Apteroscelio aureus Veenakumari, Talamas & Rajmohana 2017, sp. n.
Creators: name: Kamalanathan, Veenakumari
name: Talamas, Elijah J.
name: Keloth, Rajmohana
name: Mohanraj, Prashanth
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Scelionidae
Apteroscelio
Apteroscelio aureus

description: Apteroscelio aureus Veenakumari, Talamas & Rajmohana, sp. n.
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Description. Female body length: 1.05–1.21 mm (n=14). Male body length: 0.89–1.16 mm (n=8) Color: yellowish to dark brown; eyes grey; mandibular teeth dark brown; posterior margin of clypeus black; base of toruli with a black patch; apical tergites dark brown. A1 with orange tinge.
Head: Sculpture of A1: reticulate. Shape of clypeus: triangular. Maximum length of compound eye: less than or equal to length of malar sulcus. Setation of eyes: sparsely setose throughout. Ocelli: absent. Length of central keel: 0.24× length of frons. Setation of head: absent on antennal scrobe, otherwise even and moderately dense. Sculpture of head: punctate rugulose. Sculpture of vertex: reticulate. Occipital carina: incomplete dorsally.
Mesosoma: Transverse pronotal sulcus: present. Epomial carina: absent. Lateral face of pronotum: concave. Netrion: present. Sculpture of mesoscutum: reticulate rugose. Scutoscutellar sulcus: simple transverse furrow. Shape of mesoscutellum: rectangular. Sculpture of mesoscutellum: reticulate rugose. Sculpture of speculum: transversely striate. Mesopleural pit: present. Posterior mesepimeral sulcus: foveate. Mesopleural carina: present. Sculpture of mesopleuron below femoral depression: areolate. Postacetabular sulcus: indicated by cells. Sculpture of metascutellum: striate. Sculpture of metanotal trough: foveate. Metapleural sulcus: present. Metapleural epicoxal carina: present. Sculpture of metapleural triangle: areolate rugose.
Metasoma: Foveae along anterior margin of T1: anterior margin smooth. Sculpture of T1–T6: reticulate.
Male similar to female; length and width of A1–A 12 in ratio of 18.5:4.4, 3.9:3.8, 3.6:4.3, 3.2:4.1, 3.3:4.4, 3.6:4.5, 4.2:4.4, 4.2:4.6, 4.2:4.7, 4.3:4.5, 4.4:4.5, 7.1:3.7, respectively. Wings strip-like reaching mid length of T1; Metasoma (L:W=39.6:31.5) 1.25 × as long as wide; length and width of visible tergites T1–T 7 in ratio of 1.6:21.0, 8.5:21.7, 21.1:34.0, 1.8:30.9, 2.0:28.0, 1.8:20.5, 5.6:11.5, respectively.
Diagnosis. Apteroscelio aureus can be separated from A. montanus and A. shyamala by the absence of ocelli and the small size of the eyes (maximum eye height less than length of malar sulcus).
Etymology. The species is named ‘ aureus ’ meaning golden in Latin, referring to the color of the entire body.
Link to Distribution Map. http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=399138
Material Examined. Holotype, female: INDIA: Karnataka, Bengaluru, 936m, 13°09'68'' N 77°56'41'' E, Attur, 17.IX.2010, pitfall trap, K. Veenakumari, ICAR / NBAIR /P249 (deposited in NBAIR). Paratypes: INDIA: 17 females, 9 males, ICAR / NBAIR /P250, ICAR / NBAIR /P251–266, ICAR / NBAIR /P312–316, (NBAIR); ICAR/ NBAIR/P857, ZSI/WGRS/IR/INV4092, ZSI/WGRC/IR/INV3431–3432 (ZSI, WGRS).
description: Published as part of Kamalanathan, Veenakumari, Talamas, Elijah J., Keloth, Rajmohana & Mohanraj, Prashanth, 2017, Two new species of Apteroscelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) from India, pp. 137-143 in Zootaxa 4277 (1) on page 138, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4277.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/809147