Parapiagetia bidens Pulawski, 1977

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Parapiagetia bidens Pulawski, 1977

( Figure 8 a-e) Parapiagetia bidens Pulawski, 1977: 637 , ♀.

Diagnosis

Gastral T1, T2, base of T3, posterior margins of T3 and T4 reddish ( Figure 8 (e)); clypeal lobe bidentate, with two sharp teeth ( Figure 8 (a)); flagellomeres distinctly longer than wide; ventral margin of mandible with very slight (hardly visible) notch ( Figure 8 (b)); vein M of fore wing postfurcate by a very small distance beyond cu-a; mesopleuron punctatorugose; forecoxa distinctly concave close to inner margin ( Figure 8 (c)); pygidium conical, relatively long, broad, smooth and shiny at base, with dense, thick, whitish spines that are denser at apex ( Figure 8 (d)); last gastral sternum with very fine, short, upwardly directed whitish setae.

Figures

Figure 8. Parapiagetia bidens Pulawski (female): (a) Frontal view of head (part) (two clypeal teeth indicated); (b) Mandible (lateral view); (c) Prosternum (concavity near inner side of fore coxa indicated); (d) Epipygium; (e) Dorsal view of gaster.