Alloxysta mullensis ( Cameron, 1883 )

Ferrer-Suay, Mar, Selfa, Jesús, Tomanović, Željko, Janković, Marina, Kos, Katarina, Rakhshani, Ehsan & Pujade-Villar, Juli, 2013, Revision of Alloxysta from the north-western Balkan Peninsula with description of two new species (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Charipinae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (1), pp. 347-368 : 358

* Alloxysta mullensis ( Cameron, 1883)

Material examined (1J 6♀♀). MONTENEGRO: Aphidius spp. – Acyrthosiphon malvae (Mosley, 1841) on Salix retusa , Mali Medjed, 18.vii.2000: 1 ♀. SLOVENIA: Aphidius ervi , Aphidius rhopalosiphi and Ephedrus plagiator – Sitobion avenae on Triticum aestivum , Ljubljana, 20.v.2009: 1♀; Aphidius matricariae – Aphis intybi Koch, 1855 on Cichorium sp. , Zalog, 11.x.2008: 1 J; Binodoxys angelicae – Aphis fabae solanella Theobald, 1914 on Solanum nigrum, Zalog , 11.x.2008: 1 ♀; Lysiphlebus testaceipes (Cresson, 1880) – Aphis nerii Boyer de Fonscolombe, 1841 on Nerium oleander, Portorož , 17.vi.2009: 2 ♀♀. [1 J and 4 ♀♀ deposited in UB, 2 ♀♀ deposited in IZFBUB].

Diagnosis. Alloxysta mullensis has a closed radial cell, a propodeal plate, and no pronotal carinae. It is similar to A. fracticornis , but they can be easily differentiated by the proportions of the length of flagellomeres: F1 subequal to pedicel, F1 longer than F2, and F2 subequal to F 3 in A. mullensis ( Fig. 17 ), while F1 longer than pedicel, F1–F3 subequal in length in A. fracticornis ( Fig. 20 ).

Short redescription. Head brown, mesosoma and metasoma dark brown; scape, pedicel and F1–F3 dark yellow, F4–F11 yellowish brown; legs and veins yellow. Female antennae 13-segmented; F1–F3 smooth and thinner than remaining ones, F4–F11 club-shaped, with rhinaria; pedicel subequal to F1, F1 longer than F2, F2 subequal to F3, F3 shorter than F4 ( Fig. 17 ). Male antennae 14-segmented; as female without any flagellomere curved. Pronotum covered with sparse setae, carinae absent. Propodeum with abundant pubescence, two carinae present forming a plate with sides slightly curved. Forewing longer than body, radial cell closed, 2.2 times as long as wide ( Fig. 8 ).

Distribution. Palaearctic Region. New record from Slovenia and Montenegro.

Figures

Figs 15–24. Antenna of Alloxysta species. 15 – A. castanea (Hartig, 1841); 16 – A. macrophadna (Hartig, 1841); 17 – A. mullensis (Cameron, 1883); 18 – A. victrix (Westwood, 1833); 19 – A. arcuata (Kieffer, 1902); 20 – A. fracticornis (Thomson, 1862); 21 – A. brevis (Thomson, 1862); 22 – A. fuscicornis (Hartig, 1841); 23 – A. pleuralis (Cameron, 1879); 24 – A. salicicola Belizin, 1973.

Figs 5–14. Types of radial cell in forewing of Alloxysta species. 5 – A. castanea (Hartig, 1841); 6 – A. macrophadna (Hartig, 1841); 7 – A. pleuralis (Cameron, 1879); 8 – A. mullensis (Cameron, 1883); 9 – A. victrix (Westwood, 1833); 10 – A. fracticornis (Thomson, 1862); 11 – A. arcuata (Kieffer, 1902); 12 – A. brevis (Thomson, 1862); 13 – A. fuscicornis (Hartig, 1841); 14 – A. salicicola Belizin, 1973.