Isolia Foerster , 1878

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Isolia Foerster, 1878

Fig. 19

Isolia Förster, 1878: 46 (original description. Type: Isolia foersteri Szabó, designated by Szabó (1959)); Kieffer 1914: 361 (keyed); Kieffer 1926: 562, 844 (repetition of Förster (1878), keyed); Jansson 1939: 175 (keyed); Maneval 1940: 117 (keyed); Debauche 1947: 280 (description, taxonomic status); Szabó 1959: 391 (description, designation of type species, key to species of Palearctic region); Szabó 1962: 238 (key to species of Palearctic region); Kozlov 1971: 57 (keyed); Kozlov 1978: 657 (key to species of the European USSR); Alekseev 1979: 764 (key to males of world species); Masner and Huggert 1989: 79 (description, species list); Vlug 1995: 33 (catalogued, catalogue of world species); Kozlov 1995: 126 (keyed); Austin and Field 1997: 53, 68 (structure of ovipositor system, discussion of phylogenetic relationships); Ghahari and Buhl 2011: 332 (species of Iran); Veenakumari et al. 2019: 453, 473 (key to genera of the Isolia -cluster, keyed, key to world species); Lahey et al. 2019b: 44 (keyed).

Diagnosis.

Robust, usually dark-coloured species. OOL subequal to LOL. Frons above toruli without transverse ledge; interantennal process moderately developed. Mandibles short, strong with lower edge upcurved apically. Female antenna with abrupt 3-merous clava. Male antenna filiform. Pronotal shoulders well-developed. Notauli abbreviate anteriorly. Scutellum broadly transverse, subrectangular, with scutellaxillar pits reduced to points, and scutellar rim not defined. Mesopleuron without transepisternal line. Propodeum with foamy structures. Fore wing with no tubular veins, and with microtrichia in the form of minute, semi-erect spiculae. Fore tibial spur combed. Metasoma short and broad, with laterotergites wide and no felt fields on S2 ( Masner and Huggert 1989).

Species richness.

Isolia hispanica Buhl, 1999 (Kenya). Also present in the Palearctic (Spain) (Fig. 19 ).

Isolia species (Madagascar).

Biology.

Unknown.

Distribution.

Afrotropical: Kenya, Madagascar. Palearctic: France, Greece, Iran, Israel, Italy, Mongolia, Montenegro, Spain, Thailand, Turkey. Indomalayan (Oriental): China, India, Philippines ( Masner and Huggert 1989; Vlug 1995).

Figures

Figure 19. Isolia hispanica female (OSUC) (A-D OSUC 20666354 E, F OSUC 20666355) A habitus, dorsolateral view B habitus, dorsal view C habitus, ventrolateral view D head, anterior view E habitus, lateral view F habitus, ventral view.