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Tariqia stellaris Rousse & Villemant, 2012 |
Distribution
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Afrotropical region:
Reunion. |
Biology
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Host:
unknown.
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Diagnosis
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Tariqia is characterized by the combination of the
twisted mandible, occipital carina very close to the fora-men magnum,
mesoscutum with notaulus present basally as a deep punctuation bordered
by a short vertical carina on its front side, tergite I fused with
sternite, petiolar area of propodeum with a strong median longitudinal
carina, areolet closed and petiolate, and long ovipositor.
This genus shares several characters (occipital carina very close to
foramen magnum, temple very short, glymma absent, petiolar area with a
strong median longitudinal carina) with Sphingozona Townes.
However, it differs by its shorter antenna and maxillary palpus,
mesoscutum with short and deep notauli bordered by a frontal carina,
short and deep sternaulus, propodeum without deep anterior transverse
groove, fore wing with an areolet and tergite I separated from the
laterotergite by a crease. The shape of notauli and the absence of
anterior transverse carina in propodeum relate
Tariqia to some Plescidea species and the genus Aniseres;
this last genus however has the sternite 1 free from the tergite and
the tergite III with laterotergite separated by a crease, while in
Plesticidea the laterotergites of second and third tergites are not
separated by a crease (Rousse & Villemant, 2012). |
Etymology
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Dedicated to Tariq Aït Lemkadem. |
References
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Rousse, P. & Villemant, C. 2012.
Ichneumons in Reunion Island: a catalogue of the local
Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) species, including 15 new taxa and a key to species.
Zootaxa 3278: 1–57.
Yu D.S., van Achterberg, K.,
Horstmann, K. 2011. World Ichneumonoidea 2011.
Taxonomy, biology, morphology and distribution. Available from
Vancouver, Canada: Taxapad.
www.taxapad.com
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Credits
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Photographs by Agnièle Touret-Alby
© MNHN (specimens
database http://coldb.mnhn.fr). |
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Next genus:
Brachyscleroma
(Sisyrostolinae)
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