Smicromorpha doddi Girault 1913
Creators: name: Binoy, C.
name: Santhosh, S.
name: Nasser, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Chalcididae
Smicromorpha
Smicromorpha doddi

description: Smicromorpha doddi Girault, 1913
(Figs 23–31)
Smicromorpha doddi Girault 1913: 89.
Smicromorpha cadaverosa Girault 1914: 461 (synonymy by Naumann 1986: 173).
Type Material. Lectotype ♂, Australia: Northern Territory, Darwin, 1913. coll. F.P. Dodd, Det. Girault 1913 (QMB, not examined).
Material examined (images). Australia: Queensland: Annan river Wby S Black Mt. (15.41ºS & 145.12ºE) 27.ix.1980, in light, Coll. J.C. Cardale (1♀ NHMUK, NHMUK 010748968); Northern Territory: Nourlangie Creek 8km E of Mt. Cahill (12.52ºS & 132.47ºE) 17-18.xi.1972, in light, Coll. J.C. Cardale (1♀ NHMUK, NHMUK 010748967); Northern Territory: Nourlangie Creek 8km E of Mt. Cahill (12.52ºS & 132.47ºE) 17-18.xi.1972, in light, Coll. J.C. Cardale (1♂ NHMUK, NHMUK 010748966); Queensland: Wenlock Road Crossing Portland Roads Road (13.06ºS & 142.56ºE), 17.vii.1986, Coll. J.C. Cardale, at MV light, det. I. D. Naumann 1986 (1 ♀ CNC).
Diagnosis. Female. Body length 4.7–5.9 mm, length of fore wing 2.6–3.1 mm; pale yellowish to orange except as follows: mesoscutum, axilla, hind coxa distally, and hind femur dorsally sometimes with red-brown to black markings. Femoral serrulation black (Fig. 23); setation sparse, represented by short adpressed setae on head and mesoscutum. Head with eyes strongly converging ventrally and enlarged; antennal scrobe impressed, carinately margined, almost adjacent to inner edge of eye; ocelli very large with OOL vestigial; POL 6.5–14× OOL; LOD 1.59× POL (Fig. 27); maximum interocular distance (on vertex) strongly convex at lower eye margin, at least 3.0× as great as minimum distance (at mid-length of face); flagellum 6-segmented, weakly fusiform with terminal flagel- lomere (clava) one-segmented (Fig. 26); pronotal collar carinate only laterally (Fig. 29); midlobe of mesoscutum in anterior part rugose-punctate with short setae, posteriorly punctulate; sternaulus absent; scutellum 1.9× as long as wide, punctate; propodeum convex posteriorly, spiracular sulci indistinct; hind coxa 3.7–5.3× as long as wide; hind femur 1.6-1.9× as long as wide with small basal tooth preceding serrulation; hind tibia slender, apical grove 0.3× as long as tibia; fore wing with STV shorter than MV, forming a slightly obtuse angle with MV; stump of basalis present (Fig. 23); petiole 4.5–5.6× as long as wide and 4.1–5.5× as long high, with transverse laminae not extending posteroventrally, lateral margin not carinate in apical half (Fig. 31), and dorsally with minute reticulate-punctate to rugose sculpture (Fig. 30); metasoma slender with moderately dense setae, Gt 4 largest; ovipositor sheaths concealed (Fig. 23).
Male. Different from female as follows: eyes smaller (Fig. 25); ocelli smaller, POL/OOL 1.2–2.0; lateral mar- gin of antennal scrobe more widely separated from compound eye, flagellum 5-segmented.
Distribution. Australian (Australia).
Host. Oecophylla smaragdina Fab.
description: Published as part of Binoy, C., Santhosh, S. & Nasser, M., 2021, Review of Smicromorpha Girault (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae) with description of a new species from India, pp. 131-149 in Zootaxa 4991 (1) on pages 138-140, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4991.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/5027662