Holotype female
SAM-HYM-P086434 (SAMC)
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Paratype male
SAM-HYM-P049534 (SAMC)
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A–C female
paratype (SAMC) (SAM-HYM-P086435) D–F male paratype (SAMC)
(SAM-HYM-P084755) A head, mesosoma, lateral view B head, mesosoma,
dorsal view C mesoscutum, propodeum, T1,2, dorsal view D habitus, dorsal
view E head, mesosoma anterolateral view F habitus, ventral.
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Female
paratype SEM photos (SAMC) (SAMHYM-P084755) A clypeus, mandibles,
ventroanterior view B clypeus, mandibles, anterior view C occiput,
pronotum, mesoscutum, lateral view D occiput, pronotum, lateroposterior
view E mesopleuron, ventral view F mesopleuron, propodeum, ventrolateral
view G mesopleuron, propodeum in part, lateral view H hind tibial spurs.
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Distribution
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South Africa: Eastern Cape Province.
Additional material.
SOUTH AFRICA • 1♀; same data as holotype, except SAM-HYM-P086435 (SAMC)
• 1♂; Anysberg Nature Reserve; 5.8 km west of Vrede; 785m; 33°28.658'S
20°31.572'E; 8 January - 23 February 2015; S. van Noort; yellow pan
trap; Succulent Karoo; ANY14-SUC1-Y28; SAM-HYM-P095115 (SAMC) • 1♂; idem
except for SAM-HYM-P095116 (SAMC) • 1♂; idem except for SAM-HYM-P095117
(SAMC) • 1♂; idem except for SAM-HYM-P095118 (SAMC) • 1♂; idem except
for SAM-HYM-P095119 (SAMC) • 1♀; idem except for SAM-HYM-P095120 (SAMC)
• 1♀; Anysberg Nature Reserve, 5.8 km west of Vrede; 785m; 33°28.658'S
20°31.572'E; 23 February - 6 May 2015; S. van Noort; yellow pan trap;
Succulent Karoo; ANY14-SUC1-Y30; SAM-HYM-P086436 (SAMC) • 1♀; idem
except for SAM-HYM-P086437 (SAMC) • 1♀; Anysberg Nature Reserve, 6.4km
west of Vrede; 775m; 33°28.548'S 20°31.264'E; 23 September – 29 October
2015; S. van Noort; yellow pan trap; Succulent Karoo; ANY14-SUC7-Y49;
SAM-HYM-P086438 (SAMC) • 1♂; Anysberg Nature Reserve, 5.8 km west of
Vrede; 785m; 33°28.658'S 20°31.572'E; 23 Feb – 6 May 2015; S. van Noort;
pitfall trap; Succulent Karoo; ANY14-SUC1-P11; SAM-HYM-P086439 (SAMC) •
1♀; Anysberg Nature Reserve, 5.8 km west of Vrede; 785m; 33°28.658'S
20°31.572'E; 8 Oct – 3 Nov 2014; S. van Noort; pitfall trap; Succulent
Karoo; ANY14-SUC1-P03; SAM-HYM-P049531 (SAMC) • 1♂; Anysberg Nature
Reserve, 5.8 km west of Vrede; 785m; 33°28.658'S 20°31.572'E; 8 Dec 2014
– 8 Jan 2015; S. van Noort; pitfall trap; Succulent Karoo;
ANY14-SUC1-P07; SAM-HYM-P049534 (SAMC) • 1♂; Anysberg Nature Reserve,
5.8 km west of Vrede; 785m; 33°28.658'S 20°31.572'E; 23 September – 29
October 2015; S. van Noort; yellow pan trap; Succulent Karoo;
ANY14-SUC1-Y48; SAM-HYM-P084755 (SAMC) • 1♂; idem except for
SAM-HYM-P084756 (SAMC) • 1♂; idem except for SAM-HYM-P084757 (SAMC) •
1♂; Gamkaberg Nature Reserve; 33°44.090′S 21°55.654′E; 997m; 19 Feb - 30
Mar 2010; S. van Noort; Malaise trap; Rooiberg Sandstone Fynbos;
GB09-FYN2-M35; SAM-HYM-P038481 (SAMC) (van Noort et al. 2021). |
Diagnosis |
This species is immediately identifiable by the appearance
of the fore wings which are of normal shape, and uniformly fuscous,
without dark patches or strong microtrichiae, in contrast to the
elongate and chromatically modified fore wings in the other two species.
An additional diagnostic character is the presence of an occipital pit,
which is absent in the other two species. The mesosoma is
correspondingly less longitudinally compressed, with the mesocutum and
mesopleuron being more normal in proportions. The pronotum and occiput
are glabrous without the long setae present in the other two species.
The acetabular and mesopleural epicoxal sulci do not converge as in the
other two species, and, correspondingly, the fore and mesocoxae are
separated by more than one fore coxal width (separated by less than the
fore coxal width in other two species) (van Noort et al. 2021). |
Etymology |
Named after the Karoo area wherein both main collection
localities fall (van Noort et al. 2021). |
Biology |
Unknown. |
References |
Brues, C.T. 1908.
Hymenoptera. Fam. Scelionidae. Genera
Insectorum 80: 1-59.
Masner. L. 1964. Remarks on Sceliotrachelus
Brues and allied genera (Hymenoptera, Platygasteridae).
Psyche,
71: 8-11.
Masner L. & Huggert, L. 1989. World review and keys to
genera of the subfamily Inostemmatinae with reassignment of the taxa to the
Platygastrinae and Sceliotrachelinae (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae).
Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada,
147: 1-214.
van Noort S, Lahey Z, Talamas EJ, Austin AD, Masner L,
Polaszek A, Johnson NF 2021.
Review of Afrotropical sceliotracheline
parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae). In: Lahey Z, Talamas E (Eds)
Advances in the Systematics of Platygastroidea III. Journal of Hymenoptera
Research 87: 115–222.
https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.87.73770
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Credits
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Photographs
and map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa), or
© Elijah Talamas (Florida).
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