Bakeriella floridana Evans, 1964

Azevedo, Celso O., 2014, Synopsis of Bakeriella Kieffer, 1910 (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), Zootaxa 3878 (6), pp. 501-535 : 513

Bakeriella floridana Evans, 1964

( Figs 43–50 )

Bakeriella floridana Evans 1964: 117 (fig. 84), 118 (list), 119 (key), 134–136 (♂ and ♀ descriptions); Evans 1970: 347 (additional material); Evans 1979: 257 (list), 258, 259 (key), 264 (comment); Gordh & Móczár 1990: 71 (catalog); Azevedo 1994: 149 (key); Kawada & Azevedo 2003: 467–468 (additional material); Azevedo et al. 2005: 165 (comment). floridana [lapsus calami]: Evans 1966a: 273 (comparison); Evans 1970: 347 (comment); Evans & Fullerton, 1997: 178 (comparison).

Material examined. Holotype ♂: [ U.S.A.], Florida, [Dade Co.], Paradise Key, II (=Feb.), Brooks col. ( MCZH, #30807). Allotype ♀: [ U.S.A.], Florida, [Dade Co.], Paradise Key, II (=Feb.), Brooks col. ( MCZH). New material: DOM[INICAN] REP[ UBLIC], 2 ♂, Sierra de Bahoruco, Alcoard km 25, montane dry forest, 18.I.1989, L. Masner col. ( CNCI), 1 ♂, Pedernales, 26 km N Cabo Rojo, evergreen dry for[est], 730m, 3.XII.1991, L. Masner col. ( CNCI).

Diagnosis. MALE ( Fig. 43 ). Almost black. Mandible with five apical teeth ( Fig. 44 ). Clypeus with angulate median lobe. Antennal scrobe carinate from torulus to inner margin of eye. Frons coriaceous. Vertex slightly convex. Pronotal disc with anterior corner rounded; anterior carina evident; median carina absent; lateral margin not carinate, but acute; posterior margin not paralleled by series of foveae. Scutellar pit transverse. Mesopleuron with subtegular groove sinuous; anterior fovea subrounded; upper fovea elliptical; lower fovea with upper margin absent ( Fig. 45 ). Genitalia ( Figs 46, 47 ): paramere evenly wide, apex rounded, dorsal and ventral margins straight; cuspis deeply divided into two arms, dorsal arm shorter and wider than ventral arm, cuspis apex not aligned with paramere apex; aedeagus bottle-shaped, apex not touching cuspis apex, rounded apex, rising from second basal fourth, basal margin straight, apical half distinctly narrower than basal half; base of apodeme dilated and directed outward; ventral surface with conspicuous projection ventrad, and medially hairy.

FEMALE ( Fig. 48 ). Almost black. Mandible with five apical teeth ( Fig. 49 ). Clypeus with angulate median lobe. Antennal scrobe not carinate. Frons coriaceous. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc with anterior corner not angulate; anterior carina evenly arched forward; median carina absent; lateral margin not carinate; posterior margin not paralleled by series of foveae. Scutellar pit transverse. Propodeal disc with posterior corner not foveolate. Mesopleuron with subtegular groove narrowing posterad; anterior fovea rounded; upper fovea elliptical; lower fovea with upper margin absent ( Fig. 50 ).

Distribution. U.S.A. (Florida), Dominican Republic, Jamaica.

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.