Alloxysta pilipennis ( Hartig, 1840 )

Ferrer-Suay, Mar, Selfa, Jesús, Villemant, Claire & Pujade-Villar, Juli, 2015, Charipinae Dalla Torre & Kieffer, 1910 (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Figitidae) from the Mercantour National Park (Alpes-Maritimes, France), with descriptions of three new species, Zoosystema 37 (1), pp. 115-138 : 128

Alloxysta pilipennis ( Hartig, 1840)

( Figs 2P ; 3P )

Xystus pilipennis Hartig, 1840: 199 .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — (8♀). M9-BOR1400- T2 -M1: 1♀ ; M9-BOR1400 T1 -M2: 1♀ ; M09-SES1400- T1 -M2: 3♀ ; M9- SES1400- T2 -M2: 2♀ ; M10-CAI2000- T2 -M1: 1♀. 4 ♀ deposited at MNHN and 4♀ at UB .

DISTRIBUTION. — Previously known from the Palaearctic (Ferrer- Suay et al. 2012a). First record from France.

HOSTS. — See Charipinae Worldwide Catalogue (Ferrer-Suay et al. 2012a).

DIAGNOSIS. — Alloxysta pilipennis is characterized by: a closed radial cell, 2.5 × longer than wide ( Fig. 3P ); pronotal and propodeal carinae present; female antenna with rhinaria beginning from F3, F1 longer than pedicel and F2, F2-F4 subequal in length ( Fig. 2P ). Male unknown. Similar to Alloxysta pusilla (Kieffer, 1902) , but the two species can be differentiated by the proportion between flagellomeres: F2 subequal to F 3 in A. pilipennis female ( Fig. 2P ), versus F2 shorter than F 3 in A. pusilla female ( Fig. 2S ); F1-F3 distinctly unequal and without any curved flagellomere in A. pilipennis male, as opposed to F1-F3 subequal in length and with slightly curved flagellomere in A. pusilla male; proportions of radial cell 2.4 × longer than wide in A. pilipennis female ( Fig. 3P ), versus 2.7 × in A. pusilla female ( Fig. 3S ).

Figures

FIG. 2. — Types of Alloxysta Förster, 1869 antennae: A, A. abdera Fergusson, 1986; B, A. arcuata (Kieffer, 1902); C, A. brachycera Hellén, 1963; D, A. brevis (Thomson, 1862); E, A. castanea (Hartig, 1841); F, A. circumscripta (Hartig, 1841); G, A. citripes (Thomson, 1862); H, A. fracticornis (Thomson, 1862); I, A. conso- brina (Zetterstedt, 1838); J, A. longipennis (Hartig, 1841); K, A. macrophadna (Hartig, 1841); L, A. melanogaster (Hartig, 1840); M, A. mullensis (Cameron, 1883); N, A. nigrita (Thomson, 1862); O, A. obscurata (Hartig, 1840); P, A. pilipennis (Hartig, 1840); Q, A. postica (Hartig, 1841); R, A. proxima Belizin, 1962; S, A. pusilla (Kieffer, 1902); T, A. victrix (Westwood, 1833). Scale bars: 50 μm.

FIG. 3. — Types of Alloxysta Förster, 1869 radial cells: A, A. abdera Fergusson, 1986; B, A. arcuata (Kieffer, 1902); C, A. brachycera Hellén, 1963; D, A. brevis (Thomson,1862); E, A. castanea (Hartig, 1841); F, A. circumscripta (Hartig, 1841); G, A. citripes (Thomson, 1862); H, A. fracticornis (Thomson,1862); I, A. conso- brina (Zetterstedt, 1838); J, A. longipennis (Hartig, 1841); K, A. macrophadna (Hartig, 1841); L, A. melanogaster (Hartig, 1840); M, A. mullensis (Cameron, 1883); N, A. nigrita (Thomson, 1862); O, A. obscurata (Hartig, 1840); P, A. pilipennis (Hartig, 1840); Q, A. postica (Hartig, 1841); R, A. proxima Belizin, 1962; S, A. pusilla (Kieffer, 1902); T, A. victrix (Westwood, 1833). Scale bars: 50 μm.