Acroclisoides major Girault & Dodd, 1915

Figs 73–80

Acroclisoides major Girault & Dodd, 1915: 335 . Holotype female (QMBA, examined).

Type material examined.

Holotype • female, Australia, “ Acroclisoides major Dodd ♀ ”, “ TYPE ”, “ HOLOTYPE Hy. 2806 E. C. D. 1984 ”, “ Photographed specimen ” (QMBA).

Additional material examined.

Australia • 1 female, “ Exp. F. W. 131 Date. 30. IV. 53 Frank Wilson. AUSTRALIA ”, “ COM. INST. ENT. COLL. NO 13221 ”, “ Pres by Com Inst Ent B M 1953-623 ”, “ NHMUK 013455920 ” (NHMUK) • 1 female, “ Exp. F. W. 131 Date. 1. V. 53 Frank Wilson. AUSTRALIA ”, “ COM. INST. ENT. COLL. NO 13221 ”, “ Pres by Com Inst Ent B M 1953-623 ”, “ Acroclisoides sp. ♂ G. J. Kerrich det. 1953 ”, “ ♀ ”, “ NHMUK 013455914 ” (NHMUK) • 2 females, “ Exp. F. W. 214.2 Date. 27. I. 54 Frank Wilson. AUSTRALIA ”, “ COM. INST. ENT. COLL. NO 13611 ”, “ AUSTRALIA ”, Acroclisoides sp. G. J. Kerrich det. 1954 ”, “ NHMUK 013455945 ” (NHMUK) • 1 female, “ AUSTRALIA: N. S. W. Canley Vale 28. V. 1961 M. Nikitin B. M. 1961-717. ”, “ NHMUK 013455940 ” (NHMUK) • 2 females, “ AUSTRALIA: N. S. W. Cabramatta 2. X. 1961 ”, “ M. Nikitin B. M. 1962-101 ”, “ Acroclisoides ”, “ NHMUK 013455942 ” (NHMUK) • 1 female, “ AUSTRALIA: N. S. W. Caramar 15. X. 1961 M. Nikitin B. M. 1962-101 ”, “ NHMUK 013455932 ” (NHMUK) • 1 female, “ AUSTRALIA: N. S. W. Nr. Liverpool, Hoxton Park . 8. III. 1965 ”, “ NHMUK 013455883 ” (NHMUK) • 1 female, “ QUEENSLAND: 15 km SE. of Nambour 6. XI. 76 Z. Bouček ”, “ NHMUK 013455934 ” (NHMUK) • 3 females, “ Brisbane-Indooroopilly, QNSLD. XII. 76 Z. Bouček ”, “ Acroclisoides ♀ ”, “ NHMUK 013455916 ”, “ NHMUK 013455941 ”, “ NHMUK 013455944 ” (NHMUK) • 2 females, “ SE. QUEENSLAND: Bribie Island 22. XII. 76 Z. Bouček ”, “ NHMUK 013455929 ” (ZISP) • 1 female, “ Melbourne, VICT. 31. I. 77 Z. Bouček ”, “ Acroclisoides ”, “ NHMUK 013455908 ” (NHMUK) • 1 female, “ N. N. S. WALES: Tooloom Scruo 8. I. 77 Z. Bouček ”, “ Acroclisoides ♀ ”, “ NHMUK 013455924 ” (NHMUK) • 1 female, “ Samford nr. Brisbane, QUEENSLAND 16. I. 77 Z. Bouček ”, “ NHMUK 013455931 ” (NHMUK) • 1 female, “ SE. QUEENSLAND Mt. Tamborine ”, “ Malaise Trap XI. 77 ”, “ NHMUK 013455935 ” (NHMUK) • 4 females, “ 5 km south of Mylor, S. Aust. 29. I. 79 ”, “ A. D. Austin. ”, “ Eggs Heteroptera collect under bank Eucalyptus viminalis ”, “ NHMUK 013455948 ”, “ NHMUK 013455949 ”, “ NHMUK 013455950 ”, “ NHMUK 013455953 ” (NHMUK) • 1 female, “ Qld., AUSTRALIA Cooloola St. For. Camp Milo 30 - x- 79 EC Dahms & LaSalle ”, “ Univ. Calif. Riverside Ent. Res. Museum UCRC ENT 508660 ” (UCR) • 1 female, “ Qld., AUSTRALIA 19 km W Gordonvale Goldsborough Rd. malaise, rain forest 12–22 - xi- 79 ”, “ Univ. Calif. Riverside Ent. Res. Museum UCRC ENT 508659 ” (UCR) • 1 male, “ SEQld., AUSTRALIA Gatton 4 - xii- 79 Coll. E. C. Dahms ”, “ Univ. Calif. Riverside Ent. Res. Museum UCRC ENT 508662 ” (UCR) • 2 females, “ Canberra . 9. I. 80 A. D. Austin ”, “ Australia ACT ”, “ NHMUK 013455958 ”, “ NHMUK 013455959 ” (NHMUK) • 2 females, “ AUSTRALIA, A. C. T. Canberra ( Bl. Mtn.) M. t. II. 81 J. Short ”, “ Acroclisoides ♀ det. Bouček, 1985 ”, “ NHMUK 013455930 ”, “ NHMUK 013455937 ” (NHMUK) • 1 female, “ AUSTRALIA; Old. Ipswich dist. 3. vi. 1980 ”, “ J. S. Noyes B. M. 1981-299 ”, “ Acroclisoides ”, “ NHMUK 013455917 ” (NHMUK) • 1 male, “ N. QUEENSLAND Atherton distr. 5. xii. 82 Bouček ”, “ Acroclisoides ♂ det. Bouček, 1984 ”, “ NHMUK 013455909 ” (NHMUK) • 1 male, “ AUS, Tasmania; Mt. Field N. P. 10 / 2.84 Masner ”, “ NHMUK 013455982 ” (ZISP) .

Description.

Female. Body length 1.95–2.10 mm; fore wing length 1.80–1.90 mm.

Coloration. Head and mesosoma dorsally dark blue with diffuse metallic diffuse luster; head frontally dark green with diffuse metallic coppery luster; antenna with scape, pedicel and anelli yellowish brown, F 1 – F 6 and clava brown. Fore and hind coxa dark blue with metallic green and diffuse violet luster, mid coxae yellowish brown, all femora, tibiae and tarsi yellow. Fore wing hyaline, venation brown. Metasoma dorsally dark brown with metallic blue, green and violet luster; ovipositor sheaths brown.

Sculpture. Head, clypeus and mesosoma reticulate; scutellum, frenal area and propodeum strongly reticulate, nucha finely reticulate; petiole smooth; metasoma smooth and shiny.

Head. In dorsal view 2.11–2.38 × as broad as long and 1.32–1.37 × as broad as mesoscutum; in frontal view 1.47–1.49 × as broad as high. POL 0.90–0.92 × as long as OOL. Eye height 1.13–1.17 × eye length and 1.79–1.81 × malar space. Distance between antennal toruli and lower margin of clypeus 1.92–2.22 × distance between antennal toruli and median ocellus. Antenna with scape 0.90–0.94 × as long as eye height and 1.05–1.07 × as long as eye length; pedicel 1.40–1.55 × as long as broad; combined length of pedicel and flagellum 0.90–0.92 × breadth of head; F 1 – F 6 longer than broad, F 1 1.90–2.20 × as long as broad and with two or three rows of sensilla; clava 2.54–2.72 × as long as broad, with small microsetose area on C 3 and C 4. Lower posterior corner of gena with small sharp spine. Lower margin of clypeus concave bilaterally, in middle part deeply emarginate.

Mesosoma. 1.24–1.35 × as long as broad. Scutellum moderately arched, 0.75–0.80 × as long as broad, frenal area differentiated by a change in sculpture. Propodeum 0.81–0.89 × as long as scutellum, without costula but with irregular median carina, nucha small. Fore wing 2.03–2.09 × as long as its maximum width; basal cell partly setose, basal vein setose; speculum closed below; M 0.65–0.81 × as long as PM and 0.85–1.00 × as long as S, stigma large.

Metasoma. 1.57–1.63 × as long as broad, 0.89–1.04 × as long as mesosoma, 0.71–0.79 × as long as mesosoma and head. Petiole 1.00–1.25 × as long as broad. Ovipositor sheaths projecting slightly beyond apex of metasoma.

Male. Hitherto unknown. Body length 1.40–1.50 mm; fore wing length 1.25–1.35 mm. Metasoma 2.20–2.23 × as long as broad. Otherwise, similar to female.

Biology.

Unknown.

Distribution.

Australia (Girault 1915).

Comments.

Acroclisoides major Girault & Dodd belongs to a group of species that have a hyaline fore wing in both sexes. This species is similar to A. nongae Tselikh, Lee & Ku, sp. nov.; the differences between these species are given in the key.