Orasema bakeri Gahan
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4888.1.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4337823 |
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Orasema bakeri Gahan View in CoL
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( Fig. 13 View FIGURE 13 )
Orasema bakeri Gahan 1940: 452–453 View in CoL .
Diagnosis. Distinguished from other members of the bakeri group by the following combination of characters: mesoscutal midlobe and lateral lobes reticulate without any depressions ( Fig. 13F View FIGURE 13 ), petiole relatively long (PTL:PTW = 0.8–1.3 in females, 3.5–4.9 in males), male antenna with setae long and broadly curved anteriorly ( Fig. 13E View FIGURE 13 ), and body size larger on average.
This species is difficult to diagnose from O. dubitata but is generally less violaceous and has a larger average body size.
Description. Female. Length 3.0– 3.5 mm ( Fig. 13A View FIGURE 13 ). Color. Head and mesosoma blue-green iridescent occasionally with violaceous patches. Scape, pedicle, and anellus pale brown; maxilla and labium pale brown. Tibiae light brown. Fore wing venation pale brown, nearly white. Head ( Fig. 13B View FIGURE 13 ). Head in frontal view subtriangular; HW:HH = 1.1–1.3; scrobal depression shallow, laterally rounded, with transverse striae; eyes bare, IOD:EH = 1.5–1.9; MS:EH = 0.7–1.0; supraclypeal area slightly broader than long, weakly reticulate; epistomal sulcus distinct and sharply defined; anteclypeus distinct, nearly straight. Palpal formula 3:2. Occiput with dorsal margin evenly rounded. Pedicel globose, broader than F1. FL:HH = 0.9–1.1; F2L:F2W = 1.3–2.0, F2L:F3L = 1.1–1.5 ( Fig. 13D View FIGURE 13 ). Mesosoma ( Fig. 13C, F View FIGURE 13 ). ML:MH = 1.2–1.4. Mesoscutal midlobe bare; lateral lobe reticulate to nearly smooth; notauli deep. Axilla reticulate, dorsally rounded, on roughly same plane as mesoscutellum; scutoscutellar sulcus narrow, regularly foveate, broadly separated from transscutal articulation; mesoscutellar disc as long as broad, reticulate; frenal line as smooth band; axillular sulcus indicated by a weak longitudinal carina; axillula reticulate. Propodeal disc broadly rounded, without depression or carina ( Fig. 13G View FIGURE 13 ); reticulate; callus reticulate, bare; callar nib absent. Propleuron strongly convex, protruding ventrally. Postpectal carina weak. Upper and lower mesepimeron reticulate; transepimeral sulcus distinct. Metepisternum laterally reticulate. HCL:HCW = 1.4–2.0; HFL:HFW = 4.6–6.0, evenly covered with short, dense setae. FWL:FWW = 2.1–2.5, FWL:ML = 1.9–2.2; fore wing with basal third bare, costal cell sparsely setose, wing disc with minute sparse setae; marginal fringe short to absent; submarginal vein with minute setae; marginal vein with sparse minute setae; stigmal vein about twice as long as broad, perpendicular to anterior wing margin; postmarginal vein longer than stigmal vein. Metasoma. Petiole cylindrical, linear in profile, PTL:PTW = 0.8–1.3, PTL:HCL = 0.5–0.8, reticulate, lateral margin rounded, ventral sulcus absent. Ovipositor with subapical carina present; second (dorsal) valvula with 6 or 7 annuli that are narrowly separated dorsally, the carinae coalescing.
Male. Length 2.4–3.0 mm. HW:HH = 1.2–1.3; FL:HH = 1.2–1.3, F2L:F2W = 1.0–1.4 ( Fig. 13E View FIGURE 13 ). Tibiae light brown. PTL:PTW = 3.5–4.9, PTL:HCL = 1.3–1.7.
Hosts. Unknown.
Plant associates. Swept from Fabaceae and Chrysothamnus sp. ( Asteraceae ) in Arizona, Larrea sp. ( Zygophyllaceae ) in New Mexico, Heracleum mantegazzianum Sommier & Levier (Apiaceae) in Colorado ( Gahan 1940).
Distribution ( Fig. 11 View FIGURE 11 ). Mexico: DF; United States: AZ, CO, ID, MN, NE, NM, OK, TX, UT, WY. Collected June–August.
Material Examined. Holotype. UNITED STATES. Colorado: Larimer Co., Fort Collins , 40 ° 34’58”N, 105 ° 05’5”W, 13.vi.1895, C.F. Baker, 1563 [♀, deposited in USNM: USNMENT01524341, type images: http:// n 2t.net/ark:/65665/3e5a194bb-aca0-4751-8a0c-1def5010f856] GoogleMaps . Allotype. UNITED STATES. Colorado: Larimer Co., Fort Collins, 40 ° 34’58”N, 105 ° 05’5”W, 13.vi.1895, C.F. Baker, 1563 [³, USNM: UCRCENT00247804]. GoogleMaps Other paratypes. UNITED STATES. Arizona: Pinal Co. , Oracle, 32 ° 36’39”N, 110 ° 46’14”W, 7.vi.1898, Hubbard & Schwarz [1♀, USNM: UCRCENT00247813]. GoogleMaps Colorado: Archuleta Co. , Pagosa Springs, 37 ° 15’55”N, 107 ° 00’46”W, C.F.Baker [1³, USNM:UCRCENT00247812]. Larimer Co. , Fort Collins , 40 ° 34’58”N, 105 ° 05’5”W, 13.vi.1895, C.F. Baker, 1563 [6♀, USNM: UCRCENT00247805–10]; vi, wild parsnip bloom, 1086 [1♀, USNM: UCRCENT00247811] GoogleMaps . Additional material examined. 49 specimens, see supplementary material. GenBank sequences. UCRCENT00411576 (D4097): 18S ( KR632468.1 ) , 28S D2 ( KR632393.1 ) , 28S D3–5 ( KR632432.1 ) , COI-BC ( KR733117.1 ) , COI-NJ ( KR733149.1 ) .
Discussion. This species is morphologically similar to O. dubitata , O. taii , and O. polymyrmex . While there is some molecular support for O. dubitata and O. taii as separate species, O. polymyrmex failed sequencing attempts. Due to the cryptic nature of this 4-species complex, it requires more thorough molecular sequencing across populations in separate geographic areas to be able to confidently associate morphological differences with phylogenetic differences.
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Orasema bakeri Gahan
Baker, Austin J. & Heraty, John M. 2020 |
Orasema bakeri
Gahan, A. B. 1940: 453 |