Aspicera robusta Ros-Farré & Pujade-Villar, 2013

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 : 43-44

Aspicera robusta Ros-Farré & Pujade-Villar n. sp.

( Figs 47a & b )

Type material: ( 1♂). HOLOTYPE male ( ZSM) Schlesien, Letzner , POLAND, Eberswalde coll.

Diagnosis. Aspicera robusta belongs to the group of species with sharp longitudinal carinae on the occiput, sharp transverse carinae on lateral surface of pronotum, scutellar disc flat in lateral view and notauli sharply carinate transversely. Most remarkable character of this species are the very wide notauli, basally and dorsally. Moreover, scutellar spine is rather long and slender, scutellar disc is rugose and scutellar foveae have some sculpture inside.

Description

Length. Male 4.8 mm.; female unknown.

Coloration. Head and mesosoma black. Metasoma and antenna blackish brown. Leg medium to dark brown.

Head. Frons coriaceous, sharply rugose. Lateral frontal carinae straight, divergent. Area between compound eye and lateral frontal carinae with transverse carinae. Gena in lateral view rounded, slightly expanded, with coriaceous and shiny areas and oblique carinae. Vertex not incised, sharply carinate, coriaceous. Ocelli quite prominent. Occiput coriaceous, with conspicuous longitudinal carinae on dorsal 1/3, and a few sharp transverse carinae on basal 2/3.

Antenna. Filiform. F1 sharply excavated. Antennal formula: 12(8): 4.5(6): 19(7): 14(6): 14(6): 14(6): 14(6): 13.5(6): 12.5(6): 12(6): 11.5(6): 12(5.5): 11.5(5): 17(5)

Mesosoma. Lateral surface of pronotum coriaceous with transverse carinae. Subpronotal plate not projected, dorsal margin with scattered setae. Scutum coriaceous, with transverse carinae. Lateral line complete, very conspicuous. Antero-admedian lines sharp, prominent, reaching 1/2 scutum length, straight; median ridge sharp. Notauli shiny, with sharp transverse carinae, wider dorsally than ventrally, median mesoscutal furrow shiny, with smaller transverse carinae. Area between notauli not prominent in lateral view. Parascutal sulcus ending near anterior end of notauli, pubescent and alutaceous on anterior half. Mesopleuron coriaceous on ventral area and anterior 1/3, smooth on dorsoposterior area. Scutellum 0.93 times scutum length, emarginate. Scutellar foveae conspicuously rugose, scutellar pits shallow. Interfoveal carina continuing along scutellar disc to end of scutellar spine. Scutellar disc with sharp rugose sculpture and sinuous longitudinal carinae, very weakly sloping towards basis of scutellar spine in lateral view. Scutellar spine rather long, 0.69 times length of scutellar disc, slender, sharply rugose, straight in lateral view.

Wing. Wing membrane slightly yellowish. Radial cell 2.15 times longer than wide. Wing pubescence weakly reduced. Marginal pubescence dense and long. R1 long. R2 straight. Rs+M marked by a shadow.

Derivatio nominis. The specific name refers to the robustness of this species.

Biology. Unknown.

Distribution. Western Palaeartic: Poland.

Figures

FIGURE 47. Aspicera robusta Ros-Farré & Pujade-Villar n. sp.: (a) mesosoma in lateral view, (b) mesosoma in dorsal view.