Axea atriclava (Kieffer) Talamas & Thompson & Cutler & Schoenberger & Cuminale & Jung & Johnson & Valerio & Smith & Haltermann & Alvarez & Schwantes & Blewer & Bodenreider & Salzberg & Luo & Meislin & Buffington, 2017

Talamas, Elijah J., Thompson, Joseph, Cutler, Amy, Schoenberger, Samantha Fitzsimmons, Cuminale, Anthony, Jung, Trenton, Johnson, Norman F., Valerio, Alejandro A., Smith, Ashton B., Haltermann, Victoria, Alvarez, Elizabeth, Schwantes, Collin, Blewer, Catherine, Bodenreider, Coline, Salzberg, Annika, Luo, Pei, Meislin, Debra & Buffington, Matthew L., 2017, An online photographic catalog of primary types of Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera) in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 56, pp. 187-224 : 192-193

Axea atriclava (Kieffer) comb. n. Figures 16-21

Psilanteris atriclava Kieffer, 1916: 177 (original description. Keyed); Kieffer 1926: 433, 434 (description, keyed); Dodd 1931: 77 (description, position uncertain); Baltazar 1966: 182 (cataloged, distribution); Masner 1976: 51 (description, excluded from Psilanteris , type information); Johnson 1992: 468 (cataloged, type information).

Link to distribution map.

http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=5135

Material examined.

Holotype, female: PHILIPPINES: Laguna Prov., Luzon Isl., Mount Makiling, no date, Baker , USNMENT01059257 (deposited in USNM).

Comments.

Masner (1976) stated that this species did not belong in Psilanteris and suggested that it belonged in an undescribed genus. This has proven to be the case, as the genus into which we transfer this species was described by Masner and Johnson ( Yoder et al. 2009). Axea atriclava does not match any of the species described in Yoder et al. (2009) and is a new species for the genus.

Figures

Figures 16 - 21. Axea atriclava, female holotype (USNMENT 01059257) 16 head and mesosoma, lateral view 17 head and mesosoma, dorsal view 18 head, mesosoma, metasoma, lateral view 19 metasoma, dorsal view 20 fore wing venation, dorsal view 21 head, anterior view. Scale bars in millimeters.