Casinaria flagellator Riedel 2018, nov.sp.

Casinaria flagellator nov.sp. (figs 13, 30)

Holotypus: (♀) Seewinkel, Wien, 6.9.62 (ZSM).

Paratypes: (3♀♀) Seewinkel, Wien, 6.9.62 (ZSM and coll. RIEDEL); (♀) Retzbach, Ufr., Trockenrasen, 10.6.1989 (ZSM); (♀) YU, V.-Drvenik b. Split, Wegrand, 7.-16.9.1977 (ZSM); (♀) Georgien, Lagodehki NP, H 4, 5-15.V.2014 (coll. RIEDEL); (♀) Italia, Toscana, Upachhi, NE Arezzo, 43°30´N 11°59´E, 19.8.2013, M. & J. SCHWARZ (coll. SCHWARZ); (♀) Nürnberg 24.7.1989 (ZSM); (♀) Esp.-Alicante Moraira, 90 m, 29.ix.-1.x.1989 garrigue, réc. R. WAHIS, Mal.trap (ZSM); (♀) Norway, EIS 20, Ø: Tune, Rakil 22.VII.1994, leg. Thor J. OLSEN (coll. RIEDEL).

D e s c r i p t i o n: ♀: Body length 5-7 mm. Flagella with 29-33 segments; 1 st flagellomeres length c.3.5x width; preapical flagellomeres square or wider than long. Temples narrow, strongly and roundly narrowed behind eyes. Distance of lateral ocelli to eyes 0.8-0.9x and between them 2.0x their diameter. Face moderately narrowed ventrally, finely rugose-punctate, minimal width 0.6x eye length and 0.9 width of frons. Malar space length 0.5x width of mandibular bases. Genal carinae not bent outwards and more or less obsolete ventrally, reaching hypostomal carinae far from mandibular bases in an angle of c.70°. Hypostomal carinae elevated.

Mesopleural discs granulate and superficially punctate; specula smooth, shining; dorsal impressions strongly striate. Prepectal carina narrow, absent on the transversal parts. Metapleura finely rugose; coxal carinae absent. Propodeum granulate or finely rugulose; Area basalis and frontal part of area superomedia with carinae; area petiolaris slightly impressed medially, granulate, with ± distinct transverse rugae apically. Hind femora length 4.5x width, length of inner spurs of hind tibiae 0.62x hind metatarsus length. Areolets stalked, 2 nd recurrent veins slightly basad or in their middle; nervuli interstitial or slightly postfurcal; postnervuli intercepted behind their middle; external angles of discoidal cell acute (c.80°); nervelli of hind wings slightly reclivous, not distinctly intercepted. 2 nd tergite length 1.75-1.8x width; distance of thyridia from basal margins 1.5-2x their length; 3 rd tergite length 0.9x width.

Colour: Black. Palps, mandibles and tegulae reddish-yellow. Tergites black, sometimes with diffuse dark reddish suffusion apically. Coxae and trochanters black; middle and hind trochantelli partly reddish; legs otherwise red; fore and middle tibiae yellowish externally; hind tibiae reddish, cream-yellow basally, yellowish-red externo-medially, pale brownish subbasally and apically; fore and middle tarsi brown apically; hind tarsi except yellow bases of metatarsi blackish. Pterostigmata brown.

♂ unknown.

D i s t r i b u t i o n:Austria,Croatia, Georgia and Germany.