Ancistrogera particularis Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1898

Figs. 36 D–F

Material examined. Indonesia: Maluku, Halmahera, Halmahera, (1°49'21.23''N, 127°46'48.65''E), 1.i.– 31.xii.1894, leg. W. Kükenthal— 1 female (holotype) (Frankfurt SMF) .

Description. Small to medium sized species. Head: Face ovoid; forehead surface nearly smooth; fastigium verticis about as wide as scapus; ocelli visible but little distinct; fastigium frontis clearly separated from fastigium verticis by a transverse furrow; subocular furrows present but not strong.

Wings almost covering abdomen (Fig. 36D). Tegmen: Radius with two branches, both forked near tip; media anterior free from base but temporarily touching CuA, forked behind basal third into two veins: MA and MP; cubitus anterior and cubitus posterior both single branched, free throughout; with 3–4 anal veins.

Legs: Hind tibia with a pair of very long and curved spines in subbasal area of dorsal margins (Fig. 36D arrow), afterwards with only one or two normal spines; ventral margins with one subapical spine; with three apical spurs at each side.

Coloration. General color uniformly yellowish brown. Face uniformly yellowish brown. Tegmen semitransparent yellowish; hind wing semi-transparent.

Male unknown.

Female. Seventh abdominal sternite on both sides very short, in middle convexly expanded and along midline little elevated; on dorsal side sternite with a knob-like protuberance covering very base of subgenital plate. Subgenital plate prolonged but fissured in midline with fissure widening from base towards apex, widest at about beginning of apical quarter (Fig. 36F). Base of ovipositor in set specimen ventrally free, not covered from subgenital plate. Ovipositor long, moderately upcurved throughout; tip subacute.

Measurements from Brunner (1898) (1 female).—body w/o wings: 27; pronotum: 5; tegmen: 19; hind femur: 13.5; ovipositor: 18 mm.