Gonatopus madecassus Olmi 1998
Creators: name: Olmi, Massimo
name: Copeland, Robert S.
name: Noort, Simon Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Dryinidae
Gonatopus
Gonatopus madecassus

description: 26. Gonatopus madecassus Olmi, 1998
(Figs 180G, 182B)
Gonatopus madecassus Olmi 1998e: 93; Azevedo et al. 2010: 896; Guglielmino & Olmi 2014a: 42.
Description. ♀. Apterous; body length 4.2–6.0 mm. Head brown, except mandible, clypeus and most part of frons testaceous (occasionally anterior half of frons testaceous); antenna brown, except antennomeres 9–10 yellow-whitish (in specimen from Mayotte, antenna brown, except scape and flagellomere 8 testaceous); mesosoma black, except lateral margins of pronotum brown-testaceous (in specimen from Mayotte, mesosoma totally black); metasoma brown; legs brown, except tarsi testaceous (in specimen from Mayotte, legs brown, except articulations and part of trochanters whitish, part of meso- and metafemur whitish). Antenna clavate; antennomeres of holotype in following proportions: 13:7:32:16:13:10:10:9:8:14. Head excavated, bare, shiny, finely punctate, unsculptured among punctures; frontal line complete; occipital carina absent; temple distinct; POL = 2.5; OL = 2.5; OOL = 12. Palpal formula 5/3. Pronotum shiny, unsculptured, crossed by strong transverse impression. Mesoscutum shiny, sculptured by many longitudinal keels, with two lateral pointed apophyses situated on sides of margin between mesoscutum and mesoscutellum (Fig. 180G). Mesoscutellum sloping anteriorly, shiny, unsculptured. Metanotum sloping anteriorly, shiny, unsculptured, weakly excavated behind mesoscutellum, with two lateral pointed apophyses (Fig. 180G); lateral regions of metanotum transversely striate. Metapectal-propodeal disc shiny, strongly transversely striate, except anterior surface unsculptured; propodeal declivity transversely striate. Mesopleuron and metapleuron strongly transversely striate. Meso-metapleural suture obsolete, slightly visible only in posterior half. Protarsomeres in following proportions: 20:4:8:20:33. Protarsomere 3 produced into hook. Enlarged claw (Fig. 182B) with one large subdistal tooth and one row of seven lamellae. Protarsomere 5 (Fig. 182B) with two rows of 4 + 15-17 lamellae; apex with at least 16 lamellae. Tibial spurs 1/0/1.
♂. Unknown.
Material examined. Type: ♀ holotype: MADAGASCAR: Toamasina, Foulpointe (= Mahavelona), XI.1995, forêt/ sable, A. Pauly leg. (FSAE). Other material: MADAGASCAR: Fianarantsoa, Ranomafana National Park, Vatoharanana River, 4.1 km 231° SW Ranomafana, 21°17.24’S 47°26.00’E, 1100 m, YPT, montane rainforest, 27– 31.III.2003, Fisher, Griswold et al. leg., BLF 8399, 1♀ (MOLC); Toamasina, Périnet, 27.IV–3.V.1983, J.S. Noyes & M.C. Day leg., 1♀ (NHMUK). MAYOTTE: Dapani, 12°57’46’’S 45°09’01’’E, 135 m, 2–4.XII.2007, sifted litter, rainforest, B.L. Fisher et al. leg., BLF19060, 1♀ (CAS).
Hosts. Unknown.
Distribution. Madagascar. Mayotte.
description: Published as part of Olmi, Massimo, Copeland, Robert S. & Noort, Simon Van, 2019, Dryinidae of the Afrotropical region (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea), pp. 1-619 in Zootaxa 4630 (1) on pages 446-447, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4630.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3336635