Diplazon aubertiator Diller 1986

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Diplazon aubertiator Diller 1986

Diagnosis. (Female unknown). Fore wing length 3.8 mm. Antenna in males with 15 flagellomeres. Face with punctures present but weak against the strongly coriaceous background. Mesopleuron smooth and polished and strongly punctate also on upper half. Propodeum with carinae partly reduced but enclosing pleural and petiolar areas. Tergite 1 1.25, tergite 2 0.7 times as long as wide; tergites 2 and 3 with small but distinct punctures on a very smooth and polished background. Transverse impressions deep on tergites 1 to 3, indicated on tergite 4. Metasoma dorsoventrally depressed (male).

Colouration of males. Antenna dark brown, slightly paler below. Head and mesosoma black, face with yellow along inner orbits, yellow over entire face, clypeus and mouthparts, a line along upper margin of pronotum, tegula, subtegular ridge, very large shoulder marks extending as two parallel lines over most of mesoscutum, upper mesepimeron, entire scutellum. Legs orange, fore and mid coxae yellow, hind coxa orange with apex and trochanters dark; femora orange, hind femur marked with black apically; hind tibia black-white-black banded, hind tarsus dark. Tergite 1 yellow apically, tergite 2 apically and most of tergite 3 orange, following tergites largely yellow.

Material examined. Holotype of Diplazon aubertiator Diller : France, Corse, San-Nicolao, leg. E.Diller, 10.VI.1984. 1♂, at ZSM.

Notes. This species is known only from a single male specimen from Corsica.