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Smicromorpha banksi
| Smicromorpha banksi | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Chalcididae |
| Subfamily: | Smicromorphinae |
| Genus: | Smicromorpha |
| Species: | S. banksi |
| Binomial name | |
| Smicromorpha banksi Naumann, 1986 | |
Identification
Distribution
Australia, Papua New Guinea
Habitat
Biology
Host ant: Oecophylla smaragdina
Nomenclature
Description
Diagnosis. Female. Body length 4.0 mm, length of fore wing 2.3 mm; colour pale yellowish to orange; hind coxa with large outer blackish spot, hind femur with large discal black spot, serrulation black (Fig. 20); setation short, with scattered adpressed setae on mesosoma and hind femur. Head with eyes moderately enlarged (Figs 16, 17); malar space relatively long with malar carina (Fig. 17); antennal scrobe deeply impressed, carinately mar- gined, distant from inner margin of eye; frons with longitudinal impression between median ocellus and antennal scrobe (Fig. 17); vertex and frons minutely reticulate-punctulate; ocelli small, POL and LOD respectively 0.8× and 0.7× OOL (Fig. 18);, maximum interocular distance (on vertex) at most twice as great as minimum distance (at mid-length of face); flagellum 6-segmented; flagellomeres very short, transverse; pronotal collar carinate laterally; mesoscutum and scutellum rugose-punctate; sternaulus absent; propodeum convex posteriorly, spiracular sulci in- distinct; fore wing slightly infuscate, STV shorter than and at right angle with MV, stump of basalis present (Fig. 19); hind coxa 4.6× long as wide; hind femur 1.7× as long as wide, without basal prominence, serrulate on ventral margin starting at one third of femoral length, forming two lobes; petiole 4.5× as long as wide, not swollen basally, minutely reticulate-punctulate dorsally; transverse basal lamina distinct (Fig. 21).
References
- Masner, Lubomir, and José Luis García R. "The genera of Diapriinae (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) in the New World. Bulletin of the AMNH; no. 268." (2002).
- Pérez-Lachaud, G., Noyes, J., & Lachaud, J.-P. (2012). FIRST RECORD OF AN ENCYRTID WASP (HYMENOPTERA: CHALCIDOIDEA) AS A TRUE PRIMARY PARASITOID OF ANTS (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDAE). The Florida Entomologist, 95(4), 1066–1076.