Aspicera enormis Belizin, 1952

ROS-FARRÉ, P. & PUJADE-VILLAR, J., 2013, <strong> Revision of the genus <em> Aspicera </ em> Dahlbom, 1842 (Hym.: Figitidae: Aspicerinae) </ strong>, Zootaxa 3606 (1), pp. 1-110 : 25-26

Aspicera enormis Belizin, 1952

( Figs 12a & b )

Aspicera enormis Belizin, 1952: 296 .

Type material: (1♂). HOLOTYPE male deposited in ZIN, with the following labels: “Holotipus, Aspicera enormis m ♂, V. Belezin det” (hand written, red label), “Bakharden (Zakaspiyskaya region), Turkmenia. 14.4.903 Ê.Î.Anger“ (in Russian, white label), “Kokuyev's collection” (in Russian, white label), “ Aspicera enormis Belizin, 1952 , det. P. Ros-Farré 2004” (white label).

Diagnosis. Aspicera enormis is the only Aspicera species with a sharply blunt scutellar spine. Moreover, the scutellum is very convex, the scutellar pits are sharply deep and the lateral line is very conspicuous and complete.

Redescription

Length. Male 4.2 mm.; female unknown.

Coloration. Head, mesosoma and metasoma black. Scape and pedicellum black. Coxa and trocanter black, remaining leg segments medium to light brown. Wing veins light brown.

Head. Frons coriaceous, with small rugose sculpture on dorsal half. Lateral frontal carinae sharp ventrally, weak near ocelli, slightly curved. Area between compound eye and lateral frontal carinae with transverse carinae. Gena in lateral view rounded, slightly expanded, coriaceous, sharply rugose. Vertex straight, with rugose carinae and weak microsculpture. Ocelli weakly prominent. Occiput noticeably coriaceous with longitudinal rugose carinae on dorsal 1/3, transverse carinae on basal 2/3.

Antenna. Lost in the type material.

Mesosoma. Lateral surface of pronotum coriaceous with small transverse rugose carinae. Subpronotal plate not projected, dorsal margin with sparse pubescence. Scutum coriaceous. Lateral line very conspicuous, complete. Antero-admedian lines wide, reaching 1/3–1/2 scutum length, parallel; median ridge thin, coriaceous. Notauli wide, smooth, with thin and incomplete transverse carinae. Median mesoscutal sulcus wide, smooth. Area between notauli not prominent in lateral view. Parascutal sulcus ending near anterior end of notauli, smooth with some scattered setae on anterior 1/3. Mesopleuron alutaceous on ventral area and anterior 1/3, smooth on dorsoposterior area. Scutellum emarginate 0.98 times scutum length. Scutellar foveae sharply wide, large, rather shallow, with weak carinae on posterior 1/3, weakly alutaceous anteriorly, scutellar pits rather deep. Interfoveal carina prominent, continuing along scutellar disc until beginning of scutellar spine. Scutellar disc sharply swollen posterior to scutellar foveae, with three sinuous longitudinal carinae on each side and some short transverse carinae between them, sloping towards basis of scutellar spine in lateral view. Scutellar spine 0.56 times length of scutellar disc, wide, stout, with fine longitudinal rugae, straight in lateral view.

Wing. Wing membrane hyaline. Radial cel 2.4 times longer than wide. Wing pubescence reduced. Marginal pubescence present from R2, short, sharply dense. R1 long. R2 straight, only curved near dorsal margin. Rs+M absent.

Biology. Unknown.

Distribution. Central Palaearctic: Turkmenistan.

Figures

FIGURE 12. Aspicera enormis Belizin: (a) head and mesosoma in lateral view, (b) mesosoma in dorsal view.