Heptascelio lugens Kieffer

Johnson, Norman F., Masner, Lubomír, Musetti, Luciana, Noort, Simon Van, K, Rajmohana, Darling, Christopher & Polaszek, Antonia Guidotti Andrew, 2008, Revision of world species of the genus Heptascelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea, Platygastridae), Zootaxa 1776, pp. 1-51 : 20-21

Heptascelio lugens Kieffer

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Heptascelio lugens Kieffer, 1916: 58 (original description); Kieffer, 1926: 345 (description); Masner, 1976: 16 (type information); Narendran & Ramesh Babu, 1996: 89, 90 (description, keyed).

Description. Female body length: 4.4–4.6 mm (n=4). Male body length: 4.1 mm (n=1). Body color of female: entirely dark, dark brown to black. Color of female antenna: dark brown to black throughout, extremities of A1, A2 lighter in color. Color of wing membrane: with weak general brown infuscation, longitudinal streak below submarginal vein weak. Color of legs: coxae dark brown, femora largely brown, legs otherwise brownish yellow. Body color of male: entirely black. Color of male antenna: brown to dark brown throughout.

Sculpture of occiput and posterior vertex: coarsely punctate. Sculpture of frons below ocellus in female: coarsely punctate. Shape of dorsal margin of frontal scrobe: evenly arcuate, weakly produced. Sculpture of frontal depression in female: coarsely punctate ventrally and laterally, otherwise smooth. Sculpture of gena: areolate rugose, with distinct dorsoventral tendency. Setation of gena: with short, uniform setae, with few short bristles interspersed. Shape of mandibles: normal length, crossed transversely below head when closed, tips overlapping.

Sculpture of dorsal pronotum: longitudinally strigose. Notaulus: absent or obscured by coarse surface sculpture. Sculpture of mesoscutum in female: sparsely punctate, with broad smooth areas between punctures, with weak indications of longitudinal rugulae. Sculpture of mesoscutum in male: sparsely punctate, with broad smooth areas between punctures, with weak indications of longitudinal rugulae. Parapsidal line: present, clearly impressed. Mesoscutellum shape: nearly parallel-sided, apex weakly excavate, with weak median longitudinal impression. Sculpture of female mesoscutellum: areolate rugose. Scutellar points of female: moderately elongate, narrow, acute, curving medially. Sculpture of male mesoscutellum: areolate rugose. Scutellar points of male: narrow, short, acute. Posterior surface of propodeum: irregularly areolate, without distinct paramedian keel. Length of outer propodeal projection in female: moderately elongate, extending to midpoint of length of T1, distinctly longer than inner propodeal projection. Sculpture of propodeum between inner and outer propodeal projections: areolate rugose. Netrion shape: moderately wide, parallel-sided in ventral half, open, moderately wide, weakly fusiform, with column of elongate foveae. Netrion setation: densely setose. Sculpture of lateral pronotum posterior to epomial carina: coarsely sculptured, coarsely rugulose throughout. Setation of posterior half of lateral pronotum: with numerous scattered setae, densest near spiracle. Sculpture of mesopleural scrobe: smooth. Sculpture of lower mesepisternum: rugulose to punctate. Sculpture of metapleuron: areolate rugose above, with smooth or finely sculptured field ventrally. Fore wing venation: well-developed, with R, r-rs clearly visible. Submarginal vein bristles: with dark bristles extending length of submarginal vein. Long dark bristles on legs: absent.

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T1 depression: moderately to densely setose. Sublateral lamella on T1: distinctly raised more or less perpendicular to T1. Sculpture of T2–T4: longitudinally striate, with fine cross striae, punctures, smooth or finely punctulate transverse band apically. Setation of laterotergites: setose. Sculpture of S2, S3 of female: strongly longitudinally rugose. Sculpture of S2, S3 of male: strongly longitudinally rugose. Distribution of felt fields: present on S2–S3.

Diagnosis. Heptascelio lugens is similar to H. paralugens , H. dayi , and H. bivius , and may be distinguished by the sparsely punctate and weakly rugulose mesoscutum, absence of notauli, and punctate mesoscutellum (Figs. 49, 51).

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Material Examined. Holotype male: PHILIPPINES: Luzon, Mt. Makiling, Baker, Type No. 70486 ( USNM)45. Other material. PHILIPPINES: 4 females, OSUC 209008–209011 ( CNCI).

Comments. Masner (1976) noted that the holotype (Figs. 51, 52) is a male, not a female as reported in the original description (Kieffer 1916).