Ufo abei Melika & Pujade-Villar

Melika, George, Tang, Chang-Ti, Yang, Man-Miao, Bihari, Péter, Bozsó, Miklós & Pénzes, Zsolt, 2012, New species of cynipid inquilines of the genus Ufo Melika & Pujade-Villar, 2005 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini), Zootaxa 3478, pp. 143-163 : 155-156

Ufo abei Melika & Pujade-Villar

Figs 30–39

Diagnosis. Differs from all other Ufo species by the smooth, glabrous head (particularly smooth frons) and the short malar space. The body is uniformly reddish brown to black; the head is transversely ovate; the frons is smooth, shiny; the compound eye 1.1´longer than the malar space; the lower face with sparse white setae ( Figs 30–33 ); notauli are incomplete, extending maximum to the half length of the mesoscutum ( Fig. 37 ); the 2nd metasomal tergite not or very slightly incised posterodorsally.

Distribution and Biology. Known only from Honshu (Hiroshima), Japan; collected from Q. variabilis , from an unknown host (Melika et al. 2005). Females known only.

Figures

FIGURES 30 – 34. Ufo abei Melika & Pujade-Villar, female: 30 – 33, head: 30, anterior view, 31, dorsal view, 32, posterior view. 33, lateral view. 34, antenna.

FIGURES 35 – 39. Ufo abei Melika & Pujade-Villar, female: 35, mesosoma, lateral view, 36, pronotum and propleuron, anterior view, 37, mesoscutum, dorsal view, 38, mesoscutellum, dorsal view, 39, metascutellum and propodeum, posterodorsal view.