Anteon simoni Olmi 2007, sp. n.

• Main Author: Olmi, Massimo
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Dryinidae; Anteon; Anteon simoni; Walker Bay; Cape Walker
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/7668027; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7668027

Anteon simoni sp. n. Fig. 9 Etymology: This species is named after Dr Simon van Noort. Description: Female. Fully winged; length 2.12–2.81 mm (holotype 2.81 mm). Head black, with mandibles testaceous; antennae testaceous, with segments 7–10 brownish; mesosoma and gaster black; legs testaceous, with clubs of femora, hind coxae, mid and hind tibiae darkened.Antennae clavate; antennomeres as following:10:5:6:4.5:4.5:5:5:5.5:5:7. Head completely reticulate rugose; frontal line complete; face without lateral keels directed towards antennal toruli; occipital carina complete; POL = 9; OL = 6; OOL = 5; OPL = 5.5; TL = 4; greatest diameter of posterior ocelli = 2. Pronotum with anterior surface rugose; posterior surface less than 0.5 as long as scutum (6:15), rugose, with posterior half smooth and without sculpture. Scutum shiny, smooth, punctate, without sculpture among punctures. Notauli reaching approximately 0.3 length of scutum; in a paratype notauli almost completely absent. Scutellum and metanotum shiny, smooth, without sculpture. Mesopleura with anterior half reticulate rugose and posterior half smooth, punctate, without sculpture among punctures; metapleura completely reticulate rugose. Propodeum with strong transverse keel between dorsal and posterior surface; dorsal surface reticulate rugose, more than 0.5 as long as scutellum + metanotum (9:14); posterior surface reticulate rugose, without longitudinal keels. Forewing with dark transverse band beneath pterostigma; distal part of stigmal vein much shorter than proximal part (3:8). Fore tarsal segments in following proportions: 10:2:2:2.5:8.5; segment 4 of fore tarsi less than 0.5 as long as basal part of segment 5. Enlarged claw (Fig. 9) with proximal prominence bearing 1 long bristle. Segment 5 of front tarsus (Fig. 9) with some medial and proximal bristles and 5 distal lamellae. Tibial spurs 1, 1, 2. Male. Unknown. Holotype: ^“ SOUTH AFRICA: Western Cape, Walker Bay Nat. Res., 34 ° 27.41'S: 19 ° 21.39'E, ix–xii.1997, Malaise trap, S. van Noort ”; [red] “ ...