Pseudoheptascelio muesebecki Szabo

Johnson, Norman F. & Musetti, Luciana, 2011, Redescription and revision of the Neotropical genus Pseudoheptascelio Szabo (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae, Scelioninae), parasitoids of eggs of short-horned grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae), ZooKeys 136, pp. 93-112 : 99

Pseudoheptascelio muesebecki Szabo Figures 11-16Morphbank12

Pseudoheptascelio muesebecki Szabó, 1966: 167 (original description); Masner, 1976: 18 (type information).

Description.

Body length of female: 4.09-5.42 mm (n=15). Mesosoma color: black. Body microsculpture pattern: smooth.

Rugae on occiput: reticulate. Microsculpture between occipital rugae: absent. Setae on crests of occipital rugae: absent. Shape of female A4: length subequal to width. Shape of female A5: transverse. Shape of female A6: distinctly transverse.

Setation of pronotal depression: moderately to densely setose (Fig. 12). Setation of netrion: moderately to densely setose. Sculpture of midlobe of mesoscutum: foveate to areolate throughout; foveate to areolate anteriorly, or sculpture effaced, sparser posteriorly (Fig. 14). Number of trabecula across transscutal articulation: 7-8, widely spaced. Shape of metascutellum: short, shallowly cleft medially (Fig. 14). Sculpture of mesopleural depression: almost entirely sculptured, with transverse rugulae and interspersed irregular fovea.

Sculpture of T2-T3: irregularly reticulate, without longitudinal orientation. Length/width of female T5: 1.26-1.80 mm (n=15). Length/width of female T6: 1.05-1.53 mm (n=15). Sculpture of T6: with reticulate microsculpture only.

Diagnosis.

This species is very similar to Pseudoheptascelio cornopis , and it may be distinguished by the less elongate T5 and the coarse areolate sculpture on the vertex.

Link to Distribution Map.

13 [http://hol.osu.edu/map-full.html?id=5133]

Assocations.

No data available.

Material Examined.

Holotype, female: BRAZIL: PA, Belém, no date, E. Horváth, HNHM 0015 (deposited in HNHM). Other material: (14 females) BOLIVIA: 1 female, OSUC 186244 (CNCI). BRAZIL: 9 females, OSUC 186233-186240 (CNCI); OSUC 58878 (OSUC). ECUADOR: 1 female, OSUC 186208 (CNCI). PARAGUAY: 2 females, OSUC 176024, 176033 (OSUC). TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: 1 female, OSUC 186163 (CNCI).