Alloxysta apteroidea Hellén, 1963

Ferrer-Suay, Mar, Selfa, Jesús & Pujade-Villar, Juli, 2018, Palaearctic species of Charipinae (Hymenoptera, Figitidae): two new species, synthesis and identification key, European Journal of Taxonomy 427, pp. 1-110 : 22

Alloxysta apteroidea Hellén, 1963

Fig. 2.3

Alloxysta apteroidea Hellén, 1963: 23 . Type: deposited in MZH (examined).

Diagnosis

Alloxysta apteroidea is mainly characterized as a brachypterous species and by the absence of a visible radial cell; the fore wing being practically absent; the absence of pronotal and propodeal carinae; and antenna with F1 shorter than pedicel and F1 longer than F2 and subequal to F3 (Fig. 2.3). It is similar to A. pedestris , but can be differentiated by the length of the fore wings (which are very short and practically absent in A. apteroidea , while they reach the beginning of the metasoma in A. pedestris ) and the proportion of F1–pedicel (F1 is shorter than pedicel in A. apteroidea (Fig. 2.3), but F1 is longer than pedicel in A. pedestris (Fig. 3.1)).

Material examined

Holotype

FINLAND: ♀ [Runsala, Hellén, 157, apteroidea (handwritten)], [Typus Alloxysta apteroidea Hellén (handwritten) (red label)], [Mus. Zool. Helsinki, Loan No. HY 2012 - 1834 (yellow label)], [ Alloxysta apteroidea Hellén, 1963 ♀ M. Ferrer-Suay det. 2012] ( MZH).

Distribution

Europe.

Certain records: Finland ( Hellén 1963: 23).