Scelio simoni Yoder

Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir & Johnson, Norman F., 2014, Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae), ZooKeys 380, pp. 1-188 : 137-139

Scelio simoni Yoder sp. n. Figures 3, 10, 311-316; Morphbank 67

Description.

Female body length: 3.08-3.73 mm (n=10). Male body length: 3.16-3.57 mm (n=16). Body color in female: dark brown to black. Setae between ommatidia in female: present. Form of RSS on A5 in male: nodelike. Surface of pronotal nucha in female: partially to completely transversely striate, at most with slight obliterated patch. Notauli in males: present. Surface of mesopleural depression in female: more or less sculptured throughout. Carinate division of posterior T6 in female: present.

Diagnosis.

This species differs from Scelio simonolus by presence of a well-developed carina dividing T6 (as in Fig. 328) and the sculptured mesopleural depression. It dif fers from Scelio vannoorti by the presence of short microtrichia among the ommatidia, the nodelike RSS on male A5 (vs. linear and carinate) and the presence of notauli in the males.

Etymology.

The epithet is used as a genitive noun derived from the name of the sole collector of all known material, Simon van Noort.

Link to distribution map.

http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244593

Material examined.

Holotype, female: SOUTH AFRICA: Western Cape Prov., Cape Town, Constantiaberg, 34°02'S, 18°23'E, 460m, 10. III– 17.III.1995, malaise trap, S. van Noort, OSUC 214201 (deposited in SAMC). Paratypes: SOUTH AFRICA: 9 females, 16 males, OSUC 212450 (CNCI); OSUC 213634, 213699 (OSUC); OSUC 213538, 213574, 213695, 213697-213698, 213700, 214202, 214232, 214235, 244040, 250669-250670, 250713, 250716, 250742-250744, 250746-250748, 250983 (SAMC); OSUC 250668 (SANC).