Gasteruptiidae Ashmead 1900
Creators: name: Ramage, Thibault
name: Jouault, Corentin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Gasteruptiidae

description: Key to Gasteruptiidae Ashmead, 1900 of New Caledonia (modified from Jennings et al. 2015)
1. Mandibles long and broadly overlapping when in closed position; prefemur absent; female subgenital sternite simple; ovipositor short and usually hidden ................2 (Hyptiogastrinae Crosskey, 1953)
– Mandibles short and not broadly overlapping when in closed position; prefemur present; female subgenital sternite notched; ovipositor exserted ........................ 3 (Gasteruptiinae Ashmead, 1900)
2. Two distinct medial teeth on mandible; frontal carina present (Jennings & Austin 2005: figs 1–2) .......................................................... Pseudofoenus caledonicus Jennings & Austin, 2005
– Single weak medial tooth on mandible; frontal carina absent ............................................................ ............................................................................................... Pseudofoenus ritae (Cheesman, 1936)
3. Fore wing with first discal cell absent (Fig. 8E); hind tibia with a white large sub-basal ring; ovipositor with a white large sub-apical ring .................................................... Gasteruption jenningsi sp. nov.
– Fore wing with first discal cell present (Jennings et al. 2015: fig. 3); hind tibia with at most a small sub-basal whitish ring; ovipositor without a white sub-apical ring .................................................. 4
4. Large species, length 25.7 mm; fore wing vein 2-M tubular in apical third, tubular portion ending with small node; hind wing with 2m + Cu melanised, 1-Cu, 1-m and r-m present (Jennings et al. 2015: fig. 3) ......................................... Gasteruption maquis Jennings, Krogmann & Parslow, 2015
– Small species, length less than 12 mm; fore wing vein 2-M tubular in apical third, tubular portion not ending with small node; hind wing with not melanised 2m + Cu, 1-Cu, 1-m and r-m absent (Jennings et al. 2015: figs 2–4) ......................................................................................................................... 5
5. Head more or less quadrate, 0.94 × as long as wide when viewed dorsally; propleuron short, 0.84 × as long as pronotum; frontal carina present (Jennings et al. 2015: figs 6, 12) ................................... ........................................................... Gasteruption lacoulee Jennings, Krogmann & Parslow, 2015
– Head elongate, 1.48 × as long as wide when viewed dorsally; propleuron long, 1.64 × as long as pronotum; frontal carina absent (Jennings et al. 2015: figs 10, 16) ................................................... ......................................................... Gasteruption sarramea Jennings, Krogmann & Parslow, 2015
description: Published as part of Ramage, Thibault & Jouault, Corentin, 2020, New species and records of Evanioidea and Stephanoidea from New Caledonia (Hymenoptera), pp. 1-32 in European Journal of Taxonomy 723 on page 24, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.723.1141, http://zenodo.org/record/4249813