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Liratella nigra
| Liratella nigra | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Eucharitidae |
| Subfamily: | Eucharitinae |
| Genus: | Liratella |
| Species: | L. nigra |
| Binomial name | |
| Liratella nigra Girault, 1913 | |
Identification
Jet black, the wings hyaline, the venation colorless, the legs pale lemon yellow, except the concolorous coxae. Tegulae brown, the antennae concolorous with the legs; scutum transeversely striate, the axillae, parapsides and scutellum smooth, also the abdomen and face; occipial margin of Vertex acute. Propodeum dorsally smooth, with a median sulcus and delicate but distinct lateral carinae. Last four funicle joints wider than long.
Distribution
Paraguay
Habitat
Biology
Host ant:
Nomenclature
Description
Female: Like Lirata Cameron but the third joint, though nearly twice longer than the fourth is only a fourth the length of the funicle; noring-joint;scutellar proscesses longitudinally carinate but the scutellum smooth; mesonotum hump-backed; distaj funicle joints wider than long, the club single. Thorax with a median groove. Male: The same but the abdomen smaller, compressed, the moderate petiole distinctly longer; the antennae 11-jointed, each funicle joint bearing from the same side a long branch, the distal joint two of them from its apex; scape short, pedicel wider than long, the short funicle joints transverse, the first and last longest. Ten antennal branches.
References
- Heraty, J.M. 2002. A revision of the genera of Eucharitidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of the World. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 68: 1-359.
- Heraty JM, Mbanyana N, Noort SV (2020) A new species of Eucharissa Westwood (Eucharitidae) from South Africa, with an evaluation of the importance of pupae for assessing relationships in these ant parasitoids. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 79: 43–55. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.79.56042
- Risbec, J. (1952) Contribution á l'étude des chalcidoides de Madagascar., JOURBOOK: Mémoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar (E) VOLUME: 2 PAGES: 1-449
- Westwood, J.O. 1868. Descriptions of new genera and species of Chalcididae. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 1868:xxxvii