Asobara epiclypealis Fischer, 2003
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https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2019.557 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3477087 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/310887BD-FFC8-FFF6-FDBE-FAE2FDE86639 |
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Asobara epiclypealis Fischer, 2003 |
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Asobara epiclypealis Fischer, 2003 View in CoL
Asobara epiclypealis Fischer, 2003: 76 View in CoL ; 2007: 859.
Asobara epiclypealis – Fischer 2007: 859 View in CoL . — Yu et al. 2016.
Material examined
Holotype
SOUTH AFRICA • ♀; ‘Southbroom, Natal’; 3–4 Dec. 1963; E. Haeselbarth leg.; NHMW.
Redescription
Female (holotype)
LENGTH. Body 2.2 mm, fore wing 2.3 mm, hind wing 1.6 mm.
HEAD. In dorsal view, 1.5 times as wide as long, 1.5 times as wide as mesoscutum, smooth, with temple rounded behind eyes. Eye in lateral view 2.2 times as wide as temple medially. Face 1.4 times as wide as high. Clypeus 1.6 times as wide as high. Mandible 1.8 times as long as its maximum width. Upper tooth wide; middle tooth rather wide and short; lower tooth shorter than upper tooth. Antennae 25-segmented.
First flagellar segment 3.5 times as long as its apical width; 2 nd segment 5.1 times and 3 rd segment 4.5 times as long as their maximum width.
MESOSOMA. In lateral view 1.4 times as long as high. Mesoscutum (in dorsal view) as long as its maximum width. Notauli mainly absent on horizontal surface of mesoscutum. Mesoscutal pit present, elongate. Prescutellar depression smooth, with median and lateral carinae, 1.2 times as long as its maximum width. Precoxal sulcus present, crenulate, reaching anterior and posterior margins of mesopleuron. Posterior mesopleural furrow smooth. Propodeum smooth, with complete longitudinal carinae with short and weakly carinae with smooth patches. Propodeal spiracle small, its diameter 0.3 times as large as distance from spiracle to anterior margin of propodeum.
WINGS. Marginal cell ending at apex of wing, 3.8 times as long as its maximum width. Vein r longer than pterostigma width. Vein 3-SR 8.3 times as long as vein r, 2.6 times as long as vein 2-SR. Vein SR1 1.6 times as long as vein 3-SR.
LEGS. Hind femur 4.8 times as long as its maximum width.
METASOMA. First tergite weakly widened towards apex, 1.4 times as long as its apical width. Visible part of ovipositor sheath 2.9 times as long as 1 st tergite, 0.8 times as long as metasoma, 1.5 times as long as hind femur.
COLOUR. Body light brown to reddish. Mandible, antennae, legs and pterostigma yellow. Head and mesoscutum in dorsal view similarly coloured as 1 st– 3 rd metasomal tergites. Wings hyaline.
Male
Unknown.
Comparative diagnosis
This species is similar to A. transversaria Fischer, 2007 , but differs from it in having the body light brown to reddish (dark coloured in A. transversaria ), mandible 1.8 times as long as its maximum width (1.5 times in A. transversaria ), 1 st flagellar segment 3.5 times as long as its maximum width (3.0 times in A. transversaria ), 2 nd segment 5.1 times (6.0 times in A. transversaria ), and 3 rd segment 4.5 times (3.0 times in A. transversaria ), and visible part of ovipositor sheath 0.8 times as long as metasoma in lateral view (0.4 times in A. transversaria ).
Distribution
South Africa ( Yu et al. 2016).
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh |
NHMW |
Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien |
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Asobara epiclypealis Fischer, 2003
Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier, Achterberg, Cornelis Van & Belokobylskij, Sergey A. 2019 |
Asobara epiclypealis –
Fischer M. 2007: 859 |
Asobara epiclypealis
Fischer M. 2007: 859 |
Fischer M. 2003: 76 |