Oreiscelio alluaudi
Creators: name: Talamas, Elijah
name: Johnson, Norman
name: van Noort, Simon
name: Masner, Lubomir
name: Polaszek, Andrew
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Scelionidae
Oreiscelio
Oreiscelio alluaudi

description: <i>Oreiscelio alluaudi</i> (Risbec) urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: AC84CA24-A4E0-4BB7-A0EE-E327531DA738 urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:5001 Figures 6, 9, 15, 24, 31-36; Morphbank <b> 15</b> <i>Lepidoscelio alluaudi</i> Risbec, 1950: 590. Original description. <i>Oreiscelio alluadi</i>: Masner, 1976: 17. Type information, generic transfer, spelling error. <b>Description.</b> General: Body length of female: 3.2-3.8 mm (n=10). Body length of male: 3.0 mm (n=1). Body color: black. Antenna: Color of antennae in female: A1–A6 yellow; A7–A12 dark brown to black, A1–A6 brown; A7–A12 dark brown to black. Color of antennae in male: A1 brown; A2–A12 yellow. Seta on pedicel of antenna in female: present, reaching past apex of A3. Head: Color of setae on the head: yellow. Sculpture of dorsal frons between frontal carina and median ocellus: coarsely foveate. Preocellar pit in females: indicated by a small round depression, present as a distinct pit. Transverse rugae at vertex: present. Sculpture of posterior vertex: coarsely foveate. Sculpture of occipital rim: areolate. Interantennal process: simple. Number of anteriorly projecting setae on anteclypeus: 6. Color of mandibles in male: yellow throughout, teeth brown. Color of mandibles in female: yellow throughout with teeth brown. Mandibular teeth in female: dorsal tooth larger. Sculpture of ventral gena anterior to genal carina: row of areolae, row of contiguous punctures. Sculpture of ventral gena posterior to genal carina: mostly smooth, with sparse large punctures, coarsely and irregularly punctate. Shape of anteclypeus: striplike, straight to slightly convex. Legs: Color of legs: entirely yellow. Mesosoma: Sculpture of dorsal pronotum: areolate with expanded ridges. Color of setae on the dorsal mesosoma: yellow. Sculpture of medial mesoscutum: coarsely foveate. Sculpture of lateral mesoscutum: with an elevated patch of smoother sculp-ture, bounded by mesoscutal humeral sulcus laterally, extending to scutoscutellar sulcus posteriorly. Notaulus in female: present. Parapsidal line: delimited. Sculpture of scutellum: areolate. Median furrow on scutellum: absent. Posterior margin of scutellum: emarginate, convex. Outer projection of the propodeum: present as distinct corner or posteriorly projecting spine. Posterior margin of propodeal shelf between inner and outer propodeal projections in female: concave. Posterior margin of propodeal shelf between inner and outer propodeal projections in male: concave. Sculpture of ventral pronotum: foveate reticulate, becoming smooth at anterolateral corner. Anterior pronotal pit: large. Pronotal cervical sulcus: well defined by contiguous punctures. Mesepimeral sulcus: indicated by dorsoventral line of foveae. Sculpture of femoral depression in female: anterior half smooth, posterior half finely foveate. Sculpture of femoral depression in male: finely foveate throughout, with weak transverse striae throughout. Mesopleural carina: indicated by one or two rows of punctures. Sculpture of ventral mesepisternum: foveate. Pilosity of metapleural triangle in female: glabrous or with at most 3 small setae. Pilosity of metapleural triangle in male: absent. Sculpture of ventral area of metapleuron: foveate reticulate, with slightly appressed ridges. Metasoma: Submarginal ridge on T1: absent. Sublateral tergal carina on T2: absent. Sculpture of T2–T3: reticulate rugose. Sculpture of T4: reticulate rugose. Sculpure of T5: reticulate rugose. Shape of subapical T 6 in female in dorsal view: short, width along anterior margin at least three times the length. Apex of T 7 in male: slightly convex. Longitudinal medial keel on S1: present. Sculpture of medial S 2 in female: punctate reticulate. Sculpture of medial S 3 in female: effaced to smooth. Sculpture of medial S 4 in female: effaced to smooth. Sculpture of medial S 5 in female: effaced to smooth. Sculpture of lateral S 3 in female: foveolate. Sculpture of lateral S 4 in female: foveolate. Sculpture of lateral S 5 in female: foveate. Sculpture of marginal depression of S 2 in female: mostly smooth, with scattered punctures or shallow rugulae, finely punctate throughout. Sculpture of marginal depression of S 3 in female: mostly smooth, with scattered punctures or shallow rugulae, finely punctate throughout. Sculpture of marginal depression of S 4 in female: rugulose. Sculpture of marginal depression of S 5 in female: rugulose. Apical spine on S 6 in female: not extending beyond apex of T6 and not visible in dorsal view. Sculpture of medial S 2 in male: punctate reticulate. Sculpture of medial S 3 in male: smooth. Sculpture of lateral S 3 in male: foveolate. Sculpture of lateral S 4 in male: foveolate. Sculpture of medial S 5 in male: smooth. Sculpture of lateral S 5 in male: foveolate. <b>Diagnosis.</b> <i>Oreiscelio alluaudi</i> is similar to <i>O. rostratus</i> and <i>O. naevus</i>. <i>Oreiscelio alluaudi</i> is the only species from Madagascar with a preocellar pit (Fig. 15) present in females, and this character allows it to be separated from females of both <i>O. rostratus</i> and <i>O. naevus</i>. It may also be distinguished from <i>O. rostratus</i> by the sculpture of the dorsal metasoma (Fig. 36). Males of <i>O. alluaudi</i> may be separated from those of <i>O. naevus</i> by the sculpture of the ventral mesepisternum which is coarsely foveate in the former and mostly to entirely smooth in the latter. <b>Link to distribution map.</b> <b> 16</b> <b>Material examined.</b> Holotype female: <b>MADAGASCAR</b>: Diego-Suarez, Ch. Alluaud 1893, MNHN 0003 (MNHN) <b> 17</b> . <i>Other material</i>: <b>MADAGASCAR</b>: 1 male, 10 females, CASENT 2042833, 2042920, 2042984, 2043457, 2133066, 2133421 (CASC); CASENT 2132558, 2043458, 2042983, 2042921, 2042636 (OSUC).
description: Published as part of <i>Talamas, Elijah, Johnson, Norman, van Noort, Simon, Masner, Lubomir &amp; Polaszek, Andrew, 2009, Revision of world species of the genus Oreiscelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea, Platygastridae), pp. 1-68 in ZooKeys 6 (6)</i> on pages 17-19, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.6.67, http://zenodo.org/record/576433
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