Eupsenella kokatha Ramos & 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 kokatha

description: Eupsenella kokatha Ramos & Azevedo, sp. nov.   
(Figs 39, 84, 129)  
 Description. FEMALE (holotype). Body length 7.29 mm. LFW 4.81 mm.   
 Coloration. Head dark castaneous almost black; scape dark castaneous; pedicel and flagellum castaneous; mandible with body almost dark castaneous and only apex castaneous; palpi light castaneous; mesosoma dark castaneous almost black; tegula and wing venation light castaneous; procoxa dark castaneous; mesocoxa, metacoxa, trochanters, castaneous; tarsi light castaneous; metasoma dark castaneous.   
 Head (Fig. 39). Head as long as wide, subtriangular in profile; gena strongly concave in profile. Mandible evenly wide, two lowermost teeth larger than upper ones, lower tooth curved inward, lower margin strongly setose. Antenna 2.53 mm; first five antennomeres in ratio of about 19:19:17:15:15; flagellomere 1 1.7 longer than wide, flagellar pubescence dense, with many outstanding erect setae. Region between torulus and eye concave. Area between the anterior margin of eyes and demarkation of median clypeal lobe 0.06 LH. Eye protuberant, 0.61 LH, with dense hairs, located more laterally, lower margin without strong depression. Frons coriaceous punctate. WH 1.0 LH. WF 0.58 WH. WF 1.0 HE. OOL 0.89 WOT. VOL 0.26 HE. Distance from posterior ocellus to vertex crest 0.5 DAO. Ocelli large, DAO 0.12 WF, ocellar triangle not compact, distance between posterior ocelli 2.4 DAO, anterior ocellus surpassing imaginary top eye line, posterior ocellus distant from vertex. Vertex straight, long setae, 0.18 LH, temple profile slightly convergent in dorsal view, with corner angulate, not projected postero-laterad. Hipostomal carina arched, high.   
 Mesosoma (Fig. 84). 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 inconspicuous. Notauli convergent posterad. Mesoscutum 1.53 length pronotal disc. Scutellum coriaceouspunctate, 1.27 length pronotal disc, almost flat in profile, posterior margin convex medially, scutellar pit elliptical, narrowed, distant each other 14.0 its own diameter, scutellar furrow absent. Dorsal axillar surface with fovea subrectangular. Metanotum with median region high, coriaceous-puncticulate, as high as scutellum in profile, with fovea elliptical laterally. Propodeal disc wider than long; anterior margin without foveolate or transverse furrow; median carina 0.95 length propodeal disc, complete posterad; discal carina 0.1 length propodeal disc, converging posterad, slightly arched; 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 evident.   
 Wings. Macropterous. Forewing (Fig. 129) with 1M cell subtriangular; 1M and 1R1 cells not aligned basally; C cell widening distally; 1R1 cell present, distinctly longer than 2R1 cell, evenly wide; Rs b straight; 2R1 cell 0.15 LFW; distal margin of Rs c convex; r-rs vein inclined; R1 b arching distally; Cu b absent; Rs+M vein 0.85 Rs a; M vein 1.0 Rs a; Rs a slightly inclined toward tegula; stigma rectangular; distal stigmal margin truncate. Hind wing with four distal hamuli, last hamulus discontinuous each other.   
 Legs. Profemur swollen, 0.48 as wide as long. Metacoxa with median region 0.45 as wide as long. Metacoxal projection in dorsal region conspicuous, apex rounded.   
 Metasoma. 0.33 as wide as long, except first two tergites, ventral carina of petiole present.   
MALE. Unknown.  
 Material examined. Holotype ♀. AUSTRALIA, Q[ueensland], Rockpool George, M [oun]t[ain] Walah Nat[ional] P[ar]k, Biggenden, 22 Aug[ust] 1972, H.Frauca, ANIC.   
 Distribution. Australia (Queensland).   
 Remarks. This species is very different of the others by having the vertex crest clearly narrow, the ocelli distant, the eyes large, protuberant, the median clypeal lobe angulate, high, the discal carina of propodeal disc inconspicuous, the Rs b of forewing straight, the Cu b of forewing vestigial.
description: Published as part of Ramos, Magno S. & Azevedo, Celso O., 2012, Revision of Eupsenella Westwood, 1874 (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 3539 (1) on pages 50-51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3539.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10096759