Description
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Female. Length, 4.5 mm. Head black with clypeus brown and mouthparts white. Thorax black with posterior angles or pronotum and tegulae white; small orange-brown spot on central posterior margin of mesepisternum. Legs white with femora light orange. Abdomen brown, lighter than thorax, with narrow posterior margin of segments white; sheath black; 9th tergite, cercus, and apical sternite orange brown. Wings hyaline; veins and stigma brown with extreme bases of veins white.
Head and thorax shiny, with fine white pubescence; abdomen shiny with very fine microsculpture on tergites. Antennal length (apical antennomere missing) about 2.1× head width; 3rd antennomere subequal in length to 4th antennomere. Clypeus circularly emarginated, emargination about half medial length of clypeus. Malar space about 1.5× diameter of front ocellus. Postocellar area 3.6× broader than long. Left mandible evenly tapering from base to apex. Distance between eye and lateral ocellus about 1.2× distance between lateral ocelli. Lower interocular distance 1.6× eye height. In dorsal view, head rounded behind eyes, distance behind eyes about 0.8× eye length. Forewing with 2A+3A straight; 2r present; crossvein 2r-m absent; intercostal crossvein basal to M. Hind basitarsomere subequal to length of following 3 tarsomeres combined. Tarsal claws simple. Tibial spurs short, inner spur about 0.4× length of basitarsomere. Sheath simple (Fig. 6), from above broad at base evenly tapering to acute apex; hairs straight. Cerci shorter than sheath in dorsal view. Lancet long, slender, well sclerotized, serrulae most evident on apical third; annuli with short, stout spines (Fig. 7).
Male. Unknown.
- bibliographic citation
- Smith D (2011) Nematinae (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae) of Thailand, with notes on some other southeastern Asian nematines Journal of Hymenoptera Research 22: 1–27
- author
- David R. Smith