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Aphelinus odin Japoshvili & Hansen 2014

Description

Aphelinus odin sp. nov.

Description. Holotype ♀. Length of body 1.2 mm, excluding ovipositor 1.14 mm.

Head completely dark brown; antenna yellow with very slight almost unnoticeable infuscation. Thorax dark brown with metallic reflection. Tegula dark but not as dark as thorax. Gaster first tergite and rest light brown, sternites yellow. Forewings hyaline, but under marginal vein with slight infuscation. Legs yellow, only mid and hind coxae dark.

Mesoscutum with short silver setae and a pair of long setae at the apex, scutellum with 2 pairs of long setae.

Head as in elvestueni. Antenna is given in Figure 3.

Relative measurements on slides: HW 29, FV 10, POL 5, AOL 3, DPO 1.5, DAO 1.5, OOL 1.5, OCL 1.5, EL 17, MSL 11.

Paratype ♀ (length including ovipositor 1.16 mm, without ovipositor 1.1 mm). Forewing venation as in Figure 4; ovipositor 1.4× as long as midtibia; gonostyli 0.28× as long as ovipositor.

Male: Unknown.

Material examined: Holotype: NORWAY, TELEMARK costal [TEY], Drangedal: Skultrevassåsen [N59.0783°, E09.2608° ± 1000 m], 1♀ 28 May–18 July 2006, Malaise trap, leg. Sverre Kobro; Paratype: NORWAY, ØSTFOLD [Ø], Eidsberg: Mysen, Åsen [N59.51829°, E11.33985° ± 50 m], 1♀ 5 May 2012, leg. Ove SØrlibråten.

Holotype deposited at the Natural History Museum, Oslo University, Oslo, Norway; designated to the NHM, Oslo, Norway. Paratype deposited at the collection of Agricultural University of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia.

Biology: Unknown.

Distribution: Norway.

Etymology: After the name of the Norse god Odin.

Comments: The new species is most closely related to A. kurdjumovi, but differs by the following morphological characters: forewings in front of linea calva have 2–3 complete and 2–3 incomplete lines of setae (kurdjumovi: delta region proximal to linea calva has 3–5 incomplete lines of setae); scape 6× as long as broad (kurdjumovi: 5×); clava at most 2.7× as long as broad (kurdjumovi: 3×); F 3 transverse or at most subquadrate (kurdjumovi: slightly longer than); ovipositor 3.6× as long as gonostyli length (kurdjumovi: almost 4×).

Notes

Published as part of Japoshvili, George & Hansen, Lars Ove, 2014, Revision of the genus Aphelinus Dalman (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Aphelinidae) in Norway with descriptions of 3 new species, pp. 552-558 in Turkish Journal of Zoology 38 (5) on page 555, DOI: 10.3906/zoo-1309-36, http://zenodo.org/record/10973730

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Japoshvili & Hansen
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Aphelinidae
Genus
Aphelinus
Species
odin
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxonomic concept label
Aphelinus odin Japoshvili, 2014 sec. Japoshvili & Hansen, 2014