Leptolamina ponapensis Yoshimoto

Carl M. Yoshimoto, 1962, Hymenoptera: Eucoilinae (Cynipoidea), Insects of Micronesia 19 (3), pp. 89-107 : 94

2. Leptolamina ponapensis Yoshimoto , n. sp. ( fig. 3).

Female: Brownish yellow, legs and antennal segments 1 and 2 testaceous.

Front view of head as in figure 3, c; malar space equal to one-third height of eye; few scattered hairs on frons below antennal fossa. Surface of mandible with densely covered hairs. Antennal club striate with last four elliptical segments not strongly clubbed; antennal segment 3 longer than 4; segments 4-9 subequal in length. Pronotal plate small, rectangular, 2.5 times as wide as deep, upper margin without dorsal sinuation. Mesonotum with a series of short hairs along posterior and lateral borders. Lateral margin of scutellar disc with tall, thin carina; lateral bar striate, apically acuminate and reaching three-fourths distance of cup. Propodeum thickly covered with woolly hair and reaching base of petiole. Entire sternite covered with woolly hair. Abdomen slightly longer than broad; tergites 3 and 4 visible. Length 1.3 mm.; forewing 1.13 mm.

Male: Unknown.

Holotype, female (US 66361), Airfield, Ponape, June-Sept. 1950, Adams. Paratype, female, Jokaj I., Ponape, Feb. 26, 1948, Dybas.

DISTRIBUTION: Eastern Caroline Is. (Ponape).