Monelata Foerster , 1856

Hou, Zi & Xu, Zai-fu, 2016, Description of a new species of the genus Monelata Foerster, 1856 from China (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae), ZooKeys 574, pp. 97-104 : 98-99

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Diapriidae

Genus Monelata Foerster, 1856

Monelata Förster, 1856: 123. Type species: Diapria parvula Nees von Esenbeck, designated by Ashmead (1893).

Monelata Förster: Ashmead 1893: 407; Dalla Torre 1898: 432; Kieffer 1910: 698; 1912: 5; 1916: 8; Prisner 1953: 452; Muesebeck and Walkley 1951: 676; 1956: 371; Pschorn-Walcher 1956: 58; Masner and Sundholm 1959: 165; Kozlov 1978: 594; Muesebeck 1979: 1143; Szabó 1979: 273; Masner and Garcia 2002: 93; Rajmohana 2006: 57.

Monelata For detailed generic synonymy see Johnson (1992).

Diagnosis.

Body length 0.9-1.5 mm, smooth and shining. Female antenna 13-segmented, with A13 remarkably clavate. Male antenna 14-segmented, with A4 not sexually modified. Cervix of pronotum densely hairy, dense pronotal and propleural cushions confluent into complete hairy collar ventrally and dorsally. Notauli absent. Anterior scutellar pit absent. Metapleuron densely covered with appressed pilosity, pilosity continuing on metasternum, completely surrounding hind coxae. Propodeum and petiole entirely carpeted with dense semi-hyaline pilosity. T2 with pilosity at base. S2 with large and dense anterior cushion.

Distribution.

Afrotropical, Nearctic, Palearctic and Oriental Regions ( Rajmohana 2006; Johnson et al. 2015).

Key to Oriental species of Monelata