Alloxysta xanthocera ( Thomson, 1862 )

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 : 79

Alloxysta xanthocera ( Thomson, 1862)

Figs 3.19, 5.22

Allotria xanthocera Thomson, 1862: 407 . Type: deposited in MZLU (examined).

Allotria (Allotria) xanthocera – Dalla Torre & Kieffer 1902: 41.

Charips (Charips) xanthocerus – Dalla Torre & Kieffer 1910: 282.

Alloxysta xanthocera – Hellén 1963: 18.

Diagnosis

Alloxysta xanthocera is characterized by a closed radial cell that is 2.6 times as long as wide (Fig. 5.22); the presence of pronotal carinae; propodeal carinae that form a wide plate with curved sides; and antenna with rhinaria and club shape not beginning on the same flagellomere, club shape beginning on F2, rhinaria beginning on F1, F1 longer than pedicel and F2, and F2–F4 subequal in length (Fig. 3.18). No other known species of Alloxysta is closely similar to A. xanthocera .

Material examined

Lectotype

SWEDEN: ♀ [ xanthocera (handwritten)], [ xanthocera (handwritten)], [Lectotype Allotria xanthocera Thomson, 1862 ♀ desig. M. Ferrer-Suay 2011 (red label)], [ Alloxysta xanthocera ( Thomson, 1862) ♀ M. Ferrer-Suay det. 2011], [ZML. 2011 066 (green label)] ( MZLU).

Distribution

Palaearctic.

Certain records: Sweden ( Thomson 1862: 407).

Uncertain records: Finland ( Hellén 1963: 18), Israel ( Argaman 1988: 115), Romania ( Ionescu 1969: 262).