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Eupsenella Westwood 1874

Description

Eupsenella Westwood, 1874

Eupsenella Westwood 1874: 168, pl. 30, fig. 6; Ashmead 1893: pl 4, Fig. 1; Dalla Torre 1898: 5, 555; Kieffer 1908: 12, Fig. 1; Kieffer 1914: 556–558, Fig. 198; Dodd 1916: 18–19; Lameere 1938: 440, Fig. 510; Polaszek & Krombein 1994: 91–105; Gordh & Harris 1996: 530–534, Figs 1–13; Terayama 2004: 39–41.

Type species: Eupsenella agillis Westwood, 1874, by monotypy.

Diagnosis. Median clypeal lobe truncate, angulate or subangulate, median carina present or absent, extending back into frons. Lateral lobe of clypeus almost inconspicuous. Mandible with four sharpened apical teeth. Antenna with 13 articules; flagellar pubescence suberect. Torulus not projected. Hipostomal carina present and well defined. Pronotal collar regular-sized, evenly narrow. Notauli present, well defined, complete, extending from anterior margin of the posterior margin of mesoscutum. Scutellar pit present. Scutellar furrow absent. Propodeal disc with median carina, posterior transverse carina absent and lateral carina present, followed by depressed narrow area, foveolate. Declivity of propodeum without median carina. Mesopleuron with mesopleural pit deep. Prosternum expanded, 0.7 to 1.0 area of procoxa and excavated medially. Mesofurcal pit present. Metasoma in ventral view with ventral carina of petiole. Forewing with six closed cells, (R, 1Cu, C, 1M, 1R1 and 2R1), except in brachypterous species, stigma regular-sized, except in brachypterous species. Hind wing with incipient anal vein and jugal lobe, hamuli located approximately medially on anterior margin. Male slightly smaller than female. Hypopygium puncticulate, with posterior margin bidentate and angulate. Genitalia with one or two parameres, paramere not fused to basiparamere; dorsal arm of paramere as long as ventral arm; apical lobe of aedeagus expanded; apex of apical lobe of aedeagus; not aligned with paremere apex; apical margin of cuspis rounded.

Species included. Eupsenella agillis Westwood, E. ceciliae Terayama, E. diemenensis Dodd, E. flavifemorata Terayama, E. insulana Gordh & Harris, E. proxima Kieffer (analysis only through the available literature), E. reticulata Terayama, and 38 new species described here.

Distribution. Australia and New Zealand.

Notes

Published as part of Ramos, Magno S. & Azevedo, Celso O., 2012, Revision of Eupsenella Westwood, 1874 (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 3539 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3539.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10096759

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Westwood
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Bethylidae
Genus
Eupsenella
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Eupsenella Westwood, 1874 sec. Ramos & Azevedo, 2012

References

  • Westwood, J. O. (1874) Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxoniensis; or, illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects, for the most part contained in the collections presented to the university of oxford by the rev. f. w. hope, m. a., d. c. l., f. r. s., & C. with forty plates from deawings by the author. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 205 p. + 40 plates.
  • Ashmead, W. H. (1893) A monograph of the North American Proctotrypidae. Bethylibae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 45, 1 - 472.
  • Dalla Torre, C. G. de (1898) Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Chalcididae et Proctotrupidae., 5. Suptibus Guilelmi Engelmann. Lipsiae. 598 p.
  • Kieffer, J. J. (1908) Bethylidae. Fascicule 76. In: Wytsman, P. Genera Insectorum, 50 p.
  • Dodd, A. P. (1916) Australian Hymenoptera: Proctotrypoidea. No. 4. Royal Society of South Australia. Transactions and Proceedings, 40, 9 - 32.
  • Lameere, A. (1938) Precis de ZOO / Ogie • 5 • Les 1 nsectes Superieurs • StegOpteres, Dipteres, LepidOpteres, CO / eOpteres, HymenOpteres • Bruxelles, Universit, 536 pp.
  • Polaszek, A. & Krombein, K. V. (1994) The genera of Bethylinae (Hymenoptera: Bethylinae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 3, 91 - 105.
  • Gordh, G. & Harris, A. (1996) New records and a new species of Eupsenella (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) in New Zealand. Journal of The Royal Society of New Zealand, 26, 529 - 536.
  • Terayama, M. (2004) Descriptions of new taxa and distribution records of the family Bethylidae (Insecta, Hymenoptera) II. Subfamily Bethylinae and fossil Taxa. Academic reports, Faculty Engineering. Tokyo Polytechnic University, 27, 39 - 41.