Scelio vannoorti Valerio & Yoder

Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir & Johnson, Norman F., 2014, Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae), ZooKeys 380, pp. 1-188 : 140-142

Scelio vannoorti Valerio & Yoder sp. n. Figures 323-328; Morphbank 69

Description.

Female body length: 3.82-3.94 mm (n=2). Male body length: 3.68 mm (n=1). Body color in female: dark brown to black. Setae between ommatidia in female: absent. Form of RSS on A5 in male: linear, a fine carina. Surface of pronotal nucha in female: partially to completely transversely striate, at most with slight obliterated patch. Notauli in males: absent. Surface of mesopleural depression in female: more or less sculptured throughout. Carinate division of posterior T6 in female: present.

Diagnosis.

This species differs from Scelio simonolus by the sculptured mesopleural depression (Fig. 326). It may be distinguished from the similar Scelio simoni by the absence of pilosity between the ommatidia and, in males, the linear RSS on A5 and the absence of discernible notauli.

Etymology.

The epithet is used as a genitive noun derived from the name of the sole collector of all known material, Simon van Noort.

Link to distribution map.

http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244595

Material examined.

Holotype, female: SOUTH AFRICA: Western Cape Prov., Cape Town, Constantiaberg, 34°02'S, 18°23'E, 460m, 10. III– 17.III.1995, malaise trap, S. van Noort, OSUC 214201 (deposited in SAMC). Paratypes: SOUTH AFRICA: 1 female, 1 male, OSUC 212543, 213198 (CNCI).