Alloxysta circumscripta ( Hartig, 1841 )

Ferrer-Suay, Mar, Selfa, Jesús & Pujade-Villar, Juli, 2018, Palaearctic species of Charipinae (Hymenoptera, Figitidae): two new species, synthesis and identification key, European Journal of Taxonomy 427, pp. 1-110 : 35-36

Alloxysta circumscripta ( Hartig, 1841)

Figs 2.12, 4.10

Xystus circumscriptus Hartig, 1841: 352 . Type: deposited in ZSM (examined).

Allotria circumscripta – Giraud 1860: 127.

Allotria (Allotria) circumscripta – Dalla Torre & Kieffer 1902: 40.

Charips (Charips) circumscripta – Dalla Torre & Kieffer 1910: 277.

Alloxysta circumscripta – Hellén 1963: 17.

Diagnosis

Alloxysta circumscripta is mainly characterized by a closed radial cell that is 2.3 times as long as wide (Fig. 4.10); the presence of pronotal carinae; the absence of propodeal carinae; female antenna with rhinaria beginning on F5, F2 shorter than F3, and F3 shorter than F4 (Fig. 2.12); male antenna with rhinaria beginning on F4, F2 longer than F3, and F3 shorter than F4. It is similar to A. consobrina , but can be differentiated by the flagellomere proportions (F1 is subequal to F2 and F2 is shorter or subequal to F 3 in A. circumscripta (Fig. 2.12), while F1 is longer than F2 and F2 is subequal to F 3 in A. consobrina (Fig. 2.14)) and the size of the radial cell (2.5 times as long as wide in A. circumscripta (Fig. 4.10), but 2.7 in A. consobrina (Fig. 4.12)).

Material examined

Lectotype

GERMANY: ♀, [lectotype H.H. Evenhuis (orange label)], [ Xystus circumscriptus Hartig det. H.H. Evenhuis 1980], [ Alloxysta circumscripta ( Hartig, 1841) ♀ M. Ferrer-Suay det. 2011] ( ZSM).

Paralectotype

GERMANY: 1 ♀ [In collection Hartig as Xystus circumscriptus ], [Paralectotype Xystus circumscriptus Hartig, 1841 ♀ (red label)], [ Alloxysta circumscripta ( Hartig, 1841) ♀ M. Ferrer-Suay det. 2011] ( ZSM).

Distribution

Europe.

Certain records: Andorra ( Ferrer-Suay et al. 2011: 354), England ( Müller et al. 1999: 346), Germany ( Hartig 1841: 352).

Uncertain records: Austria ( Giraud 1860: 127; Hellén 1963: 17), England ( Dalla Torre & Kieffer 1910: 278), Finland ( Hellén 1963: 17), France ( De Gaulle 1908: 26), Poland ( Kierych 1979b: 15), Scotland ( Cameron 1886: 86).