Incertosulcus consimilis ( Móczár, 1970 )

Barbosa, Diego N. & Azevedo, Celso O., 2020, Synopsis of Incertosulcus Móczár, 1970 (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae), Journal of Natural History 54 (21 - 22), pp. 1363-1393 : 1379-1381

Incertosulcus consimilis ( Móczár, 1970)

Sulcomesitius consimilis Móczár, 1970 , 16: 411, 413, 430–432. Type-repository: NHMUK (examined). Incertosulcus consimilis ( Móczár, 1970) . New combination by Azevedo et al. 2018, 4489(1): 195 ( Figure 4 (a)).

Material examined

♂ Kenya, Rift Valley Prov[ince], Marich Pass field station, 917 m, 1°32.18 ʹ N 36°27.48 ʹ E, Malaise trap, 6–20 .ii .2005, R. S. Copeland (NMKE). ♂ 1.56633°N, 35.45800°E, Malaise trap, low canopy, riverine forest, 30 May – 2 Jun[e] 2005, R. Copeland (UFES). ♂ Coast Prov[ince], Kasigu M[oun]t[ai]n, bottom of Forest, 737, 3.82080°S, 36.64178°E, Malaise trap, woodland with grass, 7–21 Sep[tember] 2011, R. Copeland (NMKE).

Description

Male. Body length 3.5 mm. Forewing 2.2 mm. Colour: Wings bi-banded; pronotum and mesonotum orange; metasoma dark castaneous; head and metapectal-propodeal complex dark castaneous nearly black. Head: head as long as wide. Malar space as long as VOL, parallel. Median clypeal lobe rounded. Antenna long; pedicel caliciform; flagellomere I longer than pedicel; flagellomeres long. Eye small [0.5 × LH], circular. Frons strongly foveolate. Ocelli small, DAO 1.0 × POL. Mesosoma: dorsal pronotal area foveolate, with anterior corner angled, lateral margin incurved, and posterior margin sinuous; longitudinal pronotal sulcus complete. Anteromesoscutum coriaceous, longer than mesoscutellum; longitudinal antero-mesoscutal sulcus incomplete. Mesoscutellum short, foveolate. Metapectal-propodeal complex 0.5 × as long as wide; metapostnotum without longitudinal ridge between metaposnotal median carina and metaposnotal-propodeal suture; posterior spine of metapectal-propodeal complex short, and narrow. Metasoma: tergum I with ventral surface coriaceous; tergum II with dorsal surface polished, and ventral surface polished. Hypopygium with anterior spiculum wide. Genitalia: paramere ventral arm long, sinuous; dorsal arm filamentary with apex swollen. Aedeagus wide, with apex aligned with paramere apex, apical margin angled, and apical sickle process long, lateral of margin of basal portion straight.

Female. Body length 4.2 mm. Colour: wings bi-banded; pronotum and mesonotum orange; metasoma dark castaneous; head and metapectal-propodeal complex dark castaneous nearly black. Head: head as long as wide. Malar space longer than VOL, convergent anteriorly. Median clypeal lobe rounded. Antenna long; flagellomere I longer than pedicel; flagellomeres short. Eye small [0.5 × LH], oval. Frons strongly foveolate. Mesosoma: dorsal pronotal area foveolate, with anterior corner rounded, lateral margin straight, and posterior margin sinuous; longitudinal pronotal sulcus present, incomplete. Longitudinal antero-mesoscutal sulcus absent; Metapectal-propodeal complex 0.5 × as long as wide; posterior spine of metapectal-propodeal complex short, thick. Metasoma: dorsal surface punctured.

Distribution

Kenya and South Africa.

Figures

Figure 4. Habitus. A. I. consimilis (Móczár, 1970); B. I. saintjohni (Móczár, 1977) comb. nov.