Alloxysta mullensis ( Cameron, 1883 )

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 : 51-53

Alloxysta mullensis ( Cameron, 1883)

Figs 2.28, 4.24

Allotria mullensis Cameron, 1883: 366 . Type: deposited in BMNH (examined).

Allotria (Allotria) mullensis – Dalla Torre & Kieffer 1902: 40.

Charips (Charips) mullensis – Dalla Torre & Kieffer 1910: 284.

Alloxysta mullensis – Quinlan 1974: 8.

Diagnosis

Alloxysta mullensis is mainly characterized by a closed radial cell that is 2.2 times as long as wide (Fig. 4.24); the absence of pronotal carinae; the presence of propodeal carinae that form a plate; and male and female antenna with rhinaria beginning on F4, F1 longer than F2, F2 subequal to F3, and F3 shorter than F4 (Fig. 2.28). It is similar to A. fracticornis , but can be differentiated by the proportion of the F1–pedicel ratio (F1 is subequal to pedicel in A. mullensis (Fig. 2.28), but longer than pedicel in A. fracticornis (Fig. 2.17)), flagellomere proportions (F1 is longer than F2 and F2 is subequal to F 3 in A. mullensis females (Fig. 2.28), while F1–F3 are subequal in length in A. fracticornis females (Fig. 2.17)), and flagellomere shape (no flagellomeres are curved in A. mullensis males, but F3 is curved in A. fracticornis males).

Material examined

Lectotype

UNITED KINGDOM: Scotland: ♀ [Holotype (round label with red in the margin)], [ mullensis (handwritten)], [ mullensis Cam (handwritten)], [Cameron. 96 – 76., Mull, on the underside of this label is the name mullensis ], [Holotype ♀ of Allotria mullensis Cameron. det. J. Quinlan, 1973 (white label)], [B.M. Type HYM. 7.125 (white label)], [Lectotype Allotria mullensis ♀ Cameron, 1883 design. Ferrer- Suay and J.P-V 2011 (red label)], [ Alloxysta mullensis ( Cameron, 1883) ♀, Ferrer-Suay and J.P-V det. (white label)] ( BMNH B.M. Type HYM. 7.125).

Additional specimens (5 ♂♂, 24 ♀♀)

DENMARK: 1 ♀ [S. Zealand, Feddet near Praesto, 27 Aug. 1994, grassy marsh area] ( CNCI C-241); 1 ♂ [W. Zealand, Gyrstinge, 20 km S of Holbaek, 28 Aug. 1994] ( CNCI C-243).

FRANCE: 1 ♀ [Fonscolombe (2), 7 Jun. 1982, M.W.R. de V. Graham coll.] ( BMNH B.M. 1995-177) (handwritten).

GERMANY: 1 ♀ [Hesse, Gelnhausen, Sep. 1967, MT, A.W. Steffan] ( CNCI C-228).

IRAQ: 1 ♂ [Ex Aphis craccivora on Horse Bea, Coll. 3 Apr. 1964 (handwritten), Trioxys angelicae Hal., Associated with Lysiphlebus fabarum Marsh. , Pachyneuron aphidis Bouché (handwritten), Iraq Baghdad, A. Al-Azawi (handwritten), Charips ♀? sp. det. J. Quinlan, 1964] ( BMNH B.M. 1964-516).

JAPAN: 1 ♀ [Kyushu, Fukuoka, Mt. Hiko, 700 m, 9–10 May 1989, M.J. Sharkey Sweep] ( CNCI C-138); 1 ♀ [Mt. Hayachine, 5–11 Jul. 89, Makihara and M. Sharkey, 400 m, MT] ( CNCI C-173); 1 ♀ [Fukuoka, Mt. Hiko, 10–21 Jul. 1989, Takeno and M. Sharkey] ( CNCI C-154); 3 ♀♀ [Hokkaido, Sapporo, Jozankei, 350 m, Aug. 1989, K. Maeto and M. Sharkey, MT] ( CNCI C-203); 3 ♀♀ [Hokkaido, Sapporo, Jozankei, 350 m, 12–21 Sep. 1989, K. Maeto and M. Sharkey, MT] ( CNCI C-205); 3 ♀♀ [Hokkaido, Sapporo, Jozankei, 350 m, 21–29Aug. 1989, K. Maeto and M. Sharkey, MT] ( CNCI C-202); 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀ [Hokkaido, Sapporo, Jozankei, 350 m, 10–21 Aug. 1989, K. Maeto and M. Sharkey, MT] ( CNCI C-206).

RUSSIA: 2 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀ [Primoskiy Kray Ussyriysk District, Gomotayozhnoye, 11–15 Aug. 2003, Malaise trap, M.V. Michailovskaya] ( USNM).

SPAIN: 1 ♀ [Madrid, Cercedilla, 22 Oct. 1978, J.S. Noyes] ( BMNH B.M. 1978-488).

SLOVENIA: 1 ♀ [C-276, Yugoslavia: Slovenia, Radovljica, 3 Aug. 1978, L. Huggert, swept on dry meadow] ( CNCI).

Distribution

Paleaearctic and Neotropical.

Certain records: France ( Ferrer-Suay et al. 2015a), Italy ( Ferrer-Suay et al. 2014b), Mexico (Ferrer- Suay et al. 2013m: 37), Spain ( Ferrer-Suay et al. 2013g), Montenegro ( Ferrer-Suay et al. 2013b: 358), Scotland ( Cameron 1883: 366; 1886: 86), Slovenia ( Ferrer-Suay et al. 2013b: 358).

Uncertain records: Iran ( Lotfalizadeh 2002a: 36), Russia ( Bokina 1997: 435);

New records: Denmark, France, Germany, Iraq, Japan and Spain.