Anteon pubicorne ( Dalman, 1818 )

Derafshan, Hossein Ali, Olmi, Massimo, Moghaddam, Mostafa Ghafouri, Nader, Elham & Rakhshani, Ehsan, 2021, New records of Dryinidae Haliday, 1833 (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea) from Iran, Zoosystema 43 (23), pp. 563-583 : 568-571

Anteon pubicorne ( Dalman, 1818) *

( Figs 2B ; 3B ; 6-8 )

Gonatopus pubicornis Dalman, 1818: 87 .

TYPE LOCALITY. — Sweden, Småland (holotype ♀, NHRS).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Iran (new record) • 2 ♀; MOLC, MNHN; North Khorasan province, Abshar; 37°32’28”N, 56°56’57”E; 1100 m; 25.IX.2016; B. Motamedinia leg.; Malaise trap .

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN ( Fig. 13A ). — North Khorasan province.

GENERAL DISTRIBUTION ( Fig. 13A ). — E-PAL and W-PAL.

DESCRIPTION

Female ( Figs 2B ; 6-8 )

Head shiny, smooth, finely or strongly punctate, unsculptured among punctures ( Fig. 6 A-C); frons with two lateral keels around orbits directed towards antennal toruli ( Fig. 6B ); frontal line incomplete or absent in small specimens ( Fig. 6B ); temple present ( Fig. 6C ). Pronotum shiny, strongly punctate ( Fig. 6H ); pronotal tubercle reaching tegula ( Fig. 6H ); notauli reaching approximately 0.5-0.6 × length of mesoscutum ( Fig. 6H ); metapectal-propodeal complex reticulate rugose, with strong transverse keel between disc of metapectal-propodeal complex and propodeal declivity ( Fig. 6H ). Propodeal declivity with two longitudinal keels and median area usually as rugose as lateral areas ( Fig. 6I ); occasionally median area totally or partly shiny and smooth ( Fig. 6I ). Protarsomere 1 approximately 0.66 as long as protarsomere 4; protarsomere 2 produced into hook; protarsomere 5 with one row of 20-23 lamellae; distal apex with about 5-6 lamellae ( Figs 2B ; 6E ).

Male

Not collected in Iran.

REMARK

In some specimens from Sweden, head uniformly brown or with cupreous tints; scape or scape + pedicel testaceous; antenna testaceous, except antennomeres 3-6 brown; mesosoma uniformly brown or with cupreous tints; legs occasionally with clubs of femora brown.

Figures

FIG. 2. — Chelae, female: A, Anteon abdulnouri Olmi, 1987 (Lebanon – Redrawn from Olmi 1987); B, Anteon pubicorne (Dalman,1818) (Italy – redrawn from Olmi, 1984); C, Bocchus hyalinus Olmi, 1998 (Oman – Redrawn from Olmi 1998); D, Dryinus tamaricicola Rakhshani & Olmi, 2016 (Iran – redrawn from Derafshan et al. 2016). Scale bars: 100 μm.

FIG. 3. — Male genitalia: A, Anteon abdulnouri Olmi, 1987 (Yemen – Redrawn from Olmi & Van Harten 2000); B, Anteon pubicorne (Dalman, 1818) (England – redrawn from Olmi, 1984); C, Aphelopus melaleucus (Dalman, 1818) (France – original drawing); D, Aphelopus orphanidesi Olmi, in Olmi & Orphanides 1994 (Holotype, Cyprus – redrawn from Olmi & Orphanides 1994); E, Bocchus hyalinus Olmi, 1998 (Oman – redrawn from Olmi et al. 2019); F, Dryinus tamaricicola Rakhshani & Olmi, in Derafshan et al. 2016 (Iran – original drawing). Scale bars: A-E, 50 μm; F, 100 μm.

FIG. 6.— Anteon pubicorne (Dalman,1818),female: A, head,lateral view;B, head,frontal view;C, head,dorsal view;D, antenna,lateral view;E, chela;F, mesosoma, lateral view; G, fore wing; H, metapectal-propodeal complex and mesosoma, dorsal view; I, metasoma, dorsal view. Scale bars: A-E, H, 300 μm; F, G, I, 500 μm.

FIG. 7. — Anteon pubicorne (Dalman, 1818), female, habitus, lateral view. Scale bar: 1 mm.

FIG. 8. — Aphelopus melaleucus (Dalman, 1818),male:A, head,frontal view; B, head,dorsal view;C, mesosoma,dorsal view; D, metapectal-propodeal complex, dorsal view; E, fore wing; F, habitus, lateral view. Scale bars: A-D, 300 μm; E, F, 500 μm.

FIG. 13. – Distribution map of the Iranian Anteoninae R. Perkins, 1912 (A): Anteon abdulnouri Olmi, 1987; Anteon pubicorne (Dalman, 1818) and Aphelopinae R. Perkins, 1912 (B): Aphelopus melaleucus (Dalman, 1818); Aphelopus orphanidesi Olmi, in Olmi & Orphanides 1994 (Hym., Dryinidae) in a worldwide background.