Eupsenella karawa Ramos &amp; Azevedo, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Ramos, Magno S.
name: Azevedo, Celso O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Eupsenella
Eupsenella karawa

description: <i>Eupsenella karawa</i> Ramos &amp; Azevedo, sp. nov. (Figs 38, 83, 128) <b>Description.</b> FEMALE (holotype). Body length 6.71 mm. LFW 4.33 mm. <i>Coloration.</i> Head dark castaneous; scape castaneous; pedicel and flagellum castaneous; mandible dark castaneous; palpi light castaneous; mesosoma dark castaneous almost black; tegula castaneous; wing venation dark castaneous; procoxa dark castaneous almost black; mesocoxa castaneous; metacoxa castaneous; trochanters light castaneous; femora dark castaneous; tarsi light castaneous; metasoma dark castaneous with light castaneous portions along its length. <i>Head</i> (Fig. 38). Head longer than wide, globoid in profile; gena weakly concave in profile. Mandible with base wider than apex, lowermost tooth larger than upper ones, lower tooth curved inward, lower margin strongly setose. Clypeus coriaceous, median clypeal lobe angulate, median concavity of median clypeal lobe absent, 0.09 LH, well marked off from frons, median carina present, 0.11 LH. Malar space inconspicuous, 0.1 mandibular base. Antenna 1.67 mm; first five antennomeres in ratio of about 11:11:11:12:12; flagellomere 1 1.22 longer than wide, flagellar sparse hairs, located more laterally, lower margin without strong depression. Frons coriaceous-punctate. WH 0.89 LH. WF 0.64 WH. WF 0.84 HE. OOL 0.48 WOT. VOL 0.37 HE. Distance from posterior ocellus to vertex crest 1.5 DAO. Ocelli large, DAO 0.13 WF, ocellar triangle not compact, distance between posterior ocelli 1.6 DAO, anterior ocellus not surpassing imaginary top eye line, posterior ocellus distant from vertex. Vertex straight, long setae, 0.28 LH, temple profile slightly convergent in dorsal view, with corner convex, not projected postero-laterad. Hipostomal carina straight, low. <i>Mesosoma</i> (Fig. 83). Pronotal disc coriaceous-punctate, 0.34 as long as wide, anterior corner rounded, posterior margin strongly concave medially, pronotal disc without short longitudinal furrow. Parapsidal furrow conspicuous only at third posterior part. Notauli convergent posterad. Mesoscutum 0.91 length pronotal disc. Scutellum coriaceous-punctate, 0.86 length pronotal disc, convex in profile, posterior margin convex medially, scutellar pit elliptical, narrowed, distant each other 17.0 its own diameter. Dorsal axillar surface with fovea oval. Metanotum with median region almost flat, coriaceous-puncticulate, lower than scutellum in profile, with fovea oval laterally. Propodeal disc wider than long; anterior margin without foveolate or transverse furrow; median carina 0.73 length propodeal disc, incomplete posterad; discal carina 0.14 length propodeal disc, converging posterad, slightly arched; space between median and discal carina confused-rugulose. Mesopleuron with subtegular furrow oval; mesepimeral suture almost inconspicuous posterad, mesopleural epicoxal lobe inconspicuous. Propleuron with sequence of foveae from anterior margin of prosternum until cervical collar absent. Prosternum with median excavation restricted to posterior region, median suture absent. Mesopectus with posterior depression heart-shaped; median suture evident. <i>Wings.</i> Macropterous. Forewing (Fig. 128) with 1M cell subpentagonal; 1M and 1R1 cells not aligned basally; C cell evenly narrow; 1R1 cell present, distinctly longer than 2R1 cell, evenly wide; Rs <i>b</i> convex; 2R1 cell 0.15 LFW; distal margin of Rs <i>c</i> convex; r-rs vein inclined; R1 <i>b</i> arching distally; Cu <i>b</i> absent; Rs+M vein 1.2 Rs <i>a</i>; M vein 1.0 Rs <i>a</i>; Rs <i>a</i> subperpendicular to anterior margin of forewing; stigma rectangular; distal stigmal margin truncate. Hind wing with four distal hamuli, last hamulus discontinuous each other. <i>Legs.</i> Profemur swollen, 0.53 as wide as long. Metacoxa with median region 0.41 as wide as long. Metacoxal projection in dorsal region conspicuous, apex rounded. <i>Metasoma.</i> 0.27 as wide as long, ventral carina of petiole present. MALE. Unknown. <b>Material examined.</b> <i>Holotype</i> &amp;female;. AUSTRALIA, 35.19S 148.51E, A[ustralian] C[apital] T[erritory], Wombat C [ree]k, 750 m, 6 Km E Piccadilly Circus, Sept [ember] 1985, Lawrence, Weir, Johnson, flight intercept trap, ANIC. <i>Paratype</i>. AUSTRALIA, A[ustralian] C[apital] T[erritory], 1 &amp;female;, 35.22S 148.50E, Blundells C [ree]k, Feb [ruary] 1987, D.H.Colless, Malaise trap /ethanol, ANIC. <b>Distribution.</b> Australia (Australian Capital Territory). <b>Variation.</b> Body length 5.47–5.71 mm; LFW 4.04–4.21 mm; median clypeal lobe slightly subangulate. <b>Remarks.</b> This species is similar to <i>E. jagara</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> by having the area between the anterior margin of eyes and demarkation of median clypeal lobe short, the ocelli small and distant from vertex crest, the median clypeal lobe angulate. However this species has the median clypeal lobe angulate, with median carina high, whereas <i>E. jagara</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> has the median clypeal lobe broadly truncate, with median carina low.
description: Published as part of <i>Ramos, Magno S. &amp; Azevedo, Celso O., 2012, Revision of Eupsenella Westwood, 1874 (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 3539 (1)</i> on pages 49-50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3539.1.1