Odontosema anastrephae Borgmeier 1935
Creators: name: Guimarães, Jorge A.
name: Gallardo, Fabiana E.
name: Diaz, Norma Beatriz
name: Zucchi, Roberto A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Odontosema
Odontosema anastrephae

description: Odontosema anastrephae Borgmeier, 1935
(Figs. 24–31)
Odontosema anastrephae Borgmeier, 1935: 113
Diagnosis. Body slender. Head (Fig. 24) with lateral margin of occiput not well defined. Eyes pilose. Antennae of female (Fig. 25) pilose, cilindrical, widened towards apex, club 6­segmented, conspicuous. Antennae of male (Fig. 26) with the first flagellomere slightly curved, distally swollen, longer than second. Dorsal margin of pronotal plate (Fig. 27) deeply emarginate; sides of pronotum with conspicuous longitudinal carinae. Mesoscutum (Figs. 28 and 29) slightly convex in profile, smooth. Dorsal part of scutellum (Fig. 29) areolate­rugose, dorsoposterior part in dorsal view emarginate, with two teeth. Scutellar plate (Figs. 28 and 29) large, flat, with an elliptical pit close to the posterior margin of the plate. Mesopleuron (Fig. 28) with subalar pit. Metapleuron (Fig. 28) slightly sculptured. Forewings (Fig. 30) completely hyaline, apical margin with hair fringe; marginal cell anteriorly open; veins pale. Metacoxa (Fig. 31) with scarse hairs. Third abdominal tergum of metasoma (Fig. 20) with a thin hairy ring at base; metasoma distally punctate.
Geographical distribution. Neotropical Region: Mexico (Hernandez­Ortiz et al. 1994) and Brazil (Guimarães et al. 2000a). In Brazil it is distributed throughout the States of Amazonas, Mato Grosso do Sul, São Paulo, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul (Guimarães et al. 2000a) and Rio de Janeiro (new record).
Hosts. Tephritidae: Anastrepha fraterculus (in Borgmeier 1935), Anastrepha spp. and Ceratitis capitata (in Wharton et al. 1981; Guimarães et al. 1999). Lonchaeidae: Neosilba pendula (in Costa Lima 1940).
Wharton et al. (1998) suggested that O. anastrephae may be a parasitoid rather of tephritids than of other dipterous. Most of the material estudied herein was obtained from Tephritidae puparia in Myrtaceae.
Remarks. Odontosema Kieffer, 1909 is represented by two neotropical species: O. albinerve Kieffer, 1909 and O. anastrephae. The specimens studied of these species show that the morphological differences between them could be only individual variations.
Type material. Odontosema anastrephae. BRAZIL. Rio de Janeiro: Holotype, 20.III.1929 (1 female) coll. M. Carvalho Leite; Allotype, 15.III.1930 (1 male); Paratypes, 13.II.1930 (2 females); V.1930 (1 female); V.1930 (1 male), coll. T. Borgmeier. (UFRJ).
Material collected. BRAZIL. Amazonas: Manaus, 27.XII.1991, (1 male), coll. N. M. Silva. Mato Grosso do Sul: Terenos, 14.V.1993, (2 males, 2 females); Aquidauana, 10.II.1994, (1 male), coll. M.A. Uchôa. (ESALQ). São Paulo: São Bento do Sapucaí, 1.III.1996, (1 male); Campinas, 19.X.1994, (12 males, 4 females); 12.XI.1997, (1 male); 20.XI.1997 (1 male, 4 females); 11.II.1998, (2 females); Assis, 5.II.1998, (1 female); Piracicaba, 5.I.1997, (1 male), coll. M.F. Souza Filho. (ESALQ). Santa Catarina: Iomerê, 18.IV.1994, (11 males, 9 females), coll. I. Nora. (ESALQ). Rio Grande do Sul: Pelotas, 28.XI.1997, (1 male), coll. L.A.B. Salles. (ESALQ and MLP).
description: Published as part of Guimarães, Jorge A., Gallardo, Fabiana E., Diaz, Norma Beatriz & Zucchi, Roberto A., 2003, Eucoilinae species (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Figitidae) parasitoids of fruit­infesting dipterous larvae in Brazil: identity, geographical distribution and host associations, pp. 1-23 in Zootaxa 278 on page 9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.156603