Hyptiogaster Kieffer, 1903

Parslow, Ben A. & Jennings, John T., 2018, A new species of the endemic Australian genus Hyptiogaster Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Gasteruptiidae), Zootaxa 4379 (1), pp. 145-150 : 145-146

Hyptiogaster Kieffer

Hyptiogaster Kieffer, 1903: 93 . Type species: Gasteruption crassiceps Schletterer, 1889, by original designation (junior synonym of Foenus rufus Westwood ) [not Gasteruption antennale Schletterer, 1889, by erroneous subsequent designation of Bradley, 1908 or Foenus australis Westwood, 1835 , by erroneous designation of Crosskey, 1953]; Bradley, 1908: 108; Kieffer, 1912: 194; Hedicke, 1939: 47; Crosskey, 1962: 393; Jennings & Austin, 1997: 1534; Jennings & Austin, 2002: 744.

Odontofoenus (in part) Kieffer, 1910: 77; synonymy by Crosskey, 1962: 393.

Carinafoenus Crosskey, 1953: 104 ; synonymy by Crosskey, 1962: 393.

Diagnosis. The following diagnosis of Jennings & Austin (2002) has been modified to accommodate the new species.

Medium to large, length 12–20 mm; malar space very short, length of malar space plus mandible less than eye height; epistomal suture indistinct medially, absent laterally so clypeus continuous with gena; clypeus wider than high, margin either sinuate or with truncate medial lobe; mandibles usually with 2 but sometimes 1 or 3 medial teeth; frontal carina usually distinct; first flagellomere about same length as second; pronotum with or without antero-dorsal and antero-lateral processes; propleuron with ventro-lateral carina usually present; mesoscutum slightly longer than broad, with or without medial lines; notauli percurrent, mostly scrobiculate, sometimes indistinct and hidden by coarse sculpture; propodeum separated from metapleuron by carinate furrow; inner surface of mid tibia without subapical notch; hind trochanter usually with distinct trochanteral groove (absent from H. arafura ); hind tarsomeres 1–4 with ventroapical pecten of short spines; fore wing with 2 discal cells, first discal cell formed by vein 1-Rs+M intersecting basal cell; hind wing with 4–8 hamuli, 1-Cu and 1-M absent, r-m present; metasoma 2.0 length of mesosoma; ovipositor elongate, at least 0.25× length of metasoma, apex slightly curved upwards; lateral margins of ventral ovipositor valves smooth.