Rhadinoscelidia halimunensis Ubaidillah

Kimsey, Lynn S., 2018, Morphology and review of the odd genus Rhadinoscelidia Kimsey, 1988 (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae, Loboscelidiinae), Journal of Hymenoptera Research 62, pp. 45-54 : 49-50

Rhadinoscelidia halimunensis Ubaidillah

Rhadinoscelidia halimunensis Ubaidillah in Kojima & Ubaidillah, 2003: 200. Holotype male (?); Indonesia: West Java Gn. Halimun National Park (Museum Bogorense, lost?).

Diagnosis.

This species can be distinguished from other Rhadinoscelidia species by the frons having a Y-shaped carina and flagellomere I twice as long as broad.

Female.

Unknown.

Male description

(based on the original description). Body length 2.7 mm; forewing length 3.5 mm. Head: length 1.9 × height in side view; frontal projection shape; frons smooth, not microstriate, with low ridge extending from vertex along inner eye margin; vertex without transverse fovea, vertex expansion strongly curved in profile, without low ridge extending from vertex along inner eye margin, cervical expansion broadly curved in profile, with anterolateral patch of longer, dense ribbon-like setae; occiput laterally with low ridge behind eye backed by short row of broad ribbon-like setae; eye separated from hindocellus by 0.4 × eye length in lateral view; gena without scale-like setae; scape length 6.7 × breadth, 0.8-0.9 × head length in side view; flagellomere I length 1.6 × breadth; flagellomere II length 1.5 × breadth; flagellomere XI length 1.5 × breadth. Mesosoma: integument smooth, impunctate; pronotal length as long as broad; fore and midfemur without short, erect, apically broadened setae on dorsal surface; hindtibia nearly asetose; forewing venation 0.15-0.16 × wing length; R 0.5 × as long as Rs; Cu 0.8 × as long as M. Color: brown, brown; forewing membrane transparent to brown in bands, veins reddish brown.

Distribution.

Indonesia: West Java; no specimens were examined.

Discussion.

Both authors have been contacted and the type could not be located. The original illustrations of the abdomen and antennae are proportioned similarly to females in this group and it may very well be that the holotype was actually female.