Apsilocera Boucek 1956
Creators: name: Tselikh, Ekaterina V.
name: Lee, Jaehyeon
name: Haas, Michael
name: Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan
name: Ku, Deok-Seo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pteromalidae
Apsilocera

description: GenusApsiloceraBouček, 1956
Apsilocera Bouček, 1956: 319–121. Type species Apsilocera verticillata Bouček, 1956, by monotypy.
Buloloa Bouček, 1988: 425–426. Type species: B. bidens Bouček, 1988, by monotypy. Synonymy by Mitroiu and Achterberg 2013: 449.
Kratinka Bouček, 1988: 428–429. Type species: K. brevis Bouček, 1988, by monotypy. Synonymy by Mitroiu and Achterberg 2013: 449, 450.
Bulolosa Bouček, 1990: 87. Replacement name for Buloloa Bouček, 1988. Synonymy by Mitroiu and Achterberg 2013: 449.
Diagnosis.
Head with (Figs 1, 53, 61, 69, 100, 101, 105) or without (Figs 11, 20, 27, 36, 42, 78, 85, 94, 103) ornamentation; without occipital carina. Gena usually moderately to strongly receding towards mouth, hollowed of not hollowed at mouth corner; gena lamina absent. Lower margin of clypeus with one small tooth (Fig. 91), with two small teeth (Figs 13, 27, 75), convex (Fig. 45), produced and emarginate medially (Figs 19, 35, 84), with small median projection (Fig. 105), weakly emarginate (Fig. 1), rounded (Fig. 58). Antennal formula 11264; anelli small, F 1 – F 6 longer than broad or quadrate, with one or two rows of sensilla, antennal clava not large, symmetrical, micropilose area small. Antennal toruli situated above level of lower edges of eyes (Figs 11, 20, 27, 36, 42, 53, 69, 78, 85, 94, 100, 101, 103), sometimes on level of upper edges of eyes (Figs 1, 61); antennal protuberance and scrobes absent. Mandible formula 3: 4 (Figs 11, 91) or 4: 4 (Figs 35, 68).
Mesosoma short, moderately depressed or arched. Pronotum narrower than mesoscutum, with collar margin carinate (Figs 21, 28, 37, 43). Notauli incomplete (Figs 4, 10, 25, 33, 41, 49, 57, 65, 82, 90). Scutellum moderately depressed (Figs 2, 24, 89, 102, 104, 106) or arched (Figs 16, 40, 48, 64, 81, 97), without conspicuous sublateral grooves, with distinct reticulate frenal area, but without frenal groove. Metapleuron entirely smooth. Propodeum finely reticulate (Figs 49, 74), weakly alutaceous (Figs 33, 41, 57, 65, 82), smooth and shiny (Figs 4, 9, 90), plicae present; without costula and with median carina, nucha short or absent; propodeal spiracles near to front margin of sclerite. Fore wing hyaline or with infumation, with distinct speculum; M not widened proximally; M longer than S (Figs 14, 22, 30, 38, 46, 54, 62, 71, 79, 87, 95). Hind coxa dorsally bare; hind tibia with one spur.
Metasoma sessile, short, ovate (Figs 39, 55, 72, 80, 96) to acuminate (Figs 7, 15, 23, 31, 47, 63, 88), as long as or shorter than combined length of mesosoma and head. Cerci with setae subequal in length. Ovipositor not much protruding.
Distribution.
Nearctic, Palaearctic, Oriental and Australian regions.
description: Published as part of Tselikh, Ekaterina V., Lee, Jaehyeon, Haas, Michael, Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan & Ku, Deok-Seo, 2024, Review of the Palaearctic species of Apsilocera Bouček, 1956 (Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae), with descriptions of the eight new species, pp. 259-288 in ZooKeys 1215 on pages 259-288, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1215.128603