Ripiphorus minimus (Pierce 1904)

Rhipiphorus minimus (Pierce)
1904. Myodites minimus Pierce, Stud. Univ. Nebr., IV, p. 159.
1920. Myodites minimus Pierce, Ent. News, xxxi, p. 278.
Head and thorax black, abdomen dark brownish, antennae with stalk brown, rami light brown tipped with brownish. Elytra, anterior and median legs color of antennae, posterior darker. Wings hyaline, clouded at middle with brown.
Head depressed, rather coarsely and unevenly punctate, clad with very sparse, whitish pubescence; 11-jointed, very finely punctate throughout, vertex between the antennae elevated, rounded, not carinate. Pronotum very unevenly and coarsely punctate with pubescence very sparse at base and near anterior margin; glabrous shining along sides and disc; disc not carinate and but slightly and very broadly grooved toward apex. Mesothorax with scutellum concealed; apical half coarsely punctate; posterior margin straight. Metathorax sparsely punctate; postscutellum shining, glabrous, laterally converging, apically truncate. Abdomen coarsely, sparsely, unevenly punctate; finely but sparsely pubescent. Body sparsely punctate, pubescent beneath. Elytra sparsely and shallowly punctate. Posterior tarsus with the first joint not remarkably elongate, as long as second and third joints together, but not equaling the length of fourth, apically thickened, twice as thick as succeeding joints, obliquely truncate, and emarginate behind; second joint over twice as long as third; claws as long as second joint, pectinate.
Length, 4 mm.
Type. — Male; Belmont, Nebraska. [U. S. National Museum, No. 8256.]
The type has been examined and no characteristics were found that were not mentioned in the original description and therefore it was quoted above with some changes. It was found necessary however, to make a more detailed drawing of the hind tarsus, than the one Pierce presented.