Synopeas nottoni, Buhl, 2009
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publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930802610493 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/86042B61-3114-FFE9-5589-22C5FC38A682 |
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treatment provided by |
Felipe |
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scientific name |
Synopeas nottoni |
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sp. nov. |
Synopeas nottoni sp. nov.
( Figure 5 View Figure 5 )
Diagnosis
Hyperoccipital carina very weak; scutellum with a small tooth; marginal cilia of fore wing 0.05 width of wing; female metasoma shorter than rest of body, distinctly wider than high.
Description
Female. Length 1.0 mm. Black; basal half of A1, trochanters, tibiae and segments 1–4 of all tarsi light brown; mandibles and rest of antennae and legs dark brown, A7– A10 darkest.
Head from above ( Figure 5A View Figure 5 ) 1.75 times as wide as long, hardly wider than mesosoma, medially behind ocelli with a very weak, incomplete hyperoccipital carina; occiput distinctly transversely reticulate-coriaceous, vertex and frons less transversely so. OOL equal to diameter of lateral ocellus; OOL:LOL52:7. Head in frontal view 1.1 times as wide as high. Antenna ( Figure 5B View Figure 5 ) with A1 0.8 times as long as height of head.
Mesosoma 1.4 times as long as wide, very slightly higher than wide. Sides of pronotum faintly reticulate-coriaceous, smooth in slightly less than lower half and along narrow hind margin. Mesoscutum sparsely and evenly hairy, weakly reticulate-coriaceous, postero-medially smooth, without notauli; hind margin slightly and broadly rounded medially, not reaching disc of scutellum; scutoscutellar grooves wide, each with about seven long hairs. Mesopleuron smooth. Scutellum ( Figure 5C View Figure 5 ) smooth medially and almost bare, laterally slightly dull and densely hairy, posteriorly with a small, brownish tooth and a narrow brownish vertical lamella below. Metapleuron smooth and bare in most of anterior third, rest with dense pilosity. Propodeum with a single, dark brown, straight medial carina.
Fore wing hardly 0.9 times as long as entire body, 2.6 times as long as wide, almost clear, with fine and dense microtrichia; marginal cilia 0.05 times the width of wing. Hind wing 6.4 times as long as wide; marginal cilia 0.6 times the width of wing.
Metasoma ( Figure 5D View Figure 5 ) 0.8 times as long as head and mesosoma combined, as wide as mesosoma, 1.3 times as wide as high, T1 – T2 combined hardly shorter than mesosoma (22:23). T1 – T6 smooth except for some very weak rugosity on T5 – T6 ; apical tergites with very few fine hairs. Ovipositor in holotype exserted to a length equal to 0.9 times the length of metasoma .
Material examined
Holotype female: England, Lancashire, near Smiths Reservoirs, Little Lever , 12.ix.1981.
Affinities
Similar to S. ciliatum Thomson, 1859 , but this species has thinner and more upturned scutellar spine, marginal cilia of fore wing 0.16 times the width of wing, T1–T2 combined notably shorter than mesosoma, and darker legs than S. nottoni , cf. Kozlov (1978). Differs most obviously from other similar small Synopeas spp. , e.g. S. trebius (Walker, 1835), S. spinulus Buhl, 2004 , and S. marttii Buhl, 2004 in having much transverse preapical antennal segments, cf. Buhl (2004).
Etymology
Named after David Notton of the Natural History Museum, London.
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