Aneuropria bifurcata ( Dodd, 1920 )

Chemyreva, Vasilisa G., Kolyada, Victor A. & Ku, Deok-Seo, 2025, Review of the Palaearctic species of the genera Aneuropria Kieffer, 1905 and Labolips Förster, 1856 (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) with description of a new species from South Korea and Japan, Zootaxa 5715 (1), pp. 119-136 : 122-128

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Aneuropria bifurcata ( Dodd, 1920)

( Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 , 3 View FIGURE 3 )

Mantara bifurcata Dodd, 1920: 380 .

Aneuropria bifurcata : Notton 2014: 38.

Material examined. Paratypes: Mantara bifurcata Dodd, 1920 , 1♀ and 1♂, “ Madeira./ Wolfaston./ 55.7” ( NHML). The other labels are shown in Fig. 2B View FIGURE 2 .

Diagnosis. Wingless specimens; all antennomeres of female antennae elongate in dorsal view ( Fig. 2A View FIGURE 2 ); female A12 (?)without ventral pit; male antennae gradually widened apically, with A10 as wide as long in dorsal view, while all other antennomeres elongate ( Fig. 3D View FIGURE 3 ); antennomeres with almost equal width in dorsal and lateral view; small ocelli present ( Fig. 2F View FIGURE 2 ); notauli absent; transscutal suture weak but present ( Figs 2F View FIGURE 2 , 3C View FIGURE 3 ); scutellar disc with two shallow depression anteriorly separated with wide distance ( Fig. 2F View FIGURE 2 ); mesopleuron with scanty weight pubescence under tegula ( Fig. 2E View FIGURE 2 ); median carina of propodeum totally absent; S2 with a bunch of weight setae medially at distal margin ( Fig. 2G View FIGURE 2 ).

Distribution. Portugal ( Madeira).

Aneuropria dentata ( Alekseev, 1979) , comb. nov.

( Figs 4−6 View FIGURE 4 View FIGURE 5 View FIGURE 6 , 7A, B View FIGURE 7 )

Valia dentata Alekseev, 1979: 617 .

Material examined. Holotype, female: “Crimea/ Nikita park near/ Yalta/ on Quercus sp./ 1.10.1964 / K. Arnoldi ” ( Fig. 4B View FIGURE 4 ) . Non-type material. Russia: 1♀, Crimea , Bakhchisaray Distr. , Kayas-Dzhilga 1 km S of Sel’bukhra town, 2.VIII.1995, M. Mostovski leg.; 1♂, Crimea, vicinity of Alushta, 11.VIII.2011, A. Reshchikov leg.; * Abkhazia: 1♂, Bzipi River, 43.2190˚N, 40.2937˚E, YPT , 9−11.VIII.2015, V . Chemyreva leg. (all in ZISP) .

Diagnosis. Wingless specimens; female A4−A11 subquadrate in dorsal view ( Fig. 5E View FIGURE 5 ); female A12 with ventral pit medially; male antennae gradually and slightly widened apically, A7−A13 subquadrate, antennomeres with almost equal width in dorsal and lateral view ( Fig. 7A View FIGURE 7 ); ocelli absent; occipital flange foveolate; notauli absent; transscutal suture and anterior scutellar pits absent ( Figs 4D View FIGURE 4 , 5B View FIGURE 5 ); mesopleuron with dense weight setose under tegula ( Fig. 5F View FIGURE 5 ); median carina of propodeum totally absent; S2 without a bunch of setae at distal margin ( Fig. 7B View FIGURE 7 ).

Description. Male (hitherto unknown). Body length 2.4 mm; antenna length 1.8 mm. Body black, mandible and antennae dark brown, legs reddish brown, palpi yellow.

Head smooth only with rare and sparse not deep setigeroup punctures; pubescence upstanding, long and scattered, postgenal cushion dense, frons laterally from antennal shelf finely and shortly setose; head in dorsal view elongate 1.2 times as long as wide, and 1.5 times as wide as mesosoma; in lateral view about as high as long. Clypeus transverse and slightly convex but epistomal sulcus indistinct. Tentorial pit present, distance between them distinctly shorter than pleurostomal distance. Labrum semicircular, setose and covered with deep setigeroup punctures. Head width 1.65 times of pleurostomal distance, last one as long as distance between eyes. Mandibles slightly overlapping, bidentate, with lower tooth slightly wider. Height of head 2.5х of eye height and malar space as long as height of eye. Eyes with few long setae. Ocelli totally absent.

Antenna.A1 distinctly cylindrical, curved, covered with coriaceous sculpture and scattered long setae; its apical rim simple; A2 conical (attenuate at base) in lateral view and subquadrate in dorsal views; A4 not modified and shorter than A3; A12 longest flagellomere and slightly longer than A3, with ventral pit medially. In lateral view, ratios of length to width of antennomeres as in Fig. 7A View FIGURE 7 ; length and width of flagellomeres same in dorsal and lateral views.

Mesosoma. Neck bare and perfectly smooth. Cervical pronotal area short and almost vertical, densely pubescent (pubescence heterogeneous in length); pronotal shoulders not projecting, smooth and pubescent; lateral sides of pronotum mainly smooth and bare with only fine transverse striation ventrally and dense lateral pronotal cushion anteriorly. Propleuron at least partly with fine elongate striation, densely pubescent in posterior half and almost bare anteriorly. Mesoscutum fused with scutellum, flat and mainly smooth, with only scattered setigerous puncture and setae on the periphery; axillar depression and all kind of scutellar pits absent. Upper part of mesopleuron with densely pubescent and quite large subalar impression, which separated from smooth and bare median part of mesopleuron with distinct carina; epicnemial pit distinct, moderately large and pubescent inside; sternaulus present as distinct carina with a row of stout setae along it; mesopleuron ventrally with ventral longitudinal carina of mesopleuron, that extending from anterior to median coxae ( Fig. 6E View FIGURE 6 ), area between it and sternaulus smooth bare and slightly depressed; ventral area of mesopleuron between right and left ventral longitudinal carinae of mesopleuron densely pubescent, with only mesodiscrimen visible as deeply foveolate suture. Metanotum strongly reduce, visible as small semicircular sclerites laterally. Propodeum rugulose and punctulate, mainly pubescent except plicae; dorsal surface of propodeum between plicae not separated from nucha posteriorly and distinctly shorter than lateral side of propodeum; plical process and metapleural carinae process expands beyond anterior margin of petiole; metapleuron and lateral side of propodeum densely pubescent. All legs slender, without trochantellus, without peculiarities in pubescence. Fore wing totally absent, tegulae strongly reduced.

Metasoma. Petiole cylindrical, entirely rugose and densely pubescent ( Fig. 6C View FIGURE 6 ); T2 smooth, covered with scattered, stout and long semi-erect setae; T3‒T6 very short, totally smooth and bare ( Fig. 6D View FIGURE 6 ); T7 as long as T4‒T6 measured together, micropunctured, with only several strong setae and setigerous punctures; T8 about as long as T7, micropunctured, with several strong setae and setigerous punctures, without trace of cerci. Base of S2 with grooves like depression laterally which moderately short and wide and densely pubescent inside; median depression with short notch at the bottom, scarcely pubescent; posterior surface of S2 smooth, with few sparse setae and setigerous punctures; S3‒S7 with transverse line of micropunctuation and very few setigerous punctures with strong setae; S8 semicircular smooth and shining, with only several setigerous punctures and long setae ( Fig. 7B View FIGURE 7 ).

Distribution. The Black Sea region ( Crimea and the western Caucasus).