Pseudotiphia thoracica, Boni & O, 2010

Boni, M. & O, Tiphia, 2010, A review of the genus Pseudotiphia ASHMEAD 1903 (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (2), pp. 1183-1236 : 1213

Pseudotiphia thoracica nov.sp.

Holotypus: Morocco = / Mogador / /Museum Paris coll. J. Pérez 1915/, MHNP

Male (holotype). Figs 104-109 . Measurements: body length = 13.5 mm.

Habitus and coloration like Ps. villosa , only wings are lighter.

Apical Pal particularly developed, twice longer than penultimate (ratio about 1.3 to 1.5 in other taxa). N 1 disk strongly tightened anteriorly in dorsal aspect, without any ridge along its fore border and without pitless smooth apical stripe. Ratio between width of mesosoma (outlines of es 2) and head in dorsal aspect is about 1.27. Omaulus roughly but well detectable. Horizontal P with areola well delimited laterally by strong ridges and open apically since there is no well defined ridge along its posterior border, replaced by an irregular sequence of crests. Sensorial area on mid tibia large and subtrapezoidal. Gradulus on 1 st tergum very ill defined and almost undetectable. Gradulus on 2 nd sternum worn out medially. Tuberculum on 5 th sternum without mR on its inner surface. Volsella tightens evenly toward apex without any swelling. Surface of head and most of mesosoma appears coarse because of strongly impressed and very densely packed p with very narrow either absent iS among them. Pitless areas only around ocelli, where strong mR exists.

Figures

Figs 104-109. Pseudotiphia thoracica (Holotypus) – (104) head and fore half of mesosoma, dorsal aspect; (105) head, frontal aspect; (106) Pal; (107) labrum, frontal aspect; (108) fore wing; (109) gonosquama, inner lateral aspect with particular of outer aspect.