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Axima noyesi Subba Rao 1978

  • 1. Department of Entomology, 320 Morrill Hall, 505 S. Goodwin Ave., University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
  • 2. Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, DK- 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. E-mail: tpape @ snm. ku. dk
  • 3. State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Entomology, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany.

Description

Key to females of Axima noyesi species group

1 Head produced dorsolaterally into tubular process bearing eye at apex........................(noyesi species group) …2

- Head not produced dorsolaterally into tubular process, eye in normal position.......................................................................................(spinifrons species group, see key in Ashmead 1904, pp. 458–459)

2 Mesoscutum without median carina. Mesoscutellar process dorsally pointed....................................................................................................... A. diabolus (Yoshimoto & Gibson, 1979, fig. 3)

- Mesoscutum with median carina at least slightly indicated. Mesoscutellar process dorsally rounded (Fig. 2).............. 3

3 Median mesoscutal carina slightly indicated (Fig. 8), laterally flanked by rows of piliferous punctures (rounded depressions). Mt5 and Mt6 with distinct setation (Fig. 10)............................................ A. noyesi Subba Rao, 1978

- Median mesoscutal carina more distinctly raised (Fig. 7), laterally flanked by rows of piliferous foveae (subrectangular depressions). Mt5 bare, Mt6 with few scattered setae (Fig. 9)..................... A. sidi Arias-Penna, Pape & Krogmann, sp. n.

Notes

Published as part of Arias-Penna, Diana Carolina, Pape, Thomas & Krogmann, Lars, 2014, Stalk-eyed wasps-review of a largely unnoticed group of morphologically bizarre chalcidoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae: Axima), pp. 583-590 in Zootaxa 3866 (4) on page 584, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3866.4.8, http://zenodo.org/record/4930615

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Eurytomidae
Genus
Axima
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Subba Rao
Species
noyesi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Axima noyesi Rao, 1978 sec. Arias-Penna, Pape & Krogmann, 2014

References

  • Ashmead, W. H. (1904) Classification of the chalcid flies of the superfamily Chalcidoidea, with descriptions of new species in the Carnegie Museum, collected in South America by Herbert H. Smith. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, 1 (4), 225 - 551. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 10341
  • Yoshimoto, C. M. & Gibson, G. A. P. (1979) A new genus of Eurytomidae (Chalcidoidea: Erytomidae, Aximinae) from Brazil. The Canadian Entomologist, 111 (4), 421 - 424. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.4039 / Ent 111421 - 4
  • Subba Rao, B. R. (1978) New genera and species of Eurytomidae (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae). Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, 87 B (12), 293 - 319. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 03179018