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Gonatopus ruber

Description

31. Gonatopus ruber (Olmi, 1984)

(Fig. 183H)

Agonatopoides ruber Olmi 1984: 1327.

Gonatopus ruber (Olmi): Olmi 2006: 46; Guglielmino & Olmi 2014a: 46.

Description. ♀. Apterous; body length 3.4 mm. Completely brown-reddish, except petiole dark and antenna and tarsi testaceous. Antenna clavate; antennomeres in following proportions: 20:12:24:15:14:13:12:12:12:17. Head excavated, shiny, bare, unsculptured; frontal line complete; occipital carina incomplete, only shortly visible on sides of lateral ocelli; occiput setose; POL = 3; OL = 5; OOL = 18. Palpal formula 5/3. Pronotum shiny, bare, unsculptured, crossed by strong transverse impression. Mesoscutum shiny, with some longitudinal keels, with two pointed lateral apophyses situated on sides of mesoscutellum. Metanotum smooth, not transversely striate, excavated behind mesoscutellum, with sides rounded, not protruding. Metapectal-propodeal disc shiny, unsculptured; propodeal declivity, mesopleuron and metapleuron transversely striate. Meso-metapleural suture obsolete. Protarsal segmens in following proportions: 14:2:4:11:17. Enlarged claw (Fig. 183H) with one large subdistal tooth and one row of five lamellae. Protarsomere 5 (Fig. 183H) with two rows of approximately 13 lamellae; apex with approximately 13 lamellae. Tibial spurs 1/0/1.

♂. Unknown.

Material examined. Type: ♀ holotype: SOUTH AFRICA: Western Cape, Milnerton, I.1926, R.E. Turner leg. (NHMUK).

Hosts. Unknown.

Distribution. South Africa.

Notes

Published as part of Olmi, Massimo, Copeland, Robert S. & Noort, Simon Van, 2019, Dryinidae of the Afrotropical region (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea), pp. 1-619 in Zootaxa 4630 (1) on page 451, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4630.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3336635

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NHMUK
Scientific name authorship
Olmi
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Dryinidae
Genus
Gonatopus
Species
ruber
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Gonatopus ruber (Olmi, 1984) sec. Olmi, Copeland & Noort, 2019

References

  • Olmi, M. (1984) A revision of the Dryinidae (Hymenoptera). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 37, I-XII + 1 - 1913.
  • Guglielmino, A. & Olmi, M. (2014 a) Revision of the Afrotropical species of Gonatopus group 3 (Hymenoptera: Dryinidae), with description of a new species from Ghana. Zootaxa, 3802 (1), 35 - 50. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3802.1.3