Incertosulcus saintjohni ( Móczár, 1977 ) Barbosa & Azevedo, 2020

Barbosa, Diego N. & Azevedo, Celso O., 2020, Synopsis of Incertosulcus Móczár, 1970 (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae), Journal of Natural History 54 (21 - 22), pp. 1363-1393 : 1382-1383

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2020.1794073

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C512C3A4-0E6C-4AE7-AA87-5A7D2794F445

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039D3726-FF84-FFE2-FEB2-FB6CFE174EC8

treatment provided by

Carolina

scientific name

Incertosulcus saintjohni ( Móczár, 1977 )
status

comb. nov.

Incertosulcus saintjohni ( Móczár, 1977) comb. nov.

Sulcomesitius saintjohni Móczár, 1977 , 23: 139, 143, 154–156, figs. 1, 53–54. Typerepository: MRAC ( Figure 4 View Figure 4 (b)).

Material examined

♂ Kenya, Coast Prov [ince], Funzi Island , near sea level, 4.57389°S, 39.43830°E, sweep net, n[ea]r Funzi , Primary school, 7 Jul [y] 2002, Coll [ector]: ICIPE/NMK Funzi Island Expedition (NMKE) GoogleMaps .

Description

Male. Body length 4.6 mm. Forewing 3.0 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 quadrate. Antenna long; pedicel fusiform; flagellomere I longer than pedicel; flagellomeres long. Eye small [0.5 × LH], circular. Frons strongly foveolate. Ocelli large [DAO 0.5 × POL]. Mesosoma: dorsal pronotal area foveolate, with anterior corner angled, lateral margin incurved, and posterior margin sinuous; longitudinal pronotal sulcus complete. Anteromesoscutum weakly foveolate, as long as mesoscutellum; longitudinal antero-mesoscutal sulcus incomplete. Mesoscutellum foveolate. Metapectal-propodeal complex 0.5 × as long as wide; metapostnotum with longitudinal ridge between metaposnotal median carina and metaposnotal-propodeal suture; posterior spine of metapectal-propodeal complex short, thick. Metasoma: tergum I with ventral surface areolate; tergum II with dorsal surface punctured, ventral surface punctured. Hypopygium with anterior spiculum long and wide. Genitalia: paramere ventral arm short, sinuous; dorsal arm of paramere as long as ventral, filamentary. Aedeagus slender, with apex aligned with paramere apex, apical margin angled, and apical sickle process short, lateral of margin of basal portion outcurved.

Distribution

Kenya and South Africa

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Bethylidae

Genus

Incertosulcus

Loc

Incertosulcus saintjohni ( Móczár, 1977 )

Barbosa, Diego N. & Azevedo, Celso O. 2020
2020
Loc

Sulcomesitius saintjohni Móczár, 1977

Moczar 1977
1977
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