Smicromorpha banksi

Distribution
Australia, Papua New Guinea

Biology
Host ant: Oecophylla smaragdina

Description
Diagnosis. Female. Body length 4.0 mm, length of fore wing 2.3 mm; colour pale yellowish to orange; hind coxa with large outer blackish spot, hind femur with large discal black spot, serrulation black (Fig. 20); setation short, with scattered adpressed setae on mesosoma and hind femur. Head with eyes moderately enlarged (Figs 16, 17); malar space relatively long with malar carina (Fig. 17); antennal scrobe deeply impressed, carinately mar- gined, distant from inner margin of eye; frons with longitudinal impression between median ocellus and antennal scrobe (Fig. 17); vertex and frons minutely reticulate-punctulate; ocelli small, POL and LOD respectively 0.8× and 0.7× OOL (Fig. 18);, maximum interocular distance (on vertex) at most twice as great as minimum distance (at mid-length of face); flagellum 6-segmented; flagellomeres very short, transverse; pronotal collar carinate laterally; mesoscutum and scutellum rugose-punctate; sternaulus absent; propodeum convex posteriorly, spiracular sulci in- distinct; fore wing slightly infuscate, STV shorter than and at right angle with MV, stump of basalis present (Fig. 19); hind coxa 4.6× long as wide; hind femur 1.7× as long as wide, without basal prominence, serrulate on ventral margin starting at one third of femoral length, forming two lobes; petiole 4.5× as long as wide, not swollen basally, minutely reticulate-punctulate dorsally; transverse basal lamina distinct (Fig. 21).