Microleptes xinbinensis Sheng & Sun, 2014
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https://doi.org/ 10.3897/jhr.97.131822 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14226098 |
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Microleptes xinbinensis Sheng & Sun, 2014 |
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Microleptes xinbinensis Sheng & Sun, 2014
Figs 11 View Figure 11 , 12 View Figure 12
Material examined.
1 female and 2 males, India • Arunachal Pradesh, Yingku , Malaise trap, 17.v.2023, coll. Sahanashree, R. ( AIMB) .
Description.
Female. Body length 3.5 mm, fore wing length 2.6 mm.
Head. Head as wide as long in anterior view (Fig. 11 B View Figure 11 ) and 1.2 × as wide as long in dorsal view (Fig. 11 C View Figure 11 ); face flat, punctate, setose, 1.4 × as wide as long; 0.5 × as wide as head (Fig. 11 B View Figure 11 ); clypeus moderately transverse, smooth, with lower margin convex (Fig. 11 B View Figure 11 ); tentorial pits transverse (Fig. 11 B View Figure 11 ); malar long with distinct subocular sulcus, 1.4 × basal width of mandible (Fig. 11 B View Figure 11 ); mandible broad, with single broad blunt tooth (Fig. 11 B View Figure 11 ); temple polished, with sparse setae (Fig. 11 D View Figure 11 ); frons and vertex smooth and sparsely setose (Fig. 11 C View Figure 11 ); compound eye with short setae, 1.2 × as long as temple in dorsal view (Fig. 11 B, C View Figure 11 ); OOL: diameter of lateral ocellus: POL = 1.3: 1.0: 1.0; antenna with 15 flagellomeres; medial flagellomeres slightly longer than wide (Fig. 11 A View Figure 11 ); first flagellomere 1.2 × as long as second flagellomere, 4.2 × as long as wide; second flagellomere 3.5 × as long as wide.
Mesosoma. Mesosoma 1.8 × as long as high (Fig. 11 D View Figure 11 ); dorsal part of pronotum crenulate medially, with medial pit (Fig. 11 C, E View Figure 11 ),; pronotum lateral smooth and polished (Fig. 11 D View Figure 11 ); epomia absent (Fig. 11 D View Figure 11 ); mesoscutum flat in lateral view (Fig. 11 D View Figure 11 ), punctate, setose with a pair of elongate pits postero-laterally (Fig. 11 E View Figure 11 ); notaulus short and weak, only impressed anteriorly (Fig. 11 E View Figure 11 ); scuto-scutellar groove smooth, without crenulations (Fig. 11 E View Figure 11 ); scutellum smooth (Fig. 11 E View Figure 11 ); mesopleuron smooth (Fig. 11 D View Figure 11 ); mesopleural furrow narrowly crenulated (Fig. 11 D View Figure 11 ); epicnemial carina present, joining with subtegular ridge, not forming crenulated groove anteriorly (Fig. 11 D View Figure 11 ); metapleuron smooth with transverse wrinkles medially, sparsely setose (Fig. 11 D View Figure 11 ); propodeum smooth, area superomedia nearly parallel-sided, with few transverse wrinkles medially; anterior transverse carina well developed; posterior transverse carina present; area dentipara as long as wide; pleural carina complete (Fig. 11 F View Figure 11 ).
Legs. Femora slender (Fig. 11 A View Figure 11 ); hind coxa rugose antero-dorsally (Fig. 12 B, C View Figure 12 ); hind femur widened posteriorly, 5.4 × as long as wide; hind tibia 6.0 × as long as wide; hind basitarsus 7.6 × as long as wide.
Wings. Wings hyaline (Fig. 12 D View Figure 12 ); pterostigma 2.9 × as long as wide; fore wing vein 2 r & RS joining to pterostigma in middle, 1.8 × as long as 2 rs-m; fore wing vein 2 rs-m 2.3 × as long as M between 2 rs-m and 2 m-cu; fore wing vein 1 cu-a distinctly postfurcal (Fig. 12 D View Figure 12 ); hind wing with nervellus (vein CU) intercepted in middle.
Metasoma. First tergite smooth in anterior half, irregularly longitudinally wrinkled in posterior half, with indistinct dorsal carina and sparse setae, 3.5 × as long as its maximum width, spiracle situated at middle of tergite (Fig. 12 C View Figure 12 ); second tergite with distinct thyridium, smooth, setose, 1.1 × as long as wide posteriorly (Fig. 12 B View Figure 12 ); third tergite smooth, setose, 0.6 × as long as wide posteriorly (Fig. 12 B View Figure 12 ); tergites 4–6 polished, scarcely setose (Fig. 12 B View Figure 12 ); hypopygium straight posteriorly; ovipositor hardly exposed; sheath apically densely setose, 0.1 × as long as hind tibia (Fig. 12 A View Figure 12 ).
Colour. Body predominantly black; scape, pedicel, flagellomeres 1–5, maxillary and labial palps, tegula, legs except hind tibia basally and hind basitarsus, thyridium yellow, flagellomeres 6–15, hind tibia basally, hind basitarsus, pterostigma, wing veins, hypopygium and ovipositor sheath brown.
Male. Similar to female, antennae with tyloids on flagellomeres 5–7.
Distribution.
India and China.
Notes.
The species was described from Liaoning province of China (East Palaearctic) and known only from a male specimen ( Sheng and Sun 2014). This is the first description of the female and a first record of the species from the Oriental region.
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.
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Microleptinae |
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