Aspicera kiefferi Ros-Farré & Pujade-Villar, 2013

ROS-FARRÉ, P. & PUJADE-VILLAR, J., 2013, <strong> Revision of the genus <em> Aspicera </ em> Dahlbom, 1842 (Hym.: Figitidae: Aspicerinae) </ strong>, Zootaxa 3606 (1), pp. 1-110 : 33-34

Aspicera kiefferi Ros-Farré & Pujade-Villar n. sp.

( Figs 34a & b )

Type material ( 1♀). HOLOTYPE female ( CNCI) 9/VII/1995, Arizona. Sta Cruz Co. Patagonia , USA, E. Wilk & B. Brown leg.

Diagnosis. Aspicera kiefferi is similar to A. dianae having sharp medial scutellar carina and thin scutellar spine; A. dianae has scutellar foveae less sculpturated than A. kiefferi , and scutellar spine is shorter in A. kiefferi than in A. dianae .

Description

Length. Female 3.1 mm.; male unknown.

Coloration. Head, mesosoma and metasoma black. Scape and pedicellum blackish brown, flagellomeres dark brown. Leg medium to light brown. Wing veins light brown.

Head. Frons coriaceous, with small rugose carinae. Lateral frontal carinae very slightly curved, weak, mostly near lateral ocelli. Area between compound eye and lateral frontal carinae with transverse carinae. Gena in lateral view rounded, not expanded, coriaceous, with weak transverse carinae. Vertex not incised, coriaceous, punctate, with small carinae. Ocelli weakly prominent. Occiput coriaceous, with very thin transverse carinae basally, thin longitudinal carinae dorsally.

Antenna. Subclavate. Antennal formula: 9(5): 3.5(4.5): 10(4): 8(4): 7.5(4): 8(4): 7.5(4.5): 7(4): 7(4): 7(4): 7.5(4): 7(4): 20.5(4).

Mesosoma. Lateral surface of pronotum coriaceous. Subpronotal plate not projected, dorsal margin sharply pubescent. Scutum coriaceous. Lateral line incomplete, very noticeable on ventral half. Antero-admedian lines weak, reaching 1/3–1/2 scutum length, parallel; median ridge weak. Notauli wide, smooth, with some fine carinae, median mesoscutal furrow smooth. Area between notauli not prominent in lateral view. Parascutal sulcus ending near anterior end of notauli, with scattered setae, alutaceous. Mesopleuron with oblique carinae and coriaceous on anterior 1/3, smooth posteriorly. Scutellum 0.89 times scutum length, clearly emarginate posteriorly. Scutellar foveae with sharp rugose carinae, shallow, scutellar pits absent. Interfoveal carina sharply prominent, noticeable in lateral view, continuing along scutellar disc to beginning of scutellar spine. Scutellar disc convex, coriaceous, with sinuous longitudinal carinae, slightly sloping towards basis of scutellar spine in lateral view. Scutellar spine 0.43 times length of scutellar disc, thin, with fine longitudinal carinae, straight in lateral view.

Wing. Wing membrane hyaline. Radial cell 1.94 times longer than wide. Wing pubescence reduced. Marginal pubescence present, only some scattered setae. R1 long. R2 straight, slightly curved near dorsal margin. Rs+M absent.

Derivatio nominis. Dedicated to the great entomologist Jean Jacques Kieffer.

Biology. Unknown.

Distribution. Nearctic: USA (Arizona).

Figures

FIGURE 34. Aspicera kiefferi Ros-Farré & Pujade-Villar n. sp.: (a) head and mesosoma in lateral view, (b) mesosoma in dorsal view.