Ambositra famosa Masner, 1961

Chemyreva, Vasilisa G., Vasilenko, Dmitry V. & Perkovsky, Evgeny E., 2024, ‘ Where there are many cattle’ in the Eocene of Ukraine: Review of Ambositra Masner (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae, Ambositrinae) from Rovno amber, with the description of three new species, Zootaxa 5446 (4), pp. 499-516 : 506

Ambositra famosa Masner, 1961

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Material examined. Republic of South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal: Nhlosane farm, 29°35ʹS 29°58ʹE, 1700-1900m, pitfalls, March 1994, J. Kotze leg., 1♀, 1♂ ; Pietermaritzburg, Karkloof , 1325m, 29°19.1ʹS 30°15.5ʹE, 25.VII-25.IX.2005, MT, M. Mostovski leg., 1♀ .

Diagnosis. Ambositra famosa can be easily distinguished from all other known Ambositra species by the combination of the following features: body length 2.1‒2.4 mm; head about 1.5 times as long as wide and as high as wide; eye of females and males small, about 0.9 times as high as malar distance; gena behind eye long in females and males, about 1.5 times as long as wide of eye in dorsal view; occipital carina completely covered with foamy structures; scutellum without posterior scutellar pits; epicnemial pit absent; metapleuron bare except anteroventral metapleural pit ( Fig. 6F ); distal end of submarginal vein 0.6 times as wide as distance from it to anterior margin of the wing; female wing without marginal fringe ( Fig. 7D ); male A1 about as long as head, A3 and A4 equal in length, A4 with carina and emargination developed in its basal half.

Figures

FIGURE 6. Ambositra famosa, female. A—face; B—whole insect in lateral view; C—head and mesosoma in dorsal view; D—mesosoma and base of metasoma in dorsal view; E—metasoma in dorsal view; F—head and mesosoma in lateral view; G—antennae in dorsal view. Scale bar (mm): C, D—0.3; A, E-G—0.5; B—1.

FIGURE 7. Ambositra famosa, male (A-C, E) and female (D). A—whole insect in lateral view; B—antennae; C—base of antennae, head and mesosoma in dorsal view; D—fore wing; E—base of antennae in dorsal view. Scale bar (mm): A, B—1; C, D—0.5; E—0.3.