Heptascelio anthonyi Masner & Johnson

Johnson, Norman F., Masner, Lubomír, Musetti, Luciana, Noort, Simon Van, K, Rajmohana, Darling, Christopher & Polaszek, Antonia Guidotti Andrew, 2008, Revision of world species of the genus Heptascelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea, Platygastridae), Zootaxa 1776, pp. 1-51 : 10-11

Heptascelio anthonyi Masner & Johnson , new species

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Description. Female body length: 3.4 mm (n=1). Male body length: unknown. Body color of female: entirely dark, dark brown to black. Color of female antenna: A1 brown, A2–A5 light brown, A6–A12 dark brown. Color of wing membrane: hyaline basally, infuscate in apical two-thirds, streak below submarginal vein weak. Color of legs: coxae dark brown, femora largely brown, legs otherwise brownish yellow. Body color of male: unknown. Color of male antenna: unknown.

Sculpture of occiput and posterior vertex: with strong transverse rugae. Sculpture of frons below ocellus in female: areolate rugose. Shape of dorsal margin of frontal scrobe: evenly arcuate, weakly produced. Sculpture of frontal depression in female: irregularly areolate ventrally, smooth dorsally and medially. Sculpture of gena: with irregular dorsoventral rugae. Setation of gena: with short, uniform setae, with few short bristles interspersed. Shape of mandibles: normal length, crossed transversely below head when closed, tips overlapping.

Sculpture of dorsal pronotum: areolate rugose. Notaulus: absent or obscured by coarse surface sculpture. Sculpture of mesoscutum in female: longitudinally strigose, with strong transverse sculpture in interspaces. Sculpture of mesoscutum in male: unknown. Parapsidal line: absent. Mesoscutellum shape: distinctly narhttp://atbi.biosci.ohio-state.edu/HymOnline/map-large.html?id=223418 18. http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:specimen:C0775940-4D04-4364-945F-10BD035D2B78 http://www.morphbank.net/?id=224268

rowed apically, with median longitudinal depression. Sculpture of female mesoscutellum: areolate rugose. Scutellar points of female: narrow, elongate, acute. Sculpture of male mesoscutellum: unknown. Scutellar points of male: unknown. Posterior surface of propodeum: with distinct straight longitudinal paramedian keel arising from apex of inner propodeal projection. Length of outer propodeal projection in female: rather short, extending at most to midlength of T1, distinctly longer than inner propodeal projection. Sculpture of propodeum between inner and outer propodeal projections: areolate rugose. Netrion shape: strongly narrowed, nearly linear, foveae on surface nearly as high as wide. Netrion setation: glabrous. Sculpture of lateral pronotum posterior to epomial carina: with smooth field dorsally, elsewhere areolate rugose. Setation of posterior half of lateral pronotum: with numerous scattered setae, densest near spiracle. Sculpture of mesopleural scrobe: smooth. Sculpture of lower mesepisternum: rugulose to punctate. Sculpture of metapleuron: irregularly longitudinally rugose, with smooth field medially. Fore wing venation: well-developed, with R, r-rs clearly visible. Submarginal vein bristles: with dark bristles extending length of submarginal vein. Long dark bristles on legs: absent.

T1 depression: glabrous or sparsely setose. Sublateral lamella on T1: indicated as low carina. Sculpture of T2–T4: longitudinally striate, with fine cross striae, punctures, smooth or finely punctulate transverse band apically. Setation of laterotergites: very sparsely setose. Sculpture of S2, S3 of female: strongly longitudinally rugose. Sculpture of S2, S3 of male: unknown. Distribution of felt fields: present on S2–S3.

Diagnosis. Distinguished from the similar H. watshami , H. albipes , and H. strigatus by the areolate sculpture of the mesoscutum (Fig. 9).

Etymology. Named in recognition of the contributions to understanding of Hymenoptera diversity of the Rev. Anthony Watsham.

Link to Distribution Map.20

Material Examined. Holotype female: ZIMBABWE: Harare, III.1979, Malaise trap, A. Watsham, OSUC 192924 (deposited in CNCI)21.