Oodera gracilis Westwood, 1874

Werner, Jennifer & Peters, Ralph S., 2018, Taxonomic revision of the genus Oodera Westwood, 1874 (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae, Cleonyminae), with description of ten new species, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 63, pp. 73-123 : 92

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scientific name	Oodera gracilis Westwood, 1874
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Oodera gracilis Westwood, 1874 Figs 3a View Figure 3 , 6a View Figure 6 , 9a View Figure 9 , 12a View Figure 12 , 15a View Figure 15

Oodera gracilis Westwood, 1874: 145.

Diagnosis.

FEMALE (N = 1). Large-sized (17.00 mm). Head and mesosoma bright dark blue and green-blue with blackish parts. Fore wing partly infumate. Body slender (mesonotum 1.45 × as long as wide). Head elongated (1.67 × as high as long). Eyes large (0.60 × as high as head) (Fig. 9a View Figure 9 ). Corona thick (3.32 × as long as wide), structure three- to four-part (Fig. 6a View Figure 6 ). Pronotum oval and longer than wide, with broadest part at midlength (Fig. 12a View Figure 12 ). Mesoscutellum slender (0.82 × as long as wide), anterior margin convex (part anterior to imaginary transverse line connecting posterior margins of axillae more than 1/3 of mesoscutellum length; 0.37), mesoscutellum completely rugose without clear structure, medial part shiny (Fig. 15a View Figure 15 ). Propodeum medium (0.08 × as long as mesoscutum) (Fig. 15a View Figure 15 ). Profemur elongated (2.31 × as long as wide). Marginal vein short (0.67 × as long as postmarginal vein). Metasoma long (0.56 × as long as body). Ovipositor very long (1.16 × as long as metasoma) (Fig. 3a View Figure 3 ).

Redescription.

FEMALE. Colour (Figs 3a View Figure 3 , 6a View Figure 6 , 9a View Figure 9 , 12a View Figure 12 , 15a View Figure 15 ). Scape with first half yellow and second half dark brown, rest of antenna dark brown. Procoxa and profemur blue, middle leg completely black, hind leg black with proximal 4/5 of femur orange. Metasoma black and blue.

Head (Figs 6a View Figure 6 , 9a View Figure 9 ). Face transversely striate from parascrobal area at lower third of eye height to clypeus margin. Head width to length not available. Head width to eye distance not available. Malar space 0.40 × head height. Corona 0.60 × as long as eye height. POL 0.77 × OOL. Scape 2.90 × as long as pedicel. Clava length to funicle length not available. Flagellum length to head width not available.

Mesosoma (Figs 12a View Figure 12 , 15a View Figure 15 ). Pronotum 0.86 × as long as wide. Pronotum 0.42 × as long as mesonotum. Mesonotum 1.43 × as long as mesoscutum. Mesoscutum 1.02 × as long as wide. Mesoscutellum 0.43 × as long as mesoscutum. Profemur 1.30 × as long as protibia.

Wings (Fig. 3a View Figure 3 ). Fore wing 3.27 × as long as wide. Costal cell 0.39 × as long as fore wing. Marginal vein 0.16 × as long as fore wing. Marginal vein 3.50 × as long as stigmal vein. Postmarginal vein 5.25 × as long as stigmal vein.

MALE. Unknown.

Material examined.

ASIA. Indonesia (North Sulawesi): female, Indonesia , Sulawesi Utara, Dumoga-Bone N.P., leg. G. Else, 09.06.1985, det. Z. Bouček (compared with holotype in Oxford Museum) ( BMNH) (OGr01) .

Biology.

Unknown.

Distribution.

Indonesia (Sulawesi), West Papua.

Taxonomic remarks.

We did not examine the type (described from West Papua). However, the uniqueness of the species and the fact that we examined a specimen compared to the type by Bouček allow us to include this species in the taxonomic revision.