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Issue: Vol. 4085 No. 1: 1 Mar. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-03-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.1.6
Page range: 127–134
Abstract views: 53
PDF downloaded: 1

Protosclerogibba australis gen. et sp. nov., new genus and species of sclerogibbid wasps (Hymenoptera: Sclerogibbidae) from South Africa

Tropical Entomology Research Center, Via De Gasperi 10, I-01100 Viterbo, Italy.
Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Animal Biology section, University of Catania, Via Androne 81, Catania, 95124 Italy.
Department of Agricultural and Forestry Science, Tuscia University, I-01100 Viterbo, Italy.
Department of Agricultural and Forestry Science, Tuscia University, I-01100 Viterbo, Italy.
Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea micropterous taxonomy key Northern Cape Kimberley

Abstract

Protosclerogibba australis Olmi, Marletta, Guglielmino & Speranza, gen. et sp. nov. is described and illustrated from specimens collected in Kimberley (Northern Cape Province, South Africa). The female of the new taxon is the first micropterous sclerogibbid. Females of other extant Sclerogibbidae are always apterous, whereas fossil females can be apterous or macropterous.

 

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