Aspicera punctifrons Ros-Farre & Pujade-Villar 2013, n. sp.
Creators: name: ROS-FARRÉ, P.
name: PUJADE-VILLAR, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Figitidae
Aspicera
Aspicera punctifrons

description: Aspicera punctifrons Ros-Farré & Pujade-Villar n. sp.   
(Figs 1e, 2d, 28a & b)  
 Type material: (1♀). HOLOTYPE female (CNCI) 12–25/IX/1988, Louisa to 4m S. Cuckoo, Virginia, USA, MT. J. Klone & D. L. Smith leg.   
 Diagnosis. Aspicera punctifrons belongs to the group of species with prominent interfoveal carina and lateral surface of pronotum lacking sharp transverse carinae. Aspicera punctifrons has flat scutellum, lateral frontal carinae are absent on dorsal ½, this area sharply punctate. This last character is unique in Aspicera.   Description  
 Length. Female 3.4 mm.; male unknown.   
 Coloration. Head, mesosoma and metasoma black. Scape and pedicellum dark brown, flagellomeres medium brown. Leg medium to light brown. Wing veins only slightly pigmented.   
 Head. Frons coriaceous, sharply punctate dorsally. Lateral frontal carinae curved, only present on ventral half. Area between compound eye and lateral frontal carinae coriaceous. Gena in lateral view rounded, not expanded, coriaceous, with sharp transverse carinae. Vertex not incised, rugose, coriaceous and punctate. Ocelli weakly prominent. Occiput coriaceous with thin and incomplete transverse carinae on basal 2/3 and with longitudinal carinae behind ocelli.   
 Antenna. Filiform. Antennal formula: 8(6): 4(5): 11.5(4): 9(4.5): 9(4.5): 9(4.5): 9(4.5): 9(4.5): 8(4.5): 4(5): 8(5): 8(8):17(5)   
 Mesosoma. Lateral surface of pronotum coriaceous. Subpronotal plate not projected, dorsal margin glabrous. Scutum coriaceous, with short transverse carinae. Lateral line incomplete, conspicuous on ventral half. Anteroadmedian lines sharp, prominent, reaching 1/3–1/2 scutum length, parallel; median ridge prominent. Notauli wide, smooth, with rather weak transverse carinae, median mesoscutal furrow smooth. Area between notauli not prominent. Parascutal sulcus pubescent anteriorly, alutaceous. Mesopleuron with oblique carinae and coriaceous on anterior 1/3, smooth posteriorly. Scutellum as long as scutum, clearly emarginate on posterior half. Scutellar foveae with effaced longitudinal carinae, rather deep, small compared to length of scutellar disc, scutellar pits shallow. Interfoveal carina continuing along scutellar disc to beginning of scutellar spine, strongly prominent, noticeable in lateral view. Scutellar disc flat, with very weak, almost effaced longitudinal carinae, coriaceous, rugose sculpture on posterior half, slightly sloping towards basis of scutellar spine in lateral view. Scutellar spine 0.6 times length of scutellar disc, quite thin, longitudinally striate, straight in lateral view.   
 Wing. Wing membrane hyaline. Radial cell 2.1 times longer than wide. Wing pubescence reduced. Marginal pubescence absent. R1 long. R2 straight. Rs+M absent.   
 Derivatio nominis. The specific name refers to the frons sharply punctate characteristic of this species.   
 Biology. Unknown.   
 Distribution. Nearctic: USA (Virginia).
description: Published as part of ROS-FARRÉ, P. & PUJADE-VILLAR, J., 2013,  Revision of the genus  Aspicera  Dahlbom, 1842 (Hym.: Figitidae: Aspicerinae) , pp. 1-110 in Zootaxa 3606 (1) on page 42, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3606.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5259487