Cerodipara sabensis Desjardins 2007, New Species
Creators: name: Desjardins, Christopher A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pteromalidae
Cerodipara
Cerodipara sabensis

description: Cerodipara sabensis Desjardins, New Species   
(Figs. 56–58, 61)  
 Type information: Holotype female (SAM): “ South Africa, Eastern Transvaal, Sabi Sand Game Reserve, 24°46’S 31°22’E, 11 September 1994, J. Swart, Pitfall Trap, SLE. SAM-HYM-P010157.”   
 Description: Female. 2.1 mm. Color: Brownish orange, with the following exceptions: scape off-white; pedicel medially light brown; F6–7+clava brown; coxae off-white; legs pale brownish yellow; ventral 1/2 of GT1 brown; tip of ovipositor sheath light brown. Head: Ovate in frontal view, about as wide as high; vertex rugulose, becoming areolate on upper and lower face; ratio of ocellocular: postocellar: mid-to-lateral ocellus distance: lateral ocellus diameter about 2.2: 4.2: 2.4: 1; scrobe high, reaching to within half an ocellar diameter from midocellus; scrobal basin and walls transversely striate-reticulate; interantennal carina strong, reaching about 0.5X height of scrobe; toruli separated by 1.1 torulus diameters; antennae clavate; scape height subequal to eye height; anellus about 4X broader than long; ratio of scape: pedicel: anellus: F1: F2: F3 about 52: 12: 1: 9: 9: 8; F4 and F5 slightly broader than long; clypeus well delimited. Mesosoma: Dorsally transversely striate-reticulate, becoming circularly striate-reticulate on scutellum; ratio of pronotum: scutum: scutellum: propodeum about 2.5: 1.9: 2.2: 1; mesosoma dorsally covered in fine, white setae; pronotum, scutum, and scutellum dimensions difficult to measure due to specimen orientation; marginal rim of scutellum smooth; metanotum narrow band with pits delimited by longitudinal striae; propodeum anteriorly with semicircular carina opening anteriorly and single longitudinal carina medially within semicircle; propodeal sculpture smooth within semicircle, rough with irregular longitudinal carinae anterior to semicircle, reticulate lateral to semicircle; nucha narrow and roughly sculptured; plicae absent; postspiracular sulcus smooth and bare; spiracle 1.5X own diameter from metanotum; callus bare, projecting posteriorly beyond postspiracular sulcus into upturned point; prepectus triangular, not in same plane as pronotum, abutting at about 135º angle; mesepimeron transversely striate dorsally and smooth ventrally; femoral depression deep, transversely striate dorsally, areolate ventrally, well defined anteriorly and posteriorly; metapleuron medially smooth, with narrow, finely pitted anterior margin and wide, deeply pitted posterior margin; pro- and mesocoxa with sparse white setae on disto-anterior margins; meso- and metatibia spinose; longer metatibial spur about 2.5X length of shorter, about 0.5X width of metatibia at point of spur insertion; metabasitarsus about 3X as long as wide, about 0.3X length of remaining tarsi; hind coxae distinctly transversely striate; wings apterous, forewing preset only as membranous lump with single long, dark bristle, hindwing entirely absent. Metasoma: About 1.1X length of mesosoma; ratio of GT1: GT2–6:GT7:ovipostor sheaths about 4.6:1.3:1.3:1; GT1–4 and ovipositor sheath dorsally with sparse, white setae; GT4–7 and ovipositor sheath laterally with sparse white setae; ovipositor apico-dorsally obscured by sheath. Male: Unknown.   
 Etymology: Named for the Sabi Sand Game Reserve in which the type specimen was found.   
 Distribution: South Africa: Mpumalanga.   
 Hosts: Unknown.
description: Published as part of Desjardins, Christopher A., 2007, Phylogenetics and classification of the world genera of Diparinae (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), pp. 1-88 in Zootaxa 1647 (1) on pages 32-33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1647.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5103860