Aspicera clarimontis Kieffer, 1907

ROS-FARRÉ, P. & PUJADE-VILLAR, J., 2013, <strong> Revision of the genus <em> Aspicera </ em> Dahlbom, 1842 (Hym.: Figitidae: Aspicerinae) </ strong>, Zootaxa 3606 (1), pp. 1-110 : 21-22

Aspicera clarimontis Kieffer, 1907

( Figs 6a & b )

Aspicera clarimontis Kieffer, 1907a: 152 .

Type material: (1♀). HOLOTYPE female deposited in CAS, with the following labels: “Claremont, Cal., Baker” (white label), “5696” (white label), “ Aspicera clarimontis Kieff ” (handwritten, red label), “California Academy of Sciences Type no. 10519” (white label) “ Aspicera clarimontis, Kieffer, 1907 , Ros-Farré det. 2010” (white label).

Diagnosis. Aspicera clarimontis can be easily recognized because it is the only species, together with A. singularica , having sharp rugose sculpture on scutellum, without longitudinal carinae. Both species can be easily distinguished because A. singularica has scutellar pits and A. clarimontis lacks them, and because the scutum is coarsely coriaceous in A. singularica and finely coriaceous in A. clarimontis . The scutellar spine is shorter in A. clarimontis than in A. singularica .

Redescription

Length. Female 3.8 mm; male unknown.

Coloration. Head, mesosoma and metasoma black. Scape and pedicellum dark brown, flagellomeres medium brown. Leg medium brown. Wing veins light brown.

Head. Frons punctate. Lateral frontal carinae sharp, rather curved, area between lateral frontal carinae and compound eye with transverse carinae. Occipital carina rounded behind dorsal 1/3 of compound eye. Gena not expanded, coriaceous, with very sharp transverse carinae. Vertex not incised, punctate. Ocelli very weakly prominent. Occiput alutaceous/coriaceous, with sharp longitudinal carinae on dorsal 1/3, transverse carinae on basal 2/3.

Antenna. Incomplete in type material. Filiform. Antennal formula: 4(2.5): 2(2): 5(2): 5(2): 5(2): 5(2): 4(2): 4(2): 4(2): remaining flagellomeres lost.

Mesosoma. Lateral surface of pronotum coriaceous. Subpronotal plate not projected, dorsal margin glabrous. Scutum finely coriaceous. Lateral line incomplete, present on basal 2/3, antero-admedian lines thin but well impressed, reaching 1/3–1/2 scutum length, parallel. Median mesoscutal line noticeable, thin. Median mesoscutal furrow smooth, notauli shiny with traces of transverse carinae. Area between notauli not prominent in lateral view. Parascutal sulcus wider from basis until anterior end of notauli, very narrow until anterior margin of notauli, smooth, sharply pubescent. Mesopleuron with oblique carinae and punctate on anterior 1/2, smooth posteriorly. Scutellum 0.85 times scutum length. Scutellar foveae transversely oval, shiny, deep, with weak oblicuous carinae, scutellar pits absent. Interfoveal carina continuing along scutellar disc until end of scutellar spine. Scutellar disc nearly straight posterior to scutellar foveae, sharply rugose, slightly coriaceous, very slightly sloping (nearly straight) towards basis of scutellar spine in lateral view. Scutellar spine 0.20 times length of scutellar disc, rugose, narrow, straight in lateral view.

Wing. Wing membrane hyaline. Radial cell 1.88 times longer than wide. Wing pubescence reduced. Marginal pubescence only conspicuous on basal margin of wing. R1 rather short. R2 almost straight, sometimes slightly curved near dorsal margin.

Biology. Unknown.

Distribution. Nearctic: California ( USA).

Figures

FIGURE 6. Aspicera clarimontis Kieffer: (a) head and mesosoma in lateral view, (b) mesosoma in dorsal view.