Oodera tenuicollis (Walker, 1872) Figs 4i, 7i, 10i, 13i, 16i

Eupelmus tenuicollis Walker, 1872: 86.

Oodera tenuicollis; Hedqvist 1961: 98.

Diagnosis.

FEMALE (N = 1). Exact body length not available (the only specimen available is missing metasoma), if metasoma is not uniquely long, then small-sized. Head and mesosoma dark blue to green-blue. Fore wing partly infumate. Body slender (mesonotum 1.45 × as long as wide). Head round (1.40 × as high as long). Eyes large (0.67 × as high as head) (Fig. 10i). Corona medium (4.40 × as long as wide), structure continuous (Fig. 7i). Pronotum oval and longer than wide, with broadest part at midlength (Fig. 13i). Mesoscutellum slender (0.82 × as long as wide), anterior margin hardly convex (part anterior to imaginary transverse line connecting posterior margins of axillae less than 1/3 of mesoscutellum length; 0.17), mesoscutellum lineate in anterior two thirds, with median lines converging, rimose in posterior third (Fig. 16i). Propodeum large (0.18 × as long as mesoscutum) (Fig. 16i). Profemur elongated (2.34 × as long as wide). Marginal vein long (1.13 × as long as postmarginal vein). Metasoma length not available. Ovipositor length not available (Fig. 4i).

Redescription.

FEMALE. Colour (Figs 4i, 7i, 10i, 13i, 16i). Scape brown, darkening apically, rest of antenna dark brown. Procoxa dark brown, profemur dark green, all other parts of legs brown with yellow joints, tarsi yellow, except for brown last segments. Metasoma colour unknown.

Head (Figs 7i, 10i). Face completely reticulate. Head 1.37 × as wide as long. Head width 4.00 × eye distance. Malar space 0.32 × head height. Corona 0.65 × as long as eye height. POL 1.20 × OOL. Scape 2.63 × as long as pedicel. Clava length to funicle length not available. Flagellum length to head breadth not available.

Mesosoma (Figs 13i, 16i). Pronotum 1.05 × as long as wide. Pronotum 0.52 × as long as mesonotum. Mesonotum 1.40 × as long as mesoscutum. Mesoscutum 1.04 × as long as wide. Mesoscutellum 0.40 × as long as mesoscutum. Profemur 1.30 × as long as protibia.

Wings (Fig. 4i). Fore wing 3.04 × as long as wide. Costal cell 0.35 × as long as fore wing. Marginal vein 0.20 × as long as fore wing. Marginal vein 2.72 × as long as stigmal vein. Postmarginal vein 2.40 × as long as stigmal vein.

MALE. Unknown.

Material examined.

ASIA. Indonesia: female type (probably holotype), Eupelmus tenuicollis Walker Notes on Chalcidide 5:86.1872, Type female checked RDE 1955 (1955), det. Oodera sp. by R. D. Eady, BMNH(E) #1414764, labelled “Mysol” (?) (might be Misool, an Island in Indonesia, South Moluccas, see also Gibson (2003) who gives the same locality information) (BMNH) (OTe01) .

Biology.

Unknown.

Distribution.

Indonesia.

Taxonomic remarks.

This species is a bit problematic, because only the single type specimen without metasoma is available. However, the rest of the body provides some good diagnostic characters that allow differentiation from all other species of Oodera .

Nomina dubia and species removed from Oodera