Anomalon amseli (Hedwig, 1961)

Figs 2–3

Microcremastus amseli Hedwig, 1961: 292 .

Material examined IRAN – Sistan-o Baluchestan Province • 1 ♀; Khash, Chah-nali; 28°46′41″ N, 60°46′44″ E; 2124 m

a.s.l.; 16 May 2012; H. Barahoei leg.; swept on Medicago sativa; DPPZ.

Description

Female

SIZE. Body length 8.5 mm, fore wing 4.5 mm, ovipositor sheath 1.8 mm (Fig. 3B).

COLOUR. Body generally brown (Fig. 3B); inner eye orbits, stripes between median and lateral lobes of mesoscutum, scutellum apically, propodeum lateroapically, fore leg, hind coxa and hind femur apically, hind tibia basally, first metasomal tergite anteriorly and posteriorly, and narrow stripe on posterior margin of second metasomal tergite yellowish.

HEAD. Antenna with 18 flagellomeres. Occipital carina dorsomedially narrowly interrUpted, its lower part not sinuate and reaching base of mandible. Ocelli very small, diameter of lateral ocellus shorter than distance between lateral ocellus and margin of eye (Fig. 2A). Frons slightly concave, smooth and polished, without median vertical ridge. Clypeus weakly and very sparsely punctate, its width 3.0 × its height, its apical margin rounded and with a pair of distinct lateromedian teeth, quite distant from each other. Inner eye orbits weakly convergent ventrally. Malar space about 0.3 × basal mandibular width. Upper tooth of mandible longer than lower tooth. Face elongate, distance between eyes across clypeal fovea about 1.7 × as wide as its length from antennal insertion to median apex of clypeal margin (Fig. 2B). Temple wide, not constricted behind eyes, about 0.9 × as wide as compound eye in lateral view (Fig. 2C).

MESOSOMA. Pronotum striate, with small impunctate area behind epomia (Fig. 2D). Epomia weak, not reaching dorsal pronotal margin. Mesopleuron polished and impunctate. Epicnemal carina at level of sternaulus not broken (without branch to lower posterior corner of pronotum). Metapleuron polished and impunctate centrally. Mesoscutum polished (Fig. 2E). Scutellum polished. Propodeum reticulaterugose (Fig. 2F). Fore wing with r-rs weakly curved near pterostigma. Marginal cell about as long as its distance from end of wing (Fig. 3A).

METASOMA. First tergite 0.8 × as long as second tergite. Second tergite 1.6 × as long as third tergite. Sclerotized part of first sternite extending to the posterior third of the segment. Postpetiole very weakly convex. Spiracle circular, very small. Ovipositor weakly up-curved, with distinct subapical notch. Ovipositor sheath about 1.6 × as long as hind tibia.

General distribution

Palaearctic: Iran, Afghanistan.

Distribution in Iran

Khorasan-e Razavi (Masnadi-Yazdinejad & Jussila 2009) and Sistan-o Baluchestan Provinces (present study).