Miscophus chrysis Kohl, 1894
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https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2021.1955993 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5530028 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B6E87CA-FFD8-FFFA-0E94-FE38C598A96D |
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Plazi |
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Miscophus chrysis Kohl, 1894 |
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Miscophus chrysis Kohl, 1894 View in CoL
( Figures 5 View Figure 5 (a-g), 6(a-f)) Miscophus chrysis Kohl, 1894: 293 , ♀.
Diagnosis
Body metallic bluish green in female ( Figure 5 View Figure 5 (b,c)) green in male ( Figure 6 View Figure 6 (a–d)); frons densely alveolate, with fine rugosity in between ( Figures 5 View Figure 5 (d) and 6(d)), extending to middle ocellus ( Figures 5 View Figure 5 (d) and 6(d)); mesepisternum finely rugose ( Figure 5 View Figure 5 (e)).
Description of hitherto undescribed male ( Figures 5 View Figure 5 (a), 6(a–f)): Body length: 4.2 mm.; fore wing length: 3.8 mm.
Colour ( Figure 6 View Figure 6 (a–d)). Body (including legs) metallic green, without bluish tint. Scape, pedicel and F1 metallic green above and dark brown beneath; wings subhyaline.
Head ( Figure 6 View Figure 6 (a,b,d)). Vertex finely alutaceous. Eyes distinctly convergent towards vertex; lateral ocellus away from eyes by a distance slightly longer than ocellar diameter. Face densely alveolate, with fine rugosity in between; lower face conspicuously depressed; clypeus trilobate, much wider than long, depressed especially preapically, with thin sharp apical margin. Malar space and gena nearly absent. Occipital carina thin and sharp. Mandible pointed apically, edentate. Flagellomeres slender, distinctly longer than wide; F1 as long as or slightly longer than F2, last two flagellomeres short, deeply excavated above; terminal flagellomere pointed apically, short.
Thorax ( Figure 6 View Figure 6 (a–c)). Pronotum superficially rugose, with lateral fine transverse carina, carinae not meeting medially. Mesoscutum finely alutaceous, thinly edged laterally; scutellum finely sculptured, more or less quadrate in outline; postscutellum finely dotted. Propodeum relatively long, its dorsum with middle longitudinal carina, obliquely striated at base, and closely transversely striated on remaining dorsum; posterior surface of propodeum distinctly shorter than dorsum, about one third of dorsum, making with it an angle slightly less than 90º, coarsely transversely striated. Lateral surface of pronotum with widely spaced oblique striae; mesopleuron areolated above and finely sculptured below, strongly bulged. Metapleuron with widely spaced transverse striations, wrinkled between striae. Legs relatively long and slender, front coxa with distinct rounded protrusion apico-laterally. Tarsi and mid and hind tibiae with scattered spines; middle coxa with curved sulcus ventrally. Fore wing ( Figure 5 View Figure 5 (a)): marginal cell short, with angled apex, not reaching wing apex.
Gaster ( Figure 6 View Figure 6 (a)). Smooth, very finely alutaceous throughout, with few short setae apically. Male genitalia very small, gonostyli with dense, long, peculiarly sinuated setae along outer margin of basal half ( Figure 6 View Figure 6 (e,f)).
Diagnosis of female ( Figure 5 View Figure 5 (b–g))
Body length: 5.5–6.2 mm.; fore wing length: 4.6 mm
Resembles male, except for the following: body bright metallic bluish green ( Figure 5 View Figure 5 (b–g)); scape from above as the body, rest of antenna and mandible dark brown; no excavations on flagellomeres; tegula metallic bluish green; fore wing hyaline, with dark brown veins; eyes markedly convergent towards vertex ( Figure 5 View Figure 5 (d)), more so than in male, distance between lateral ocellus and eye less than ocellus diameter.
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