Eupsenella eora 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 eora

description: <i>Eupsenella eora</i> Ramos &amp; Azevedo, sp. nov. (Figs 23, 68, 113) <b>Description.</b> FEMALE (holotype). Body length 6.52 mm. LFW 3.81 mm. <i>Coloration.</i> Head dark castaneous; scape, pedicel and flagellum castaneous; mandible dark castaneous; palpi light castaneous; mesosoma dark castaneous; tegula and wing venation castaneous; coxae dark castaneous; trochanters castaneous; profemur dark castaneous; mesofemur, metafemur and tarsi castaneous; metasoma dark castaneous. <i>Head</i> (Fig. 23). Head longer than wide, globoid in profile; gena without concavity in profile. Mandible evenly wide, teeth sub-equal, lower tooth curved inward, lower margin strongly setose. Clypeus coriaceous-punctate, median clypeal lobe angulate, median concavity of median clypeal lobe absent, 0.09 LH, well marked off from frons, median carina present, 0.2 LH. Malar space conspicuous, 0.43 mandibular base. Antenna 1.33 mm; first five antennomeres in ratio of about 11:11:11:11:10; flagellomere 1 1.57 longer than wide, flagellar pubescence dense, more laterally, lower margin without strong depression. Frons coriaceous-punctate. WH 0.88 LH. WF 0.64 WH. WF 1.27 HE. OOL 1.17 WOT. VOL 0.55 HE. Distance from posterior ocellus to vertex crest 1.0 DAO. Ocelli small, DAO 0.09 WF, ocellar triangle not compact, distance between posterior ocelli 2.75 DAO, anterior ocellus not surpassing imaginary top eye line, posterior ocellus almost reaching vertex. Vertex straight, long setae, 0.36 LH, temple profile slightly convergent in dorsal view, with corner convex, not projected postero-laterad. Hipostomal carina straight, low. <i>Mesosoma</i> (Fig. 68). Pronotal disc coriaceous-punctate, 0.44 as long as wide, anterior corner rounded, posterior margin concave medially, pronotal disc without short longitudinal furrow. Parapsidal furrow wholly conspicuous. Notauli parallel to each other. Mesoscutum 0.95 length pronotal disc. Scutellum coriaceouspunctate, 0.95 length pronotal disc, almost flat in profile, posterior margin almost straight medially, scutellar pit elliptical, narrowed, distant each other 11.5 its own diameter. Dorsal axillar surface with fovea oval. Metanotum with median region high, coriaceous-puncticulate, as high as scutellum in profile, with fovea oval laterally. Propodeal disc wider than long; anterior margin without foveolate or transverse furrow; median carina 0.75 length propodeal disc, incomplete posterad; discal carina 0.25 length propodeal disc, parallel to median carina, straight; 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 complete, median suture present. Mesopectus with posterior depression heart-shaped; median suture not evident. <i>Wings.</i> Macropterous. Forewing (Fig. 113) 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> straight; 2R1 cell 0.15 LFW; distal margin of Rs <i>c</i> convex; r-rs vein inclined; Costal cell widening distally; R1 <i>b</i> entirely on anterior margin of forewing; Cu <i>b</i> absent; Rs+M vein 1.67 Rs <i>a</i>; M vein 1.6 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, 0.55 as wide as long. Metacoxa with median region 0.57 as wide as long. Metacoxal projection in dorsal region conspicuous, apex sharpened. <i>Metasoma.</i> 0.29 as wide as long, ventral carina of petiole present. <b>Material examined.</b> <i>Holotype</i> &amp;female;. AUSTRALIA, Tas [mania], 41.20S 147.50E, M[oun]t[ain] Victoria, 900 m, 23 Nov [ember] 1989, R. Coy, Tree 3, pyrethein Knockdown, ANIC. <i>Paratypes</i>. AUSTRALIA, Tas [mania], 4 &amp;female;, 41.14S 147.56E, 4 Km SE Weldborough, 13 Jan [uary]–7 Feb [ruary] 1983, I.D.Naumann &amp; J.C.Cardale, ex[tracted] pan trap, ANIC; 1 &amp;female;, 41.20S 147.50E, 24 Nov [ember] 1989, M[oun]t[ain] Victoria, 900 m, H. Mitchell, Tree 1, pyrethein Knockdown, ANIC; 1 &amp;female;, 41.22S 147.24E, 10 Km ENE of Nunamara, 12 Jan [uary]–6 Feb [ruary] 1983, I.D.Naumann &amp; J.C.Cardale, Malaise /ethanol; 1 &amp;female;, ex[tracted] pan trap, ANIC; 1 &amp;female;, 41.23S 147.25E, M[oun]t[ain] Barrow, 11 Km E by N. Nunamara, 30 Jan [uary] 1983, I.D.Naumann &amp; J.C.Cardale, ex[tracted] ethanol, ANIC; 1 &amp;female;, 41.30S 145.20E, 20 Apr [il] 1989, Savage R., Pipeline R [oad], Site 3, <i>Nothofagus</i>, pyrethein Knockdown, ANIC; 1 &amp;female;, 41.35S 145.56E, 17 Nov [ember] 1989, R. Coy myrtle, pyrethein Knockdown, ANIC; 2 &amp;female;, 30 Nov [ember] 1990–8 Jan [uary] 1991, 41.50S 146.03E, Pelion Hut, 3 Km S M [oun]t[ain] Oakleigh, open forest, (W. E. B. S), Malaise, ANIC; 1 &amp;female;, 42.13S 146.01E, Franklin R., 22 Jan [uary] 1983, I.D.Naumann &amp; J.C.Cardale, ex. ethanol, ANIC. <b>Distribution.</b> Australia (Tasmania). <b>Variation.</b> Body length 4.04–5.24 mm; LFW 3.23–3.61 mm; pronotal disc short; lateral region of median carina of propodeal disc slightly depressed; median carina of propodeal disc short. <b>Remarks.</b> This species is similar to <i>E. djagaraga</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> by having the body texture coriaceous, the median clypeal lobe angulate, median carina of propodeal disc long, strongly high and discal carina of propodeal disc short. However this species has the area between the anterior margin of eyes and demarkation of median clypeal lobe long, the eyes small, the ocelli small, the space between top of eye and vertex crest long, the Rs <i>b</i> of forewing approximately straight, whereas <i>E. djagaraga</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> has the area between the anterior margin of eyes and demarkation of median clypeal lobe long, the eyes large, the ocelli large, the space between top of eye and vertex crest not too long, the Rs <i>b</i> of forewing slightly angulate medially.
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 32-33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3539.1.1