Dichoteleas subcoeruleus Dodd, 1926

Schwartz, Johanna, Van Noort, Simon & Johnson, Norman F., 2023, A taxonomic revision of the Old World genus Dichoteleas Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae), ZooKeys 1182, pp. 183-205 : 183

Dichoteleas subcoeruleus Dodd

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Dichoteleas subcoeruleus Dodd, 1926: 370, 371 (original description); Galloway 1976: 90 (type information); Johnson, 1992: 367 (catalogued, type information).

Description.

Color of head: metallic blue. Hyperoccipital carina: absent. Frontal depression: absent. Malar striae: absent. Facial striae: present. Setation of eyes: absent. Sculpture of frons: smooth above interantennal prominence, areolate laterally. Setation of frons: sparsely setose throughout. Submedian carina: present. Interantennal process: undifferentiated. Central keel: absent. Transverse pronotal carina: present. Color of pronotum: dark brown to black. Pronotal cervical sulcus: absent. Mesepimeral sulcus: present. Sulcus along mesopleural carina: foveolate. Mesoscutal suprahumeral sulcus: absent. Mesoscutal humeral sulcus: present as an uninterrupted groove. Median mesoscutal line: present. Color of mesoscutum: metallic blue. Sculpture of mesoscutum: rugulose. Notaulus: complete. Visibility of notaulus: unobscured. Parapsidal line: present. Sculpture of mesoscutellum: smooth. Shape of axillular carinae in lateral view: without a posteroventral hooklike projection. Color of axillular carina: yellow. Sculpture of T3-4: rugulose and finely punctate. Median carina on T1-T4: present.

Diagnosis.

This species can be distinguished by the presence of the median mesoscutual line and can be distinguished from D. indicus by the median carina on T1-T4.

Distribution.

Australia (Queensland)

Material examined.

Holotype, female: Australia: Queensland, Mossman , SAMA 32-00145 (SAMA). Australia: 13 females, 4 males, OSUC 367522, 367527-367542 (ANIC).

Figures

Figures 1 - 8. Distribution of Dichoteleas species 1 D. rubyae 2 D. ambositrae 3 D. striatus 4 D. hamatus 5 D. fulgidus 6 D. fuscus 7 D. rugosus 8 D. subcoeruleus.

Figures 35 - 37. Dichoteleas subcoeruleus (F) (OSUC 0367538) 35 head, mesosoma, lateral view 36 head, anteroventral view 37 dorsal habitus.