Axea mwari Valerio & Yoder, n.sp

Axea mwari Valerio & Yoder, n.sp. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 5 A 2 E 4 DD 8-96 C 9-4175 -A0C 2-9 B 86 D0191713 urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts: 223460 Figures 83���88; Morphbank 52 FIGURES 83���88. 53 Axea mwari, paratype female (OSUC 167048). 83, dorsal habitus; 84, lateral habitus; 85, head and mesosoma, dorsal view; 86, head and mesosoma, lateral view; 87, head, anterior view; 88, apex of metasoma, dorsal view. Scale bars in millimeters. http://www.morphbank.net/?id= 226870 http://www.morphbank.net/?id= 226912 General (Figs. 83, 84): Female body length: 3.3���3.4 mm (n= 5). Male body length: unknown. Head: Color of female head: black. Mandible color: mostly yellow to amber or orange yellow. Body color of male: unknown. Lateral ocellus position: touching compound eye. Pilosity of medial frons between anterior ocellus and apex of torular triangle: absent, a small patch without setae clearly visible. Sculpture of medial glabrous area of frons: present, with horizontal to slightly arcuate striae or, if patch minute, then irregularly rugulose (Fig. 87). Mesosoma (Figs. 85, 86): Color of female mesosoma: black. Dorsal surface of lateral pronotal area adjacent to mesoscutal suprahumeral sulcus: with conspicuous crenulations or scrobes. Setae on netrion: absent. Notaulus: indicated by an uninterrupted channel, with slight irregular sculpture along bottom. Metascutellum: projecting, more or less truncate, but with a narrow medial notch. Mesopleural depression sculpture: irregularly foveate, majority of fovea not transverse, fovea interspersed with nitid areas, in some individuals some fovea reduced to punctures. Pilosity bounding anterior margin of posterior mesepimeral area: completely absent, or partially present dorsally. Legs: Coxae color: brown to dark brown (contrasting remainder of leg which is yellow). Color of legs beyond coxae: femur light to dark brown with base and tip lighter, yellowish, remaining yellow. Wings: Length of fore wing: not or just reaching posterior margin of metasoma. Hind wing submarginal vein: absent to spectral everywhere but basal stub that is nebulous to tubular. Metasoma: Color of female metasoma: dark brown to nearly black. Longitudinal sculpture of T 1: carinate, parallel to subparallel, interspersed with fine rugulose sculpture. Female T 1 horn: absent, sculpture more or less uniform throughout T 1. Anterior strip of T 2: punctate, punctures nearly the length of strip, puncture borders confluent. Female T 6 width to length ratio: more or less equal in length (subtriangular). Female T 6 carinate basal extension of lateral spine: short, not extending past 1 / 2 length of T 6. T 6 /S 6 apical curvature: present, tips flexed outwards in lateral view. T 6 posterolateral margin: with truncate lateral projection, outer corner of which is rarely slightly spinelike (Fig. 88). S 6 shape at tip: broadly rounded to very slightly angular, without obvious lobe. Diagnosis. Differs from other brown-bodied species by the combination of the strongly developed spines of lateral T 6, short carinae on T 6 (not longer than one-half the length of T 6), brown legs, and glabrous netrion. Etymology. Named in reference to the supreme creator god of Kalanga and Shona mythology. Link to Distribution Map. 54 Material Examined. Holotype female: KENYA: Nyanza Prov., Gemba (Gembe) Hills, 00�� 29.36 'S 34 �� 14.60 'E, 1362 m, dry gallery woodland with Olea europaea cuspidata, 27���29.I. 2005, R. Copeland, OSUC 211698 (deposited in CNCI). Paratypes: 7 females. KENYA: OSUC 16704, OSUC 167075, OSUC 214389 (CNCI); OSUC 167074 (USNM). UGANDA: OSUC 167022, OSUC 214390, OSUC 214396 (CNCI).
Published as part of Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Masner, Lubom��r & Johnson, Norman F., 2009, Identity and synonymy of Dicroscelio Kieffer and description of Axea, a new genus from tropical Africa and Asia (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Platygastridae), pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 2003 on pages 31-32, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.274672