Description
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Female. Body length 2.6 mm. Metallic tinge absent or very feeble. Predominantly brown. Scape and pedicel yellow brown. Head darker than mesosoma. Petiole yellow. Legs predominantly yellow, coxae almost concolorous with mesosoma. Remaining leg segments predominantly yellow and brown.
Head. Antennae inserted far above the middle line of compound eyes. Scape slightly longer than pedicel. Pedicel very elongated (more than 2 × as long as wide), slender, and longer than first funicular segment. Anelli almost as long as wide, proximal anellus longer than wide. First funicular segment approximately 1.5 × as long as wide. Distal antennomeres not forming a distinct clava. Face sculpture slightly engraved. Face pilosity short and sparse. Supraclypeal area narrow, its delimiting sulci converging near epistomal groove, and its sculpture barely rugose. Lateral ocelli nearly 1 × its diameter far from the eye margin.
Mesosoma. Pronotum longer than high in lateral view. Mesoscutum slightly engraved reticulate. Frenal sulcus smooth. Mesepimeron sculpture mostly smooth, slightly engraved. Metascutellum very short and smooth, inconspicuous, and almost completely covered by frenum. Propodeum with a well delimited and slightly carinulated median sulcus, which extends to the posterior margin of the sclerite. Propodeum sculpture smooth, slightly rugose. Wings hyaline, with sparse pilosity. Marginal and postmarginal vein not particularly widened. Postmarginal vein as long as stigmal vein.
Metasoma. Petiole smooth and transverse in lateral view. Petiole dorsally without a longitudinal median sulcus. Ovipositor sheaths extremely short, only weakly protruding beyond metasomal apex.
Male. Unknown.
- license
- cc-by-3.0
- copyright
- Fernando Henrique Antoniolli Farache, Jean-Yves Rasplus
- bibliographic citation
- Farache F, Rasplus J (2014) Revision of the Australasian genus Pseudidarnes Girault, 1927 (Hymenoptera, Agaonidae, Sycophaginae) ZooKeys 404: 31–70
- author
- Fernando Henrique Antoniolli Farache
- author
- Jean-Yves Rasplus