Pseudotiphia lampra, 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 : 1214

Pseudotiphia lampra nov.sp.

H o l o t y p e - Spain = /Fiñana Almeria/, MNCN;

P a r a t y p e - Spain = (1) /Fiñana Almeria/, MNCN. Paratype - Spain = (2) /Fiñana Almeria/, MNCN

Female. Figs 110 . measurements: body length = 10 mm

Legs dark brown. Flagellomeri with a ratio L / A about 1.2-1.3. No evident gradulus on fore border of Sc 1. Horizontal, lateral, posterior areas and areola like in Ps. villosa . Gradulus on 1 st tergum with a median backward acute tip. Punctuation more sparse than in Ps. villosa everywhere. Ventral surface of es 2 without any small p along interconnection too. About 20 wrinkles on lateral P. 6 th tergum with apical 2/3 evenly covered by impressed mR without any trace of low ribs (1/ 2 in Ps. villosa and with clear traces of low ribs). No mR elsewhere.

Male. Holotype. Figs 111-117 . Measurements: body length = 8 mm.

Coloration like Ps. villosa but the brown legs (but coxae) and lighter wings.

Ventral lamella of clypeus deeply notched (more than in all other taxa). 2 nd to 9 th flagellomeri elongated, with a ratio L / A ranging between 1.25 and 1.45. No vertical ridge on the mid of the frons. N 1 disk strongly tightened anteriorly, with a well expressed low ridge along its anterior border. Omaulus well expressed. Surface of horizontal P sculptured by high irregular crests (parallel on its anterior corners) with well expressed areola by high lateral, median and posterior ridge; the latter irradiates in secondary minor ridges before getting the side corner; low ridge between lateral and posterior areas of P; the latter with complete vertical median ridge and many irregular wrinkles irradiating all around its upper third. Large pterostigma, its surface just a bit less wide than area of CM. High graduli on 1 st, 2 nd terga and 2 nd tergum. Gradulus on 1 st tergum with long buttressing ridges along the whole of its length. Tuberculum on 5 th sternum like in cillosa but without inner mR area.

Medium impressed and very sparse p throughout (also in part very coarse in the other taxa like clypeus, posterior vertex, temple, genae, lower frons, N 1 disk, es 2, where iS are always expressed and mostly more than twice diameter of p) impunctate shining areas on the head and mesosoma. Metameri too shining with very sparse weakly impressed p. Bipunctate area by sparse small p only on side genae and es 1. Nowhere well detectable at x50 mR surfaces, except mid 7 th tergum.

Variability. The second male specimen is only a bit smaller.

Figures

Figs 110-117. Pseudotiphia lampra (Paratypus) – (110) labrum, frontal aspect. Pseudotiphia lampra (Holotypus) – (111) head, frontal aspect; (112) basal flagellomeri; (113) labrum, frontal aspect; (114) pronotum, dorsal aspect; (115) for wing; (116) gonosquama, inner lateral aspect with particular of outer aspect.; (117) aedeagus tip, lateral aspect.