Neivapria penicillata

Neivapria penicillata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Diapriidae
Subfamily:	Diapriinae
Genus:	Neivapria
Species:	N. penicillata
Binomial name
Neivapria penicillata Borgemeier, 1939

Distribution

Brazil

Biology

Host ant: Neivamyrmex minensis

Description

Medium-sized individuals (2 mm); body light-colored, honey yellow, highly shining, with only very sparse semidecumbent pale hairs; foamy structures and cushions of hairs not developed, but few areas of dense pilosity occur; sculpture of head rough rugulose, almost corrugated, especially on postgena; strong keel running from OOL area down on temple and postgena, almost reaching malar area; occiput abruptly sloping down behind posterior ocelli; entire side of pronotum remarkably rugulose, epomium strongly developed, bladelike sharp; scutellar disc strongly subcircular; metapleuron remarkably smooth, mirrorlike shining and glabrous; median part of petiole with transverse scalelike node, with posterior margin sharply carinate; S2 produced ventrally, with dense tuft of hairs at meson.

References

Borgmeier, 1939. Sobre alguns diapriideos myrmecophilos, principalmente do Brasil (Hym. Diapriidae). Revista de Entomologia, Sao Paulo, 10:530-545.