Omalaspis niponica Ros-Farré & Pujade-Villar, 2011

Ros-Farré, P. & Pujade-Villar, J., 2011, Revision of the genus Omalaspis Giraud, 1860 (Hym.: Figitidae: Aspicerinae), Zootaxa 2917 (1), pp. 1-28 : 10-11

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2917.1.1
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038A530B-F509-6974-FF58-FAC25AAFD981
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Omalaspis niponica Ros-Farré & Pujade-Villar
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Omalaspis niponica Ros-Farré & Pujade-Villar n. sp.

( Figs 1c View FIGURE 1 , 2e View FIGURE 2 , 9b View FIGURE 9 & 10b View FIGURE 10 )

Type material. ( 1 ♂) HOLOTYPE male ( CNCI) 16/ 29-V-1989, Sanage-Yama, Aichi Prefecture, ( JAPAN), A. Takano coll, malaise trap.

Diagnosis. Omalaspis niponica n. sp. is the only species having strong transverse carinae on parascutal sulcus. Moreover, the interfoveal line is very fine, but reaches the posterior margin of the scutellum, and the scutellar foveae are rugose.

Description. Length. Male 3.4 mm.; Female unknown.

Coloration. Head and mesosoma black. Metasoma and antennae darkish brown. Coxa, trochanter and part of femur black, remaining leg segments dark brown. Wing membrane hyaline. Veins of wing dark brown.

Head. Frons coriaceous, with small longitudinal carinae. Frontal carinae present. Lateral frontal carinae narrow, space between them and compound eye with transverse carinae. Supratorular impression weak. Ocelli slightly prominent, vertex in frontal view slightly incised. Vertex in dorsal view coriaceous. Vertex posterior and occiput coriaceous. Genae sharply margined and expanded, coriaceous and with fine transverse carinae.

Antenna. Filiform. First flagellomere clearly excavated. Antennal formula: 5(3): 2(2.5): 8(2): 6(2): 6(2): 6(2): 5(2): 5(2): 5(2): 5(2): 4(2): 4(2): 4(2): 7(2).

Mesosoma. Lateral surface of pronotum coriaceous, dorsally rugose, basally with transverse carinae. Mesoscutum coriaceous. Parascutal sulcus shiny, with conspicuous transverse carinae. Median ridge complete, antero- admedian lines conspicuous, slightly convergent, reaching 1/3 mesoscutum length. Median mesoscutal furrow coriaceous with small transverse carinae inside. Notauli very wide posteriorly, narrow anteriorly, strongly coriaceous, with fine transverse carinae. Mesosoma, in lateral view, slightly curved. Mesopleuron sculptured anteriorly, smooth posteriorly. Scutellum 0.68 times scutum length. Interfoveal line fine, reaching posterior margin of scutellum. Scutellar foveae rugose. Scutellar disc rugose. Lateral scutellar margin straight, posterior margin of scutellum straight and wide.

Wing. Radial cell 2.0 times longer than wide. R2 straight.

Distribution. Eastern Palaearctic, Japan.

Etymology. This new species is named after the country where it was found, Japan.

Biology. Unknown.