Aneuclis melanaria (Holmgren, 1860)

Aneuclis melanaria (Holmgren, 1860) View in CoL

= Aneuclis pusilla Masi, 1933 View in CoL . Holotype (♀): Italy, Tuscany, Capraia. New synonym.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: 9611EE52-C103-5305-9F37-9736FC2E18F7; Location: country: Italy; countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Tuscany [TOS]; locality: Capraia, Porto ; verbatimLocality: CAPRAIA Tosc. / Porto; Event: year: 1931; month: 9; verbatimEventDate: IX ∙ 1931; Record Level: institutionCode: MSNGD

Distribution

Palaearctic (Eastern Palaearctic; Western Palaearctic).

Asserted distribution in Italy: North Italy ( Scaramozzino 1995); PIE ( Pagliano 2009); EMR ( Zangheri 1969); South Italy ( Scaramozzino 1995, also as Aneuclis pusilla Masi, 1933 ); TOS ( Masi 1933, as Aneuclis pusilla Masi, 1933 ); LAZ ( Pesarini 2009); ABR ( Pagliano 2009); SIC ( Horstmann 1981, Scaramozzino 1995).

Notes

Original type label for Aneuclis pusilla Masi, 1933

Typus // CAPRAIA Tosc. / IX ∙ 1931 Porto / C. Mancini // Aneuclis / pusillus / Typus! ♀ Ms. Museo Civico / di Genova

Description of the type of Aneuclis pusilla Masi, 1933

Female (Fig. 1 View Figure 1 ). Body length 2.6 mm (without ovipositor); ovipositor 0.8 mm. Fore wing length 2.2 mm.

Head, in dorsal view, gently constricted posterior to eyes, about 0.6 × as long as eye width. Clypeus about 2.5 × as broad as long, lenticular in frontal view, coriaceous on basal 1 / 3, polished and without punctures on lower 1 / 3. Mandible approximately 3.0 × as long as basally wide, teeth subequal. Malar space about 1.1 × as long as basal mandibular width, coriaceous. Antennal flagellum with 15 flagellomeres. Face, frons, vertex and gena coriaceous and sub-polished.

Fore-wing with vein 2 m-cu postfurcal (i. e. second recurrent vein), with bulla occupying more than its upper half; vein 2 rs-m obliterated (i. e. first intercubitus); 2 r & RS straight (i. e. proximal section of radius), about 1.25 × as long as the width of the pterostigma, meeting RS (i. e. distal section of radius) at about 85 °; pterostigma broad, subtriangular; RA (i. e. metacarpus) not reaching apex of fore-wing; vein 1 cu-a (i. e. nervulus) clearly distal to M & RS (i. e. basal vein) for a distance almost equal to its length; vein 2 cu-a (i. e. postnervulus) almost obliterated. Hind-wing with vein CU + cu-a (i. e., nervellus) straight, clearly reclivous.

Legs slender. Hind femur about 4.4 × as long as maximum width. Hind tarsal claws not pectinate.

First metasomal tergite about 3.0 × as long as posteriorly broad, smooth and polished, without punctures; glymma weak, elongated. Second metasomal tergite transverse, about 0.75 × as long as posteriorly broad. Thyridial depression elongated, coriaceous. Ovipositor upcurved, sheath about 1.3 × as long as hind tibia.

Black. Scapus, pedicel, antennal flagellum basally, clypeus, mandible (except black teeth), palps reddish-brown. Coxae black, legs red, tarsi reddish-brown. Pterostigma yellowish-brown. Sheath brownish-black.

Further Remarks

We have examined the type of A. pusilla and found that it is a typical A. melanaria . It should be noted that in the original description ( Masi 1933), A. pusilla was compared with Aneuclis brevicauda (Thomson, 1889) and Probles exilis (Holmgren, 1860) , but not with A. melanaria .