Platygaster haloxylonomyiae (Kozlov) Talamas & Buffington, 2014

Talamas, Elijah J. & Buffington, Matthew, 2014, Updates to the Nomenclature of Platygastroidea in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 39, pp. 99-117 : 102

Platygaster haloxylonomyiae (Kozlov) comb. n.

Figures 15 -18 , 21 , 28

Pyrgaspis haloxylonomyiae Kozlov, 1967: 716 (original description).

Diagnosis.

Buhl (2009) distinguished Platygaster striativentris from P. haloxylonomyiae on the basis of shorter striae on T2 and a more pronounced point on the mesoscutellum in the latter. These characters are illustrated in Figures 21 - 22 and Figures 27 - 28 , respectively.

Link to distribution map.

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Associations.

emerged from Haloxylonomyia deformans solitaria Marikovskij: [ Diptera : Nematocera : Bibionomorpha : Cecidomyioidea : Cecidomyiidae ]

Material examined.

Holotype, female: KAZAKHSTAN: Almaty Reg., secondary stream, Ili River, 14.III.1952, Marikovskij, ZMAS 0116 (ZIN). Paratypes: KAZAKHSTAN: 1 female, 1 male, USNMENT00872138, USNMENT00872149 (ZIN).

Figures

Figures 15 - 18. 41 Platygaster haloxylonomyiae (Kozlov), female paratype (USNMENT 00872149) 15 Lateral habitus 16 Dorsal habitus 17 Head, anterior view 18 Mesosoma, posterior view. Scale bars in millimeters.

Figures 19 - 24. 42 19 Platygaster sp., dorsal mesosoma, lateral view (USNMENT 00877276) 20 Platygaster sp., dorsal mesosoma, lateral view, male (USNMENT 00872147) 21 Platygaster haloxylonomyiae (Kozlov), dorsal mesosoma, lateral view, female paratype (USNMENT 00872149) 22 Platygaster striativentris (Buhl), dorsal mesosoma, lateral view, male paratype (USNMENT 00872149) 23 Platygaster sp., dorsal mesosoma, lateral view, female (USNMENT 00877259) 24 Platygaster sp., dorsal mesosoma, lateral view, female (OSUC 334012). Scale bars in millimeters.

Figures 25 - 28. 43 25 Platygaster striativentris (Buhl), mesosoma, posterolateral view, male paratype (USNMENT 00979421) 26 Platygaster sp., mesosoma, posterolateral view, male (USNMENT 00877259) 27 Platygaster striativentris (Buhl), metasoma, dorsolateral view, male holotype (BLGA 0001) 28 Platygaster haloxylonomyiae Kozlov, metasoma, dorsolateral view, male paratype (USNMENT 00872138). Scale bars in millimeters.