Pseudoceraphron regieri Desjardins, 2007

Desjardins, Christopher A., 2007, Phylogenetics and classification of the world genera of Diparinae (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), Zootaxa 1647 (1), pp. 1-88 : 75

Pseudoceraphron regieri Desjardins , New Species

( Fig. 70 )

Type Information: Holotype female ( QM) “ Aust : Qld: NE, Mt. Finnigan Summit, 30 Nov 1985, G. Monteith, D. Cook, QM Berlese No. 700, 15.48’S 145.17’E, Rainforest 1100m, Sieved litter.” Paratype female ( QM) same as holotype .

Description: Female. 1.5 mm. Color: Brownish orange with the following exceptions: GT1 brown, becoming dark brown near posterior margin, GT7 anterior to cercus margin dark brown, gena yellowish white, clava + F1 light brown. Head: Subtriangular in frontal view, 1.5X as wide as high; eyes bare; head with 6 stout, dark bristles posterior to occipital margin; occipital margin sinuously carinate, carina crossing lateral ocelli; head mostly smooth, posterior margin of gena faintly striate, area below toruli faintly striate, with striae circling up to dorsal edge of parascrobal area; ocellocular: postocellar: mid-to-lateral ocellus distance: lateral ocellus diameter about 3.3:3.3:1.7:1; scrobe present only as indistinct, shallow, gently sloping depression; interantennal carina semicircular, convex, reaching less than 1 torulus diameter above toruli; toruli separated by 1.6 torulus diameters; scape about 0.8X eye height; scape with strong ventral carina; scape laterally bowed outward; A1 about 3X as broad as long to A7 about 4X as long as broad; ratio of scape: pedicel: A1: A2: A3: A4: A5: A6: A7: F1 about 25:10:1:2:2:2:2:2:2:6; clypeus finely delimited. Mesosoma: Dorsally mostly smooth, with pronotum coriaceous and lateral lobes of mesoscutum faintly coriaceous; with long, dark setae sparsely covering dorsal surface; ratio of pronotum: scutum: scutellum: propodeum about 1.3:1.9:1.1:1; pronotum 3.3X wider than long; pronotum barely visible laterally; scutum 2.4X wider than long; notauli deeply pitted with transverse carinae; axillae very small, flat, present only at anterio-lateral corners of scutellum; scutellum mostly flat (slightly raised posteriorly), with scutum and propodeum at the same level; posterior scutellar margin smooth; metanotum present as triangular sclerite lateral and posterior to axilla, not visible posterior of scutellum; propodeum mostly smooth, raised and rounded medially for insertion of petiole; plicae strong; postspiracular area smooth, flat, facing postero-laterally; sulcus between postspiracular area and metapleuron vertical; spiracle 4X its own diameter from metanotum, facing postero-ventrally; callus absent; prepectus triangular, not in same plane as pronotum, abutting at about 135° angle; mesepimeron smooth, slightly depressed (mesepimeron = femoral depression), bulging anteriorly ventral to acropleuron, 3.2X as high as wide; metapleuron smooth, depressed posteriorly; one metatibial spur, 1.7X width of metatibia at point of insertion; metabasitarsus about 2.8X as long as wide, about 0.5X length of remaining tarsi; metacoxa without transverse striae, mostly bare anteriorly except for few setae near distal end; meso- and metatibia not spinose; apterous, forewing reduced to membranous stump with single long, dark, protruding bristle, hindwing apparently absent. Metasoma: 2.4X length of mesosoma; petiole smooth, short, about 2X as broad as long; ratio of GT1: GT2–6: GT7: ovipositor sheaths about 6.5:1:1:1; anterior half of GT1 with long, dark setae (similar to dorsal mesosomal setae) sparsely covering dorsal and dorso-lateral surface, posterior half with lighter, more widely spaced setae; ovipositor smooth and pointed. Male: Unknown.

Etymology: Named for one of my Ph.D. committee members, Jerome Regier, whose guidance was invaluable in the completion of the molecular component of my dissertation.

Distribution: Australia: Queensland.

Hosts: Unknown.

Figures

FIGURES 65–70. Lateral habitus views: 65, Dozodipara insularis; 66, Myrmicolelaps iridius 67, M. aurantius; 68, Lelaps noorti; 69, Nosodipara ferrana; 70, Pseudoceraphron regieri.