Dryinus saussurei

• Main Authors: Olmi, Massimo, Copeland, Robert S., Noort, Simon Van
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Ampulicidae; Dryinus; Dryinus saussurei; Izquierdo; Walker Bay
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3511145; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3511145

31. Dryinus saussurei (Ceballos, 1936) (Figs 140 B–D) Lestodryinus saussurei Ceballos 1936: 48; Rey del Castillo & Izquierdo 1989: 254. Dryinus saussurei (Ceballos): Benoit 1954: 412; Olmi 1984: 770; 1994c: 10; 2006: 43; Azevedo et al. 2010: 891; Olmi et al. 2016: 76. Description. ♀. Fully winged; body length 4.0– 5.9 mm. Head black, except mandible and clypeus yellow; rarely clypeus black or brown; occasionally anterior region of frons testaceous; occasionally malar space with testaceous spot (in specimen from Botswana, Serowe); antenna testaceous; occasionally antennomeres 7–8, or 3–10, or 3–8 brown; propleuron black; pronotum black, with lateral regions and posterior collar reddish; rest of mesosoma black; metasoma black-brown; legs testaceous, except coxae and clubs of femora partly brown. Antenna clavate; antennomeres in following proportions: 10:5:21:10:9:8:6:6:4.5:8. Head (Fig. 140B) shiny or dull, completely or partly granulate, occasionally partly unsculptured; occasionally head partly granulate and partly sculptured by a few irregular keels; frontal line complete; occipital carina complete; lateral ocelli usually touching occipital carina, occasionally very close, but not touching occipital carina; OL = POL. In specimen from Madagascar, 17°45’S 47°59’E, POL = 4; OL = 2. Pronotum dull, partly or completely granulate, with numerous slight striae around disc; occasionally pronotum shiny, almost completely unsculptured; posterior collar of pronotum short, about 0.5 × as long as distance from tegula to pronotal tubercle; pronotal tubercle not reaching tegula. Mesoscutum dull, slightly or strongly granulate, with short keels or areolae near posterior margin; occasionally median region of mesoscutum shiny, unsculptured (in specimen from Cameroon, Nkoemvon, mesoscutum completely granulate, with no areolae or keels; in specimen from South Africa posterior half of mesoscutum completely reticulate rugose; in specimen from Botswana, Serowe, mesoscutum almost completely reticulate rugose; in specimen from ...