Genera of Belytinae (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae) recorded in the Atlantic Dense Ombrophilous Forest from Paraíba to Santa Catarina, Brazil
Author
Quadros, Alex Leite
Author
Brandão, Carlos Roberto F.
text
Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia
2017
São Paulo
2017-03-16
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/0031-1049.2017.57.06
journal article
10.11606/0031-1049.2017.57.06
1807-0205
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Miota
Förster, 1856
(
Figs. 11
,
24C
)
Total of specimens found:
2 (males) in one morphospecies.
Diagnosis:
Medium sized (
3-4 mm
); mandibles short (mandible length shorter than the distance between the ventrolateral margins of the head, near the bases of the mandibles) (
Fig. 11A
); antenna 15-segmented and filiform in females, 14-segmented in males. Epomia present or absent; notauli parallel (
Fig. 11C
); scutellar fovea relatively large, subquadrate (
Fig. 11C
), posterior extremity of the notaulus directed to a point inside this fovea (
Fig. 11C
). Stigmal vein straight, perpendicular to the postmarginal vein; marginal vein longer than or as long as parastigma (
Fig. 11D
); well developed postmarginal vein (
Fig. 11D
). Basal sculpture of macrotergite with long medial furrow and short lateral striation; the apical segments of the female’s gaster can be extruded and then resemble a scorpion’s tail; male genitalia with free dentes, not fused to volsellae.
Material examined:
BRAZIL
:
Espírito Santo
:
Domingos Martins
,
Parque Estadual da Pedra Azul
,
20°25’55”S
,
41°00’53”W
,
26.viii-02.ix.2003
,
C. Azevedo
e eq. col.,
2 ♂♂
.
L. Masner
det.
Remarks:
There are 56 described species of
Miota
in the world (
Johnson, 1992
;
Buhl, 1998
), being
M. brevinervis,
Kieffer, 1906
the only species recorded in the Neotropical region (São Marcos,
Nicaragua
) thus far (
Kieffer, 1906
).
Scorpioteleia
and
Cinetus
have been confused with
Miota
,
which is clearly different due the presence of parallel notauli (
Fig. 11C
), straight stigmal vein (
Fig. 11D
) and male genitalia with free dentes, not fused to the volsellae (
Macek, 2006
).
Distribution:
Holarctic, Oriental and Neotropical (
Johnson, 1992
). The specimens listed above were collected by Celso Azevedo in
Espírito Santo state
(
Fig. 24C
) and not by our survey; they are deposited at the Federal University of
Espírito Santo
collection. Dr. Masner kindly called our attention to the specimens, which complement the list of recorded
Belytinae
occurring in the Atlantic Forest.