Smicromorpha minera Girault, 1913, 1926

Binoy, C., Santhosh, S. & Nasser, M., 2021, Review of Smicromorpha Girault (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae) with description of a new species from India, Zootaxa 4991 (1), pp. 131-149 : 145-146

Smicromorpha minera Girault, 1913

Smicromorpha minera Girault 1926: 70 .

Smicromorphella minerva Girault 1930: 3 (unjustified emendation).

Type Material. Australia: Queensland, Meringa , xi.1926. Coll. Girault ( QMB, Holotype ♀, not examined) .

Diagnosis. Female. Body 3.9–4.0 mm, length of fore wing 1.9 mm; colour ranging from pale yellow to orange, vertex posteriorly reddish-brown, mesoscutum and scutellum dark reddish brown ( Naumann 1986, fig. 14); fore and mid legs and all tarsi yellowish, but arolium darker; hind coxa and femur predominantly or entirely reddish brown; femoral serrulation black; metasoma pale reddish brown; petiole at times dark brown; mesosoma with long sparse setae, and hind femur with both long and suberect short setae. Head with eyes and ocelli moderately large; malar carina present ( Naumann 1986, fig. 38); inner edges of eyes strongly convex, maximum interocular distance (on vertex) at least 2–2.5× as great as minimum distance (at mid-length of face); antennal scrobe deep, carinately mar- gined and distant from inner edge of eye by about own width ( Naumann 1986, fig. 38); frons with weak longitudinal grove between scrobe and median ocellus; ocelli small, POL and LOD respectively 0.7–0.8× and 0.5–0.7× OOL ( Naumann 1986, fig. 36); pronotal collar carinate only laterally; mesoscutum and scutellum areolate; sternaulus absent; propodeum convex posteriorly, spiracular sulci indistinct; fore wing with STV shorter than MV and forming slightly obtuse angle with it, stump of basalis present; hind coxa 3.0–4.0× long as wide; hind femur 1.6–1.8× as long as wide ( Naumann 1986, fig. 37); petiole 4.0–4.8× as long as wide and 4.7–4.8× as long as high; petiole minutely reticulate-punctulate dorsally, transverse lamina distinct, not reaching mid-length.

Male. Same as female except measurements different ( Naumann 1986).

Distribution. Australian ( Australia).

Host. Collected near nest of Oecophylla smaragdina Fab.

Note. Type specimens could not be studied for the present review, hence the description is based on the original description by Girault (1913) and redescription of the species by Naumann (1986).