Diolcogaster abdominalis

General description: 

The following are unpublished notes taken in  2010 by Jose Fernandez-Triana while studying a male specimen from Italy (Veneto) deposited in the Naturhistorisches Museum of Vienna, Austria.

Ocelo-ocular distance ~ 2X; head wider than high; 2 lateral pronotal grooves, pronoto heavily sculpture apart from the the grooves; mesopleura smooth and polished centrally, rest heavily punctured; meso and metapleuron separated by a wide, deep and crenulated sulcus; metapleura coarsely punctured; mesoscutum and scutellum coarsely punctured, separation between punctures < 0.5x its diameter, some puntures posterolaterally almost fusing; scutellar sulcus deep, very wide (~0.2x scutellum length), with 9 well defined costulae; scutellum with posterocentral band of rugosity; scutellar lunules thin (~0.3x its height); propodeum fully sculptured, with irregular carination all over, some strong carinae surrounding the spiracles and with a strong, central, median carinae; tergite 1-3 heavily sculptured, sculpture mostly formed by longitudinal striation that form elongated cells (T3 smooth on its apical 0.25); T1 widening towards apex, broad (wide at apex > length), with a deep basal sulcus that extends more than half T1 length (sulcus surrounded by a wide depression); T2 rectangular, slightly longer than T3; T2 with a not well-defined central area (slightly elevated); fore wing mostly hyaline, but infumated centrally with two cloudy spots surrounding veins r/2RS and first discal cell; stigma brown with basal half yellow, most of the veins brown; RS about  same size than stigma, distance between R1 and 3RS/R1: 0.5; areolet height/r  ~0.4x; areolet 4-sided (but looking triangular because of small size of one of the veins); basal vein (1M+1Rs) of fore wing almost straight at junction of M and Rs; 2M slightly smaller than vein (RS+M)b; vannal lobe slightly straight and uniformly hairy; metacoxa fully punctured and about 0.6x metasoma length; metatibial spur ~2/3 basitarsus length and 1.3x longer than outer tibia; metafemur 3.4x length/width. Colour: head and antenna black, with palpi dark brown and mandibles orange-brown; rest of body black except for legs which are orange-brown (except for all coxae that are also black).

The following are unpublished notes taken in  2010 by Jose Fernandez-Triana while studying a male specimen from Italy (Veneto) deposited in the Naturhistorisches Museum of Vienna, Austria.

Ocelo-ocular distance ~ 2X; head wider than high; 2 lateral pronotal grooves, pronoto heavily sculpture apart from the the grooves; mesopleura smooth and polished centrally, rest heavily punctured; meso and metapleuron separated by a wide, deep and crenulated sulcus; metapleura coarsely punctured; mesoscutum and scutellum coarsely punctured, separation between punctures < 0.5x its diameter, some puntures posterolaterally almost fusing; scutellar sulcus deep, very wide (~0.2x scutellum length), with 9 well defined costulae; scutellum with posterocentral band of rugosity; scutellar lunules thin (~0.3x its height); propodeum fully sculptured, with irregular carination all over, some strong carinae surrounding the spiracles and with a strong, central, median carinae; tergite 1-3 heavily sculptured, sculpture mostly formed by longitudinal striation that form elongated cells (T3 smooth on its apical 0.25); T1 widening towards apex, broad (wide at apex > length), with a deep basal sulcus that extends more than half T1 length (sulcus surrounded by a wide depression); T2 rectangular, slightly longer than T3; T2 with a not well-defined central area (slightly elevated); fore wing mostly hyaline, but infumated centrally with two cloudy spots surrounding veins r/2RS and first discal cell; stigma brown with basal half yellow, most of the veins brown; RS about  same size than stigma, distance between R1 and 3RS/R1: 0.5; areolet height/r  ~0.4x; areolet 4-sided (but looking triangular because of small size of one of the veins); basal vein (1M+1Rs) of fore wing almost straight at junction of M and Rs; 2M slightly smaller than vein (RS+M)b; vannal lobe slightly straight and uniformly hairy; metacoxa fully punctured and about 0.6x metasoma length; metatibial spur ~2/3 basitarsus length and 1.3x longer than outer tibia; metafemur 3.4x length/width. Colour: head and antenna black, with palpi dark brown and mandibles orange-brown; rest of body black except for legs which are orange-brown (except for all coxae that are also black).

Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith