Ettchellsia Cameron, 1909

Mita, Toshiharu & Shaw, Scott R., 2012, A taxonomic study on the genus Ettchellsia Cameron, with descriptions of three new species (Hymenoptera, Megalyridae, Dinapsini), ZooKeys 254, pp. 99-108 : 100

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.254.4182

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scientific name

Ettchellsia Cameron, 1909
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Genus Ettchellsia Cameron, 1909

Ettchellsia : Cameron 1909: 208; Baltazar 1961: 219; He 1991: 475

Type species.

Ettchellsia piliceps Cameron, 1909 (monotypic).

Diagnosis.

Eye margined posteriorly by post-orbital orbital carina; posterior border of mesopleuron smooth, without row of foveae; propodeum bearing unique pattern of longitudinal carinae (Figs 12-14); fuscous banding pattern present on fore wing (Figs 1, 4, 7) or wing entirely fuscous; fore wing with RS between RS+M and r-rs tubular (Fig. 4); apical part of RS tubular, arched toward stigma (Fig. 4); M+Cu and Cu1 spectral (Fig. 4); hind coxa bearing longitudinal carina; hind tibia rugose (Figs 1, 4, 7).

Detail generic character states were discussed by Shaw (1990) and Vilhelmsen et al. (2010).

Key to the females of the species of Ettchellsia

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Megalyridae