 0.53 as wide as long. Metacoxa with median region 0.5 as wide as long. Metacoxal projection in dorsal region conspicuous, apex rounded.

Metasoma. 4.73 as wide as long, ventral carina of petiole present.

MALE. Unknown.

Material examined. Holotype ♀. AUSTRALIA, N[ew] S[outh] W[ales], Lake George Ra. 18 km NbyW, Bungendore, 15 Feb[ruary] 1982, J.F.Lawrence & A.Calder, on Xanthorrhoea australis, ANIC . Paratypes. AUSTRALIA, N[ew] S[outh] W[ales], 3 ♀ , Lake George Ra. 18 km NbyW, Bungendore, 15 Feb [ruary] 1982, J.F.Lawrence & A.Calder, on Xanthorrhoea australis, ANIC ; 34.24S 149.23E, 1 ♀ GoogleMaps , Whiskers 7 Km WNW of Hoskinstown, 27 Oct [ober] 1992, M.S.Upton, ANIC; A[ustralian] C[apital] T[erritory], 3 ♀ , Black M[oun]t[ai]n, I.D.Naumann, J. C. Cardele & M. E. Matthews, Malaise Trap, ex[tracted] ethanol; 3 ♀ , 1–15 Mar [ch] 1980, D.H.Colless, Malaise Site 2; 1 ♀ , 1–11 Apr [il] 1980, D.H.Colless, Malaise Site 2; 1 ♀ , 12–30 Apr [il], D.H.Colless, Malaise Site 2, ANIC; Canberra, 1 ♀ , 18 Feb [ruary] 1982, E. McC. Callan, ex[tracted] ethanol; 2 ♀, 23 July 1948 ,

wings ant slide, ANIC; 35.195S 148.51E, 1 ♀ GoogleMaps , Wombat C [ree]k., 750 m 6 Km E Piccadilly Circus, Mar [ch] 1985, Lawrence, Weil, Johnson, flight intercept / window trough trap, ANIC; 35.22S 149.05E, 1 ♀, (Farrer) GoogleMaps , 28 Aug [ust] 1982, D.C.F.Rentz, ANIC .

Distribution. Australia (New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory, Camberra).

Variation. Body length 7.14–9.04 mm; LFW 4.76–5.24 mm; pronotal disc ill-defined to well-defined; parapsidal furrow inconspicuous; median carina slightly longer than half length of pronotal disc to complete (when it reaches the propodeal declivity).

Remarks. This species is similar to E. ceciliae Terayama by having the body robust, the clypeus projected without median carina and the Rs b of forewing almost straight. However this species has the clypeus broadly truncate, the eyes not protuberant, the vertex crest straight, the pronotal disc with anterior median pit, whereas has the clypeus truncate, the eyes protuberant, the vertex crest strongly concave, the pronotal disc without anterior median pit.