Orasema tinalandia

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Orasema tinalandia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Eucharitidae
Subfamily: Oraseminae
Genus: Orasema
Species: O. tinalandia
Binomial name
Orasema tinalandia
Baker & Heraty, 2020

Identification

Distinguished from other species in the sixaolae group by smoother sculpture on the mesoscutal midlobe. Distinguished from O. sixaolae and O. nebula by the petiole being shorter than the hind coxae. Distinguished from O. brachycephala by the antennal flagellomeres being as wide as long.

Distribution

Ecuador

Habitat

Biology

Nomenclature

Etymology. Referring to the locality ‘Tinalandia’ in Ecuador where the specimen was collected.


Description

References

  • Baker AJ, Heraty JM. The New World ant parasitoid genus Orasema (Hymenoptera: Eucharitidae). Zootaxa. 2020 Nov 30;4888(1):zootaxa.4888.1.1. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4888.1.1. PMID: 33311254.
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  • Heraty, J., Hawks, D., Kostecki, J.S. and Carmichael, A. (2004). Phylogeny and behaviour of the Gollumiellinae, a new subfamily of the ant-parasitic Eucharitidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Systematic Entomology 29(4): 544-559.
  • Munro, J. B., Heraty, J. M., Burks, R. A., Hawks, D., Mottern, J., Cruaud, A., Rasplus, J.-Y. & Jansta, P. (2011). A molecular phylogeny of the Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). PLoS One 6(11): e27023.
  • Murray, E. A., Carmichael, A. E., & Heraty, J. M. (2013). Ancient host shifts followed by host conservatism in a group of ant parasitoids. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280(1759): 20130495.
  • Wheeler WM (1907) The polymorphism of ants with an account of some singular abnormalities due to parasitism. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 23: 1–93.