Axea yama Valerio & Yoder

Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Masner, Lubomír & Johnson, Norman F., 2009, Identity and synonymy of Dicroscelio Kieffer and description of Axea, a new genus from tropical Africa and Asia (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Platygastridae), Zootaxa 2003, pp. 1-45 : 36-37

Axea yama Valerio & Yoder , n.sp.

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FIGURES 101–106. 62 Axea yama , holotype female (OSUC 56308). 101, dorsal habitus; 102, lateral habitus; 103, head and mesosoma, dorsal view; 104, mesosoma, lateral view; 105, head, anterior view; 106. apex of metasoma, dorsal view. Scale bars in millimeters.

http://www.morphbank.net/?id=226876 http://www.morphbank.net/?id=226915 General (Figs. 101,102): Female body length: 2.0 mm (n= 1). Male body length: unknown. Head: Color of female head: black. Mandible color: mostly yellow to amber or orange yellow. Body color of male: unknown. Lateral ocellus position: touching compound eye. Pilosity of medial frons between anterior ocellus and apex of torular triangle: absent, a small patch without setae clearly visible. Sculpture of medial glabrous area of frons: present, with horizontal to slightly arcuate striae or, if patch minute, then irregularly rugulose (Fig. 105). Mesosoma (Figs. 103, 104): Color of female mesosoma: yellow to amber or orange yellow. Dorsal surface of lateral pronotal area adjacent to mesoscutal suprahumeral sulcus: with uniform microsculpture only. Setae on netrion: absent. Notaulus: indicated by a row of pits. Metascutellum: projecting, broadly bilobed. Mesopleural depression sculpture: mostly transversely rugulose, larger fovea absent. Pilosity bounding anterior margin of posterior mesepimeral area: completely absent, or partially present dorsally. Legs: Coxae color: yellow (as in remainder of leg). Color of legs beyond coxae: uniformly yellow, without infuscations. Wings: Length of fore wing: not or just reaching posterior margin of metasoma, surpassing posterior margin of metasoma. Hind wing submarginal vein: tubular from wing base to hamuli. Metasoma: Color of female metasoma: yellow to amber or orange yellow. Longitudinal sculpture of T1: carinate, parallel to subparallel, interspersed with fine rugulose sculpture. Female T1 horn: absent, sculpture more or less uniform throughout T1. Anterior strip of T2: nitid. Female T6 width to length ratio: wider than long (striplike). Female T6 carinate basal extension of lateral spine: absent. T6/S6 apical curvature: absent, sclerites more or less linear in lateral view. T6 posterolateral margin: without short spine or carinate expansion absent or apparently so (Fig. 106). S6 shape at tip: broadly rounded to very slightly angular, without obvious lobe.

Diagnosis. Differs from other species in which the hind wing submarginal vein is present by the presence of a bilobed metascutellum (Fig. 20).

Etymology. The specific epithet is a reference to the Hindu god of death.

Link to Distribution Map. 63

Material Examined. Holotype female: INDIA: Uttar Pradesh St., 5 km W Lucknow, 24.IX.1986, OSUC 56308 (deposited in OSUC).