Dryinidae of the Afrotropical region (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea)
Author
Olmi, Massimo
Author
Copeland, Robert S.
Author
Noort, Simon Van
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-07-10
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9.
Thaumatodryinus sokokensis
Olmi, 2007
(
Figs 159E, F
)
Thaumatodryinus townesi
Olmi 1984: 692
,
partim
(only
♂
).
Thaumatodryinus sokokensis
Olmi 2007b: 213
; Olmi
et al
. 2015: 361.
Description.
♂
. Fully winged; body length 1.6–3.0 mm. Head black or brown, except mandible testaceous; antenna testaceous, except antennomeres 3–10 darkened; prothorax testaceous; mesoscutum black, except notauli and medi- an region between notauli testaceous; rest of mesosoma black; metasoma brown; legs testaceous. In specimens from
Kenya
,
3.47908°S
38.34162°E
, mesosoma black, except pronotum brown. Occasionally mesosoma brown.Antenna filiform; antennomeres in following proportions: 6:6:9:12:11:12:11:10:8:10. Head dull, granulate and reticulate rugose; frontal line absent; occipital carina complete; POL = 6; OL = 2; OOL = 6; OPL = 1; TL = 4. Mesoscutum dull, granulate and slightly reticulate rugose. Notauli complete, posteriorly separated; minimum distance between notauli as long as POL, longer than greatest breadth of lateral ocelli (5:4), longer than breadth of each lateral region of mesoscutum measured at posterior margin of mesoscutum (
Fig. 159F
). Mesoscutellum and metanotum shiny, unsculptured (occasionally punctate, unsculptured among punctures). Metapectal-propodeal disc dull, reticulate rugose, without transverse keels; propodeal declivity reticulate rugose without longitudinal keels. Forewing hyaline, without dark transverse bands; distal part of 2r-rs&Rs vein longer than proximal part. Inner side of paramere (
Fig. 159E
) without mosaic pattern. Tibial spurs 1/1/2.
♀
. Unknown.
Material examined
.
Type
:
♂
holotype
:
KENYA
:
Coast Prov.
,
Sokoke Forest
,
8.V.1976
,
Ian Bampton
leg. (
AEIC
).
Other material
:
KENYA
:
Coast Prov.
,
Taita
Hills
,
Chawia Forest
,
3.47908°S
38.34162°E
,
1614 m
,
24.VII– 7.VIII.2011
, MT, next to small forest pond, R. Copeland leg.,
1♂
(
NMK
); same locality label,
7–21.VIII.2011
,
1♂
(
NMK
); same locality label,
27.V–10.VI.2012
,
1♂
(
MOLC
);
Coast Prov.
,
Taita
Hills
,
Vuria Forest
,
3.41428°S
38.29178°E
,
2162 m
,
11–25.I.2012
, MT, just inside indigenous forest, R. Copeland leg.,
1♂
(
NMK
);
Coast Prov.
,
Kaya
Kinondo
,
4.39382°S
39.54567°E
,
10 m
,
22.VIII–5.IX.2011
, MT, coral rag canopy forest, R. Copeland leg.,
1♂
(
NMK
);
Coast Prov.
,
Muhaka Forest
,
4.32664°S
39.52462°E
,
41 m
,
12–26.VII.2014
, MT, indigenous forest, R. Copeland leg.,
2♂♂
(
NMK
,
MOLC
); same locality label,
23.VIII–8.IX.2015
,
1♂
(
NMK
); same locality label,
18.V–1.VI.2016
,
1♂
(
NMK
); same locality label,
6–20.IX.2015
,
1♂
(
NMK
)
.
Hosts
. Unknown.
Distribution
.
Kenya
.
Remarks
. The
♂
tentatively attributed to
Pseudodryinus townesi
by
Olmi (1984)
cannot be a
Pseudodryinus
, because the minimum distance between notauli is longer than the greatest breadth of the lateral ocelli. For this reason, it is now associated with
Thaumatodryinus sokokensis
. However, it may be the opposite sex of one of the other African species known only on the basis of
♀
specimens.