Apenesia proxima Kieffer 1904
Description
Apenesia proxima Kieffer, 1904
(Fig. 26F)
Apenesia proxima Kieffer 1904, 41: 364, 367. ♀; Kieffer 1908, 76: 25 (catalog); Kieffer 1914, 41: 392, 396; Gordh & Móczár 1990, 46: 210 (catalog).
Diagnosis. Female. Length 5.0 mm. Color. Body castaneous, metasoma dark castaneous. Mandible with three apical teeth. Clypeus extending back frons, median lobe with apical margin almost straight, apical margin with bristles, median carina absent. Eye dark, oval, with about six facets. Malar space longer than eye size. Frons aciculate, punctures small and very sparse. Head subquadrate with sides subparallel, vertex slightly concave, 1.0 × as long as wide. Dorsal pronotal area with sides nearly parallel, anterior margin with median emargination. Maximum width of metapectal-propodeal complex 1.6 × its minimum width. Mesopleuron without longitudinal carina dividing dorsal and lateral faces. Mesotibia strongly spinose. Metasoma slightly longr than head and mesosoma together, petiole long.
Material examined. Holotype ♀: [PAPUA NEW GUINEA], N. Guinea S. E. Hughibagu, V–IX.91, Loria [coll.] (MSNG).
Comments. The holotype was examined during a visit to MSNG. According to Kieffer (1904), this species is similar to A. nigra.
Distribution. Australian (Papua New Guinea).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MSNG
- Family
- Bethylidae
- Genus
- Apenesia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Kieffer
- Species
- proxima
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Apenesia proxima Kieffer, 1904 sec. Alencar & Azevedo, 2020
References
- Kieffer, J. J. (1908) Bethylidae. In: Wytsman, P. (Ed.), Genera Insectorum, 76, 1 - 50.
- Kieffer, J. J. (1914) Bethylidae. Das Tierreich, 41, 228 - 595.
- Gordh, G. & Moczar, L. (1990) A catalog of the world Bethylidae (Hymenoptera: Aculeata). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 46, 1 - 364. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1440 - 6055.1990. tb 00341. x