Nixonia lamorali Johnson & Masner 2006, new species
Creators: name: Johnson, Norman F.
name: Masner, Lubomír
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Scelionidae
Nixonia
Nixonia lamorali

description: Nixonia lamorali, new species   Figures 46–48  
DESCRIPTION: Holotype male. Length: 7.0 mm; body generally black; femora, tibiae, tarsi, antenna, tegula black; palpi brown; wings infuscate throughout, brownish.  
Head (figs. 46–48) transverse in dorsal view, width 2.4 times length; vertex rugulose-punctate, with granular microsculpture; OOL short, lateral ocellus separated from inner orbit by less than one ocellar diameter; POL 1.5 times LOL; occiput rugulose-punctate, with reticulate microsculpture; occipital carina not developed; frons (fig. 47) rugulose-punctate, shining, above toruli with few transverse wrinkles medially; frons somewhat narrow, IOS 0.9 times greatest length of eye; toruli closely approximated, separated by distance less than half torulus diameter, frons between toruli not projecting, flat; rim of torulus evenly raised; apical margin of clypeus with blunt medial projection; area below eye (in normal position of malar sulcus) with fine granulate microsculpture; sculpture of cheeks laterad of malar area rugose-punctate, with distinct longitudinal sculpture; mandible short, bidentate, upper tooth only slightly longer than lower, without dense basal tuft of setae; maxillary palpal segment 4 distinctly expanded medially, subtriangular; A1 finely reticulate, greatest width beyond apical 0.6 of segment; length of A3 1.6 times of A2.  
 Mesosoma (figs. 46, 48) as high as wide, length 1.4 times height in lateral view; pronotal shoulders coarsely punctate; lateral surface of pronotum coarsely punctate; netrion punctate-rugulose, with strong longitudinal sculpture; mesoscutum deeply punctate, with fine reticulate microsculpture; parapsidal lines absent; scutellum coarsely punctate, with reticulate microsculpture, with distinct fine longitudinal elements in posterior half; median propodeal tooth rhomboidal, length 1.2 times maximum width, rounded apically, rugulose; upper mesepisternum with strong longitudinal sculpture; fine foveae separating mesepisternum and mesepimeron extending from base of wing to coxal cavity; lower mesepisternum finely reticulate-punctate; mesepimeral hook smooth; tegula finely punctate; R 1 in forewing distinctly separated from costal margin, extending only halfway from R to margin; apex of forewing extending near apex of T5; R in hindwing with tracheate section long, nearly reaching hamuli; tibiae with fine, semidecumbent spines on outer surface.   
Metasoma 2.7 times longer than greatest width; T1 distinctly wider than long; T1–T4 longitudinally rugose, T5 apex coarsely punctate.  
 DIAGNOSIS: Distinguished from N. watshami by the narrow IOS, which is less than the greatest length of the compound eye.   
ETYMOLOGY: Named for Bruno H. Lamoral, distinguished South African spider specialist and one of the collectors of the unique holotype.  
 MATERIAL EXAMINED: Holotype male: SOUTH AFRICA: Horingsgat, 30 ° 18 9 S 18 ° 05 9 E, Namaqualand, N. Cape Prov., 25.II.1979, B. Lamoral, I. Bampton, malaise trap, OSUC 146449, deposited in CNCI.
description: Published as part of Johnson, Norman F. & Masner, Lubomír, 2006, Revision of World Species of the Genus Nixonia Masner (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea, Scelionidae), pp. 1-32 in American Museum Novitates 3518 (1) on pages 19-21, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3518[1:ROWSOT]2.0.CO;2, http://zenodo.org/record/5383961