Agenia althea

Smith, F., 1859, Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace at the Islands of Aru and Key., Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 3, pp. 132-158 : 154-155

publication ID

10342

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:03D4C4E8-74F9-42F2-8FD1-00A6DC22903A

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6295915

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FD3D82D2-A503-8A83-C6FE-F47FC17AB68C

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scientific name

Agenia althea
status

 

4. Agenia althea   HNS .

A. nigra; facie pube argentato-alba vestita, thoraoe abdomineque sericeo pubescentibus; alis hyalinis, venis nigris.

Female. Length 5 lines. Black; the face silvery; the anterior margin of the clypeus rounded and narrowly smooth and shining; tips of the mandibles ferruginous; the mandibles elongate and pale rufotestaceous. Thorax: the metathorax finely transversely rugose, the sides with bright silvery-white pubescence; the coxae, the thorax beneath and on the sides, with fine silky sericeous pile; the anterior tibiae and tarsi, and all the femora at their apex beneath, ferruginous; wings hyaline and iridescent, nervures black; the outer margin of the tegulae testaceous. Abdomen shining, and with a fine silvery sericeous pile; the apical margins of the segments narrowly rufo-piceous; the terminal segment with an elongate, smooth, shining space, which extends to the apex, which is testaceous.

Hub. Aru.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Pompilidae

Genus

Agenia

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