Maimetshorapia africana, Rasnitsyn & Brothers, 2009

Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P. & Brothers, Denis J., 2009, New genera and species of Maimetshidae (Hymenoptera: Stephanoidea s. l.) from the Turonian of Botswana, with comments on the status of the family, African Invertebrates 50 (1), pp. 191-204 : 202

Maimetshorapia africana sp. n.

Fig. 8

Etymology: The species name is Latin for ‘African’.

Description: Ground colour moderately dark, pterostigma and venation less so; antenna and most probably legs pale. Head transverse, apparently with large eyes; temples moderately narrow, convex.Apical 8 flagellar segments narrow, as long to almost twice as long as wide. Propodeum coarsely areolate dorsally, closely so laterally, areola about twice as wide as long, about as long as area basalis. Forewing with 1RS+M parallel to 1Cu, starting at about midlength of basal vein; cell 3rm shorter than high. Ovipositor sheath straight, probably elongately triangular, about as long as valvifers 1+2 and as cell 3r. Body length as preserved 5.3 mm, forewing length to apex of cell 3r about 2.7 mm, ovipositor sheath 0.75 mm.

Holotype: ^BP /2/28222-11; almost complete but lacking hind wings, legs, and most of antennae. BOTSWANA: Orapa ; Upper Cretaceous, Turonian.

Figures

Figs 7, 8. New Maimetshidae: (7) Afromaimetsha robusta gen. et sp. n., holotype BP/2/27111-1, photograph and line drawing; a – areola, ab – area basalis; (8) Maimetshorapia africana gen. et sp. n., holotype BP/2/28222b-11, photograph and line drawing. Scale bars = 1.0 mm.