Heptascelio aquilinus 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 aquilinus

description: Heptascelio aquilinus Masner & Johnson, new species
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Description. Female body length: unknown. Male body length: 2.6 mm (n=1). Body color of female: unknown. Color of female antenna: unknown. Color of wing membrane: generally hyaline throughout. Color of legs: tarsi light brown, otherwise brown to dark brown throughout. Body color of male: entirely dark brown. Color of male antenna: brown to dark brown throughout.
Sculpture of occiput and posterior vertex: irregularly rugulose. Sculpture of frons below ocellus in male: transversely striate. Shape of dorsal margin of frontal scrobe: distinctly incised medially, strongly produced anteriorly. Sculpture of frontal depression in male: diagonally striate laterally, smooth medially. Sculpture of gena: with irregular, nearly longitudinal rugulae. Setation of gena: with numerous strong, erect, dark bristles amid shorter setation. Shape of mandibles: elongate, extending ventrally below head, tips meeting apically.
Sculpture of dorsal pronotum: coarsely reticulate. Notaulus: absent or obscured by coarse surface sculpture. Sculpture of mesoscutum in female: unknown. Sculpture of mesoscutum in male: sparsely punctate, largely smooth. Parapsidal line: present, clearly impressed. Mesoscutellum shape: broad, weakly convex, http://atbi.biosci.ohio-state.edu/HymOnline/map-large.html?id=223409 21. http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:specimen:0BE0B9B3-6E19-4F97-955E-DBAD054F2EAF http://www.morphbank.net/?id=224267
apex broadly rounded. Sculpture of female mesoscutellum: unknown. Scutellar points of female: unknown. Sculpture of male mesoscutellum: coarsely reticulate. Scutellar points of male: apex of mesoscutellum rounded, points entirely absent. Posterior surface of propodeum: with medial area covered by elongate areolae, bounded laterally by irregular carinae. Length of outer propodeal projection in female: unknown. Sculpture of propodeum between inner and outer propodeal projections: areolate rugose. Netrion shape: narrow, gradually widened ventrally, foveae on surface distinctly wider than high. Netrion setation: glabrous. Sculpture of lateral pronotum posterior to epomial carina: with small smooth field near posterior margin, elsewhere finely rugulose. Setation of posterior half of lateral pronotum: largely glabrous, setae limited to small patch near spiracle. Sculpture of mesopleural scrobe: finely microreticulate to smooth. Sculpture of lower mesepisternum: finely microreticulate, nearly smooth, sparsely punctate. Sculpture of metapleuron: areolate rugose. Fore wing venation: reduced to basal stub of R, with pale pseudostigma in wing disk. Submarginal vein bristles: with 1–2 dark bristles near base of fore wing. Long dark bristles on legs: present on all femora, tibiae.
T1 depression: glabrous or sparsely setose. Sublateral lamella on T1: indicated as low carina. Sculpture of T2–T4: longitudinally striate, with fine cross striae, punctures, smooth or finely punctulate transverse band apically. Setation of laterotergites: glabrous. Sculpture of S2, S3 of female: unknown. Sculpture of S2, S3 of male: irregularly longitudinally rugulose, apex of S3 nearly smooth. Distribution of felt fields: present on S3 only.
Diagnosis. This species is most similar to Heptascelio dispar. In the male sex, H. aquilinus may be recognized by the largely smooth mesoscutum (Fig. 14) and the tremendously elongate mandibles (Figs. 12, 15, 16).
Etymology. The epithet aquilinus, of eagles, refers to the beaklike mandibles.
Link to Distribution Map.23
Material Examined. Holotype male: SOUTH AFRICA: Western Cape Prov., 10 km S Clanwilliam, 32°13'39"S 18°50'50"E, 140 m, sandy hill, 5–25.X.2004, Malaise trap, M.E. Irwin, F.D. Parker, & M. Hauser, OSUC 209137 (deposited in SAMC)24.
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 11-12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.274283