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Key to species of Pulchrisolia

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Platygastroidea; Family: Platygastridae; Subfamily: Sceliotrachelinae)

ClassificationIdentification keys


1 Fore wing with one black band or a black band and a circular black area (A); marginal cilia of female fore wing absent; costal margin of hind wing without dark, thick sclerotization posterior to hamuli; frontal ledge present or absent (B) ...2


– Fore wing with two black bands (a); marginal cilia of female fore wing present or absent; costal margin of hind wing with dark, thick sclerotization posterior to hamuli; frontal ledge present (b) ...5

 


2 Frontal ledge absent (A) ...Pulchrisolia ankremos Lahey


– Frontal ledge present (a) ...3

 


3 Fore wing with a circular arrangement of black microtrichia (A); mesoscutellum longitudinally striate (B) ...Pulchrisolia nephelae Lahey


– Fore wing without circular pattern of black micotrichia (a); mesoscutellum smooth (b) ...4

 


4 Notaulus present (A) ...Pulchrisolia teras Lahey


– Notaulus absent (a) ...Pulchrisolia ellieae Lahey

 


5 Antero-admedian depression present (A, B) ...6


– Antero-admedian depression absent (a, b) ...8

 


6 Antero-admedian lines present (A); mesoscutum and mesoscutellum darker than head and pronotum (B) ...Pulchrisolia valerieae Polaszek & Lahey


– Antero-admedian lines absent; pronotum, mesoscutum and mesoscutellum concolorous and lighter than head and metasoma (A, B) ...7

 


7 Mesoscutellum approximately twice as wide as long (A); frontal ledge of male distinctly concave medially (B); forewing microtrichia of female not overlapping; forewing distinctly longer than body length (C) ...Pulchrisolia robynae van Noort & Lahey


– Mesoscutellum approximately 3 times as wide as long (a); frontal ledge of male straight, not concave medially (b); forewing microtrichia of female and male overlapping; forewing approximately as long as body length (c) ...Pulchrisolia asantesana van Noort & Lahey
 


8 Metapleuron completely covered by foamy structures, without setae along anterior margin (A); posterolateral corners of pronotal shoulders acute (B) ...Pulchrisolia sanbornei Lahey & Masner


– Metapleuron with anterior margin distinctly setose (a); posterolateral corners of pronotal shoulders round (b) ...9

 


9 Posterolateral corners of pronotal shoulders remote from anterior margin of tegula (A); head concolorous with mesosoma (A); clavomeres distinctly darker than funicle (B) ...Pulchrisolia maculata Szabó


– Posterolateral corners of pronotal shoulders closer to anterior margin of tegula (a); head of female distinctly darker than mesosoma (b); clavomeres concolorous with funicle ...Pulchrisolia diehoekensis van Noort & Lahey

 


References

Lahey Z, van Noort S, Polaszek A, Masner L, Johnson N. 2019. Revision of the Afrotropical genus Pulchrisolia Szabó (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae, Sceliotrachelinae). In: Talamas E (Eds) Advances in the Systematics of Platygastroidea II. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 73: 39-71. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.73.33876

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

Credits

Key developed by Zachary Lahey (OSUC). Photographs included in the key © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa), or Zachary Lahey (OSUC), or Andrew Polaszek (NHMUK)


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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