Nebulovena Pujade-Villar & Paretas-Martínez, 2012

Paretas-Martínez, Jordi, Rakhsani, Ehsan, Fathabadi, Khalil & Pujade-Villar, Juli, 2012, sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Figitidae: Figitinae) from Iran, with a key to the genera of Figitinae, Zootaxa 3177, pp. 43-51 : 44-45

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.210723
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6166783
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9D4087D1-3B0E-C505-83D2-5658FB727091
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Nebulovena Pujade-Villar & Paretas-Martínez
status	gen. nov.

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Nebulovena Pujade-Villar & Paretas-Martínez , new genus

Figs 1 View FIGURE 1 , 2 View FIGURE 2

Type species. Nebulovena persa Pujade-Villar & Paretas-Martínez new species.

Diagnosis. Nebulovena can be distinguished from all other figitines and Melanips by the veins of the radial cell being dark nebulous ( Figs 1 View FIGURE 1 , 2 View FIGURE 2 F) (other figitines have normal, not nebulous veins ( Figs 3 View FIGURE 3 J,K, 4G, 5F,G)), and its subtriangular head ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 A) (other figitines have either a rounded, oval ( Figs 3 View FIGURE 3 G–I), sub-quadrangular ( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 F), or (in Lonchidia ) elongated head. Furthermore, Nebulovena is distinguished from Neralsia , Xyalophora and Xyalophoroides by the absence of a scutellar spine ( Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 D,E) (present in these genera ( Figs 3 View FIGURE 3 A–C,F)); from Figites Latreille , Homorus Förster , Paraschiza Weld , Sarothrioides Belizin , Sarothrus Hartig , Trischiza Förster and Zygosis Förster by having rugose sculpture on the mesoscutum ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 E) (smooth in these genera ( Figs 4 View FIGURE 4 A,B, 5A,E,I)); from Seitneria Tavares by having a circumscutellar carina (arrows in Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 E); from Amphitectus Hartig , Sarothrioides and Sarothrus by having the metasoma as long as the mesosoma ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 ) (metasoma as long or longer than mesosoma + head in the latter three genera ( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 E)); from Lonchidia by having large rounded scutellar foveae ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 E), rugose sculpture on the mesoscutum + head ( Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 A,E), and the distal segments of the female antenna as wide as previous segments ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 B) ( Lonchidia has one large squared scutellar fovea, though sometimes with a carina in its bottom ( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 A), the mesoscutum + head mostly smooth, at most with small areas next to notauli with a very fine coriaceous sculpture ( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 A), and the distal segments of the female antenna very enlarged ( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 D)); and from Melanips by the absence of an areolet from the forewing ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 F) and having a circumscutellar carina (arrows in Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 E) ( Melanips has an areolet partly defined by spectral or nebulous veins ( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 G) and lacks a circumscutellar carina ( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 C)).