Centistidea africana ( Brues, 1926 )

Liu, Zhen & Polaszek, Andrew, 2024, Afrotropical Centistidea Rohwer, 1914 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) with description of four new species, ZooKeys 1216, pp. 83-100 : 83-100

Centistidea africana ( Brues, 1926)

Mirax africana Brues, 1926: 292. Holotype in Durban Museum and Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa (not examined).

Mirax africana : De Saeger 1944: 37; Shenefelt 1973: 676.

Diagnosis.

Body length 1.7 mm, yellow-brown; occiput deeply emarginate; head matte, without median groove on vertex; ocelli in small equilateral triangle, about the distance to each eye; antenna shorter than body, first three flagellomeres of equal length, the fourth and following becoming shorter and more slender; notauli very distinct anteriorly, less so behind; mesoscutum and central part of scutellum minutely granular, matte; scutellar sulcus greatly reduced and not impressed; scutellum depressed at sides, with a large subtriangular, smooth, margined impression on each side, and a pair of small round foveae at apex, the two enclosed together in an oval margined line; propodeum with distinct median and a lateral longitudinal carina, more or less irregularly reticulate between the carinae, more coarsely posteriorly; T 1 narrow; pterostigma less than half as wide as long, with vein r emitted from its middle, 1 - CU 1 as long as 2 - CU 1 (following Brues 1926).

Distribution.

South Africa.

Host.

Unknown.

Note.

No specimens were available for this study.