Hyptia deansi, Jennings, Krogmann and Mew

Jennings, John T., Krogmann, Lars & Mew, Steven L., 2012, Hyptia deansi sp. nov., the first record of Evaniidae (Hymenoptera) from Mexican amber, Zootaxa 3349, pp. 63-68 : 65

Hyptia deansi, Jennings, Krogmann and Mew , sp. nov.

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Holotype: Specimen in amber from Simojovel, Chiapas, Mexico. Lower Miocene to Upper Oligocene. State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart SMNS MX –440.

Etymology. The species epithet is named in honour of Andy Deans, North Carolina State University, who has done much to revive interest in the Evaniidae .

Diagnosis. Female fully winged and of small body size (total length 5.55 mm); body brown except for black metasoma, petiole black in first quarter, apical margins of flagellomeres 1–10 black, giving antenna a banded appearance. Head 0.80 mm, mesosoma 2.50 mm, metasoma 2.61 mm; head 1.60 × as wide as long; vertex 0.15 × head width; compound eye half as long as head, distance between eyes 0.77 mm; distance of lateral ocellus to compound eye 0.17 mm; occipital carina broad, complete; malar space 0.83 × height of compound eye; face and clypeus punctate, frons and vertex rugose-punctate; clypeus not swollen medially; antennae inserted at mid-line of eye, toruli almost touching; distance from torulus to eye 0.37 mm; antennae with 11 flagellomeres; scape 0.69 mm in length; pedicel slightly longer than wide, 0.17 mm in length, first flagellomere 0.14 mm in length; flagellomeres slightly longer than wide, except apical flagellomere 0.35 × as long as wide. mesoscutellum and scutellum punctate; notauli percurrent, each notaulus indicated by a row of punctures in slight depression; propodeum areolate; petiole long and thin, 0.73 × length of the remaining metasoma (i.e. the gaster); gaster elliptical. Fore wing venation reduced, only C and Sc+R present. Hind wing obscured basally, only vein C apparent, with four distal hamuli. Legs elongate; fore coxae about 2 × distance between mid and hind coxae, pretarsal claws short, slender, simple, arolium present. Ovipositor short, straight, 0.21 × length of metasoma.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 4. Hyptia deansi, Jennings, Krogmann and Mew, sp. nov. (1), lateral habitus (left side); (2) lateral habitus (right side). Scale bars (1,2) = 1 mm; (3) frontal head; (4) lateral metasoma. Scale bars (3) = 2.5 mm; (4) = 0.5 mm.