Published September 5, 2007 | Version v1
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Parastephanellus delicatus Aguiar 2005

  • 1. Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Avenida Marechal Campos 1468, Eucalipto, Vitória, ES, 29040 - 090, Brazil. E-mail: aguiar. 2 @ osu. edu Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity, and School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia. E-mail: john. jennings @ adelaide. edu. au

Description

Parastephanellus delicatus Aguiar

Parastephanellus delicatus Aguiar, in Aguiar & Jennings, 2005: 3. Female. Original description, figures, discussion.

Female holotype. The following corrects some imprecision and makes relevant additions to the original description: antenna without any kind of sensilla on flagellomeres 1–7 and 28–36; flagellomeres 8–27 with punctate sensilla (not “large oval tyloids,” as in original description), which become progressively less numerous toward apical articles. Frontal carina distinct, particularly with tangent light (not “indistinct but weak”). Genal bridge smooth, polished. Hind tibia ventral side of dilated part strongly obliquely carinate on each side, generating a V-shaped pattern with vertices towards apex. Fore tibia uniformly brown.

Discussion. The punctate sensilla and their disposition seem to be unique among stephanids, and are therefore also diagnostic for the species. The elongated T3 also somewhat unusual in this species, and is not observed in other New Caledonian stephanids.

Parastephanellus mouensis Aguiar

Parastephanellus mouensis Aguiar, in Aguiar & Jennings, 2005: 10. Female. Original description, figures, discussion.

Female holotype. Genal bridge mostly smooth and polished (not in the original description).

Notes

Published as part of Aguiar, Alexandre P. & Jennings, John T., 2007, New Caledonia as the centre of origin of Parastephanellus Enderlein, with a phylogeny and description of the female of P. khogis Aguiar (Hymenoptera, Stephanidae), pp. 15-24 in Zootaxa 1576 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1576.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5096931

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Aguiar
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Stephanidae
Genus
Parastephanellus
Species
delicatus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Parastephanellus delicatus Aguiar, 2005 sec. Aguiar & Jennings, 2007

References

  • Aguiar, A. P. & Jennings, J. T. (2005) First record of Stephanidae (Hymenoptera) from New Caledonia, with descriptions of four new species of Parastephanellus Enderlein. Zootaxa, 1001, 1 - 16.