Alloxysta fuscipes ( Thomson, 1862 )

Ferrer-Suay, Mar, Selfa, Jesús & Pujade-Villar, Juli, 2018, Palaearctic species of Charipinae (Hymenoptera, Figitidae): two new species, synthesis and identification key, European Journal of Taxonomy 427, pp. 1-110 : 43-44

Alloxysta fuscipes ( Thomson, 1862)

Figs 2.18, 4.16

Allotria fuscipes Thomson, 1862: 410 . Type: deposited in MZLU (examined).

Dilyta fuscipes – Kieffer 1900: 114.

Alloxysta (Alloxysta) fuscipes – Dalla Torre & Kieffer 1902: 38.

Alloxysta fuscipes – Hellén 1931: 4.

Diagnosis

Alloxysta fuscipes is characterized by a partially open radial cell that is 2.9 times as long as wide (Fig. 4.16); the presence of pronotal carinae; the absence of propodeal carinae; antenna with rhinaria and club shape beginning on F4; female antenna with F1 longer than pedicel and shorter than F2 and F2–F4 subequal in length (Fig. 2.18); male antenna with curved F2 and F3, F1 longer than pedicel and shorter than F2, F2 longer than F3, and F3 longer than F4. No other known species of Alloxysta closely resembles A. fuscipes .

Material examined

Lectotype

SWEDEN: ♀ [L-d; fuscipes (handwritten)], [1872, 40], [Lectotype Allotria fuscipes Thomson, 1862 ♀ desig. M. Ferrer-Suay 2011 (red label)], [ Alloxysta fuscipes ( Thomson, 1862) ♀ M. Ferrer-Suay det. 2011], [ZML. 2011 064 (green label)] ( MZLU).

Paralectotypes

SWEDEN: 1 ♀ [Lund 1972, 39], [Paralectotype Allotria fuscipes Thomson, 1862 ♀ (red label)], [ Alloxysta fuscipes ( Thomson, 1862) ♀ M. Ferrer-Suay det. 2011]; 1 ♀ [Råby, 8/9. L (handwritten)],

[1972, 41], [Paralectotype Allotria fuscipes Thomson, 1862 ♀ (red label)], [ Alloxysta fuscipes ( Thomson, 1862) ♀ M. Ferrer-Suay det. 2011] ( MZLU).

Additional specimens (1 ♂, 3 ♀♀)

ICELAND: 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀ [Ex. Cavariella archangelicae (Scop.) (handwritten), Iceland, Reykjavik, 20 Jul. 1975, J. Couchman (handwritten), Alloxysta fuscipes (Thomson) det. H.H. Evenhuis, 1976] ( BMNH).

Distribution

Europe.

Certain records: Serbia and Slovenia ( Ferrer-Suay et al. 2013b: 355), Sweden ( Thomson 1862: 410).

Uncertain records: Austria ( Hellén 1963: 13), England ( Andrews 1978: 83), Finland ( Hellén 1931: 4; 1963: 13), Iceland ( Hellén 1931: 4), ( Hellén 1963: 13), Norway ( Hellén 1966: 393), Russia ( Hellén 1963: 13), Scotland ( Cameron 1886: 88).