Amblyaspis subcarinata, Buhl, 2006

Buhl, P. N., 2006, Taxonomical And Distributional Notes On New And Known Palaearctic Platygastrid Species (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 52 (3), pp. 287-311 : 288

Amblyaspis subcarinata sp. n.

( Figs 1–4 )

Female – Length: 1.0 mm. Dark reddish-brown, head black, A1–A5 and legs including coxae yellow, A6–A10 brown. Head from above ( Fig. 1 ) 1.7 times as wide as long, fully 1.1 times as wide as mesosoma; occiput finely but distinctly transversely reticulate-coriaceous, with a weak but complete carina; vertex and frons very faintly reticulate. OOL:LOL = 8:5. Head in frontal view 1.2 times as wide as high; antenna ( Fig. 2 ) with A1 shorter than height of head (13:14); A3–A4 of equal length, combined longer than A2; A7–A9 each as long as wide. Mesosoma 1.5 times as long as wide, fully 1.1 times as high as wide. Sides of pronotum finely reticulate-coriaceous (not longitudinally so) except along narrow hind margin. Mesoscutum weakly and uniformly sculptured as sides of pronotum, with few hairs, most notably about five arranged in a line along inner courses of imaginary notauli; notauli completely absent; hind margin almost straight, not prolonged medially, at sides with very few hairs. Mesopleuron smooth. Scutellum ( Fig. 3 ) densely hairy all over. Metapleuron with pilosity all over. Propodeal carinae straight, parallel, close together. Fore wing hardly shorter than body, 2.6 times as long as wide, slightly brownish, with strong and dense microtrichia; marginal cilia at their longest hardly 0.2 width of wing. Hind wing 7.8 times as long as wide; marginal cilia 0.4 width of wing. Metasoma ( Fig. 4 ) 0.9 times as long as head and mesosoma combined, as wide as mesosoma. T1 with several longitudinal carinae. T2 with weak but distinctly hairy basal foveae. T3–T6 with faint microsculpture, laterally with a few hairs, on T5–T6 also medially.

Material examined: Holotype female: North Korea, Kanwon , Kum-gang san, Sam-il po,

1.VI .1970 . S. MAHUNKA & H. STEINMANN leg. Preserved in HNHM.

Differs from the Amblyaspis -species described by BUHL (1997) in shape of head, from A. belus (WALKER, 1835) in having occipital carina and in lacking notauli, from A. rufithorax KIEFFER, 1913 in shape of antennae and in lacking notauli, and from A. brunnea ASHMEAD, 1895 in shape of A2–A4, cf. KIEFFER (1926) and VLUG (1985).

Figures

Figs 1–7. 1–4 = Amblyaspis subcarinata sp. n. female: 1 = head in dorsal view, 2 = antenna, 3 = scutellum in lateral view, 4 = metasoma in dorsal view. 5–7 = Inostemma bonessi sp. n. female: 5 =