Alloxysta victrix ( Westwood, 1833 )

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 : 130

Alloxysta victrix ( Westwood, 1833)

( Figs 2T ; 3T ; 6B )

Allotria victrix Westwood, 1833: 495 .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — (1♂ & 31♀). M9- SES1400 - T2 -M2: 6♀ ; M9- SES1400 - T4 -M2: 1♀ ; M9- SES1400 -M2-TT3: 2♀ ; M9- SES2000 - T5 -M1: 1♀ ; M9- SES2000 - T4 -M1,: 2♀ ; M9- SES2000 - T2 -M1: 1♀ ; M9- SES2000 - T3 -M1: 2♀ ; M9- BOR1400 - T3 - M1: 1♀ ; M9- BOR1400 - T2 -M1: 3♀ ; M9- BOR1400 - T4 -M1: 1♂ & 1♀ ; M9- BOR1400 - T2 -M2: 1♀ ; M9- BOR2000 - T6 -M1: 1♀ ; M9- BOR2000 - T3 -M1: 2♀ ; M9- BOR2000 - T4 -M1: 1♀ ; M10- CAI2000 - T1 -M1: 1♀ ; M10- CAI2000 - T4 -M1: 1♀ ; M10- CAI2000 - T2 -M1: 2♀ ; M10- CAI1400 - T1 -M2: 2♀. Material deposited at MNHN, except for 15♀ deposited at UB .

DISTRIBUTION. — Cosmopolitan (Ferrer-Suay et al. 2012a). Previously cited from France by Kieffer (1902a: 15, 16; 1902b: 70; 1904: 600) and De Gaulle (1908: 26).

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

DIAGNOSIS. — Alloxysta victrix is characterized by: a large closed radial cell, 3.0 × longer than wide ( Fig. 3T ); pronotal carinae present, propodeum without carinae and lacking setae on longitudinal areas bearing propodeal carinae in other Charipinae species ( Fig. 6B ), male and female with rhinaria beginning from F3, F1 longer than pedicel and F2, F2-F4 subequal ( Fig. 2T ), F1-F3 curved in male. Similar to A. consobrina , but the two species can be differentiated by the proportions between flagellomeres: F2-F4 subequal in length in A. victrix ( Fig. 2T ), versus F2 subequal to F3 and F3 shorter than F 4 in A. consobrina ( Fig. 2I ); proportions of radial cell 3.0 × longer than wide in A. victrix ( Fig. 3T ), versus 2.7 × in A. consobrina ( Fig. 2T ); and the propodeal pubescence: with two longitudinal glabrous areas in A. victrix , as opposed to entirely and densely setose in A. consobrina the propodeum.

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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.

FIG. 6. — Types of propodea: A, A. arcuata (Kieffer, 1902); B, A. victrix (Westwood, 1833); C, P.villosa (Hartig, 1841); D, A. trapezoidea (Hartig, 1841); E, D. subclavata Förster, 1869; F, A. citripes (Thomson, 1862). Scale bars: 50 μm.