Pteroceraphron mirabilipennis Dessart 1981

Miko, Istvan, Masner, Lubomir & Deans, Andrew Robert, 2016, Pteroceraphron Dessart new to the USA (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronoidea), Biodiversity Data Journal 4, pp. 9261-9261 : 9261

Pteroceraphron mirabilipennis Dessart 1981

Pteroceraphron mirabilipennis Dessart 1981

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: BRC HYM. TEAM; individualID: NCSU 0028995; sex: female; Taxon: family: Ceraphronidae; genus: Pteroceraphron; specificEpithet: mirabilipennis; Location: country: USA; stateProvince: Virginia; county: Northampton; verbatimLocality: Northampton Co. 7km S Jackson; Identification: identifiedBy: István Mikó; dateIdentified: 2010; Event: eventDate: VIII-IX, 1987; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: BRC HYM. TEAM; individualID: NCSU 228994; sex: female; Taxon: family: Ceraphronidae; genus: Pteroceraphron; Location: country: USA; locality: Georga, McINtosh Co. Sapelo Island ; verbatimLatitude: 31.38N; verbatimLongitude: 81.28W; Identification: identifiedBy: István Mikó; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: verbatimEventDate: VI-VII. 1987; Record Level: institutionID: CNC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: D.C. Darling; individualID: NCSU 28992; sex: female; Taxon: family: Ceraphronidae; genus: Pteroceraphron; Location: country: USA; locality: IN, Porter, Cowles Bog ; verbatimLatitude: 41.65N; verbatimLongitude: 87.1W; Identification: identifiedBy: Dessart Paul; Event: verbatimEventDate: 04.VIII.1981; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC Type status: Paratype. Taxon: family: Ceraphronidae; genus: Pteroceraphron; Location: country: Canada; locality: Ontario, St. Lawrence national Park ; Identification: identifiedBy: P. Dessart; Record Level: modified: 2010-09-24 10:27:52 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: M. Sharkey; individualID: PSUC_FEM 000096175; sex: female; Taxon: family: Ceraphronidae; genus: Pteroceraphron; Location: country: USA; stateProvince: KY; verbatimLocality: KY: Lexington Co.; verbatimLatitude: 37°58'39''N; verbatimLongitude: 84°24'59"W; Identification: identifiedBy: István Mikó; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: verbatimEventDate: 04-11.vii.2004; Record Level: institutionID: CNC Type status: Holotype. Taxon: scientificName: Pteroceraphronmirabilipennis Dessart 1981; Location: country: Canada; locality: Ontario, St. Lawrence national Park Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: BRC HYM. TEAM; individualID: NCSU 28901; sex: female; Taxon: family: Ceraphronidae; genus: Pteroceraphron; Location: country: USA; locality: Georga, McINtosh Co. Sapelo Island ; verbatimLatitude: 31.38N; verbatimLongitude: 81.28W; Identification: identifiedBy: István Mikó; Event: verbatimEventDate: VI-VII. 1987; Record Level: institutionID: CNC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: BRC HYM. TEAM; individualID: NCSU 28900; sex: female; Taxon: family: Ceraphronidae; genus: Pteroceraphron; Location: country: USA; locality: Georga, McINtosh Co. Sapelo Island ; verbatimLatitude: 31.38N; verbatimLongitude: 81.28W; Identification: identifiedBy: István Mikó; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: verbatimEventDate: VI-VII. 1987; Record Level: institutionID: CNC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: N.F. Johnson; individualID: PSUFEM_13529; Location: country: USA; county: Franklin; verbatimLocality: USA: Ohio, Franklin Co. patch of praire on Kinnear Rd. across the street from the OSU Museum of Biol. Div.; Event: samplingProtocol: YPT; eventDate: 02.vii.1999; Record Level: institutionID: Ohio State University Insect Collection; collectionID: OSU Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: N.F. Johnson; individualID: PSUFEM_13459; Location: country: USA; county: Franklin; verbatimLocality: USA: Ohio, Franklin Co. patch of praire on Kinnear Rd. across the street from the OSU Museum of Biol. Div.; Event: samplingProtocol: YPT; eventDate: 02.vii.1999; Record Level: institutionID: Ohio State University Insect Collection; collectionID: OSU Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J. T. Becker; Location: country: USA; stateProvince: Missouri; locality: Williamsville ; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise Trap; eventTime: vi.1987; Record Level: institutionID: CAS (California Academy of Sciences)

Diagnosis

Pteroceraphron mirabilipennis differs from all other ceraphronoid wasps in the presence of elongate marginal setae (Fig. 1) on the posterior margin of the lanceolate fore wing (Fig. 1). Beside the diagnostic wing characters, the combination of the enlarged last flagellomere (Figs 2, 3), the bifurcated anteromedian process of the propodeum-metanotum complex (Fig. 4), and the presence of three longitudinal carinae on the first metasomal tergum (Fig. 4) make this species easy to separate from other ceraphronids, even if the wings are absent.