Rhoptromeris carinata Ionescu, 1969

Costa Baião, Guilherme & Forshage, Mattias, 2018, Revision of the West Palaearctic species of Rhoptromeris Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Eucoilinae), Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) 52 (17 - 20), pp. 1201-1224 : 1211

Rhoptromeris carinata Ionescu, 1969

Diagnosis

Species known from female holotype, one paratype and two additional specimens, all deposited in MGAB. Body small, pale, stout, antennae and legs remarkably short. Globular head with broad genae. Anteroventral metapleural cavity present, posteroventral incision of metapleura absent. Elongate metasoma with lateral hairy ring. Holotype wings damaged, paratype wings missing.

The stout body, short appendages and antennal characters suggest this species is most similar to Rhoptromeris heptoma or possibly a synonym of it. No specimens similar to the holotype were found among the material examined from Western and Northern Europe or from the Macaronesian islands. We suggest that the known individuals are either representatives of an eastern or rare species, or perhaps even aberrant specimens of R. heptoma .

Distribution

All four known specimens were collected in Romania.

Biology

Rhoptromeris carinata is probably a parasitoid of Chloropidae , as are other known Rhoptromeris species.