Aspicera adelae Ros-Farré, 2013

ROS-FARRÉ, P. & PUJADE-VILLAR, J., 2013, <strong> Revision of the genus <em> Aspicera </ em> Dahlbom, 1842 (Hym.: Figitidae: Aspicerinae) </ strong>, Zootaxa 3606 (1), pp. 1-110 : 14

Aspicera adelae Ros-Farré n. sp.

Figs (9a & b)

Type material: (1♀). HOLOTYPE female ( CNCI) 21–28/VII/1977, 8000, 7 mi. N. Wood land, PK South Meadows Camp , Colorado, USA, S. Peck leg.

Diagnosis. Aspicera adelae has sharp sparse punctuations on scutum and lacks median mesoscutal carina. This species is similar to A. jantonii , but this species has very large scutellar foveae, shallow and smooth while in A. adelae scutellar foveae are smaller, deep and slightly striate longitudinally.

Description

Length. Female 4.60 mm; male unknown.

Coloration. Head, mesosoma and metasoma black. Scape and pedicellum dark brown, flagellomeres medium brown. Leg medium brown. Wing veins medium brown.

Head. Frons coriaceous, punctate. Lateral frontal carinae curved, area between them and compound eye coriaceous. Gena in lateral view rounded, expanded, rugose and coriaceous. Vertex not incised, coriaceous, punctate. Ocelli weakly prominent. Occiput coriaceous, weakly carinate longitudinally on dorsal 1/3, with points between carinae.

Antenna. Filiform. Antennal formula: 6(4): 2(3): 7(3): 6(3): 5.5(3): 5.5(3): 5(3): 5(3): 5(3): 5(3): 5(3): 4.5(3): 9(3).

Mesosoma. Lateral surface of pronotum coriaceous. Subpronotal plate not projected, dorsal margin pubescent. Scutum finely coriaceous, sparsely punctate, distance between points larger than diameter of a point. Lateral line incomplete, only present on basal 2/3, antero-admedian lines very weak reaching between 1/3 and 1/2 scutum length, parallel. Median mesoscutal line absent. Notauli and median mesoscutal furrow with effaced transverse striae. Area between notauli not prominent in lateral view. Parascutal sulcus narrow smooth, with some scattered setae, ending in front of tegula. Mesopleuron coriaceous on anterior 1/3, smooth posteriorly. Scutellum 0.92 times scutum length, emarginate laterally. Scutellar foveae slightly striate longitudinally, scutellar pits shallow. Interfoveal carina continuous along surface of scutellar disc to beginning of scutellar spine. Scutellar disc coriaceous, longitudinally carinate, straight in lateral view. Scutellar spine short, rather narrow, blunt, 0.47 times length of scutellar disc, coriaceous, straight in lateral view.

Wing. Wing membrane hyaline. Radial cell 2.18 times longer than wide. Wing pubescence reduced. Marginal pubescence absent. R1 long. R2 almost straight, very slightly curved near dorsal margin. Rs+M marked by a shadow.

Derivatio nominis. Dedicated to Adela G. Ros, niece of the authors.

Biology. Unknown.

Distribution. Nearctic. USA (Colorado).