Heptascelio dayi Masner & Johnson, new species
Creators: name: Johnson, Norman F.
name: Masner, Lubomír
name: Musetti, Luciana
name: Noort, Simon Van
name: K, Rajmohana
name: Darling, Christopher
name: Polaszek, Antonia Guidotti Andrew
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Scelionidae
Heptascelio
Heptascelio dayi

description: Heptascelio dayi Masner & Johnson, new species
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:40CC8C9E-FF3D-451C-801B-B4473BF2ED15 urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:223413 Figures 27–30; Morphbank31
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http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:specimen:530D4302-EE0D-4017-A5B3-7CB8F369AA3C Description. Female body length: 4.1 mm (n=1). Male body length: unknown. Body color of female: entirely dark, dark brown to black. Color of female antenna: dark brown to black throughout. Color of wing membrane: with faint brown infuscation throughout, with strong dark streak below submarginal vein. Color of legs: coxae dark brown to black, legs otherwise brown to dark brown. Body color of male: unknown. Color of male antenna: unknown. Sculpture of occiput and posterior vertex: coarsely punctate. Sculpture of frons below ocellus in female: coarsely punctate. Shape of dorsal margin of frontal scrobe: ecarinate, rounded onto dorsal portion of frons. Sculpture of frontal depression in female: coarsely punctate ventrally and laterally, otherwise smooth. Sculpture of gena: coarsely punctate. Setation of gena: with short, uniform setae, without bristles. Shape of mandibles: normal length, crossed transversely below head when closed, tips overlapping.
Sculpture of dorsal pronotum: coarsely punctate. Notaulus: absent or obscured by coarse surface sculpture. Sculpture of mesoscutum in female: sparsely punctate, with broad smooth areas between punctures. Sculpture of mesoscutum in male: unknown. Parapsidal line: absent. Mesoscutellum shape: nearly parallel-sided, apex weakly excavate, with weak median longitudinal impression. Sculpture of female mesoscutellum: coarsely punctate. Scutellar points of female: forming short, sharp angles, not protruding. Sculpture of male mesoscutellum: unknown. Scutellar points of male: unknown. Posterior surface of propodeum: irregularly areolate, without distinct paramedian keel. Length of outer propodeal projection in female: moderately elongate, not reaching midpoint of length of T1, subequal in length to inner propodeal projection. Sculpture of propodeum between inner and outer propodeal projections: coarsely punctate. Netrion shape: moderately wide, nearly parallel-sided, with two columns of large punctures. Netrion setation: densely setose. Sculpture of lateral pronotum posterior to epomial carina: coarsely punctate. Setation of posterior half of lateral pronotum: with numerous scattered setae, densest near spiracle. Sculpture of mesopleural scrobe: smooth. Sculpture of lower mesepisternum: with distinctly separated, coarse punctures. Sculpture of metapleuron: coarsely punctate. Fore wing venation: well-developed, with R, r-rs clearly visible. Submarginal vein bristles: with dark bristles in basal half of submarginal vein. Long dark bristles on legs: absent.
T1 depression: moderately to densely setose. Sublateral lamella on T1: distinctly raised more or less perpendicular to T1. Sculpture of T2–T4: longitudinally striate, with fine cross striae, punctures, smooth or finely punctulate transverse band apically. Setation of laterotergites: setose. Sculpture of S2, S3 of female: strongly longitudinally rugose. Sculpture of S2, S3 of male: unknown. Distribution of felt fields: present on S2–S3.
Diagnosis. Heptascelio dayi is most similar to the cluster of species H. bivius, H. lugens and H. paralugens. It is distinguished by the lack of notauli and the punctured, not areolate, mesoscutellum (Fig. 29).
Etymology. Named for the collector, Mick Day.
Link to Distribution Map.32
Material Examined. Holotype female: INDONESIA: Seram, Maluku, Solea, Uncaria, VIII.1987, Malaise trap, M.C. Day, OSUC 209138 (deposited in BMNH)33.
description: Published as part of Johnson, Norman F., Masner, Lubomír, Musetti, Luciana, Noort, Simon Van, K, Rajmohana, Darling, Christopher & Polaszek, Antonia Guidotti Andrew, 2008, Revision of world species of the genus Heptascelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea, Platygastridae), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 1776 on pages 14-15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.274283