Bakeriella Kieffer, 1910

Azevedo, Celso O., 2014, Synopsis of Bakeriella Kieffer, 1910 (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), Zootaxa 3878 (6), pp. 501-535 : 502

Bakeriella Kieffer, 1910

Bakeriella Kieffer 1910a: 288 ; Kieffer 1910a (new species); Kieffer 1910b (new species); Evans 1964 (new species); Evans 1965 (new species); Evans 1966a (new species); Evans 1979 (key, new species); Evans & Fullerton 1979 (new species); De Santis 1981 (catalog); Gordh & Móczár 1990 (catalog); Azevedo 1991 (new species); Azevedo 1994 (key, new species); Kawada & Azevedo 2003 (new species); Azevedo et al. 2005 (new species).

Type species Bakeriella flavicornis Kieffer 1910a: 289 , by monotypy.

Diagnosis. Length varying from about 3.0 to 8.0 mm. Body predominantly black, few species with metallic reflection. Wings hyaline or subhyaline. Mandible with two or five apical teeth. Median clypeal lobe well projected forward. Lateral clypeal lobes usually inconspicuous. Median clypeal carina usually conspicuous and complete. Antenna with 11 flagellomeres. Occipital carina complete. Eye hairy. Notaulus present, usually almost complete posteriorly and widening posterad. Parapsidal furrow present, usually straight. Scutellar pits usually not connected by any groove. Metasoma well developed medially, scutellum and propodeal disc not in contact medially. Propodeal disc with three discal carinae, median carina complete, paramedian carina usually incomplete posteriorly, posterior corner usually conspicuously foveolate. Propodeal declivity with median carina. Forewing with three closed cells, (costal, median and submedian), radial vein always present and long. Mesopleuron with lower margin of lower fovea fused to episternal groove. Male genitalia: Paramere usually wide; digitus progressively narrowing apicad, apex acute, dorsal surface denticulate; aedeagus without constriction between apical and basal halves, ventral surface with conspicuous projection ventrad, apodeme usually thick ( Fig. 42 ).

Figures

FIGURES 36 – 50. 36 – 42. Bakeriella flavicornis, ♂: 36. body, dorsal view; 37. mandible, frontal view; 38. head, lateral view; 39. mesopleuron, lateral view; 40. genitalia, ventral view; 41. genitalia, lateral view; 42. aedeagus, lateral view. 43 – 47. B. floridana, ♂: 43. body, dorsal view; 44. mandible, frontal view; 45. mesopleuron, lateral view; 46. genitalia, ventral view; 47. genitalia, lateral view. 48 – 50. B. floridana, ♀: 48. body, dorsal view; 49. mandible, frontal view; 50. mesopleuron, lateral view. Scale bars = 250 µm.