Anastatus Motschulsky 1859
Creators: name: Binoy, C.
name: Hiremath, Sangamesh R.
name: Prathapan, K. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eupelmidae
Anastatus

description: Anastatus Motschulsky, 1859 
 Anastatus Motschulsky 1859, p. 116. Type species: Anastatus mantoidae Motschulsky. By monotypy. 
Gibson (1995, p. 101) may be consulted for a complete list of generic synonymy. Anastatus sp. 
(Figures 45–54) 
 Material examined 
7♂, All from India: Kerala, Kozhikode district collected by C. Binoy. Malabar Christian College Campus (11.263°N, 75.779°E, 27 m), November 2018 (see ‘Material and methods’ for deposition). 
 Diagnosis 
Head and mesosoma with bright green-golden metallic lustre, slight blue-violet tinge on lower face, mesosoma, posterior mesoscutum, anterior scutellum, metacoxa and metasoma; eye setose; head, and mesosoma with moderately dense setosity; mandible tridentate. 
 Description (male) 
Body length 0.96–1.03 mm; length of forewing 0.74–0.81 mm. 
 Colour. Body metallic green-gold with the following parts variably coloured: eye faintly red; ocelli silver; mandible red-brown; scape ivory ventrally, brown dorsally; pedicel and rest of antennomeres brown; all coxae brown (metacoxa with faint metallic violet lustre); propodeal spiracle concealed below white enclosing peritreme; metasoma brown with green-golden lustre; legs ivory with variable brown patch; forewing with veins pale brown. 
 Head. In anterior view 1.23× as long as wide; rugose reticulate with scattered setigerous pits, lanceolate, white setae arising from pits; clypeus slightly convex; mandible tridentate, apical one acute; eye distinctly setose; scrobal depression more or less bell shaped; scape curving (Figure 46); eye height 1.86× as long as malar space; malar sulcus distinct, straight; gena distinctly reticulate (Figure 47); in dorsal view 1.97× as long as wide; POL 3.9× OOL, 2.25× AOL and 2.46× OD; vertex coarsely rugose reticulate (Figure 48). 
 Mesosoma. Pronotum subconical, narrow, surface reticulate; mesoscutum coarsely areolate, 1.47× as long as wide with well-marked notauli, distinctly setose; scutellum finely areolate medially, longitudinally reticulate on sides, setose (Figure 49); metanotum rugose reticulate; propodeum smooth, shiny with median carina bifurcating at adpetiolar foramen (Figure 50); lateral panel of pronotum and prepectus reticulate; mesopleuron and metapleuron smooth with faint reticulation, shiny; callus with 4–5 erect white setae (Figure 53). 
 Wings. Forewing hyaline, with short and moderately dense discal ciliation, 2.15× as long as its maximum width; marginal fringe short; SMV with four semi-erect dorsal setae; SMV 1.69× as long as MV; MV 2.0× as long as STV, as long as PMV; hindwing with similar discal ciliation as of forewing (Figure 51). 
 Legs. Metacoxa reticulate, 1.5× as long as wide; hind femur engraved reticulate with faint metallic green-gold tint; metatibia slightly expanded apically, tibial spur short, half as long as hind basitarsus (Figure 52). 
 Metasoma. Sessile, ovate, collapsing on drying; all terga faintly reticulate, posterior margin of all terga straight (Figure 54). 
 Distribution 
India (Kerala).
description: Published as part of Binoy, C., Hiremath, Sangamesh R. & Prathapan, K. D., 2024, The Fergusson squathopper, Messena sinuata Atkinson (Hemiptera: Eurybrachidae) and its egg parasitoids from Southern India, pp. 1069-1087 in Journal of Natural History 58 (29 - 32) on pages 1082-1084, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2024.2381275, http://zenodo.org/record/13758107