Hygroplitis russata

General description: 

The following are unpublished notes taken by Jose Fernandez-Triana after studying one female and one male specimens (from Germany and Austria) deposited in the Naturhistorisches Museum of Vienna, Austria.

Ocelo-ocular distance 2.4x; distance between posterior ocelli 1.7x ocellus diameter; ocelli in a slightly elevated area; frons depressed and with a median carina; head 1.3x wider than high; antenna with placodes arranged in 3 rows; 2 lateral pronotal grooves, which are wide, deep (especially the lower one) and crenulated; dorsal and posterior margins of mesopleura strongly marked by crenulated sulcus, including a short carinae posteriorly near the metapleural carina; mesopleura smooth and polished centrally, rest closely punctured (distance between punctures < its diameter); basal 0.3x of metapleura smooth and polished, the rest coarsely scultured, areas smooth and sculptured separated by a crenulated sulcus that runs from the lower to the upper margin of metapleura and cross over the spiracle; metapleura with short lamellate carina; mesoscutum elongated, its length 0.8x its width; mesoscutum heavily sculptured, with notauli well marked by a wide and depressed area (crossed by transversal striation), notauli meeting posteriorly; few separation between punctures (which sometimes fused to form a variable reticulated area); scutellar sulcus separated from mesoscutum by a raised, smooth carina; scutellar sulcus deep, very wide (0.2x scutellum length), with 9 well defined costulae; scutellum mostly smooth (a few shallow punctures in the margins) and without posterocentral band of rugosity; scutellar lunules thin (~0.3x its height); scutellar lunules followed by a small crenulated sulcus and then a median, mostly punctured area that occupies the central 1/3 of the lateral face, and the final 1/3 is made of raised ridges that go up to the upper margin; propodeum fully sculptured, with irregular, reticulated carination pattern all over; and with a strong, central, median carinae; tergite 1-2 heavily sculptured, sculpture mostly formed by longitudinal striation that fuses to form elongated cells in a reticulate shape (T3 sculptured but mostly by punctures and smooth on its apical 0.2); T1 evenly widening towards apex (width at apex 1.6x its basal width), T1 broad (length 0.7x its width at apex), with a basal depression centrally that forms a sulcus extending ~half of segment length, this depression make the surrounding areas looks like basal lateral lobes and gives T1 a humped appearance; T2 rectangular and 2x longer than T3; wings slightly yellowish in colour; stigma yellow with only margins brown, most of the veins brown; RS 1.2x stigma length, distance between R1 and 3RS/R1: 0.4x; areolet height/r ~0.7x; areolet 4-sided; basal vein (1M+1Rs) of fore wing almost straight at junction of M and Rs; 2M 0.5x than vein (RS+M)b; vannal lobe slightly straight and uniformly hairy; metacoxa with fine and shallow punctures 0.4x metasoma length; metatibial spur 0.6x the basitarsus length and 1.2x longer than outer tibia; metafemur 3.0x length/width; hypopygium sclerotized, slightly folded but not striated, with a an acute tip that it is shorter than last tergites (i.e. is not protruding beyond metasoma); ovipositor sheaths hairy, spatula-shaped, its length slightly less than half of metatibial length. Colour: palpi, mandibles, labrum, antenna, all legs (except for metatibia tip which is black), tegula, wing base, all metasoma (except for T4+ and ovipositor sheaths) yellow-orange; rest of the body black.


The following are unpublished notes taken by Jose Fernandez-Triana after studying one female and one male specimens (from Germany and Austria) deposited in the Naturhistorisches Museum of Vienna, Austria.

Ocelo-ocular distance 2.4x; distance between posterior ocelli 1.7x ocellus diameter; ocelli in a slightly elevated area; frons depressed and with a median carina; head 1.3x wider than high; antenna with placodes arranged in 3 rows; 2 lateral pronotal grooves, which are wide, deep (especially the lower one) and crenulated; dorsal and posterior margins of mesopleura strongly marked by crenulated sulcus, including a short carinae posteriorly near the metapleural carina; mesopleura smooth and polished centrally, rest closely punctured (distance between punctures < its diameter); basal 0.3x of metapleura smooth and polished, the rest coarsely scultured, areas smooth and sculptured separated by a crenulated sulcus that runs from the lower to the upper margin of metapleura and cross over the spiracle; metapleura with short lamellate carina; mesoscutum elongated, its length 0.8x its width; mesoscutum heavily sculptured, with notauli well marked by a wide and depressed area (crossed by transversal striation), notauli meeting posteriorly; few separation between punctures (which sometimes fused to form a variable reticulated area); scutellar sulcus separated from mesoscutum by a raised, smooth carina; scutellar sulcus deep, very wide (0.2x scutellum length), with 9 well defined costulae; scutellum mostly smooth (a few shallow punctures in the margins) and without posterocentral band of rugosity; scutellar lunules thin (~0.3x its height); scutellar lunules followed by a small crenulated sulcus and then a median, mostly punctured area that occupies the central 1/3 of the lateral face, and the final 1/3 is made of raised ridges that go up to the upper margin; propodeum fully sculptured, with irregular, reticulated carination pattern all over; and with a strong, central, median carinae; tergite 1-2 heavily sculptured, sculpture mostly formed by longitudinal striation that fuses to form elongated cells in a reticulate shape (T3 sculptured but mostly by punctures and smooth on its apical 0.2); T1 evenly widening towards apex (width at apex 1.6x its basal width), T1 broad (length 0.7x its width at apex), with a basal depression centrally that forms a sulcus extending ~half of segment length, this depression make the surrounding areas looks like basal lateral lobes and gives T1 a humped appearance; T2 rectangular and 2x longer than T3; wings slightly yellowish in colour; stigma yellow with only margins brown, most of the veins brown; RS 1.2x stigma length, distance between R1 and 3RS/R1: 0.4x; areolet height/r ~0.7x; areolet 4-sided; basal vein (1M+1Rs) of fore wing almost straight at junction of M and Rs; 2M 0.5x than vein (RS+M)b; vannal lobe slightly straight and uniformly hairy; metacoxa with fine and shallow punctures 0.4x metasoma length; metatibial spur 0.6x the basitarsus length and 1.2x longer than outer tibia; metafemur 3.0x length/width; hypopygium sclerotized, slightly folded but not striated, with a an acute tip that it is shorter than last tergites (i.e. is not protruding beyond metasoma); ovipositor sheaths hairy, spatula-shaped, its length slightly less than half of metatibial length. Colour: palpi, mandibles, labrum, antenna, all legs (except for metatibia tip which is black), tegula, wing base, all metasoma (except for T4+ and ovipositor sheaths) yellow-orange; rest of the body 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