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275EBF75EBCD78CD5098B63526A6CEF9.text	275EBF75EBCD78CD5098B63526A6CEF9.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio albatus Yoder	<div><p>Scelio albatus Yoder sp. n. Figures 31-36; Morphbank 22</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.52-3.64 mm (n=2). Male body length: 3.40-4.48 mm (n=2). Shape of compound eye: not or only slightly bulging. Color pattern of pilosity below anterior ocellus in female: predominantly white throughout. Sculpture of frons in female: reticulate rugulose, sculpture finer, typically without dorsoventral trend. Genal carina in female: present. Width of gena in lateral view: weakly expanded, posterior margin parallel to posterior margin of eye. Density of genal setae: moderately to highly dense, setae conspicuous. Color of genal setae: white to off-white. Sculpture of base of mandible in female: minutely reticulate. Color of A1 in female: light to dark brown throughout, or with apex and base slightly lighter, often yellowish. Color of A3 in female: brown. Sculpture of dorsal pronotal nucha in female: predominantly to completely sculptured. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: predominantly white to off-white. Sculpture along humeral margin of mesoscutum: well-defined throughout. Color of pilosity of mesonotum in female: predominantly white to off-white. Transition from lateral to posterior margin of propodeum in dorsal view: forming distinct angle, corner of propodeum well defined. Shape of mesoscutum in lateral view: more or less flat. Pilosity on metapleuron above hind coxa: glabrous or with few scattered setae. Form of fore wing submarginal vein in female: tubular throughout from base to costal margin. Fine pilosity of lateral T1 in female: absent. Width of metasoma: moderately wide, width of S3 1.5-1.6 times medial length. Distribution of pilosity on T2-T5 in female: more or less evenly distributed throughout. Sculpture of T3 in female: longitudinally striate throughout. Overall sculpture of S3: with dense, fine longitudinal carinae. Sculpture of medial S3 in female: present throughout.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Similar to Scelio taylori which shares the presence of the well-developed genal carina (cf. Figs 102, 108, 114, gc). Differing from all individuals of Scelio taylori by the the completely white pilosity of the mesoscutum (and throughout body), the fine and relatively dense reticulations of the mesoscutum (cells larger, more robust in Scelio taylori, compare Figs 39 and 99) and, in most individuals, by the color of A1 (only rarely dark brown in Scelio taylori, and these individuals are distinctly larger and darker throughout).</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is a Latin participle, meaning clothed in white, in reference to the pilosity of the mesoscutum.</p><p>Link to Distribution Map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244957</p><p>Material Examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: SOUTH AFRICA: KwaZulu-Natal Prov., Dukuduku forest Reserve, IV-1977, G. L. Prinsloo, OSUC 213338 (deposited in SANC). Paratypes: SOUTH AFRICA: 1 female, 2 males, OSUC 213393-213394, 213481 (SANC).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>Scelio albatus is clearly closely related to Scelio taylori and likely represents a geographically isolated extension of that species, being the only specimens of the larger clade from South Africa. Scelio taylori exhibits a fair amount of morphological variation, but is not noted for variability in the the color of pilosity on the mesoscutum. In general white pilosity on the mesoscutellum is rare for Afrotropical Scelio . The sculpture of the mesoscutum is more irregular and the course of the notauli is more visible than seen in Scelio taylori .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/275EBF75EBCD78CD5098B63526A6CEF9	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
BE75D65856C3AF33BEBE235E29A2F203.text	BE75D65856C3AF33BEBE235E29A2F203.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio aphares Yoder	<div><p>Scelio aphares Yoder sp. n. Figures 2, 31-36; Morphbank 23</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.18-4.21 mm (n=16). Shape of compound eye: not or only slightly bulging. Color pattern of pilosity below anterior ocellus in female: predominantly white throughout. Sculpture of frons in female: reticulate rugulose, sculpture finer, typically without dorsoventral trend. Genal carina in female: absent. Width of gena in lateral view: weakly expanded, posterior margin parallel to posterior margin of eye. Density of genal setae: moderately to highly dense, setae conspicuous. Color of genal setae: white to off-white. Sculpture of base of mandible in female: minutely reticulate. Color of A1 in female: yellow throughout; light to dark brown throughout, or with apex and base slightly lighter, often yellowish. Color of A3 in female: brown. Sculpture of dorsal pronotal nucha in female: predominantly to completely sculptured. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: predominantly white to off-white. Sculpture along humeral margin of mesoscutum: well-defined throughout. Color of pilosity of mesonotum in female: predominantly light to dark brown. Transition from lateral to posterior margin of propodeum in dorsal view: forming distinct angle, corner of propodeum well defined. Shape of mesoscutum in lateral view: bulging in anterior third. Pilosity on metapleuron above hind coxa: glabrous or with few scattered setae. Form of fore wing submarginal vein in female: tubular throughout from base to costal margin. Fine pilosity of lateral T1 in female: present. Width of metasoma: very wide, width of S3&gt; 2 times medial length. Distribution of pilosity on T2-T5 in female: more or less evenly distributed throughout. Sculpture of T3 in female: longitudinally striate throughout; longitudinally striate laterally with prominent reticulate to rugulose elements medially. Overall sculpture of S3: with dense, fine longitudinal carinae. Sculpture of medial S3 in female: present throughout; with broadly obliterated or with distinct smooth patch.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Similar to other Afrotropical ernstii-group species without a genal carina. Most similar to Scelio copelandi but differing from this species by slightly more compact reticulations of the mesonotum (compare Figs 36 and 65), and the slightly more reticulate sculpture of the face (trending to dorsoventrally striate in Scelio copelandi).</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a noun in apposition derived from the Greek word for unclad or naked, in reference to the confusingly plain and relatively unremarkable species.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244947</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: SOUTH AFRICA: Limpopo Prov., 30km W Trichardtsdal, Down’s forest, 1350 m, 30.XII.1985, sweeping, M. Sanborne, OSUC 212250 (deposited in CNCI). Paratypes: (16 females) CAMEROON: 1 female, OSUC 211215 (CNCI). KENYA: 1 female, OSUC 234699 (CNCI). NIGERIA: 1 female, OSUC 213266 (CNCI). SOUTH AFRICA: 10 females, OSUC 211213, 211267, 211386, 212251, 212364, 212440, 213117 (CNCI); OSUC 244034 (FMNH); OSUC 212365 (OSUC); OSUC 213439 (SANC). TANZANIA: 2 females, OSUC 250963 (CNCI); OSUC 212970 (OSUC). UGANDA: 1 female, OSUC 244071 (USNM).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>As presently defined this species is quite variable. Given the available material we have elected to take a conservative approach and treat these specimens as a single species. As noted for Scelio copelandi this may ultimately require the inclusion of that species as well. Four morphotypes were initially identified: 1) individuals (OSUC 212970, 250963, 211215, 213266) with a bright yellow scape and very slightly larger reticulations on the mesoscutum, from Tanzania, Cameroons, Nigeria and South Africa; 2) a single individual (OSUC 211267) with fine, somewhat more dense and confused sculpture of the frons, and confused reticulate sculpture on T1; 3) four individuals (OSUC 212250, 244034, 212364, 212365) with the scape brown and metasoma broader (South Africa); and 4) a series of individuals (OSUC 211386, 213439, 213117, 211213, 212440) similar to series 3 but with the metasoma narrower. Two additional specimens similar to series 1 but with somewhat more compact sculpture of the mesoscutum are also included (OSUC 244071, 234699). Most specimens can be broadly divided into 2 groups (yellow or brown scape). However, series 2 is somewhat intermediate in this state with the middle of the scape brown, and the base and apex somewhat lighter. The shape of the head varies from somewhat vertically elongate (series 1) to more rounded (specimens of series 4). All specimens observed have brown pilosity on the medial head and mesonotum.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BE75D65856C3AF33BEBE235E29A2F203	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
8C9B113D12EA258ADA0536FDA09439EB.text	8C9B113D12EA258ADA0536FDA09439EB.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio ardelio Yoder	<div><p>Scelio ardelio Yoder sp. n. Figures 43-48; Morphbank 24</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.45 mm (n=1). Shape of compound eye: not or only slightly bulging. Color pattern of pilosity below anterior ocellus in female: brown throughout. Sculpture of frons in female: reticulate rugulose, rugae finer, with slight dorsoventral trend. Genal carina in female: absent. Width of gena in lateral view: weakly expanded, posterior margin parallel to posterior margin of eye. Density of genal setae: sparse, setae generally inconspicuous. Color of genal setae: white to off-white. Sculpture of base of mandible in female: smooth. Color of A1 in female: light to dark brown throughout, or with apex and base slightly lighter, often yellowish. Color of A3 in female: brown. Sculpture of dorsal pronotal nucha in female: predominantly to completely sculptured. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: predominantly light brown to brown. Sculpture along humeral margin of mesoscutum: with effaced areas. Color of pilosity of mesonotum in female: predominantly light to dark brown. Transition from lateral to posterior margin of propodeum in dorsal view: smoothly curved, corner of propodeum undefined. Shape of mesoscutum in lateral view: more or less flat. Pilosity on metapleuron above hind coxa: with large patch of dense fine setae. Form of fore wing submarginal vein in female: tubular throughout from base to costal margin. Fine pilosity of lateral T1 in female: present. Width of metasoma: very wide, width of S3&gt; 2 times medial length. Distribution of pilosity on T2-T5 in female: more or less evenly distributed throughout. Sculpture of T3 in female: longitudinally striate laterally with prominent reticulate to rugulose elements medially. Overall sculpture of S3: coarsely reticulate. Sculpture of medial S3 in female: present throughout.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Most similar to Scelio chapmani, with which it shares the dense patch of pilosity above the hind coxa on the posterolateral corner of the metapleuron (Fig. 46). This species may be distinguished from Scelio chapmani by the sparse brown pilosity of the gena (dense and white in Scelio chapmani), the the more or less rounded posterior propodeal margin (distinctly truncate with sharp lateral corner in Scelio chapmani), and the thin strip of obliterated sculpture along the humeral margin of the mesoscutum (sculptured throughout in Scelio chapmani, compare Figs 45 and 57).</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is Latin, for meddler or busybody, and is used as a noun in apposition. This refers to the odd character combinations that meddle with an otherwise straightforwardly defined species group, and rhymes nicely.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244960</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: KENYA: Eastern Prov., Gatab, Mount Kulal, 7000ft, IV-1980, D. Levin, OSUC 212510 (deposited in CNCI).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>Scelio ardelio has a strange mix of characters that contradicts the definition of all the major species groups. The species is tentatively included in the ernstii-group based in part on the patch of metapleural pilosity it shares with Scelio chapmani, similarities in the shape of the anteclypeus, and the general habitus. At first impression the state of the posterior propodeal margin appears closer to that observed in species of the walkeri and pulchripennis groups with a margin that appears more or less rounded (Fig. 45). A very narrow perpendicular carina is visible medially adjacent the nuchal area, however, which may indicate that Scelio ardelio may simply be highly derived with respect to other ernstii-group species. Scelio ardelio is also notable for several states not, or rarely observed in Afrotropical ernstii-group species: the obliterated narrow strip of sculpture along the humeral margin of the mesoscutum, the absence of reticulate microsculpture at the base of the mandible, and the long and narrow setae in general. The fine pilosity of lateral T1 is particularly dense and the sculpture of T3 very reticulate.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8C9B113D12EA258ADA0536FDA09439EB	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
6F6867AB4D7E1DADD493FB9EA39F3166.text	6F6867AB4D7E1DADD493FB9EA39F3166.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio bayanga Yoder	<div><p>Scelio bayanga Yoder sp. n. Figures 49-54; Morphbank 25</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 4.79 mm (n=1). Shape of compound eye: not or only slightly bulging. Color pattern of pilosity below anterior ocellus in female: predominantly white throughout. Sculpture of frons in female: reticulate rugose, rugae somewhat thickened, without dorsoventral trend. Genal carina in female: absent. Width of gena in lateral view: weakly expanded, posterior margin parallel to posterior margin of eye. Density of genal setae: moderately to highly dense, setae conspicuous. Color of genal setae: white to off-white. Sculpture of base of mandible in female: minutely reticulate. Color of A1 in female: light to dark brown throughout, or with apex and base slightly lighter, often yellowish. Color of A3 in female: brown. Sculpture of dorsal pronotal nucha in female: predominantly to completely sculptured. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: predominantly light brown to brown. Sculpture along humeral margin of mesoscutum: well-defined throughout. Color of pilosity of mesonotum in female: predominantly light to dark brown. Transition from lateral to posterior margin of propodeum in dorsal view: forming distinct angle, corner of propodeum well defined. Shape of mesoscutum in lateral view: bulging in anterior third. Pilosity on metapleuron above hind coxa: glabrous or with few scattered setae. Form of fore wing submarginal vein in female: tubular throughout from base to costal margin. Fine pilosity of lateral T1 in female: present. Width of metasoma: very wide, width of S3&gt; 2 times medial length. Distribution of pilosity on T2-T5 in female: more or less evenly distributed throughout. Sculpture of T3 in female: longitudinally striate laterally with prominent reticulate to rugulose elements medially. Overall sculpture of S3: with sparse, fine longitudinal carinae. Sculpture of medial S3 in female: with broadly obliterated or with distinct smooth patch.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Most similar to species that share the absence of the genal carina ( Scelio copelandi, Scelio aphares, Scelio phaeoprora, Scelio exophthalmus and Scelio mauritanicus). Scelio bayanga differs from all these by the combination of size (larger), width of gena (very broad), and sculpture of the mesoscutum (robustly reticulate, with large cells).</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>A reference to the locality on the label of the holotype. The epithet is used as a noun in apposition.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244948</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Sangha-Mbaéré Préf . Écon ., 21.4km (53°) NE Bayanga, Mabéa Bai, lowland rainforest / marsh clearing, CAR01-M03, 510m, 03°02.01'N, 16°24.57'E, Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, 1.V-2.V.2001, malaise trap, S. van Noort, OSUC 211845 (deposited in SAMC).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>The single known specimen is more similar in Gestalt to larger individuals of Scelio taylori which have the genal carina present.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6F6867AB4D7E1DADD493FB9EA39F3166	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
9CCF05CC2DDFCC7C2B2633E5AC4B8E53.text	9CCF05CC2DDFCC7C2B2633E5AC4B8E53.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio chapmani Nixon	<div><p>Scelio chapmani Nixon Figures 55-60; Morphbank 26</p><p>Scelio chapmanni Nixon, 1958: 311 (original description, keyed); Masner 1965: 92 (type information).</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.16-4.10 mm (n=20). Male body length: 3.24-3.96 mm (n=13). Shape of compound eye: not or only slightly bulging. Color pattern of pilosity below anterior ocellus in female: predominantly white throughout. Sculpture of frons in female: reticulate rugulose, sculpture finer, typically without dorsoventral trend. Genal carina in female: absent. Width of gena in lateral view: strongly bulging, posterior margin diverging ventrally from posterior margin of eye. Density of genal setae: moderately to highly dense, setae conspicuous. Color of genal setae: white to off-white. Sculpture of base of mandible in female: minutely reticulate. Color of A1 in female: yellow throughout. Color of A3 in female: yellow; brown; yellow basally, darkening to brown near apex. Sculpture of dorsal pronotal nucha in female: predominantly to completely sculptured. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: predominantly white to off-white. Sculpture along humeral margin of mesoscutum: well-defined throughout. Color of pilosity of mesonotum in female: predominantly light to dark brown. Transition from lateral to posterior margin of propodeum in dorsal view: forming distinct angle, corner of propodeum well defined. Shape of mesoscutum in lateral view: more or less flat. Pilosity on metapleuron above hind coxa: with large patch of dense fine setae. Form of fore wing submarginal vein in female: tubular throughout from base to costal margin. Fine pilosity of lateral T1 in female: present. Width of metasoma: moderately wide, width of S3 1.5-1.6 times medial length. Distribution of pilosity on T2-T5 in female: more or less evenly distributed throughout. Sculpture of T3 in female: longitudinally striate throughout. Overall sculpture of S3: with dense, fine longitudinal carinae. Sculpture of medial S3 in female: present throughout; with broadly obliterated or with distinct smooth patch.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Males and females are easily distinguished from all Afrotropical ernstii-group species except Scelio ardelio by the presence of a large setose patch (Fig. 58) above the hind coxa. This species may be separated from Scelio ardelio by the dense white pilosity of the gena (fine, sparse and brown in Scelio ardelio) and the well-developed posterior propodeal margin (more or less rounded in Scelio ardelio).</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=5194</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: TANZANIA: Rukwa Reg., Rukwa Rift, Kafukola, 27.XI.1955, R. F. Chapman, B.M. TYPE HYM. 9.540 (deposited in BMNH). Other material: (21 females, 13 males) CAMEROON: 1 female, OSUC 212119 (CNCI). CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: 5 females, 1 male, OSUC 213977 (OSUC); OSUC 211667, 213317, 213916, 214199, 214218 (SAMC). IVORY COAST: 2 females, OSUC 213222 (CNCI); OSUC 142576 (OSUC). KENYA: 1 female, OSUC 212354 (CNCI). NIGERIA: 8 females, 7 males, OSUC 211380, 212166, 212182, 212690, 212695, 212715, 212812, 212843, 213144, 213258, 213265, 213273, 250781, 250945 (CNCI); OSUC 59134 (OSUC). SOUTH AFRICA: 1 female, 2 males, OSUC 213337, 213357, 213477 (SANC). YEMEN: 1 male, OSUC 251064 (CNCI). ZIMBABWE: 3 females, 2 males, OSUC 212219, 212576, 213039 (CNCI); OSUC 57105, 57109 (OSUC).</p><p>Comments .</p><p>The identity of this species was determined by examination of the type by AP. This is perhaps the most easily diagnosed species within the group due to the characteristic distribution of metapleural setae. It is interesting to note that a similar state can be observed in species from other species groups, including Scelio philippinensis . The pilosity of the frons immediately below the anterior ocellus is characteristically oriented dorsoventrally. The color of the brown pilosity of the dorsal head is somewhat more golden/copper than the brown observed in other species. See also comments for Scelio ardelio .</p><p>In the original description of this species Nixon (1956) states in two places that the material was collected by R.F. Chapman. Therefore, the proper spelling of the genitive is chapmani, and not chapmanni. According to article 32.5.1 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature "If there is in the original publication itself, without recourse to any external source of information, clear evidence of an inadvertent error, such as a lapsus calami or a copyist’s or printer’s error, it must be corrected." The change is a justified emendation and retains the original authorship and date.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9CCF05CC2DDFCC7C2B2633E5AC4B8E53	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
048C8A0FE21F2F4DF0041F2C6537BD0C.text	048C8A0FE21F2F4DF0041F2C6537BD0C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio copelandi Yoder	<div><p>Scelio copelandi Yoder sp. n. Figures 61-66; Morphbank 27</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.38-3.86 mm (n=21). Male body length: 3.28-3.89 mm (n=12). Shape of compound eye: not or only slightly bulging. Color pattern of pilosity below anterior ocellus in female: predominantly white throughout. Sculpture of frons in female: reticulate rugulose, rugae finer, with slight dorsoventral trend. Genal carina in female: absent. Width of gena in lateral view: weakly expanded, posterior margin parallel to posterior margin of eye. Density of genal setae: moderately to highly dense, setae conspicuous. Color of genal setae: white to off-white. Sculpture of base of mandible in female: minutely reticulate. Color of A1 in female: light to dark brown throughout, or with apex and base slightly lighter, often yellowish. Color of A3 in female: brown. Sculpture of dorsal pronotal nucha in female: predominantly to completely sculptured. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: predominantly white to off-white. Sculpture along humeral margin of mesoscutum: well-defined throughout. Color of pilosity of mesonotum in female: predominantly light to dark brown. Transition from lateral to posterior margin of propodeum in dorsal view: forming distinct angle, corner of propodeum well defined. Shape of mesoscutum in lateral view: bulging in anterior third. Pilosity on metapleuron above hind coxa: glabrous or with few scattered setae. Form of fore wing submarginal vein in female: tubular throughout from base to costal margin. Fine pilosity of lateral T1 in female: absent. Width of metasoma: very wide, width of S3&gt; 2 times medial length. Distribution of pilosity on T2-T5 in female: more or less evenly distributed throughout. Sculpture of T3 in female: longitudinally striate throughout. Overall sculpture of S3: with dense, fine longitudinal carinae. Sculpture of medial S3 in female: with broadly obliterated or with distinct smooth patch.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Most similar to Scelio aphares, which shares the absence of genal carina, the absence of a bulging eye, the bushy pilosity of the gena (for presence see Fig. 78), and the absence of brown setae on the frons near the ventral portion of the eye (for presence see Fig. 95). Differing by sculpture of the mesoscutum, with a longitudinal trend and slightly larger cells (Fig. 63), and sculpture of the face finer, with a slight dorsoventral trend (Fig. 65, compare with reticulate pattern in Scelio aphares, Fig. 35).</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>Named in reference to the collector, R. Copeland.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244950</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: KENYA: Rift Valley Prov., Ol Pejeta Conservancy, 01°01.306'N, 36°54.818'E, 1779m, 12. III– 26.III.2006, malaise trap, R. Copeland, OSUC 234620 (deposited in NMKE). Paratypes: KENYA: 35 females, 12 males, OSUC 212847, 214017, 214023, 214025, 214027, 214029, 214031-214032, 214036-214037, 214041, 214045, 214062-214063, 214077-214078, 234605, 234608-234611, 234613, 234615, 234619, 234621, 234625-234626, 234629, 234640, 234683-234684, 234687, 234689, 250905-250906, 250909-250910, 250912, 250915, 250928, 250936, 250944 (CNCI); OSUC 59027, 59087, 59098, 59104 (OSUC); OSUC 244085 (USNM).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>Scelio copelandi is very similar to the polymorphic Scelio aphares, and the two may ultimately need to be synonymized. While the differences are very subtle, the consistently fine and somewhat dorsoventrally oriented sculpture of the frons is noticeably different from the more reticulate trending sculpture in Scelio aphares (Fig. 35). A slight pattern of obliteration posteromedially on T2, T3 and T4 is present in most individuals, and similar smooth patches are found laterally as well. The villus is somewhat characteristic (Fig. 64, vil), being narrower and slightly curved ventrally.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/048C8A0FE21F2F4DF0041F2C6537BD0C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
A954C07AA0CDC6CBDFD357A180B8C2E8.text	A954C07AA0CDC6CBDFD357A180B8C2E8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio dupondi Yoder	<div><p>Scelio dupondi Yoder sp. n. Figures 67-72; Morphbank 28</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.52-4.28 mm (n=24). Male body length: 3.36-3.52 mm (n=2). Shape of compound eye: not or only slightly bulging. Color pattern of pilosity below anterior ocellus in female: predominantly white throughout. Sculpture of frons in female: reticulate rugulose, sculpture finer, typically without dorsoventral trend. Genal carina in female: present. Width of gena in lateral view: weakly expanded, posterior margin parallel to posterior margin of eye. Density of genal setae: moderately to highly dense, setae conspicuous. Color of genal setae: white to off-white. Sculpture of base of mandible in female: minutely reticulate. Color of A1 in female: yellow throughout. Color of A3 in female: yellow basally, darkening to brown near apex. Sculpture of dorsal pronotal nucha in female: predominantly to completely sculptured. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: predominantly white to off-white. Sculpture along humeral margin of mesoscutum: well-defined throughout. Color of pilosity of mesonotum in female: predominantly light to dark brown. Transition from lateral to posterior margin of propodeum in dorsal view: forming distinct angle, corner of propodeum well defined. Shape of mesoscutum in lateral view: bulging in anterior third. Pilosity on metapleuron above hind coxa: glabrous or with few scattered setae. Form of fore wing submarginal vein in female: nebulous at or just before upcurve to marginal vein, not reaching margin as a tubular vein; tubular throughout from base to costal margin. Fine pilosity of lateral T1 in female: absent. Width of metasoma: moderately wide, width of S3 1.5-1.6 times medial length. Distribution of pilosity on T2-T5 in female: individual tergites glabrous anteriorly, densely setose posteriorly. Sculpture of T3 in female: longitudinally striate laterally with prominent reticulate to rugulose elements medially. Overall sculpture of S3: with dense, fine longitudinal carinae. Sculpture of medial S3 in female: present throughout.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Differs from all other Afrotropical ernstii-group species except Scelio janseni by the setal pattern of the lateral tergites (Figs 68, 80). Differing from Scelio janseni in size (smaller), sculpture of the frons (finer), width of metasoma (much narrower), type and density of sculpture on the metasoma (finer, more compact, longitudinal, with S3 sculptured more or less throughout), and development of the S3 felt field (very reduced and not or barely elevated).</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a genitive noun derived from the French name for the one of the Thompson twin detective characters in Tintin comics. The two were always being confused with one another. See also Scelio janseni .</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244958</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: SOUTH AFRICA: Limpopo Prov., 15km E Klaserie, Guernsey Farm, 19. XII– 31.XII.1985, malaise trap, H. Howden &amp; A. Howden, OSUC 212309 (deposited in CNCI). Paratypes: (24 females, 2 males) SOUTH AFRICA: 6 females, OSUC 211204-211205, 211256, 211263 (CNCI); OSUC 211260 (OSUC); OSUC 213369 (SANC). ZIMBABWE: 18 females, 2 males, OSUC 211241, 211247, 212110, 212142, 212151, 212405, 212567, 212647, 212841, 213008, 213051, 213053-213054, 213205, 213208, 213210, 213228, 213249 (CNCI); OSUC 211225, 213048 (OSUC).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>This species is very similar to the larger, more robust Scelio janseni . However, all available specimens are relatively easily separated, with no indication of morphological gradation among the two. The sculpture of the frons in general tends to be finer than that of Scelio janseni . The area of reticulate sculpture at the base of the mandible is very reduced and difficult to see, but it is present. T3 medially is strongly reticulate in most individuals. Two males have been associated: A5 is more or less cylindrical, and the following flagellomeres are subequal in size. While small in number, the males of Scelio dupondi and Scelio janseni may be divided by the color of the fore wing (completely hyaline in Scelio dupondi and infuscate brown throughout in Scelio janseni) and the form of the flagellum (more compact and wider in Scelio janseni). In males the A5 RSS is a fine, linear carina, and A5 is not distinctly broader at its apex. This contrasts with Scelio janseni in which A5 is shaped more like a chalice with the apex much wider than base.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A954C07AA0CDC6CBDFD357A180B8C2E8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
31B96E2E781A84D402E548A148B954D8.text	31B96E2E781A84D402E548A148B954D8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio exophthalmus Yoder	<div><p>Scelio exophthalmus Yoder sp. n. Figures 73-78; Morphbank 29</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.32-3.91 mm (n=9). Shape of compound eye: conspicuously bulging. Color pattern of pilosity below anterior ocellus in female: predominantly white throughout. Sculpture of frons in female: reticulate rugulose, sculp ture finer, typically without dorsoventral trend. Genal carina in female: absent. Width of gena in lateral view: strongly bulging, posterior margin diverging ventrally from posterior margin of eye. Density of genal setae: moderately to highly dense, setae conspicuous. Color of genal setae: white to off-white. Sculpture of base of mandible in female: minutely reticulate. Color of A1 in female: yellow throughout. Color of A3 in female: brown. Sculpture of dorsal pronotal nucha in female: predominantly to completely sculptured. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: predominantly white to off-white. Sculpture along humeral margin of mesoscutum: well-defined throughout. Color of pilosity of mesonotum in female: predominantly light to dark brown. Transition from lateral to posterior margin of propodeum in dorsal view: forming distinct angle, corner of propodeum well defined. Shape of mesoscutum in lateral view: bulging in anterior third. Pilosity on metapleuron above hind coxa: glabrous or with few scattered setae. Form of fore wing submarginal vein in female: tubular throughout from base to costal margin. Fine pilosity of lateral T1 in female: present. Width of metasoma: moderately wide, width of S3 1.5-1.6 times medial length. Distribution of pilosity on T2-T5 in female: more or less evenly distributed throughout. Sculpture of T3 in female: longitudinally striate laterally with prominent reticulate to rugulose elements medially. Overall sculpture of S3: with dense, fine longitudinal carinae. Sculpture of medial S3 in female: with broadly obliterated or with distinct smooth patch.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Differs from all similar species without a genal carina by the combination of the presence of very bushy pilosity on the gena, the bulging eye (Fig. 78) the reticulate sculpture of medial T3, and the sculptured pronotal nucha.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a Latinized adjective for the Greek word meaning bulging or protruding eyes.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244955</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: CAMEROON: Nkoemvom, VIII-1980, malaise trap, D. Jackson, OSUC 212123 (deposited in BMNH). Paratypes: (8 females) CAMEROON: 2 females, OSUC 212108, 212115 (CNCI). IVORY COAST: 2 females, OSUC 213234 (CNCI); OSUC 213064 (OSUC). NIGERIA: 4 females, OSUC 212805-212806, 213276 (CNCI); OSUC 213259 (OSUC).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>The submarginal carina of T2 is particularly well developed and flange-like anteriorly.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/31B96E2E781A84D402E548A148B954D8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
DFC33C40B2E6C5802B5E86A159B38E6E.text	DFC33C40B2E6C5802B5E86A159B38E6E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio janseni Yoder	<div><p>Scelio janseni Yoder sp. n. Figures 79-84; Morphbank 30</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 4.44-5.35 mm (n=12). Male body length: 4.20 mm (n=1). Shape of compound eye: not or only slightly bulging. Color pattern of pilosity below anterior ocellus in female: predominantly white throughout. Sculpture of frons in female: reticulate rugose, rugae somewhat thickened, without dorsoventral trend. Genal carina in female: absent. Width of gena in lateral view: weakly expanded, posterior margin parallel to posterior margin of eye. Density of genal setae: moderately to highly dense, setae conspicuous. Color of genal setae: white to off-white. Sculpture of base of mandible in female: minutely reticulate. Color of A1 in female: yellow throughout; light to dark brown throughout, or with apex and base slightly lighter, often yellowish. Color of A3 in female: brown; yellow basally, darkening to brown near apex. Sculpture of dorsal pronotal nucha in female: predominantly to completely sculptured. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: predominantly white to off-white. Sculpture along humeral margin of mesoscutum: well-defined throughout. Color of pilosity of mesonotum in female: predominantly light to dark brown. Transition from lateral to posterior margin of propodeum in dorsal view: forming distinct angle, corner of propodeum well defined. Shape of mesoscutum in lateral view: bulging in anterior third. Pilosity on metapleuron above hind coxa: glabrous or with few scattered setae. Form of fore wing submarginal vein in female: nebulous at or just before upcurve to marginal vein, not reaching margin as a tubular vein. Fine pilosity of lateral T1 in female: absent. Width of metasoma: very wide, width of S3 &amp; gt; 2 times medial length. Distribution of pilosity on T2-T5 in female: individual tergites glabrous anteriorly, densely setose posteriorly. Sculpture of T3 in female: longitudinally striate throughout; longitudinally striate laterally with prominent reticulate to rugulose elements medially. Overall sculpture of S3: with dense, fine longitudinal carinae. Sculpture of medial S3 in female: with broadly obliterated or with distinct smooth patch.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Differs from all other Afrotropical ernstii-group species except Scelio dupondi by the setal pattern of the lateral metasoma (Figs 68, 80). Differing from Scelio dupondi in its in larger size, wider metasoma, the coarser, more irregular and less compact sculpture on the metasomal sterna (often with some unsculptured patches on S3, Fig. 84), and the well-developed S3 felt field, which is elevated on a keel-like projection (Fig. 84).</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a genitive noun derived from the Dutch name for the one of the Thompson twin detective characters in Tintin comics. The two were always being confused with one another. See also Scelio dupondi .</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244959</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: SOUTH AFRICA: Limpopo Prov., nr. Den Staat Farm, by Limpopo River, Samaria Farm, 22°11.504'S, 29°16.812'E, 1750ft, 18. XII– 31.III.2000, flight intercept trap, T. K. Philips, OSUC 222129 (deposited in OSUC). Paratypes: (11 females, 1 male) CAMEROON: 1 female, OSUC 212121 (CNCI). KENYA: 1 female, 1 male, OSUC 234676, 250971 (CNCI). SOUTH AFRICA: 9 females, OSUC 212236-212238, 212455-212456, 212784, 213080 (CNCI); OSUC 222128, 222132 (OSUC).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>Scelio janseni is very similar to its smaller, putative sister species Scelio dupondi . A single male is known, its flagellum has a distinctly different form than Scelio dupondi, with A3-A5 distinctly broader towards the apex, and A5-A6 somewhat compact and shorter. The scape is often very slightly darker dorsomedially, A3 is more commonly brown more or less throughout, less commonly with yellow present in basal 1/3 to 1/2. The RSS is a fine linear carina that is slightly elevated apically. Sculpture of T3 varies from more or less longitudinal to more or less reticulate, the latter state is more common in the specimens observed. See also Comments for Scelio dupondi . In most individuals the sculpture of posteromedial T1 to anteromedial T3 is slightly obliterated in patches. The fine pilosity of lateral T1 common in many Afrotropical Scelio seems to be absent, though one or two of the most anterior setae are often slightly narrower and thinner than the more prominent thick setae seen throughout.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DFC33C40B2E6C5802B5E86A159B38E6E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
4DE8475663CB256C52F109ED78564B9F.text	4DE8475663CB256C52F109ED78564B9F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio mauritanicus Risbec	<div><p>Scelio mauritanicus Risbec Figures 85-90; Morphbank 31</p><p>Scelio mauritanicus Risbec, 1950: 587 (original description); Risbec 1954: 1038 (description, variation, suggested synonymy); Risbec 1957: 147 (variation); Nixon 1958: 311, 317 (keyed); Masner 1976: 18 (type information).</p><p>Scelio cahirensis Priesner, 1951: 144. (original description); Kononova and Kozlov 2008: 140, 156 (description, keyed). syn. n.</p><p>Scelio mauritanicus http://zoobank.org/458735E6-4A5B-447F-B719-386BB451163D</p><p>Scelio mauritanicus urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:5186</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.12-4.30 mm (n=24). Male body length: 2.57-4.50 mm (n=37). Shape of compound eye: not or only slightly bulging. Color pattern of pilosity below anterior ocellus in female: predominantly white throughout. Sculpture of frons in female: reticulate rugulose, sculpture finer, typically without dorsoventral trend. Genal carina in female: absent. Width of gena in lateral view: weakly expanded, posterior margin parallel to posterior margin of eye. Density of genal setae: moderately to highly dense, setae conspicuous. Color of genal setae: white to off-white. Sculpture of base of mandible in female: smooth. Color of A1 in female: yellow to light brown at base, darkening near mid point to light to dark brown. Color of A3 in female: brown. Sculpture of dorsal pronotal nucha in female: predominantly to completely smooth. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: predominantly white to off-white. Sculpture along humeral margin of mesoscutum: well-defined throughout. Color of pilosity of mesonotum in female: predominantly light to dark brown. Transition from lateral to posterior margin of propodeum in dorsal view: forming distinct angle, corner of propodeum well defined. Shape of mesoscutum in lateral view: more or less flat. Pilosity on metapleuron above hind coxa: glabrous or with few scattered setae. Form of fore wing submarginal vein in female: tubular throughout from base to costal margin. Fine pilosity of lateral T1 in female: present. Width of metasoma: very wide, width of S3&gt; 2 times medial length. Distribution of pilosity on T2-T5 in female: more or less evenly distributed throughout. Sculpture of T3 in female: longitudinally striate laterally with prominent reticulate to rugulose elements medially. Overall sculpture of S3: with dense, fine longitudinal carinae. Sculpture of medial S3 in female: present throughout.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Similar to other Afrotropical ernstii-group species with the genal carina absent. Distinguishable by the completely smooth pronotal nucha (Fig. 87, pn). The combination of the very flat mesoscutum, color transition from yellow to brown on the scape, and rugulose sculpture of medial T3 may be further used to aid in the diagnosis of many individuals.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=5272</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Lectotype, Scelio mauritanicus, female (present designation): MAURITANIA: Trarza Rég ., millet stalk, Rkîz, 24.VI.1946, [RKIZ, 'tige de mil’, 24.6.1946, boîte 10], OSUC 250704 (deposited in MNHN). Holotype, Scelio cahirensis: EGYPT: Pyramids, 15.10.33, Dr. H. Priesner, type No. 70877 (deposited in USNM). Paralectotype, Scelio mauritanicus: SENEGAL: 1 male, OSUC 254716 (MNHN). Paratypes, Scelio cahirensis: EGYPT: 2 females, OSUC 244152, 244153 (USNM). Other material: (36 females, 26 males, 9 unknowns) BENIN: 1 female, 1 unknown, BMNH(E)#790391 (BMNH); OSUC 211374 (CNCI). BURKINAFASO: 1 female, OSUC 213087 (CNCI). BURUNDI: 1 female, OSUC 182053 (RMCA). CAMEROON: 1 female, OSUC 212126 (CNCI). EGYPT: 2 females, OSUC 244152-244153 (USNM). ERITREA: 3 unknowns, BMNH(E)#790390, 790419-790420 (BMNH). IVORYCOAST: 7 females, OSUC 212925, 213017, 213221, 213223, 213232, 213237 (CNCI); OSUC 213071 (OSUC). KENYA: 2 females, OSUC 234665-234666 (CNCI). MALI: 1 unknown, BMNH(E)#790392 (BMNH). NIGERIA: 9 females, 18 males, OSUC 211665-211666, 211888, 212172, 212177, 212179, 212184, 212188, 212194, 212685, 212691-212692, 212706, 212716, 212737, 212813, 213030-213031, 213033, 213143, 213146, 213154, 250970, 250995, 251013 (CNCI); OSUC 212696, 212738 (OSUC). RWANDA: 1 female, OSUC 182052 (RMCA). SENEGAL: 1 male, OSUC 254724 (MNHN). SUDAN: 1 female, OSUC 244077 (USNM). TANZANIA: 3 unknowns, BMNH(E)#790388, 790417-790418 (BMNH). UNITEDARABEMIRATES: 3 females, 1 unknown, BMNH(E)#790389 (BMNH); OSUC 214076 (CNCI); OSUC 214057, 214060 (OSUC). YEMEN: 7 females, 7 males, OSUC 212476, 250681, 251008, 251065, 254669-254670, 254681, 254688, 254695-254696, 254775, 254784, 254786, 254788 (CNCI).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>The lectotype of Scelio mauritanicus (OSUC 250704) was identified by unique label data "Mauritanie, Rkiz., 24-6-1946". It, and the type material of Scelio cahirensis match well, both being smaller individuals within the presently circumscribed size range (see below). The available material falls into a gradation between three general morphotypes. Given this variation we do not feel it prudent to subdivide Scelio mauritanicus into two or three separate species. All three morphotypes share several core characters, these first noted by Nixon (1958): the absence of sculpture on the pronotal nucha is constant and obvious (Fig. 87, pn); the mesonotum is relatively flat; the fore wing does not or just reaches T6; and sculpture medial to the lateral ocelli is usually obliterated or smoothed. Several additional characters link a majority of specimens: in females and larger males the fore wing has a golden infuscation more or less throughout; the eye is slightly quadrate in lateral view; the medial sculpture of T3 is variable, though it is usually at least slightly developed; and the base of the mandible is smooth in most individuals (contrasting with the fine reticulate sculpture seen in most Afrotropical ernstii-group species). The larger morphotype (Figs 85-90), predominantly from Nigeria and the Ivory Coast, has the scape with the basal 1/4 yellow, the remainder light brown (females and males). It also has a somewhat more wedge-shaped head, though this appears to vary with size. Smaller individuals, predominantly from Yemen and the UAE, have a slightly more rounded head, are lighter colored in general, and have slightly less infuscation in the wings. Large and small morphs are linked through moderately sized individuals known from Nigeria, Cameroon, and Burkina Faso. Specimens from Kenya and Sudan (OSUC 234665, 234666, and 244077) are moderately sized and differ primarily in the color of the scape and femora, which are yellow with at most only extremely slight infuscation. We anticipate that Scelio mauritanicus and Scelio cahirensis will remain in synonymy regardless of whether the species is split, both being exemplars of the smaller size range.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4DE8475663CB256C52F109ED78564B9F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
8C6520AFA2AA9B623E48521721D1D70B.text	8C6520AFA2AA9B623E48521721D1D70B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio phaeoprora Yoder	<div><p>Scelio phaeoprora Yoder sp. n. Figures 91-96; Morphbank 32</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.80 mm (n=1). Shape of compound eye: not or only slightly bulging. Color pattern of pilosity below anterior ocellus in female: bi colored, with brown setae reaching to near ventral margin of eye. Sculpture of frons in female: reticulate rugulose, rugae finer, with slight dorsoventral trend. Genal carina in female: absent. Width of gena in lateral view: strongly bulging, posterior margin diverging ventrally from posterior margin of eye. Density of genal setae: moderately to highly dense, setae conspicuous. Color of genal setae: white to off-white. Sculpture of base of mandible in female: minutely reticulate. Color of A1 in female: yellow throughout. Color of A3 in female: yellow. Sculpture of dorsal pronotal nucha in female: predominantly to completely sculptured. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoul der in female: predominantly white to off-white. Sculpture along humeral margin of mesoscutum: well-defined throughout. Color of pilosity of mesonotum in female: predominantly light to dark brown. Transition from lateral to posterior margin of propodeum in dorsal view: forming distinct angle, corner of propodeum well defined. Shape of mesoscutum in lateral view: bulging in anterior third. Pilosity on metapleuron above hind coxa: glabrous or with few scattered setae. Form of fore wing submarginal vein in female: tubular throughout from base to costal margin. Fine pilosity of lateral T1 in female: present. Width of metasoma: moderately wide, width of S3 1.5-1.6 times medial length. Distribution of pilosity on T2-T5 in female: more or less evenly distributed throughout. Sculpture of T3 in female: longitudinally striate throughout. Overall sculpture of S3: with dense, fine longitudinal carinae. Sculpture of medial S3 in female: with broadly obliterated or with distinct smooth patch.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Similar to Afrotropical ernstii-group species without the genal carina. Differing from all these species by the unique color pattern of the setae of the frons, with brown pilosity reaching near to the base of the eye (Fig. 95).</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>From the Greek “phaeo” for brown and “prora” - prow/bow, in reference to the front or face of the insect; The epithet is used as a noun in apposition.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244953</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: IVORY COAST: Ivory Coast, rice field, Bouaké, III-1980, P. Cochereau, OSUC 213076 (deposited in CNCI).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>Scelio phaeoprora is most similar to Scelio exophthalmus in general habitus and sculpture. The pilosity of the gena is slightly bushier in Scelio phaeoprora, but not to the degree observed in Scelio exophthalmus, and the eye is not distinctly bulging. All specimens of Scelio exophthalmus have A3 onwards light brown to brown, A3 is bright yellow in Scelio phaeoprora . While there are frequently a row or a few scattered brown setae below the anterior ocellus on the frons, the continuation of brown setae to the extent observed in Scelio phaeoprora (Fig. 95) is extremely rare for all Afrotropical Scelio . The metasoma of Scelio phaeoprora is quite narrow, and T2 appears to be slightly shorter and more elongate than in individuals of Scelio exophthalmus . The frons of Scelio phaeoprora is somewhat narrowed throughout.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8C6520AFA2AA9B623E48521721D1D70B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
884A2611CFFE098DE8B97586D814E42D.text	884A2611CFFE098DE8B97586D814E42D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio taylori Nixon	<div><p>Scelio taylori Nixon Figures 8, 97-114; Morphbank 33</p><p>Scelio taylori Nixon, 1958: 313 (original description, keyed); Masner 1965: 95 (type information).</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.16-4.73 mm (n=42). Male body length: 3.20-5.10 mm (n=37). Shape of compound eye: not or only slightly bulging. Color pattern of pilosity below anterior ocellus in female: brown throughout. Sculpture of frons in female: reticulate rugose, rugae somewhat thickened, without dorsoventral trend. Genal carina in female: present. Width of gena in lateral view: weakly expanded, posterior margin parallel to posterior margin of eye. Density of genal setae: sparse, setae generally inconspicuous. Color of genal setae: white to off-white; distinctly brown. Sculpture of base of mandible in female: minutely reticulate. Color of A1 in female: yellow throughout; light to dark brown throughout, or with apex and base slightly lighter, often yellowish. Color of A3 in female: brown. Sculpture of dorsal pronotal nucha in female: predominantly to completely sculptured. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: predominantly white to off-white; predominantly light brown to brown. Sculpture along humeral margin of mesoscutum: well-defined throughout. Color of pilosity of mesonotum in female: predominantly light to dark brown. Transition from lateral to posterior margin of propodeum in dorsal view: forming distinct angle, corner of propodeum well defined. Shape of mesoscutum in lateral view: bulging in anterior third. Pilosity on metapleuron above hind coxa: glabrous or with few scattered setae. Form of fore wing submarginal vein in female: nebulous at or just before upcurve to marginal vein, not reaching margin as a tubular vein; tubular throughout from base to costal margin. Fine pilosity of lateral T1 in female: absent. Width of metasoma: moderately wide, width of S3 1.5-1.6 times medial length. Distribution of pilosity on T2-T5 in female: more or less evenly distributed throughout. Sculpture of T3 in female: longitudinally striate throughout. Overall sculpture of S3: with dense, fine longitudinal carinae. Sculpture of medial S3 in female: present throughout; with broadly obliterated or with distinct smooth patch.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Most similar to Scelio albatus which also has the genal carina well developed. Easily distinguished from Scelio albatus by the color of the pilosity (completely white in Scelio albatus), robustness of sculpture (finer, more compact in Scelio albatus) and, for most individuals, the color of the scape (dark brown in Scelio albatus, yellow to light brown in nearly all Scelio taylori).</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=5342</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: UGANDA: Toro, IV-1941, T. H. C. Taylor, B.M. TYPE HYM. 9.538 (deposited in BMNH). Paratype: UGANDA: 1 female, BMNH(E)#790423 (BMNH). Other material: (58 females, 39 males) BENIN: 3 females, 4 males, OSUC 211370, 212290, 491191 (CNCI); OSUC 142656, 142658, 142664, 142666 (OSUC). CAMEROON: 8 females, OSUC 211220-211221, 211399, 212114, 212125, 212259, 212261, 212898 (CNCI). CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: 3 females, 5 males, OSUC 213971 (OSUC); OSUC 176092, 212400, 213533, 213925, 214187, 214197 (SAMC); OSUC 250667 (SANC). GABON: 1 female, OSUC 213128 (CNCI). GHANA: 1 female, OSUC 213563 (OSUC). IVORY COAST: 4 females, OSUC 211274, 213060, 213078, 213227 (CNCI). KENYA: 16 females, 22 males, OSUC 212506, 214083, 214088-214090, 214096, 214098-214100, 214117, 214119, 214121, 214123, 214125, 214127-214131, 214133, 214180, 234635, 234649, 234651-234652, 234654-234656, 234658-234659, 234692-234694, 234697-234698, 250821 (CNCI); OSUC 244089, 244093 (USNM). MA LAWI: 3 females, OSUC 212744, 212799, 213138 (CNCI). NIGERIA: 12 females, 4 males, OSUC 202815, 202817 (AEIC); OSUC 211379, 211682, 212175, 212629-212630, 212694, 212700, 212801, 212803, 213025, 213140, 213142, 213180, 213279 (CNCI). SIERRA LEONE: 1 female, 1 male, OSUC 244058, 244061 (MZLU). TANZANIA: 1 female, OSUC 212513 (CNCI). UGANDA: 1 female, 2 males, OSUC 212931, 213021 (CNCI); OSUC 244070 (USNM). ZIMBABWE: 4 females, 1 male, OSUC 212201, 212209, 212212, 212827, 212923 (CNCI).</p><p>Comments .</p><p>As delimited here Scelio taylori is a widespread and somewhat polymorphic species. At times we considered the material to represent upwards of four species. However, as limits among those concepts blurred, we have elected to take a conservative approach to delimiting this taxon. When comparing opposite extremes (e.g., OSUC 212801 in Figs 97-102 and OSUC 213533 in Figs 109-114) there appears to be clearly differentiable species. However, intermediate series (such as OSUC 213180 IN Figs 103-108) are problematic. The concept of Scelio taylori broadly encompasses three core groups: 1) a larger series (to which the type belongs) of slightly smaller individuals, relatively easily diagnosed by the white setae of the gena (Figs 97-102); 2) a series of specimens similar to 1), but darker overall, with the pilosity of the head, pronotal shoulder and lateral T2 brown (Figs 103-108); and 3) four larger, darker (pilosity, body color, wing infuscation) specimens (Figs 109-114). A small series of intermediates blurs the line between 1 and 2, and contains several singletons that may represent additional morphotypes. The three groups are largely geographically separated, series 1 is widespread across central Africa (but absent in South Africa), series 2 is found in eastern Africa (Kenya, Uganda, and possibly Tanzania), and series 3 is from Central African Republic (with one similar specimen from Cameroon). The intermediate specimens are known from Malawi, Nigeria, Ghana, and Ivory Coast.</p><p>The pilosity of T1 laterally is relatively reduced, with 4-6 setae typically present along the ventral margin. This is the only species of Afrotropical ernstii-group to exhibit truly brown setae on lateral T2, the gena, and throughout the frons (this mostly restricted to individuals of series 2).</p><p>Preliminary concepts were based on the following characters: scape color (yellow, light-brown, brown), color of pilosity of the gena (white, light brown to brow), apparent size (small to moderate, large), sculpture of the mesoscutum (moderately sized polygonal cells, large polygonal cells), infuscation of the wing (infuscation reduced to absent around submarginal, marginal, and stigmal veins and elsewhere, infuscation present more or less throughout), form of the submarginal vein near junction with marginal vein (obliterated and nebulous, tubular throughout), form of the stigmal vein (more or less obliterated, well developed tubular and sometimes slightly concave). We now interpret these states as representing a continuum of morphological variation.</p><p>While the combination of yellow scape and white pilosity holds for all specimens of group 1, and most specimens of group 2 have light brown scape and brown pilosity on the gena, there are also specimens (intermediates) with brown pilosity on the gena and a yellow scape. Of the two females in group 3 one has a dark brown scape (as does the specimen from Cameroon) and one has a bright yellow scape. The first series, the smallest individuals, all appear to have slightly larger cells on the mesoscutum (compare Figs 99 and 111). Most individuals of the second series have a similar pattern of obliteration of sculpture on the medial metasomal sternites, though this is approached in some of the first series. Individuals of the second series also have the infuscation around the submarginal and stigmal veins reduced, the submarginal vein is nebulous near the marginal vein, and the stigmal vein more or less absent, however these states are also seen in some individuals of the first series. Series three individuals have the wing strongly infuscate throughout and a strongly developed stigma and marginal vein (that has a slight hook), but these states are also observed in some of the “intermediate” specimens. Two specimens from Nigeria (intermediates) have a very slight longitudinal trend to the sculpture of the mesoscutum. Larger specimens tend to have the metasomal 3-5 sculptured throughout medially, while most individuals of the series two, and some of series one have a pattern of obliteration posteromedially on each tergite (particularly noticeable on S3, S4).</p><p>All determinations of males are tentative, most have a reduced but identifiable genal carina.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/884A2611CFFE098DE8B97586D814E42D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
AF492029E866FDBECFCFF451F712DE29.text	AF492029E866FDBECFCFF451F712DE29.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio fremo Valerio & Yoder	<div><p>Scelio fremo Valerio &amp; Yoder sp. n. Figures 115-120; Morphbank 34</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 5.60 mm (n=1). Color of pilosity of dorsal head in female: golden to brown. Occipital carina in female: percurrent. Color of pilosity of the frons below the anterior ocellus in female: predominantly white. Pilosity of eye in female: absent. Medial keel on interantennal process: absent. Width of lower gena in lateral view: wide, posterior margin of lower half of gena parallel to posterior orbit. Genal carina: absent. Color of genal pilosity: white. Color of scape in female: yellow throughout. Surface of the pronotal nucha in female: predominantly sculptured. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: white to light brown, lighter than that of mesoscutum; golden to dark brown, concolorous with that of mesoscutum. Sculpture of medial mesoscutum in female: predominantly angular reticulate to rugulose. Color of pilosity of mesoscutum in female: predominantly light brown to brown. Notaulus in female: not delimited. Form of axillular carina in female: small, not particularly expanded or projected from the lateral edge of the mesoscutellum. Pilosity of propodeal nucha: absent. Pilosity of netrion: absent. Surface of mesopleural depression in female: sculptured throughout. Form of ventral margin of villus in female: straight. Color of coxae in female: brown. Color of hind femur: light brown throughout. Color of hind tibia: yellow throughout. Fore wing length in female: apex not reaching anterior margin of T5. Color of metasoma: light reddish brown. Sculpture of laterotergites in female: predominantly smooth. Pilosity of laterotergites in female: absent. Sculpture of medial T1 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Sculpture of medial T2 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Pattern of sculpture on T3-T5 in female: T 3 predominantly reticulate, T4-T5 predominantly longitudinally striate to strigose. Color of pilosity on lateral T3-T5 in female: more or less evenly split between white and brown. Lateral profile of T6 in female: more or less horizontal. Sculpture of T6 in female: predominantly longitudinally striate to strigose. Sculpture of lateral metasomal sternal bar in female: predominantly smooth to slightly irregularly rugose. Distribution of felt fields: 2 pairs present (S2, S3).</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Similar to Scelio balo which also has a long metasoma and fore wings not reaching T5. Differing from Scelio balo by the straight ventral margin of the villus (com pare Figs 118 and 160) and the white pilosity of the face (Fig. 119, compared with extent of brown pilosity in Fig. 161).</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>Derived from the Latin for roar, howl, grumble; the epithet is considered as a noun in apposition.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244969</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: GABON: Estuaire Prov., Citrus orchard, Ntoum, VII-1984, malaise trap, A. Pauly, OSUC 212795 (deposited in CNCI).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>The amount of pilosity on the anterior meso- and metapleuron (Fig. 118) is more than that seen in other Afrotropical howardi-group species. The mix of light and dark pilosity on the lateral portions T2 and T3 is also notable. Scelio fremo is only superficially similar to Scelio balo . Scelio balo appears to be more closely related to those species with brown pilosity on the pronotal shoulder than with Scelio fremo shares the color pattern more typically seen in Scelio howardi and its putative relatives.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AF492029E866FDBECFCFF451F712DE29	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
358E3C43E26EFBBB5F91D4F8279A8F89.text	358E3C43E26EFBBB5F91D4F8279A8F89.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio howardi Crawford	<div><p>Scelio howardi Crawford Figures 13, 121-126; Morphbank 35</p><p>Scelio howardi Scelio Howardi Crawford, 1910: 222 (original description).</p><p>Scelio howardi Scelio (Scelio) Howardi Crawford: Kieffer 1910: 74 (subgeneric assignment).</p><p>Scelio howardi Crawford: Kieffer 1926: 310, 323 (description, keyed); Ferrière 1952: 117 (diagnosis); Nixon 1958: 314, 316 (keyed, synonymy); Masner and Muesebeck 1968: 44 (type information).</p><p>Scelio aburiensis Kieffer, 1913: 109 (original description); Kieffer 1926: 310, 322 (description, keyed); Nixon 1958: 314 (junior synonym of Scelio howardi Crawford); Bin 1974: 464 (type information).</p><p>Scelio howardi http://zoobank.org/F07CF0F8-8355-445E-A383-2D7BF288B8BE</p><p>Scelio howardi urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:9727</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.17-5.36 mm (n=29). Male body length: 2.86-5.13 mm (n=27). Color of pilosity of dorsal head in female: golden to brown. Occipital carina in female: percurrent. Color of pilosity of the frons below the anterior ocellus in female: predominantly white. Pilosity of eye in female: present. Medial keel on interantennal process: absent. Width of lower gena in lateral view: wide, posterior margin of lower half of gena parallel to posterior orbit. Genal carina: absent. Color of genal pilosity: white. Color of scape in female: yellow in basal half, darkening to light brown in apical half. Surface of the pronotal nucha in female: predominantly sculptured. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: white to light brown, lighter than that of mesoscutum. Sculpture of medial mesoscutum in female: predominantly angular reticulate to rugulose. Color of pilosity of mesoscutum in female: predomi nantly yellow to golden. Notaulus in female: not delimited; indicated by a row of cells. Form of axillular carina in female: small, not particularly expanded or projected from the lateral edge of the mesoscutellum. Pilosity of propodeal nucha: absent. Pilosity of netrion: absent. Surface of mesopleural depression in female: sculptured throughout. Form of ventral margin of villus in female: bent ventrally in posterior, obviously not straight throughout. Color of coxae in female: brown. Color of hind femur: dark brown with white base. Color of hind tibia: yellow throughout. Fore wing length in female: apex between anterior margin of T5 and posterior margin of T6. Color of metasoma: entirely black. Sculpture of laterotergites in female: predominantly smooth. Pilosity of laterotergites in female: absent. Sculpture of medial T1 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Sculpture of medial T2 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Pattern of sculpture on T3-T5 in female: T3 predominantly reticulate, T4-T5 predominantly longitudinally striate to strigose. Color of pilosity on lateral T3-T5 in female: predominantly white. Lateral profile of T6 in female: more or less horizontal. Sculpture of T6 in female: predominantly rugulose to reticulate. Sculpture of lateral metasomal sternal bar in female: predominantly smooth to slightly irregularly rugose. Distribution of felt fields: 2 pairs present (S2, S3).</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Scelio howardi largely may be distinguished from Scelio zolotarevskyi by its darkened femur, golden to brown setation, and the darkened apex of the antennal scape.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=5251</p><p>Associations.</p><p>Emerged from egg of Eyprepocnemis plorans plorans (Charpentier) [ Orthoptera: Acrididae (as Euprepocnemis senegalensis Bolívar)]; living in Indigofera brachystachya (DC.) [Fabales: Fabaceae]; emerged from diapausing eggs of Kraussaria angulifera (Krauss) [ Orthoptera: Acrididae]; emerged from egg of Kraussaria angulifera (Krauss) [ Orthoptera: Acrididae]; emerged from egg of Nomadacris septemfasciata (Serville) [ Orthoptera: Acrididae]; solitary egg parasitoid of Nomadacris septemfasciata (Serville) [ Orthoptera: Acrididae].</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Paratypes: MOZAMBIQUE: 4 females, OSUC 244133-244135, 244137, 244140 (USNM). Other material: (590 females, 418 males, 13 unknowns) ANGOLA: 1 unknown, BMNH(E)#790376 (BMNH). BENIN: 3 females, 19 males, OSUC 211366, 211375, 211787, 212852 (CNCI); OSUC 142649-142655, 142657, 142659-142663, 142665, 142667-142668, 142670-142671 (OSUC). BOTSWANA: 62 females, 5 males, OSUC 202821 (AEIC); OSUC 213194 (CNCI); OSUC 164151, 164176, 164205, 166323, 166342-166344, 166347-166349, 166352, 166357, 166359-166360, 166364-166365, 166368-166369, 166371, 166376, 166379-166380, 211625, 212062-212063, 212079, 212088, 212090, 212092, 212094 (OSUC); OSUC 171117-171118, 171121-171123, 171128-171137, 171141, 171149, 171158-171159, 171338, 171340-171341, 171343, 171346, 171349-171351, 171354, 171356-171358, 171369, 171371, 207554, 207558 (USNM). BURKINA FASO: 1 male, OSUC 214094 (CNCI). CAMEROON: 7 females, OSUC 211216, 211219, 211322, 212117, 212120, 212122, 212127 (CNCI). CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: 71 females, 116 males, OSUC 212527-212528 (CNCI); OSUC 213969-213970, 213972-213976, 213978, 41792 (OSUC); OSUC 180934, 211400, 211662-211663, 211669, 211676, 211681, 211686-211687, 211826-211830, 211834-211836, 211838, 211840-211844, 211846-211848, 211850-211856, 212396-212398, 213200, 213313-213314, 213316, 213513-213517, 213520-213532, 213570-213573, 213603-213608, 213637, 213639-213640, 213642-213653, 213667-213671, 213909-213915, 213917-213919, 213921-213924, 213926-213927, 213934-213943, 213958-213964, 214190-214193, 214195-214196, 214198, 214200, 214216 -214217, 214221-214228, 244018-244024, 244027-244033, 254634-254635, 254638-254646, 254649-254650, 254652-254657, 254659, 254713-254715 (SAMC). GABON: 12 females, 3 males, OSUC 212787, 212789-212791, 212793-212794, 213124, 213126-213127, 213157, 213161, 213165-213168 (CNCI). GHANA: 3 females, OSUC 213549, 213553, 213569 (OSUC). GUINEA: 1 female, OSUC 213135 (CNCI). ISRAEL: 2 females, OSUC 218883-218884 (INHS). IVORY COAST: 19 females, 8 males, OSUC 211357-211359, 212849, 212853, 212855, 212861, 213095, 213097, 213171-213174 (CNCI); OSUC 142581, 142589, 143121, 234735-234736, 59110-59111, 59118-59119, 59121, 59125, 59131, 59137, 64711 (OSUC). KENYA: 69 females, 20 males, OSUC 211351, 212342, 212361, 212509, 212637, 212729, 212949, 212952, 214030, 214033-214034, 214043, 214048, 214080-214082, 214109-214110, 214120, 214124, 214132, 214134, 214178-214179, 234604, 234606, 234614, 234630, 234632, 234639, 234641, 234645, 234647, 234663, 234677, 234679-234682, 234688, 234690-234691, 234695, 234702, 250820, 250822, 250926-250927, 250930, 254706 (CNCI); OSUC 142675, 58958-58959, 59023, 59025, 59030, 59034, 59039-59040, 59043-59044, 59050, 59053-59055, 59057-59059, 59061, 59063, 59066, 59071, 59080, 59084-59085, 59091, 59093, 59095, 59097, 59102, 59105, 70693-70695, 70700, 70702-70704, 70706 (OSUC). MALAWI: 6 females, 2 males, 1 unknown, BMNH(E)#790421 (BMNH); OSUC 212380-212382, 212454, 212465, 212778, 213137, 213197 (CNCI). MALI: 3 unknowns, BMNH(E)#790366, 790369, 790422 (BMNH). MOZAMBIQUE: 4 females, OSUC 212370, 212734-212735, 213104 (CNCI). NAMIBIA: 1 female, 1 male, CASENT 2042536 (CASC); OSUC 213345 (SANC). NIGERIA: 53 females, 142 males, OSUC 202818 (AEIC); BMNH(E)#790370 (BMNH); OSUC 211376, 211378, 211381, 211670, 211674-211675, 211677, 211690, 211887, 212159-212162, 212164-212165, 212167-212169, 212171, 212173-212174, 212176, 212180-212181, 212183, 212185-212187, 212189-212193, 212195, 212609-212611, 212615-212617, 212622, 212624, 212627, 212633-212636, 212684, 212686-212687, 212693, 212697-212699, 212701-212705, 212707-212712, 212714, 212717-212728, 212733, 212740, 212804, 212808-212809, 212811, 213026-213029, 213032, 213035-213038, 213123, 213145, 213148-213150, 213152, 213155, 213175, 213179, 213181, 213183, 213186, 213190, 213192-213193, 213256-213257, 213260-213262, 213264, 213268, 213270-213271, 213277-213278, 213280, 250711, 250719, 250724-250725, 250727, 250732, 250734, 250765, 250768-250769, 250771-250772, 250774-250777, 250780, 250782-250786, 250788-250789, 250791, 250794, 250796-250811, 250818, 250950, 250991, 250993, 250997, 251000, 251009-251012, 251014, 251016-251030 (CNCI); OSUC 142618, 244204-244205, 59133, 59136 (OSUC). SIERRA LEONE: 1 female, 9 males, OSUC 202823 (AEIC); OSUC 244046, 244048, 244055-244057, 244066-244069 (MZLU). SOUTH AFRICA: 169 females, 72 males, 5 unknowns, OSUC 202812, 202819, 202827-202828, 202830-202831 (AEIC); BMNH(E)#790371-790375 (BMNH); OSUC 211207, 211209-211210, 211258, 211261 -211262, 211276-211277, 211281, 211283-211284, 211288-211290, 211296, 211299-211303, 211305-211306, 211308-211310, 211312, 211314, 211316-211319, 211323, 211331, 211338, 211383-211385, 211387-211389, 211394, 211923, 211932, 211935, 212109, 212204-212205, 212222, 212235, 212246, 212248, 212269-212274, 212282, 212295, 212299-212300, 212306, 212310-212313, 212323, 212327-212328, 212353, 212356, 212363, 212369, 212384, 212386, 212420, 212423-212425, 212434, 212441-212446, 212463, 212516, 212553, 212558, 212563-212565, 212602-212605, 212650-212651, 212653-212655, 212658-212659, 212674, 212683, 212747, 212753, 212755, 212757, 212760-212761, 212763-212764, 212767, 212771, 212775, 212777, 212779, 212819, 212871, 212874, 212882, 212887, 212892-212894, 212954-212964, 213004, 213079, 213108, 213110-213112, 213118, 213130-213132, 213134, 213253, 234673, 250687, 250696 (CNCI); OSUC 214229 (FMNH); OSUC 244060, 254547 (MZLU); OSUC 142594, 142602, 143288, 176243, 211678, 222130, 222134, 222302, 234724, 234726-234727, 234734, 250975, 250977, 250979 (OSUC); OSUC 211688, 211858-211861, 212800, 213537, 213655, 213673, 213682, 213932, 214203, 214220, 214230-214231, 214245-214247, 234714, 250714, 254712 (SAMC); OSUC 213318-213319, 213322, 213324, 213335-213336, 213359, 213366, 213368, 213372, 213376-213377, 213388-213389, 213400-213401, 213404, 213412-213414, 213418, 213420, 213426, 213431-213432, 213440, 213449, 213451, 213454-213455, 213462, 213464, 213466-213467, 213469, 213474, 213493, 213495, 213497, 213499, 214384, 214386-214387 (SANC). SWAZILAND: 1 male, OSUC 244062 (MZLU). TANZANIA: 11 females, 4 males, OSUC 212890, 212971, 212975, 212977, 250767, 250954-250957, 250960-250961, 250965, 254629-254630, 254632 (CNCI). UGANDA: 1 female, OSUC 250752 (SAMC). YEMEN: 4 females, 3 males, OSUC 250938, 251034, 251037, 251046, 251049, 251062, 251066 (CNCI). ZAMBIA: 1 unknown, BMNH(E)#790377 (BMNH). ZIMBABWE: 91 females, 12 males, 2 unknowns, OSUC 202820 (AEIC); BMNH(E)#790367-790368 (BMNH); OSUC 211226, 211228, 211232, 211239-211240, 211242-211244, 211246, 211250-211251, 211255, 211346, 211350, 212106-212107, 212134, 212136, 212138, 212141, 212146-212149, 212158, 212207, 212211, 212215, 212218, 212231, 212233, 212239, 212401, 212404, 212406-212408, 212410-212412, 212415, 212568-212569, 212572, 212574, 212582-212584, 212588, 212590-212591, 212593-212594, 212596, 212598-212599, 212639, 212641, 212814-212815, 212825, 212829, 212896-212897, 212905, 212908, 212910-212911, 213001-213002, 213010, 213012, 213041, 213047, 213049-213050, 213052, 213057, 213202, 213204, 213206-213207, 213209, 213211-213213, 213215-213216, 213218, 213244-213248, 213250 (CNCI); OSUC 199567 (FSCA); OSUC 57106, 57110, 57112-57114 (OSUC); OSUC 244074 (USNM).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>The type series of Scelio howardi contains two species with 4 and 3 specimens respectively of Scelio howardi and Scelio zolotarevskyi . Crawford (1910) noted that the leg color is intraspecifically variable. While some slight variation does exist, he did note a relatively useful character in the separation of Scelio howardi and Scelio zolotarevskyi . The latter very rarely has darker brown infuscations on the femora, while the former nearly always does.</p><p>Scelio howardi is one of, if not the most commonly collected and widespread species of continental Africa. As circumscribed here it is variable in general size, shape of the head, sculpture, and to a lesser degree color. The sculpture of the frons is highly variable, though it tends to be relatively weakly developed, with broken reticulations common, and usually without robust reticulations meeting the malar sulcus (cf. Scelio destico). In a large majority of individuals the base of the scape is yellow; in some cases it is slightly darker to light brown though even then the apex is darker still. The pilosity of the lateral portions T2 is always quite dense and prominent in Scelio howardi .</p><p>Males usually have a very small smooth patch along the ventral margin of the metapleural depression. Males are particularly similar to those of Scelio igland . The two may be distinguished by subtle differences in the form of the villus (more strongly bent medially in Scelio igland) and the white and somewhat dense pilosity of the lateral tergites (vs. sparse and golden or brown and sparse in Scelio igland).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/358E3C43E26EFBBB5F91D4F8279A8F89	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
986B5903587FB99D69A98E1D2012C97B.text	986B5903587FB99D69A98E1D2012C97B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio igland Yoder	<div><p>Scelio igland Yoder sp. n. Figures 16, 127-132; Morphbank 36</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.20-4.74 mm (n=26). Male body length: 3.10-4.28 mm (n=22). Color of pilosity of dorsal head in female: white. Occipital carina in female: percurrent. Color of pilosity of the frons below the anterior ocellus in female: predominantly white. Pilosity of eye in female: present. Medial keel on interantennal process: absent. Width of lower gena in lateral view: wide, posterior margin of lower half of gena parallel to posterior orbit. Genal carina: absent. Color of genal pilosity: white. Color of scape in female: brown to dark brown throughout. Surface of the pronotal nucha in female: predominantly sculptured. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: white to light brown, lighter than that of mesoscutum. Sculpture of medial mesoscutum in female: predominantly angular reticulate to rugulose. Color of pilosity of mesoscutum in female: predominantly white to off-white. Notaulus in female: not delimited; indicated by a row of cells. Notaulus in male: not delimited; delimited by row of cells. Form of axillular carina in female: small, not particularly expanded or projected from the lateral edge of the mesoscutellum. Pilosity of propodeal nucha: absent. Pilosity of netrion: absent. Surface of mesopleural depression in female: sculptured throughout. Form of ventral margin of villus in female: bent ventrally in posterior, obviously not straight throughout. Color of coxae in female: brown. Color of hind femur: dark brown with white base. Color of hind tibia: yellow at extreme base, otherwise light brown. Fore wing length in female: apex between anterior margin of T5 and posterior margin of T6. Color of metasoma: entirely dark brown. Sculpture of laterotergites in female: predominantly smooth. Pilosity of laterotergites in female: absent. Sculpture of medial T1 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Sculpture of medial T2 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Pattern of sculpture on T3-T5 in female: T3 predominantly reticulate, T4-T5 predominantly longitudinally striate to strigose. Color of pilosity on lateral T3-T5 in female: predominantly white; predominantly golden to brown. Lateral profile of T6 in female: more or less horizontal. Sculpture of T6 in female: predominantly longitudinally striate to strigose; predominantly rugulose to reticulate. Sculpture of lateral metasomal sternal bar in female: predominantly smooth to slightly irregularly rugose. Distribution of felt fields: 2 pairs present (S2, S3).</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Similar to Scelio ructo, with which this species shares relatively sparse pilosity of the head and mesonotum. Differing from Scelio ructo and all white subgroup species by the combination of the weakly impressed to absent notauli, the relatively evenly reticulate and not particularly thickened sculpture of the mesonotum, the sculptured mesopleuron, and the medially bent ventral villus.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a noun in apposition derived from the Anglo-Saxon word for island.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244975</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: MADAGASCAR: Toliara Auto. Prov., 8km NW Amboasary, gallery forest, MA-02-22-15, Berenty Private Reserve, 25°00.40'S, 46°18.20'E, 85m, 5. II– 15.II.2003, malaise trap, M. Irwin, F. Parker &amp; R. Harin’Hala, CASENT 8106886 (deposited in CASC). Paratypes: MADAGASCAR: 283 females, 412 males, 1 unknown, CASENT 2042052, 2042059-2042060, 2042063-2042064, 2042066-2042067, 2042070-2042071, 2042073-2042074, 2042077, 2042079-2042085, 2042087-2042098, 2042100-2042103, 2042112-2042113, 2042158-2042159, 2042162, 2042170-2042171, 2042174, 2042178, 2042181, 2042186, 2042188, 2042193-2042195, 2042204-2042205, 2042209, 2042257, 2042272, 2042294, 2042299, 2043152, 2043154-2043155, 2043157-2043159, 2043166, 2043310-2043311, 2043319, 2043335-2043338, 2043375-2043376, 2043378, 2043380, 2043382-2043383, 2043387, 2043396-2043397, 2043423, 2043427, 2043429, 2043431, 2043459-2043461, 2043463, 2043465, 2043475, 2043570, 2043572, 2043575, 2043587, 2043618, 2043668-2043670, 2043672, 2043725, 2043929, 2118399, 2132016, 2132021, 2132029, 2132089-2132090, 2132098-2132099, 2132119, 2132135-2132136, 2132139, 2132144, 2132152, 2132157-2132159, 2132164, 2132170-2132171, 2132174-2132175, 2132179, 2132184, 2132188, 2132193, 2132198, 2132205, 2132214-2132215, 2132217, 2132232-2132233, 2132242, 2132262, 2132268-2132269, 2132289, 2132297, 2132300, 2132303-2132305, 2132314-2132315, 2132317, 2132327, 2132331, 2132340, 2132345, 2132354, 2132365, 2132373, 2132381, 2132396, 2132406, 2132412, 2132437-2132446, 2132533, 2132585, 2132590, 2132593-2132594, 2132599, 2132606, 2132631, 2132635, 2132643-2132644, 2132647-2132648, 2132652, 2132654, 2132661, 2132675, 2132692, 2132702, 2132709, 2132711, 2132745, 2132765-2132766, 2132772, 2132775-2132776, 2132790-2132791, 2132808-2132809, 2132822-2132825, 2132829, 2132846, 2132848, 2132863, 2132869, 2132892, 2132900, 2132902, 2132928, 2132935, 2132977, 2132993, 2133187, 2133199, 2133219, 2133222, 2133231, 2133233, 2133241, 2133247, 2133253, 2133256, 2133293, 2133320, 2133355, 2133373, 2133405, 2133434, 2133444, 2133454-2133456, 2133458, 2133460, 2133462-2133465, 2133494, 2133508, 2133510-2133511, 2133539-2133540, 2133543-2133544, 2133546, 2133548, 2133584, 2133596, 2133608, 2133626, 2133629, 2133640, 2133643, 2133652, 2133662, 2133670, 2133673, 2133771, 2133774, 2133776, 2133781-2133782, 2133791, 2133795-2133796, 2133799, 2133945, 2133988, 2134145, 2134194-2134195, 2134224, 2134241-2134242, 2134245, 2134250-2134251, 2134255-2134259, 2134261-2134262, 2134298, 2134344, 2134401, 2134407, 2134447, 2134460, 2134520, 2134526, 2134531-2134532, 2134547-2134548, 2134557-2134560, 2134562-2134563, 2134565-2134566, 2134568, 2134570, 2134581-2134582, 2134590, 2134600, 2134603, 2134607-2134608, 2134624, 2134634-2134635, 2134637-2134638, 2134642-2134643, 2134645-2134646, 2134651, 2134653, 2134657-2134658, 2134695, 2134699-2134705, 2134710-2134712, 2134725, 2134729, 2134740, 2134748, 2134752, 2134765, 2134773, 2134785, 2134789, 2134797-2134799, 2134818, 2134854, 2134861-2134864, 2134871, 2134880, 2135050-2135051, 2135054, 2135056-2135059, 2135061-2135063, 2135065-2135066, 2135142, 2135148, 2135922-2135923, 2135925, 2135927, 2135931, 2135934, 2136569, 2136588, 8097463, 8097467, 8097469, 8097485, 8097495, 8097499, 8106005, 8106010, 8106015, 8106052, 8106065, 8106117, 8106131-8106132, 8106177, 8106227, 8106306, 8106360, 8106380, 8106511, 8106517, 8106529, 8106542, 8106551, 8106582, 8106601, 8106604, 8106627, 8106681, 8106684, 8106687, 8106691, 8106693, 8106699, 8106705-8106706, 8106710, 8106716-8106717, 8106727, 8106751, 8106755, 8106773, 8106780-8106782, 8106789, 8106791-8106792, 8106804, 8106810, 8106812, 8106853, 8106866, 8106892, 8106976, 8106988, 8106992 (CASC); OSUC 212467, 212469, 212531, 212533, 212535-212536 (CNCI); CASENT 2042062, 2042065, 2042069, 2042076, 2042086, 2042099, 2042146-2042157, 2042160-2042161, 2042163-2042169, 2042172-2042173, 2042175-2042177, 2042179-2042180, 2042182-2042185, 2042187, 2042189, 2042191-2042192, 2042196-2042203, 2042206, 2042264, 2042278, 2042289, 2042295-2042296, 2042677, 2043081, 2043200, 2043202, 2043204, 2043253, 2043270, 2043275-2043279, 2043281, 2043320, 2043334, 2043428, 2043464, 2043486, 2043566, 2043573, 2043576, 2043626, 2043628, 2043666-2043667, 2043671, 2043673-2043678, 2132014, 2132221, 2132398, 2133084, 2133096, 2133110, 2133177, 2133186, 2133188, 2133191, 2133198, 2133200, 2133202, 2133237-2133240, 2133246, 2133255, 2133257-2133259, 2133309, 2133340, 2133356, 2133358, 2133360-2133362, 2133364-2133367, 2133378, 2133431, 2133445, 2133457, 2133459, 2133461, 2133493, 2133499, 2133507, 2133509, 2133512-2133513, 2133515, 2133542, 2133547, 2133551, 2133565, 2133586-2133587, 2133589, 2133595, 2133602, 2133627, 2133634, 2133654, 2133664, 2133666, 2133675, 2133678, 2133692-2133693, 2133696, 2133699, 2133704, 2133710, 2133713, 2133727-2133728, 2133745, 2133753, 2133760, 2133767, 2133805, 2133823, 2133828, 2133836, 2133840-2133841, 2133854, 2133858, 2133863, 2133865-2133866, 2133874-2133875, 2133950, 2133960, 2133968, 2133973, 2133979-2133980, 2133999-2134000, 2134017, 2134020, 2134032, 2134036-2134037, 2134040-2134041, 2134222-2134223, 2134252, 2134319, 2134368, 2134385, 2134446, 2134451-2134452, 2134458-2134459, 2134461, 2134525, 2134527, 2134538-2134543, 2134546, 2134549-2134551, 2134561, 2134564, 2134606, 2134644, 2134665, 2134706, 2134770, 2134837, 2134889, 2135978, 2136127, 2136421, 2136570, 2136572, 2136578, 2136581, 8106221, 8106262, 8106308, 8106311, 8106357, 8106507, 8106620, 8106642, 8106669, 8106704, 8106814, 8106849, 8106877, OSUC 211202 (OSUC); OSUC 210183-210184 (UCDC); OSUC 244080 (USNM). Other material: MADAGASCAR: 1 female, 1 male, OSUC 244188a, 244192b (MNHN). Other material: MADAGASCAR: 1 female, 1 male, OSUC 244188a, 244192b (MNHN).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>The pilosity of the mesonotum and dorsal pronotal shoulders is relatively sparse (Fig. 129) in comparison to other species in the white subgroup. Scelio igland is slightly variable in the size and nature of sculpture, particularly on the mesonotum. In larger individuals the course of the notauli is sometimes slightly impressed, but never to the extent seen in Scelio ructo (Fig. 138). The shape of the head is somewhat ovoid in lateral view in comparison to the slightly more wedge-shaped form seen in Scelio ructo . In the long series of available material there is almost no variation in the degree of sculpture on the mesopleural depression (Fig. 136) and the presence of sculpture on the pronotal nucha. Males have a somewhat more compact flagellum than typically seen in the howardi species group. In males patches of obliterated sculpture are more common than in males of Scelio howardi . Scelio igland is very commonly collected in Madagascar.</p><p>There are two specimens from the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle mounted with other specimens on the same pins. They are excluded from the type series in order to try to avoid future confusions.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/986B5903587FB99D69A98E1D2012C97B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
1E4EEAB3720187F51B669FA782EFCD60.text	1E4EEAB3720187F51B669FA782EFCD60.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio ructo Yoder	<div><p>Scelio ructo Yoder sp. n. Figures 133-138; Morphbank 37</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.12-5.21 mm (n=10). Male body length: 3.56-4.66 mm (n=4). Color of pilosity of dorsal head in female: golden to brown. Occipital carina in female: percurrent. Color of pilosity of the frons below the anterior ocellus in female: predominantly golden to brown. Pilosity of eye in female: present. Medial keel on interantennal process: absent. Width of lower gena in lateral view: wide, posterior margin of lower half of gena parallel to posterior orbit. Genal carina: present. Color of genal pilosity: white. Color of scape in female: brown to dark brown throughout. Surface of the pronotal nucha in female: predominantly smooth. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: golden to dark brown, concolorous with that of mesoscutum. Sculpture of medial mesoscutum in female: predominantly angular reticulate to rugulose. Color of pilosity of mesoscutum in female: pre dominantly light brown to brown. Notaulus in female: indicated by a row of cells. Notaulus in male: delimited by row of cells. Form of axillular carina in female: small, not particularly expanded or projected from the lateral edge of the mesoscutellum. Pilosity of propodeal nucha: absent. Pilosity of netrion: absent. Surface of mesopleural depression in female: with large smooth patch. Form of ventral margin of villus in female: bent ventrally in posterior, obviously not straight throughout. Color of coxae in female: brown. Color of hind femur: dark brown throughout. Color of hind tibia: yellow at extreme base, otherwise light brown. Fore wing length in female: apex between anterior margin of T5 and posterior margin of T6; apex surpassing posterior margin of T6. Color of metasoma: light reddish brown. Sculpture of laterotergites in female: predominantly smooth. Pilosity of laterotergites in female: absent. Sculpture of medial T1 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Sculpture of medial T2 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Pattern of sculpture on T3-T5 in female: predominantly longitudinally striate. Color of pilosity on lateral T3-T5 in female: predominantly golden to brown. Lateral profile of T6 in female: more or less horizontal. Sculpture of T6 in female: predominantly rugulose to reticulate. Sculpture of lateral metasomal sternal bar in female: predominantly smooth to slightly irregularly rugose. Distribution of felt fields: 2 pairs present (S2, S3).</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Most similar to Scelio igland which shares the somewhat sparse pilosity of the head and mesonotum (Fig. 135) and is also restricted to Madagascar. Scelio ructo differs from this and all other Afrotropical howardi-group species by the flattened and smoothly rounded sculpture of the mesoscutum (Fig. 135) in combination with the well-impressed notauli and the smooth pronotal nucha and mesopleural depression.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a noun in apposition derived from the Latin word for belch.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244974</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: MADAGASCAR: Antsiranana Auto. Prov., MA-01-01D-11, Montagne d’Ambre National Park, 12°31'13"S, 49°10'45"E, 1125m, 14. V– 30.V.2001, malaise trap, R. Harin’Hala, CASENT 2042190 (deposited in CASC). Paratypes: MADAGASCAR: 16 females, 4 males, CASENT 2132545-2132546, 2133133, 2133136-2133137, 2133139, 2133275, 2134126, 2134225, 2134244, 2134260, 2134553, 2134579, 2134588-2134589, 8106002 (CASC); CASENT 2043853 (CNCI); CASENT 2133210, 2134554, 8106000 (OSUC). Other material: MADAGASCAR: 1 female, CASENT 2043185 (CASC).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>The notauli in Scelio ructo are particularly well developed for species of Afrotropical Scelio . The material includes a short series of distinctly smaller but morphologically consistent individuals (CASENT 2133137, 2133136, 2134579, 2134588). The size of the smooth patches on the dorsal metasoma is highly variable. A single larger individual (CASENT 2043185) is identified as Scelio ructo but excluded from the type series. The specimen is missing the large smooth patch of the mesopleuron, and the gena is somewhat broader. Overall, its similar mesoscutal sculpture and general habitus suggests that it represents a morphologically larger outlier. The surface where a third pair of felt fields on S4 would be expected is slightly pinched and raised; nevertheless, lacking the setae we have coded the felt fields as absent on this sclerite. When the structure and function of of the felt fields is discovered this character should be reviewed for Scelio ructo . Females have a slightly wedge-shaped head with a moderate to narrow gena, often with an irregularly developed genal carina.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1E4EEAB3720187F51B669FA782EFCD60	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
957633147EE9B6FD3667FFF3CD5F303D.text	957633147EE9B6FD3667FFF3CD5F303D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio scomma Yoder	<div><p>Scelio scomma Yoder sp. n. Figures 15, 27, 139-144; Morphbank 38</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 5.04-5.91 mm (n=16). Male body length: 4.66-5.42 mm (n=7). Color of pilosity of dorsal head in female: white. Occipital carina in female: percurrent. Color of pilosity of the frons below the anterior ocellus in female: predominantly white. Pilosity of eye in female: present. Medial keel on interantennal process: absent. Width of lower gena in lateral view: wide, posterior margin of lower half of gena parallel to posterior orbit. Genal carina: absent. Color of genal pilosity: white. Color of scape in female: brown to dark brown throughout. Surface of the pronotal nucha in female: predominantly sculptured. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: white to light brown, lighter than that of mesoscutum. Sculpture of medial mesoscutum in female: predominantly angular reticulate to rugulose. Color of pilosity of mesoscutum in female: predominantly white to off-white. Notaulus in female: not delimited. Notaulus in male: not delimited. Form of axillular carina in female: small, not particularly expanded or projected from the lateral edge of the mesoscutellum. Pilosity of propodeal nucha: absent. Pilosity of netrion: absent. Surface of mesopleural depression in female: with small smooth patch ventrally. Form of ventral margin of villus in female: bent ventrally in posterior, obviously not straight throughout. Color of coxae in female: brown. Color of hind femur: dark brown throughout. Color of hind tibia: yellow at extreme base, otherwise light brown. Fore wing length in female: apex between anterior margin of T5 and posterior margin of T6. Color of metasoma: entirely dark brown. Sculpture of laterotergites in female: predominantly smooth. Pilosity of laterotergites in female: absent. Sculpture of medial T1 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Sculpture of medial T2 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Pattern of sculpture on T3-T5 in female: T3 predominantly reticulate, T4-T5 predominantly longitudinally striate to strigose. Color of pilosity on lateral T3-T5 in female: predominantly white. Lateral profile of T6 in female: more or less horizontal. Sculpture of T6 in female: predominantly longitudinally striate to strigose. Sculpture of lateral metasomal sternal bar in female: predominantly smooth to slightly irregularly rugose. Distribution of felt fields: 2 pairs present (S2, S3).</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Similar to other white subgroup species, in particular to Scelio zolotarevskyi and larger individuals of Scelio howardi . Differing from the former by the curved ventral margin of the villus, and from the latter by its large size and predominantly white setae of the dorsal head and mesoscutum ( Scelio howardi usually with some golden setae present) together with the brown to dark brown scape ( Scelio howardi usually with at least the base of scape yellow) and the presence of a small smooth patch on the lower extent of the mesopleural depression (Fig. 142) ( Scelio howardi sculptured throughout).</p><p>Etymology .</p><p>The epithet is used as a noun in apposition derived from the Latin word for taunt, jeer, or jest.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244973</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: MADAGASCAR: Toliara Auto. Prov., Andohahela N.P., parcel II, transitional forest, MA-02-20-52, Tsimelahy, 24°56.21'S, 46°37.60'E, 180m, 15. I– 28.I.2004, malaise trap, M. E. Irwin, F. Parker &amp; R. Harin’Hala, CASENT 2133165 (deposited in CASC). Paratypes: MADAGASCAR: 16 females, 7 males, CASENT 2043612-2043614, 2043909, 2132679, 2132894, 2133068, 2133071, 2133073, 2133145, 2133153, 2133156, 2134231, 2134276, 2134890, 8106504, 8106513, 8106531, 8106840 (CASC); CASENT 2042253, 2043462, 2133142, 8106546 (OSUC).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>Scelio scomma is endemic to Madagascar where it is the largest species within the howardi-species group and large for species within the white subgroup. All the specimens are uniform in morphology. Scelio scomma is extremely similar to larger individuals of Scelio howardi and the two cannot be casually differentiated. The pilosity of the lateral portions T2 is particularly dense (Fig. 144). The small smooth patch on the lower mesopleural depression (Fig. 142) is constant for all individuals observed, and it is present in both males and females. Males can be confused with Scelio igland, but may be differentiated by their larger and more robust habitus, completely sculptured lateral metasoma (smooth or obliterated patches present in Scelio igland), and the absence of notauli (indicated by a row of cells in Scelio igland).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/957633147EE9B6FD3667FFF3CD5F303D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
3E5EFF71461960FD0ED17F15A43DA532.text	3E5EFF71461960FD0ED17F15A43DA532.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio ululo Yoder	<div><p>Scelio ululo Yoder sp. n. Figures 145-150; Morphbank 39</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.30-3.76 mm (n=5). Color of pilosity of dorsal head in female: white. Occipital carina in female: percurrent. Color of pilosity of the frons below the anterior ocellus in female: predominantly white. Pilosity of eye in female: absent; present. Medial keel on interantennal process: absent. Width of lower gena in lateral view: wide, posterior margin of lower half of gena parallel to posterior orbit. Genal carina: absent. Color of genal pilosity: white. Color of scape in female: yellow in basal half, darkening to light brown in apical half. Surface of the pronotal nucha in female: predominantly sculptured. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: white to light brown, lighter than that of mesoscutum. Sculpture of medial mesoscutum in female: predominantly longitudinally strigose to rugulose. Color of pilosity of mesoscutum in female: predominantly yellow to golden. Notaulus in female: not delimited. Form of axillular carina in female: small, not particularly expanded or projected from the lateral edge of the mesoscutellum. Pilosity of propodeal nucha: absent. Pilosity of netrion: absent. Surface of mesopleural depression in female: sculptured throughout. Form of ventral margin of villus in female: straight. Color of coxae in female: yellow. Color of hind femur: light brown throughout. Color of hind tibia: yellow throughout. Fore wing length in female: apex between anterior margin of T5 and posterior margin of T6. Color of metasoma: yellow anteriorly, grading to brown posteriorly. Sculpture of laterotergites in female: predominantly smooth. Pilosity of laterotergites in female: absent. Sculpture of medial T1 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Sculpture of medial T2 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Pattern of sculpture on T3-T5 in female: T3 predominantly reticulate, T4-T5 predominantly longitudinally striate to strigose; predominantly longitudinally striate. Color of pilosity on lateral T3-T5 in female: predominantly white; predominantly golden to brown. Lateral profile of T6 in female: more or less horizontal. Sculpture of T6 in female: predominantly transversely rugose. Sculpture of lateral metasomal sternal bar in female: predominantly smooth to slightly irregularly rugose. Distribution of felt fields: 2 pairs present (S2, S3).</p><p>Diagnosis .</p><p>Most similar to Scelio zolotarevskyi which shares the straight ventral margin of the villus. Differing from Scelio zolotarevskyi and all other Afrotropical howardi-group species by the yellow to brown color gradient of the metasoma (vs. uniform coloration). Further, females may be distinguished from most Afrotropical Scelio howardi by the yellow coxae.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a noun in apposition derived from the Latin word for to make a loud cry.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244977</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: KENYA: Nyanza Prov., Ungoye (ICIPE) Field Site, 2° forest, Lake Victoria, 0.615°S, 34.092°E, 1145m, 9.II-16.II.1999, malaise trap, S. Miller &amp; P. Otieno, OSUC 244090 (deposited in NMKE). Paratypes: (4 females) KENYA: 3 females, OSUC 214091 (CNCI); OSUC 244087-244088 (USNM). ZIMBABWE: 1 female, OSUC 212155 (CNCI).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>Individuals of Scelio ululo are smaller than most Scelio zolotarevskyi and also have distinctly less pilosity on the gena. In the ample material of Scelio zolotarevskyi there is no hint of color variation of the metasoma. The inner margin of the notauli is slightly indicated in some individuals, though we have coded the notauli as absent. As in Scelio zolotarevskyi there appears to be short setae between the ommatidia in individuals with silver eyes, in those with black eyes these cannot be seen but are likely present. The color of the coxae in one individual is slightly darker yellow, but distinctly lighter than the brown color of the corresponding femora.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3E5EFF71461960FD0ED17F15A43DA532	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
39A33968A2F65A62DC9E5F6D3EF57C04.text	39A33968A2F65A62DC9E5F6D3EF57C04.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio zolotarevskyi Ferriere	<div><p>Scelio zolotarevskyi Ferriere Figures 1, 14, 29, 151-156; Morphbank 40</p><p>Scelio zolotarevskyi Ferrière, 1930: 42 (original description); Ferrière 1952: 117 (diagnosis); Masner 1965: 96 (type information).</p><p>Scelio sudanensis Ferrière, 1952: 115 (original description), new synonymy; Nixon 1958: 314, 315 (keyed).</p><p>Scelio zolotarevskyi http://zoobank.org/2356D29C-854A-4F82-B421-7A318C77E47C</p><p>Scelio zolotarevskyi urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:5340</p><p>Scelio cheops Nixon, 1958: 315 (original description) syn. n.; Masner 1965: 92 (type information)</p><p>Scelio zolotarevskyi http://zoobank.org/938667BC-30CC-45F3-A0B9-BD95D0E95E52</p><p>Scelio zolotarevskyi urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:5195</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.53-5.53 mm (n=28). Male body length: 3.28 mm (n=1). Color of pilosity of dorsal head in female: white. Occipital carina in female: percurrent. Color of pilosity of the frons below the anterior ocellus in female: predominantly white. Pilosity of eye in female: absent; present. Medial keel on interantennal process: absent. Width of lower gena in lateral view: wide, posterior margin of lower half of gena parallel to posterior orbit. Genal carina: absent. Color of genal pilosity: white. Color of scape in female: yellow throughout. Surface of the pronotal nucha in female: predominantly sculptured. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: white to light brown, lighter than that of mesoscutum. Sculpture of medial mesoscutum in female: predominantly angular reticulate to rugulose. Color of pilosity of mesoscutum in female: predominantly white to off–white . Notaulus in female: indicated by a row of cells. Notaulus in male: delimited by row of cells. Form of axillular carina in female: small, not particularly expanded or projected from the lateral edge of the mesoscutellum. Pilosity of propodeal nucha: absent. Pilosity of netrion: absent. Surface of mesopleural depression in female: sculptured throughout. Form of ventral margin of villus in female: straight. Color of coxae in female: brown. Color of hind femur: dark brown medially, otherwise honey yellow. Color of hind tibia: yellow throughout. Fore wing length in female: apex between anterior margin of T5 and posterior margin of T6. Color of metasoma: entirely dark brown. Sculpture of laterotergites in female: predominantly smooth. Pilosity of laterotergites in female: absent. Sculpture of medial T1 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Sculpture of medial T2 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Pattern of sculpture on T3-T5 in female: T3 predominantly reticulate, T4-T5 predominantly longitudinally striate to strigose. Color of pilosity on lateral T3-T5 in female: predominantly white. Lateral profile of T6 in female: more or less horizontal. Sculpture of T6 in female: predominantly longitudinally striate to strigose. Sculpture of lateral metasomal sternal bar in female: predominantly smooth to slightly irregularly rugose. Distribution of felt fields: 2 pairs present (S2, S3).</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Most similar to Scelio howardi in its habitus, color and form of pilosity, and general sculpture, as well as to Scelio pipilo with which it shares the straight ventral margin of the villus (as in Fig. 8). Scelio zolotarevskyi may be distinguished from the former by the compact and parallel-sided villus (Figs 8, 155, compare with concave or bent lateral margin of villus, Fig. 124) and from the latter by its smaller size and color of the scape (never completely brown to dark brown scape).</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=5364</p><p>Associations.</p><p>Emerged from Acrididae [ Orthoptera: Acrididae]; emerged from egg of Acrotylus Fieber [ Orthoptera: Acrididae]; emerged from ootheca of Acrotylus patruelis (Herrich-Schaeffer) [ Orthoptera: Acrididae]; emerged from ootheca of Cyrtacanthacris tatarica tatarica (Linnaeus) [ Orthoptera: Acrididae]; emerged from egg of Eyprepocnemis plorans plorans (Charpentier) [ Orthoptera: Acrididae, as Euprepocnemis senegalensis Bolívar]; emerged from egg of Eyprepocnemis smaragdipes Bruner [ Orthoptera: Acrididae]; emerged from ootheca of Eyprepocnemis smaragdipes Bruner [ Orthoptera: Acrididae]; emerged from egg of Gastrimargus africanus (Saussure) [ Orthoptera: Acrididae]; emerged from ootheca of Gastrimargus africanus (Saussure) [ Orthoptera: Acrididae]; emerged from ootheca of Heteracris Walker [ Orthoptera: Acrididae]; emerged from egg of Locusta Linnaeus [ Orthoptera: Acrididae]; emerged from egg of Locusta cinerascens capito Saussure [ Orthoptera: Acrididae, as Locusta migratoria capito]; emerged from ootheca of Locusta cinerascens capito Saussure [ Orthoptera: Acrididae, as Locusta migratoria capito]; emerged from egg of Locusta cinerascens migratorioides (Reiche &amp; Fairmaire) [ Orthoptera: Acrididae, as Locusta migratorioides]; emerged from egg of Nomadacris Uvarov [ Orthoptera: Acrididae]; emerged from ootheca of Nomadacris septemfasciata (Serville) [ Orthoptera: Acrididae]; emerged from ootheca of Oedaleus virgula (Snellen van Vollenhoven) [ Orthoptera: Acrididae].</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Lectotype (present designation), female, Scelio zolotarevskyi: MADAGASCAR: Toliara Auto. Prov., Ejeda, 18.II.1928, Zolotarevsky, B.M. TYPE HYM. 9.535 (deposited in BMNH). Holotype, female, Scelio cheops: [MALI]: Central flood plain of Niger R[iver], i-iii.1956, G. Popov, ex acridid eggs CIE Coll 14777 A/502, ex Eupropocnemis senegalensis, B.M. TYPE HYM 9.537 (deposited in BMNH). Lectotype (present designation), female, Scelio sudanensis: MALI: Dogo, II-1950, Remaudière, OSUC 173946 (deposited in MNHN). Paralectotype, Scelio zolotarevskyi: MADAGASCAR: 1 male, BMNH(E)#790468 (BMNH). Other material: (541 females, 125 males, 9 unknowns) BENIN: 2 females, OSUC 211365, 212850 (CNCI). BOTSWANA: 15 females, 3 males, OSUC 160051, 160053 (EMEC); OSUC 164132, 164134, 164137, 164140, 164145, 164165-164166, 164171, 164189, 164193, 164200, 164215, 211689 (OSUC); OSUC 171353, 207550-207551 (USNM). ERITREA: 1 male, 1 unknown, BMNH(E)#790463 (BMNH); OSUC 210357 (MCSN). GHANA: 7 females, OSUC 176009, 213548, 213551, 213559-213561, 213564 (OSUC). KENYA: 9 females, 1 male, CASENT 2042600 (CASC); OSUC 212343, 212357-212358, 234631, 234648, 234678 (CNCI); OSUC 244091-244092, 248101 (USNM). MADAGASCAR: 443 females, 98 males, 1 unknown, CASENT 2042061, 2042068, 2042072, 2042075, 2042078, 2042672, 2043323, 2043417, 2043560, 2043631-2043632, 2133514, 2133516, 2134571, 2134709 (CASC); OSUC 254614, 259910-259998, 260001-260019, 260021-260062, 260263-260268, 261063-261193, 261195, 261199-261340, 261359-261380, 261387-261414, 261417-261462 (MNHN). MALI: 6 unknowns, BMNH(E)#790459-790461, 790464-790466 (BMNH). MOZAMBIQUE: 3 females, 3 males, OSUC 212371-212374, 212378 (CNCI); OSUC 244138 (USNM). NIGERIA: 1 female, 5 males, OSUC 212614, 212618-212621, 212623 (CNCI). RWANDA: 1 female, OSUC 182054 (RMCA). SOUTHAFRICA: 5 females, 2 males, OSUC 212451, 212872 (CNCI); OSUC 213399, 213468, 213487, 214383, 214385 (SANC). TANZANIA: 1 unknown, BMNH(E)#790462 (BMNH). UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: 8 females, OSUC 214052-214053, 214064, 214066-214068, 214071, 214079 (CNCI). YEMEN: 47 females, 12 males, OSUC 212479-212480, 212486-212487, 212489, 212939, 250671, 250676, 250683-250684, 250888, 250895-250896, 250898, 250900, 250937, 251031-251032, 251038, 251040-251043, 251045, 251048, 251050, 251053, 251055, 251057, 251060-251061, 251063, 251067, 254661, 254663, 254677, 254684, 254687, 254694, 254785, 254787, 254789-254792, 254795-254796, 254798-254799, 254804, 254807-254808, 254813-254814, 254819, 254821-254822, 254826, 254828 (CNCI).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>The specimens with the identifiers OSUC 244136 and 244139 (USNM) are paratypes of Scelio howardi but we believe actually are Scelio zolotarevskyi .</p><p>Nixon (1958) noted the similarities between Scelio zolotarevskyi and Scelio sudanensis but chose to maintain the latter as a valid species. Variation in this species is well documented by the hundreds of reared specimens (material at MNHN) now available. Based on this variation and review of the types (see images via http://hol.osu.edu/index.html?id=5364), we propose the current synonymy.</p><p>The flat ventral margin of the villus, and its general form are extremely constant, as are the colors of the scape and legs, and in combination with the particularly dense pilosity of the gena, one can instantly distinguish this species. Confusion is only possible with Scelio pipilo and Scelio ululo . Most African individuals of Scelio zolotarevskyi have the dorsomedial pilosity of the head and mesoscutum white, which is somewhat uncommon for Afrotropical Scelio . The trend to white contrasts with that observed in Scelio howardi in which the setae are nearly universally golden to light brown. Neither color pattern is unique, but may be found in either species. Many Asian specimens of Scelio zolotarevskyi have the setae of the dorsal head and mesonotum brown to golden brown. There is significant variation in the sculpture of T6 in females. Most individuals are predominantly longitudinally striate to strigose, with a tendency towards some reticulation posteriorly. A few of the largest individuals have completely reticulate rugulose sculpture, and a few of the smallest individuals are almost completely longitudinally sculptured.</p><p>In individuals with silver eyes there is often the appearance of very short setae between the ommatidia, though these perhaps do not extend above the surface of the eye. In individuals with black or mottled black and silver eyes these can not be discerned. Whether these are in fact setae or rather some refractory phenomenon should be tested with dissection and SEM. We consider Scelio zolotarevskyi to be polymorphic for these two states, and this was best observed in the long series of material from Yemen. The notauli in males are percurrent, though faintly so. This is useful in distinguishing them from the extremely similar males of Scelio howardi . See also comments for Scelio ululo .</p><p>Scelio zolotarevskyi is extremely widespread, being known throughout Africa and Asia. It has been reared from acridids of the subfamilies Eyprepocnemidinae, Cyrtacanthacridinae, and Oedipodinae, including the migratory locust ( Locusta migratoria).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/39A33968A2F65A62DC9E5F6D3EF57C04	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
2799B1B682C5C11EF72950B606550065.text	2799B1B682C5C11EF72950B606550065.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio balo Valerio & Yoder	<div><p>Scelio balo Valerio &amp; Yoder sp. n. Figures 157-162; Morphbank 41</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 6.86 mm (n=1). Color of pilosity of dorsal head in female: golden to brown. Occipital carina in female: percurrent. Color of pilosity of the frons below the anterior ocellus in female: predominantly golden to brown. Pilosity of eye in female: absent. Medial keel on interantennal process: absent. Width of lower gena in lateral view: wide, posterior margin of lower half of gena parallel to posterior orbit. Genal carina: absent. Color of genal pilosity: white. Color of scape in female: yellow throughout. Surface of the pronotal nucha in female: predominantly sculptured. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: golden to dark brown, concolorous with that of mesoscutum. Sculpture of medial mesoscutum in female: predominantly angular reticulate to rugulose. Color of pilosity of mesoscutum in female: predominantly light brown to brown. Notaulus in female: indicated by a row of cells. Form of axillular carina in female: small, not particularly expanded or projected from the lateral edge of the mesoscutellum. Pilosity of propodeal nucha: absent. Pilosity of netrion: absent. Surface of mesopleural depression in female: sculptured throughout. Form of ventral margin of villus in female: bent ventrally in posterior, obviously not straight throughout. Color of coxae in female: brown. Color of hind femur: dark brown throughout. Color of hind tibia: yellow throughout. Fore wing length in female: apex not reaching anterior margin of T5. Color of metasoma: entirely dark brown. Sculpture of laterotergites in female: predominantly smooth. Pilosity of laterotergites in female: absent. Sculpture of medial T1 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Sculpture of medial T2 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Pattern of sculpture on T3-T5 in female: T3 predominantly reticulate, T4-T5 predominantly longitudinally striate to strigose. Color of pilosity on lateral T3-T5 in female: predominantly golden to brown. Lateral profile of T6 in female: more or less horizontal. Sculpture of T6 in female: predominantly rugulose to reticulate. Sculpture of lateral metasomal sternal bar in female: predominantly smooth to slightly irregularly rugose. Distribution of felt fields: 2 pairs present (S2, S3).</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Similar to Scelio fremo, which also has a long metasoma and fore wings not reaching T5. Differing from Scelio fremo by the bent ventral margin of the villus (vs. straight, compare Figs 118 and 160), and the extent of the brown pilosity of the frons (vs. white, compare Figs 119 and 161). Scelio balo is darker overall than Scelio fremo, although this may be an artifact.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a noun in apposition derived from the Latin word for roar, howl, grumble, or snort (things taxonomists do during a revision).</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244970</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: Bandundu Prov., Wamba River, Kikongo Mission, 04°15'S, 17°10'E, 15.IV.2006, black light, S. L. Heydon &amp; S. E. Stevenson, OSUC 212375 (deposited in CNCI).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>The metasoma of Scelio balo is near black and only very slightly lighter than the mesosoma. The fore wing is not as obviously shortened as in Scelio fremo . See also comments for Scelio fremo .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2799B1B682C5C11EF72950B606550065	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
269651ADEAA78E9BAA4A422B4DB0079E.text	269651ADEAA78E9BAA4A422B4DB0079E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio bubulo Yoder	<div><p>Scelio bubulo Yoder sp. n. Figures 163-168; Morphbank 42</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 4.24-4.87 mm (n=7). Color of pilosity of dorsal head in female: golden to brown. Occipital carina in female: percurrent. Color of pilosity of the frons below the anterior ocellus in female: predominantly golden to brown. Pilosity of eye in female: absent; present. Medial keel on interantennal process: absent. Width of lower gena in lateral view: narrowing dorsally, posterior margin of lower half of gena angled with respect to posterior orbit. Genal carina: present. Color of genal pilosity: brown. Color of scape in female: brown to dark brown throughout. Surface of the pronotal nucha in female: predominantly sculptured; predominantly smooth. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: golden to dark brown, concolorous with that of mesoscutum . Sculpture of medial mesoscutum in female: predominantly angular reticulate to rugulose. Color of pilosity of mesoscutum in female: predominantly light brown to brown. Notaulus in female: not delimited. Form of axillular carina in female: lobelike in posterolateral corner. Pilosity of propodeal nucha: present. Pilosity of netrion: present. Surface of mesopleural depression in female: sculptured throughout. Form of ventral margin of villus in female: very slightly concave, almost straight. Color of coxae in female: brown. Color of hind femur: dark brown with white base. Color of hind tibia: white basally, dark brown apically. fore wing length in female: apex surpassing posterior margin of T6. Color of metasoma: entirely dark brown. Sculpture of laterotergites in female: predominantly smooth. Pilosity of laterotergites in female: absent. Sculpture of medial T1 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Sculpture of medial T2 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Pattern of sculpture on T3-T5 in female: predominantly longitudinally striate. Color of pilosity on lateral T3-T5 in female: predominantly golden to brown. Lateral profile of T6 in female: vertically sloped in posterior half. Sculpture of T6 in female: predominantly rugulose to reticulate. Sculpture of lateral metasomal sternal bar in female: minutely reticulate throughout. Distribution of felt fields: 2 pairs present (S2, S3).</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Similar to other species of the brown subgroup that have the lateral node of the mesoscutellum developed into a flange or node. Differing from all these species by presence of setae on the netrion and the degree of development and form of the lateral node of the axillular carina which is large, round, lobelike vs. small, sharp and bladelike.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a noun in apposition derived from the Latin word for hoot like an owl.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244978</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: CAMEROON: Nkoemvom, 24.VIII.1983, malaise trap, D. Jackson, OSUC 213024 (deposited in BMNH). Paratypes: (6 females) GHANA: 1 female, OSUC 212504 (CNCI). GUINEA: 3 females, OSUC 213099, 213101 (CNCI); OSUC 213102 (OSUC). SIERRA LEONE: 1 female, OSUC 244054 (MZLU). UGANDA: 1 female, OSUC 212348 (CNCI).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>The presence of pilosity on the propodeal nucha and netrion may not be independent as both states are also found together in Scelio philippinensis, though the two species do not appear to be closely related. The frons between the eyes is notably narrow, as are the mandibles (Fig. 167). The fore wing in females appears to extend just past the apex of the metasoma.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/269651ADEAA78E9BAA4A422B4DB0079E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
85BCA7DF2C14DD16D7A05048243E87E4.text	85BCA7DF2C14DD16D7A05048243E87E4.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio cano Yoder	<div><p>Scelio cano Yoder sp. n. Figures 169-174; Morphbank 43</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 4.16-4.60 mm (n=5). Male body length: 4.17 mm (n=1). Color of pilosity of dorsal head in female: golden to brown. Occipital carina in female: percurrent. Color of pilosity of the frons below the anterior ocellus in female: predominantly golden to brown. Pilosity of eye in female: absent. Medial keel on interantennal process: present. Width of lower gena in lateral view: narrowing dorsally, posterior margin of lower half of gena angled with respect to posterior orbit. Genal carina: absent. Color of genal pilosity: brown. Color of scape in female: brown to dark brown throughout. Surface of the pronotal nucha in female: predominantly sculptured. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: golden to dark brown, concolorous with that of mesoscutum. Sculpture of medial mesoscutum in female: predominantly angular reticulate to rugulose. Color of pilosity of mesoscutum in female: predominantly light brown to brown. Notaulus in female: not delimited. Notaulus in male: not delimited. Form of axillular carina in female: small, not particularly expanded or projected from the lateral edge of the mesoscutellum. Pilosity of propodeal nucha: absent. Pilosity of netrion: absent. Surface of mesopleural depression in female: with small smooth patch ventrally. Form of ventral margin of villus in female: bent ventrally in posterior, obvi ously not straight throughout. Color of coxae in female: brown. Color of hind femur: dark brown throughout. Color of hind tibia: white basally, dark brown apically. Fore wing length in female: apex between anterior margin of T5 and posterior margin of T6; apex surpassing posterior margin of T6. Color of metasoma: entirely dark brown. Sculpture of laterotergites in female: predominantly aciculate. Pilosity of laterotergites in female: absent. Sculpture of medial T1 in female: most prominent elements predominantly reticulate rugulose. Sculpture of medial T2 in female: predominantly smooth or obliterated. Pattern of sculpture on T3-T5 in female: T3 predominantly reticulate, T4-T5 predominantly longitudinally striate to strigose; predominantly longitudinally striate. Color of pilosity on lateral T3-T5 in female: predominantly golden to brown. Lateral profile of T6 in female: vertically sloped in posterior half. Sculpture of T6 in female: predominantly rugulose to reticulate. Sculpture of lateral metasomal sternal bar in female: minutely reticulate throughout. Distribution of felt fields: 2 pairs present (S2, S3).</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Most similar to Scelio tono, also a brown subgroup species that shares a similarly colored tibia (as in Fig. 212). Differing from Scelio tono by the absence of notauli (a clear channel in posterior half of mesoscutum present in Scelio tono) and the less well-developed axillular carina that does not extend above the dorsal surface of the mesoscutum. Similar also to Scelio gemo, but may be differentiated by the brown scape and sloping T6 (vs. yellow to brown and horizontally oriented respectively).</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a noun in apposition derived from the Latin word for sing.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244979</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: UGANDA: Kabarole Dist., 20km SE Fort Portal, nr. Mikana, stream, Makerere University Biological Field Station (MUBFS), 00°34.37'N, 30°21.66'E, 1530m, 7. X– 21.X.2001, yellow pan trap/flight intercept trap, B. Gill &amp; J. Gill, OSUC 212930 (deposited in CNCI). Paratypes: UGANDA: 4 females, 1 male, OSUC 212346, 212349-212350, 250819 (CNCI); OSUC 212347 (OSUC).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>In males and females the inner course of the notauli is weakly discernible but the outer course is not. For this reason we have coded the notauli as absent. There is a small irregular patch of smoother obliterated sculpture on the ventral mesopleural depression. The sculpture of the medial metasoma is somewhat more obliterated and irregular than typical. Specimens of this species were taken together in identical collecting events with Scelio gemo .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/85BCA7DF2C14DD16D7A05048243E87E4	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
68D24F71A5DA6D47194B38A3FE6C1A77.text	68D24F71A5DA6D47194B38A3FE6C1A77.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio crepo Yoder	<div><p>Scelio crepo Yoder sp. n. Figures 175-180; Morphbank 44</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 4.36-5.26 mm (n=2). Color of pilosity of dorsal head in female: golden to brown. Occipital carina in female: percurrent. Color of pilos ity of the frons below the anterior ocellus in female: predominantly golden to brown. Pilosity of eye in female: absent. Medial keel on interantennal process: absent. Width of lower gena in lateral view: wide, posterior margin of lower half of gena parallel to posterior orbit. Genal carina: absent. Color of genal pilosity: brown. Color of scape in female: brown to dark brown throughout. Surface of the pronotal nucha in female: predominantly sculptured. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: white to light brown, lighter than that of mesoscutum. Sculpture of medial mesoscutum in female: predominantly longitudinally strigose to rugulose. Color of pilosity of mesos cutum in female: predominantly light brown to brown. Notaulus in female: present as more or less uninterrupted channel in posterior 1/2 of mesoscutum. Form of axillular carina in female: small, not particularly expanded or projected from the lateral edge of the mesoscutellum. Pilosity of propodeal nucha: absent. Pilosity of netrion: absent. Surface of mesopleural depression in female: sculptured throughout. Form of ventral margin of villus in female: bent ventrally in posterior, obviously not straight throughout. Color of coxae in female: brown. Color of hind femur: dark brown throughout. Color of hind tibia: yellow throughout. Fore wing length in female: apex between anterior margin of T5 and posterior margin of T6. Color of metasoma: light reddish brown. Sculpture of laterotergites in female: predominantly smooth. Pilosity of laterotergites in female: absent. Sculpture of medial T1 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Sculpture of medial T2 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Pattern of sculpture on T3-T5 in female: predominantly longitudinally striate. Color of pilosity on lateral T3-T5 in female: predominantly golden to brown. Lateral profile of T6 in female: more or less horizontal. Sculpture of T6 in female: predominantly transversely rugose. Sculpture of lateral metasomal sternal bar in female: predominantly smooth to slightly irregularly rugose. Distribution of felt fields: 2 pairs present (S2, S3).</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Differing from other brown subgroup species by the combination of the completely yellow tibia (Fig. 176) and the transverse rugae of T6 (Fig. 180, more reticulate in most others).</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a noun in apposition derived from the Latin word for to rattle, clatter, crackle.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244980</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: TANZANIA: Tanga Reg., hills, Amani, 23. VI– 24.VII.2001, D. Quicke, OSUC 212511 (deposited in CNCI). Paratype: TANZANIA: 1 female, OSUC 212514 (CNCI).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>The sculpture of the mesoscutum is somewhat finer (Fig. 177) than seen in other closely related species. There is some aciculate sculpture on the laterotergites, but they are predominantly smooth. There is a hint of a third felt field pair on S4, but we have coded only two pairs as present.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/68D24F71A5DA6D47194B38A3FE6C1A77	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
5535C551B67DB85BFE0B8CAE4FAC1701.text	5535C551B67DB85BFE0B8CAE4FAC1701.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio gemo Yoder	<div><p>Scelio gemo Yoder sp. n. Figures 19, 181-186; Morphbank 45</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 5.37-5.77 mm (n=5). Male body length: 4.80 mm (n=1). Color of pilosity of dorsal head in female: golden to brown. Occipital carina in female: percurrent. Color of pilosity of the frons below the anterior ocellus in female: predominantly golden to brown. Pilosity of eye in female: absent; present. Medial keel on interantennal process: present. Width of lower gena in lateral view: wide, posterior margin of lower half of gena parallel to posterior orbit. Genal carina: present. Color of genal pilosity: brown. Color of scape in female: yellow in basal half, darkening to light brown in apical half. Surface of the pronotal nucha in female: predominantly sculptured; predominantly smooth. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: golden to dark brown, concolorous with that of mesoscutum. Sculpture of medial mesoscutum in female: predominantly angular reticulate to rugulose. Color of pilosity of mesoscutum in female: predominantly light brown to brown. Notaulus in female: indicated by a row of cells. Notaulus in male: delimited by row of cells. Form of axillular carina in female: small, not particularly expanded or projected from the lateral edge of the mesoscutellum. Pilosity of propodeal nucha: absent. Pilosity of netrion: absent. Surface of mesopleural depression in female: sculptured throughout. Form of ventral margin of villus in female: bent ventrally in posterior, obviously not straight throughout. Color of coxae in female: brown. Color of hind femur: yellow throughout. Color of hind tibia: yellow at extreme base, otherwise light brown. Fore wing length in female: apex between anterior margin of T5 and posterior margin of T6. Color of metasoma: entirely black. Sculpture of laterotergites in female: predominantly smooth. Pilosity of laterotergites in female: absent. Sculpture of medial T1 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Sculpture of medial T2 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Pattern of sculpture on T3-T5 in female: T3 predominantly reticulate, T4-T5 predominantly longitudinally striate to strigose. Color of pilosity on lateral T3-T5 in female: predominantly golden to brown. Lateral profile of T6 in female: more or less horizontal. Sculpture of T6 in female: predominantly transversely rugose. Sculpture of lateral metasomal sternal bar in female: minutely reticulate throughout. Distribution of felt fields: 2 pairs present (S2, S3).</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Similar to other species of the brown subgroup, particularly Scelio cano . Differing from these by the combination of the presence of a medial ridge of interantennal process, the notauli indicated by a row of cells, the yellow hind tibia, the reticulate sculpture of the mesoscutum and the nearly horizontal T6 (as seen in lateral view).</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a noun in apposition derived from the Latin word for to groan, moan, sigh.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244981</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: UGANDA: Kabarole Dist., 20km SE Fort Portal, Makerere University Biological Field Station (MUBFS), 0°33.08'N, 30°21.54'E, 1570m, 9. X– 11.X.2001, yellow pan trap, B. Gill &amp; J. Gill, OSUC 212932 (deposited in CNCI). Paratypes:(4 females, 1 male) CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: 1 male, OSUC 250982 (SAMC). UGANDA: 4 females, OSUC 212345, 212933 (CNCI); OSUC 250749, 250751 (SAMC).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>See Scelio cano .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5535C551B67DB85BFE0B8CAE4FAC1701	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
9C35097BF8EEB763DDB5D02F17197707.text	9C35097BF8EEB763DDB5D02F17197707.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio grunnio Yoder	<div><p>Scelio grunnio Yoder sp. n. Figures 30, 187-192; Morphbank 46</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 4.69-5.16 mm (n=6). Male body length: 4.78 mm (n=1). Color of pilosity of dorsal head in female: golden to brown. Occipital carina in female: percurrent. Color of pilosity of the frons below the anterior ocellus in female: predominantly golden to brown. Pilosity of eye in female: absent; present. Medial keel on interantennal process: absent. Width of lower gena in lateral view: narrowing dorsally, posterior margin of lower half of gena angled with respect to posterior orbit. Genal carina: absent. Color of genal pilosity: brown. Color of scape in female: yellow in basal half, darkening to light brown in apical half. Surface of the pronotal nucha in female: predominantly sculptured. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: golden to dark brown, concolorous with that of mesoscutum. Sculpture of medial mesoscutum in female: predominantly longitudinally strigose to rugulose. Color of pilosity of mesoscutum in female: predominantly light brown to brown. Notaulus in female: present as more or less uninterrupted channel in posterior 1/2 of mesoscutum. Form of axillular carina in female: small, not particularly expanded or projected from the lateral edge of the mesoscutellum; bladelike or carinate in posterolateral corner but not forming distinct lobe. Pilosity of propodeal nucha: absent. Pilosity of netrion: absent. Surface of mesopleural depression in female: sculptured throughout; with small smooth patch ventrally. Form of ventral margin of villus in female: bent ventrally in posterior, obviously not straight throughout. Color of coxae in female: brown. Color of hind femur: dark brown with white base. Color of hind tibia: yellow at extreme base, otherwise light brown. Fore wing length in female: apex between anterior margin of T5 and posterior margin of T6. Color of metasoma: light reddish brown. Sculpture of laterotergites in female: predominantly smooth; predominantly aciculate. Pilosity of laterotergites in female: absent. Sculpture of medial T1 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Sculpture of medial T2 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Pattern of sculpture on T3-T5 in female: T3 predominantly reticulate, T4-T5 predominantly longitudinally striate to strigose; predominantly longitudinally striate. Color of pilosity on lateral T3-T5 in female: predominantly golden to brown. Lateral profile of T6 in female: vertically sloped in posterior half; more or less horizontal. Sculpture of T6 in female: predominantly rugulose to reticulate. Sculpture of lateral metasomal sternal bar in female: predominantly smooth to slightly irregularly rugose. Distribution of felt fields: 2 pairs present (S2, S3).</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Most similar to Scelio susurro, Scelio cano, Scelio crepo, and Scelio tono which have the combination of brown pilosity on the pronotal shoulders, evenly distributed pilosity of the metasoma and the absence of a carina within the interantennal process. Differing from these species by the combination of the color pattern of the hind tibia (white with brown band at apex, or yellow throughout), color pattern of the scape (yellow at base and brown at apex), and sculpture of the mesoscutum (with longitudinal trend).</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a noun in apposition derived from the Latin word for grunt.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244986</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: GUINEA: Lola Pref., rainforest, Mount Nimba, 07°41-42'N, 08°23'W, 514-740m, XII-1990-III-1991, flight intercept trap, L. Leblanc, OSUC 213098 (deposited in CNCI). Paratypes: (5 females, 1 male) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: 2 females, OSUC 212376-212377 (CNCI). GHANA: 2 females, 1 male, OSUC 214366-214367, 250741 (OSUC). GUINEA: 1 female, OSUC 213100 (CNCI).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>As presently delimited this species is relatively highly variable. The known material consists of three sets collected in different localities. Specimens within each set are morphologically variable, and there is noticeable variation between the sets as well. Each set may ultimately represent different species, but more specimens are needed to circumscribe the observed variation. There is a tendency among all individuals to have thicker, longitudinal carinae on the mesonotum and propodeum, usually with relatively uninterrupted interstices. In the largest specimens, however, there is more reticulation between the longitudinal elements. In all but the two specimens from the D.R.C. (OSUC 212376, 212377) the tibia is yellow with a short brown band at the apex. The two specimens from the D.R.C. appear somewhat translucent, and this may indicate modification of the natural color by collecting method. The sculpture of T6 may ultimately be of use in delimiting species, but there appears to be a transition from smaller individuals with thinner somewhat longitudinal carinae to larger individuals with thicker reticulations. The sculpture of the lateral portion of T1 also varies: in the two individuals from Ghana the lateral margin is smooth and with only a single longitudinal carina; additional rugulae are present in the other four individuals. The largest individual (OSUC 212377) is perhaps the best candidate for a separate species. In this specimen the mid tibia is nearly completely yellow (as compared to the brown to yellow pattern seen in other individuals), the sculpture of the metasoma is more robust than the other individuals, there is no glabrous patch on the ventral metasoma, and the mesoscutum and propodeum have more reticulations partially obscuring the longitudinal trend in sculpture seen in the other individuals. The sculpture of the frons in the two individuals from Ghana is more transverse than the more uniform reticulate sculpture seen in the other four.</p><p>While variation exists all six specimens may be firmly grouped by the characters listed in the diagnosis and others including the relatively large ocelli and eyes (resulting in a narrow frons), the similar sculpture pattern of the frons, the color pattern on the scape, the slightly developed axilluar carinae, and the ventromedially bent villus.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9C35097BF8EEB763DDB5D02F17197707	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
42B9E02CA11A7496EDD22D3E53EE7887.text	42B9E02CA11A7496EDD22D3E53EE7887.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio latro Yoder	<div><p>Scelio latro Yoder sp. n. Figures 21, 26, 193-198; Morphbank 47</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.25-4.40 mm (n=9). Color of pilosity of dorsal head in female: golden to brown. Occipital carina in female: broadly obliterated to absent medially. Color of pilosity of the frons below the anterior ocellus in female: predominantly white. Pilosity of eye in female: absent. Medial keel on interantennal process: absent. Width of lower gena in lateral view: wide, posterior margin of lower half of gena parallel to posterior orbit. Genal carina: absent. Color of genal pilosity: white. Color of scape in female: yellow throughout. Surface of the pronotal nucha in female: predominantly sculptured; predominantly smooth. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: white to light brown, lighter than that of mesoscutum; golden to dark brown, concolorous with that of mesoscutum. Sculpture of medial mesoscutum in female: predominantly angular reticulate to rugulose. Color of pilosity of mesoscutum in female: predominantly light brown to brown. Notaulus in female: indicated by a row of cells. Form of axillular carina in female: small, not particularly expanded or projected from the lateral edge of the mesoscutellum. Pilosity of propo deal nucha: absent. Pilosity of netrion: absent. Surface of mesopleural depression in female: sculptured throughout. Form of ventral margin of villus in female: bent ventrally in posterior, obviously not straight throughout. Color of coxae in female: brown. Color of hind femur: dark brown throughout. Color of hind tibia: yellow throughout. Fore wing length in female: apex between anterior margin of T5 and posterior margin of T6. Color of metasoma: entirely dark brown. Sculpture of laterotergites in female: predominantly aciculate. Pilosity of laterotergites in female: absent. Sculpture of me dial T1 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Sculpture of medial T2 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Pattern of sculpture on T3-T5 in female: predominantly longitudinally striate. Color of pilosity on lateral T3-T5 in female: predominantly golden to brown. Lateral profile of T6 in female: vertically sloped in posterior half; more or less horizontal. Sculpture of T6 in female: predominantly longitudinally striate to strigose. Sculpture of lateral metasomal sternal bar in female: minutely reticulate throughout. Distribution of felt fields: 2 pairs present (S2, S3).</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Most similar to Scelio mutio which shares a similarly shaped villus (Fig. 21), pilosity and sculpture of the mesoscutum (Fig. 195), and general habitus (Figs 193, 194). Scelio latro differs from Scelio mutio in the fine longitudinal sculpture of T6 (vs. transversely rugulose), the aciculate sculpture of the laterotergites (vs. smooth), the pilosity of the pronotal shoulder which is lighter than that of the mesoscutum (vs. concolorous), the light brown hind femur (vs. yellow), and, subtly, the incomplete occipital carina (vs. percurrent).</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a noun in apposition derived from the Latin word for bark or howl.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244982</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: TANZANIA: Dar es Salaam Reg., Dar es Salaam, II-1985, flight intercept trap, J. Middleton, OSUC 250953 (deposited in CNCI). Paratypes: (8 females) MALAWI: 2 females, OSUC 212453, 212929 (CNCI). TANZANIA: 6 females, OSUC 212968, 212976, 250951, 250959, 250968 (CNCI); OSUC 212969 (OSUC).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>The differences between Scelio latro and Scelio mutio are subtle but consistent. The color of pilosity on the head and pronotal shoulders is intermediate between white and the brown which may lead to some confusion in the key if it is interpreted as white. Though subtle, the color of the pilosity of the frons is not white. The propodeal projections (Fig. 198) are somewhat rounded and blunt. The preapical margin of T6 is relatively broad and well developed. The longitudinal sculpture of the propodeum is generally angled outwards. The ventral margin of the villus curves upwards forming an acute angle just past the anterior origin. In other species its course extends below the ventral extent of the propodeal spiracle forming a right or obtuse angle.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/42B9E02CA11A7496EDD22D3E53EE7887	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
6EE11F1FF0C3B64123A61B8FBADB9F50.text	6EE11F1FF0C3B64123A61B8FBADB9F50.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio mutio Yoder	<div><p>Scelio mutio Yoder sp. n. Figures 199-204; Morphbank 48</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.20-3.93 mm (n=6). Color of pilosity of dorsal head in female: golden to brown. Occipital carina in female: percurrent. Color of pilosity of the frons below the anterior ocellus in female: predominantly golden to brown. Pilosity of eye in female: present. Medial keel on interantennal process: absent. Width of lower gena in lateral view: wide, posterior margin of lower half of gena parallel to posterior orbit. Genal carina: absent. Color of genal pilosity: brown. Color of scape in female: yellow in basal half, darkening to light brown in apical half. Surface of the pronotal nucha in female: predominantly sculptured. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: golden to dark brown, concolorous with that of mesoscutum. Sculpture of medial mesoscutum in female: predominantly angular reticulate to rugulose. Color of pilosity of mesoscutum in female: predominantly light brown to brown. Notaulus in female: not delimited. Form of axillular carina in female: small, not particularly expanded or projected from the lateral edge of the mesoscutellum. Pilosity of propodeal nucha: absent. Pilosity of netrion: absent. Surface of mesopleural depression in female: sculptured throughout. Form of ventral margin of villus in female: bent ventrally in posterior, obviously not straight throughout. Color of coxae in female: brown. Color of hind femur: dark brown throughout. Color of hind tibia: yellow at extreme base, otherwise light brown. Fore wing length in female: apex between anterior margin of T5 and posterior margin of T6. Color of metasoma: entirely dark brown. Sculpture of laterotergites in female: predominantly smooth. Pilosity of laterotergites in female: absent. Sculpture of medial T1 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Sculpture of medial T2 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Pattern of sculpture on T3-T5 in female: predominantly longitudinally striate. Color of pilosity on lateral T3-T5 in female: predominantly golden to brown. Lateral profile of T6 in female: vertically sloped in posterior half. Sculpture of T6 in female: predominantly rugulose to reticulate; predominantly transversely rugose. Sculpture of lateral metasomal sternal bar in female: minutely reticulate throughout. Distribution of felt fields: 2 pairs present (S2, S3).</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Similar to other species in the brown subgroup. Differing from these by the combination of scape color (yellow or light brown at base, darkening to brown at apex), hind femur color (light brown nearly throughout), and sculpture of the lateral margin of the metasomal sternites. See also diagnosis for Scelio latro .</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a noun in apposition derived from the Latin word for mutter.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244983</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: SOUTH AFRICA: Eastern Cape Prov., Blue Duiker Trail, ~2.5km W Storms River Mouth, Tsitsikamma Section, tall coastal forest, FMHD#2004-016 / ANMT site 1079, Garden Route National Park, 34°01.05'S, 23°52.66'E, 100m, 29. I– 25.II.2004, flight intercept trap, Solodovnikov, Newton &amp; Thayer, OSUC 244035 (deposited in FMNH). Paratypes: SOUTH AFRICA: 5 females, OSUC 211353 (CNCI); OSUC 244036-244038 (FMNH); OSUC 244039 (OSUC).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>Scelio mutio, the southernmost member of the brown subgroup, is also the smallest member of the group. T6 is only slightly wider than long and is relatively more conical than similar species. The metasoma in dorsal view is somewhat pointed and ovoid. The pronotal nucha is smooth in the anterior half, and sculptured posteriorly.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6EE11F1FF0C3B64123A61B8FBADB9F50	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
5E46242EC531757FE5A368F186B2C025.text	5E46242EC531757FE5A368F186B2C025.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio susurro Yoder	<div><p>Scelio susurro Yoder sp. n. Figures 28, 205-210; Morphbank 49</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 4.90-5.88 mm (n=2). Male body length: 4.41-4.80 mm (n=15). Color of pilosity of dorsal head in female: golden to brown. Occipital ca rina in female: percurrent. Color of pilosity of the frons below the anterior ocellus in female: predominantly golden to brown. Pilosity of eye in female: absent. Medial keel on interantennal process: absent. Width of lower gena in lateral view: wide, posterior margin of lower half of gena parallel to posterior orbit. Genal carina: absent. Color of genal pilosity: white. Color of scape in female: brown to dark brown throughout; yellow in basal half, darkening to light brown in apical half. Surface of the pronotal nucha in female: predominantly sculptured. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: white to light brown, lighter than that of mesoscutum; golden to dark brown, concolorous with that of mesoscutum. Sculpture of medial mesoscutum in female: predominantly angular reticulate to rugulose. Color of pilosity of mesoscutum in female: predominantly light brown to brown. Notaulus in female: not delimited; present as more or less uninterrupted channel in posterior 1/2 of mesoscutum. Notaulus in male: delimited by row of cells. Form of axillular carina in female: small, not particularly expanded or projected from the lateral edge of the mesoscutellum. Pilosity of propodeal nucha: absent. Pilosity of netrion: absent. Surface of mesopleural depression in female: with small smooth patch ventrally. Form of ventral margin of villus in female: bent ventrally in posterior, obviously not straight throughout. Color of coxae in female: brown. Color of hind femur: dark brown throughout. Color of hind tibia: yellow at extreme base, otherwise light brown. Fore wing length in female: apex between anterior margin of T5 and posterior margin of T6. Color of metasoma: entirely dark brown. Sculpture of laterotergites in female: predominantly smooth. Pilosity of laterotergites in female: absent. Sculpture of medial T1 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Sculpture of medial T2 in female: most prominent elements predominantly reticulate rugulose; most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Pattern of sculpture on T3-T5 in female: T3 predominantly reticulate, T4-T5 predominantly longitudinally striate to strigose. Color of pilosity on lateral T3-T5 in female: predominantly white. Lateral profile of T6 in female: more or less horizontal. Sculpture of T6 in female: predominantly rugulose to reticulate. Sculpture of lateral metasomal sternal bar in female: predominantly smooth to slightly irregularly rugose; minutely reticulate throughout. Distribution of felt fields: 2 pairs present (S2, S3).</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Most similar to Scelio fremo which shares similar setal patterns on the gena, lateral metasomal tergites and to some extent the pronotal shoulder and frons. In both species there are both white and golden brown setae in these areas, their distribution on the lateral metasoma is towards the posterior (anterior glabrous to sparsely setose, Fig. 210). Differing from Scelio fremo by the shorter metasoma and fore wings that surpass T5, the curved ventral margin of the villus, and the small obliterated patch of sculpture on the ventral mesopleural depression.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a noun in apposition derived from the Latin word for murmur, whisper, hum, or buzz.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244985</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Sangha-Mbaéré Préf . Écon ., 38.6km (173°) S Lidjombo, lowland rainforest, CAR01-M177, Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, 02°21.60'N, 16°03.20'E, 350m, 22. V– 23 .V.2001, malaise trap, S. van Noort, OSUC 213654 (deposited in SAMC). Paratypes: (1 female, 15 males) CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: 7 males, OSUC 212523-212526 (CNCI); OSUC 211831, 213672, 214189 (SAMC). GHANA: 6 males, OSUC 212502-212503 (CNCI); OSUC 250737-250740 (OSUC). GUINEA: 1 female, OSUC 213136 (CNCI). LIBERIA: 1 male, OSUC 244096 (USNM). NIGERIA: 1 male, OSUC 211382 (CNCI).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>At present only two females are known, and while we here treat them as one species, they may ultimately warrant division. There is some difference in the general robustness of sculpture between the two individuals, the larger (OSUC 213654) being more robust in general, with less of a longitudinal trend on the mesoscutum and a broader gena (lateral view). Scelio susurro appears to be related to Scelio exaratus (Kieffer) from the Seychelles (not treated here, but see http://hol.osu.edu/index.html?id=5226), the two sharing obliterated patches on the mesopleural depression, the arrangement of setae on the lateral metasoma, infuscate wings, and a similar habitus. The pattern of sculpture on the mesoscutum (predominantly longitudinal with few reticulations) and narrow gena differentiate Scelio exaratus from the present species. Scelio susurro is somewhat intermediate between the brown and white subgroups, with a "salt and pepper" setal pattern (both white and brown mixed together) in various locations on the body (see Diagnosis). The brown pilosity of the mesoscutum is more typically found in brown subgroup species. Some of the tentatively associated males have the posterior lateral tergal setal patches brown contrasting with the predominantly white setae in females. The base of the scape in the two females is slightly lighter than the apex. In one the scape could be considered dark yellow, though we expect the scape to be brown throughout in a majority of individuals.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5E46242EC531757FE5A368F186B2C025	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
02E28AA40A6CCC6AF4A12F07AAEB50F9.text	02E28AA40A6CCC6AF4A12F07AAEB50F9.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio tono Yoder	<div><p>Scelio tono Yoder sp. n. Figures 211-216; Morphbank 50</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 4.72-5.31 mm (n=7). Color of pilosity of dorsal head in female: golden to brown. Occipital carina in female: percurrent. Color of pilosity of the frons below the anterior ocellus in female: predominantly golden to brown. Pilosity of eye in female: absent. Medial keel on interantennal process: absent. Width of lower gena in lateral view: narrowing dorsally, posterior margin of lower half of gena angled with respect to posterior orbit. Genal carina: present. Color of genal pilosity: brown. Color of scape in female: brown to dark brown throughout. Surface of the pronotal nucha in female: predominantly sculptured. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: golden to dark brown, concolorous with that of mesoscutum. Sculpture of medial mesoscutum in female: predominantly longitudinally strigose to rugulose. Color of pilosity of mesoscutum in female: predominantly light brown to brown. Notaulus in female: present as more or less uninterrupted channel in posterior 1/2 of mesoscutum. Notaulus in male: present as more or less uninterrupted channel in posterior 1/2 of mesoscutum. Form of axillular carina in female: bladelike or carinate in posterolateral corner but not forming distinct lobe. Pilosity of propodeal nucha: absent. Pilosity of netrion: absent. Surface of mesopleural depression in female: sculptured throughout. Form of ventral margin of villus in female: bent ventrally in posterior, obviously not straight throughout. Color of coxae in female: brown. Color of hind femur: dark brown throughout . Color of hind tibia: yellow at extreme base, otherwise light brown. Fore wing length in female: apex between anterior margin of T5 and posterior margin of T6; apex surpassing posterior margin of T6. Color of metasoma: entirely dark brown. Sculpture of laterotergites in female: predominantly smooth. Pilosity of laterotergites in female: absent. Sculpture of medial T1 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Sculpture of medial T2 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Pattern of sculpture on T3-T5 in female: T3 predominantly reticulate, T4-T5 predominantly longitudinally striate to strigose. Color of pilosity on lateral T3-T5 in female: predominantly golden to brown. Lateral profile of T6 in female: more or less horizontal. Sculpture of T6 in female: predominantly rugulose to reticulate. Sculpture of lateral metasomal sternal bar in female: predominantly smooth to slightly irregularly rugose. Distribution of felt fields: 2 pairs present (S2, S3).</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Most similar to Scelio cano which shares the brown pilosity of the pronotal shoulder and mesoscutum, the brown scape and similarly colored tibiae (Fig. 212). Differing from Scelio cano by the combination of the presence of notauli (indicated as a clear channel in posterior half vs. more or less obscured) and the well-developed axillular carina that extends above the dorsal surface of the mesoscutellum (not expanded past dorsal surface in Scelio cano).</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a noun in apposition derived from the Latin word for sound.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244976</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Sangha-Mbaéré Préf . Écon ., 38.6km (173°) S Lidjombo, lowland rainforest, CAR01-Y52, Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, 02°21.60'N, 16°03.20'E, 350m, 21. V– 27.V.2001, yellow pan trap, S. van Noort, OSUC 211832 (deposited in SAMC). Paratypes: (6 females) CAMEROON: 5 females, OSUC 211222, 212459, 212461-212462 (CNCI); OSUC 212460 (OSUC). CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: 1 female, OSUC 211833 (SAMC).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>The occiput is nearly completely smooth and more or less vertical. The gena is relatively narrow (Fig. 214), with a slight indication of a genal carina dorsally. The fore wing in some females appears to just barely extend past the apex of the metasoma.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/02E28AA40A6CCC6AF4A12F07AAEB50F9	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
33E18A7B94A87D72F034205772A8602F.text	33E18A7B94A87D72F034205772A8602F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio tristis Nixon	<div><p>Scelio tristis Nixon Figures 217-220; Morphbank 51</p><p>Scelio tristis Nixon, 1958: 314 (original Description. Keyed); Masner, 1965: 95 (type information).</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 4.10 mm (n=1). Color of pilosity of dorsal head in female: golden to brown. Occipital carina in female: percurrent. Color of pilosity of the frons below the anterior ocellus in female: predominantly golden to brown. Pilosity of eye in female: absent. Medial keel on interantennal process: absent. Width of lower gena in lateral view: wide, posterior margin of lower half of gena parallel to posterior orbit. Genal carina: absent. Color of genal pilosity: brown. Color of scape in female: brown to dark brown throughout. Surface of the pronotal nucha in female: predominantly sculptured. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: golden to dark brown, concolorous with that of mesoscutum. Sculpture of medial mesoscutum in female: predominantly angular reticulate to rugulose. Color of pilosity of mesoscutum in female: predominantly light brown to brown. Notaulus in female: indicated by a row of cells. Form of axillular carina in female: small, not particularly expanded or projected from the lateral edge of the mesoscutellum. Pilosity of propodeal nucha: present. Pilosity of netrion: absent. Surface of mesopleural depression in female: sculptured throughout. Form of ventral margin of villus in female: bent ventrally in posterior, obviously not straight throughout. Color of coxae in female: brown. Color of hind femur: dark brown throughout. Color of hind tibia: brown throughout. Fore wing length in female: apex between anterior margin of T5 and posterior margin of T6. Color of metasoma: entirely black. Sculpture of laterotergites in female: predominantly smooth. Pilosity of laterotergites in female: absent. Sculpture of medial T1 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Sculpture of medial T2 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Pattern of sculpture on T3-T5 in female: predominantly longitudinally striate. Color of pilosity on lateral T3-T5 in female: predominantly golden to brown. Lateral profile of T6 in female: more or less horizontal. Sculpture of T6 in female: predominantly rugulose to reticulate. Sculpture of lateral metasomal sternal bar in female: predominantly smooth to slightly irregularly rugose. Distribution of felt fields: 2 pairs present (S2, S3).</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Differing from other brown subgroup species by the combination of the uniformly brown scape and tibiae, and the distinct notauli with thickened medial margins.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=5348</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: UGANDA: Rwenzori (Ruwenzori) Mountains, 6000ft, VIII-1940, T. H. C. Taylor, B.M. TYPE HYM. 9.539 (deposited in BMNH).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>Nixon (1958) recorded the unique holotype as collected in 1941, but the label data clearly read 1940. The holotype was earlier dissected with the parts mounted separately on a single card point. It resembles the Madagascan Scelio ructo, differing in the broader gena, more elongate metasoma and several aspects of color and sculpture.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/33E18A7B94A87D72F034205772A8602F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
C4D612C20F47F0F84CFA117BE0AFE200.text	C4D612C20F47F0F84CFA117BE0AFE200.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio effervesco Yoder	<div><p>Scelio effervesco Yoder sp. n. Figures 12, 221-226; Morphbank 52</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.98-4.34 mm (n=4). Male body length: 3.76-4.44 mm (n=2). Color of pilosity of dorsal head in female: white. Occipital carina in female: percurrent. Color of pilosity of the frons below the anterior ocellus in female: predominantly white. Pilosity of eye in female: absent. Medial keel on interantennal process: absent. Width of lower gena in lateral view: wide, posterior margin of lower half of gena parallel to posterior orbit. Genal carina: absent. Color of genal pilosity: brown. Color of scape in female: brown to dark brown throughout. Surface of the pronotal nucha in female: predominantly smooth. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: white to light brown, lighter than that of mesoscutum. Sculpture of medial mesoscutum in female: smooth with rounded punctures. Color of pilosity of mesoscutum in female: predominantly white to off-white. Notaulus in female: not delimited. Notaulus in male: not delimited. Form of axillular carina in female: small, not particularly expanded or projected from the lateral edge of the mesoscutellum. Pilosity of propodeal nucha: absent. Pilosity of netrion: absent. Surface of mesopleural depression in female: with large smooth patch. Form of ventral margin of villus in female: very slightly concave, almost straight. Color of coxae in female: brown. Color of hind femur: dark brown throughout. Color of hind tibia: yellow throughout. Fore wing length in female: apex surpassing posterior margin of T6. Color of metasoma: entirely black. Sculpture of laterotergites in female: predominantly aciculate. Pilosity of laterotergites in female: absent. Sculpture of medial T1 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Sculpture of medial T2 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Pattern of sculpture on T3-T5 in female: predominantly longitudinally striate. Color of pilosity on lateral T3-T5 in female: predominantly white. Lateral profile of T6 in female: more or less horizontal. Sculpture of T6 in female: predominantly rugulose to reticulate. Sculpture of lateral metasomal sternal bar in female: predominantly smooth to slightly irregularly rugose. Distribution of felt fields: 3 pairs present (S2, S3, S4).</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Unique among all Afrotropical Scelio in the presence of 3 well-developed pairs of felt fields (on S2, S3 and S4) and the nearly completely smooth mesoscutum with only small punctures (vs. angular to roundly reticulate or striate strigose).</p><p>Etymology .</p><p>The epithet is used as a noun in apposition derived from the Latin word for boil over, in reference to the bubblelike sculpture of the mesoscutellum.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244971</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: MADAGASCAR: Fianarantsoa Auto. Prov., Talatakely, Bellevue, secondary tropical forest, MA-02-09C-04, Ranomafana National Park, 21°15.99'S, 47°25.21'E, 1020m, 22. XI– 28.XI.2001, malaise trap, R. Harin’Hala, CASENT 2134281 (deposited in CASC). Paratypes: MADAGASCAR: 3 females, 2 males, CASENT 2043535, 2132796, 2132826, 2134282 (CASC); CASENT 2133413 (OSUC).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>Scelio effervesco is aberrant in many ways, and is only tentatively placed into the howardi-group on the basis of the presence of a reduced propodeal projection and associated concavity. The form of the propodeal projection differs, however, from other howardi-group species in that there is not an acute outer corner. In this respect the form of the propodeum of Scelio effervesco more closely resembles that of species in the irwini-group. The pilosity throughout is extremely short and determining the precise color in specific areas is not possible, though it appears to be off-white to light brown. The legs and antennae of males are yellow throughout as compared to the brown of females.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C4D612C20F47F0F84CFA117BE0AFE200	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
98FBD1A181BA684F14B405DBA6226DA7.text	98FBD1A181BA684F14B405DBA6226DA7.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio destico Yoder	<div><p>Scelio destico Yoder sp. n. Figures 17, 25, 227-232; Morphbank 53</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.75-4.34 mm (n=20). Male body length: 3.80-4.32 mm (n=13). Color of pilosity of dorsal head in female: white; golden to brown. Occipital carina in female: percurrent. Color of pilosity of the frons below the anterior ocellus in female: predominantly white. Pilosity of eye in female: absent; present. Medial keel on interantennal process: absent. Width of lower gena in lateral view: narrowing dorsally, posterior margin of lower half of gena angled with respect to posterior orbit. Genal carina: absent. Color of genal pilosity: white. Color of scape in female: brown to dark brown throughout. Surface of the pronotal nucha in female: predominantly sculptured. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: white to light brown, lighter than that of mesoscutum. Sculpture of medial mesoscutum in female: predominantly angular reticulate to rugulose. Color of pilosity of mesoscutum in female: predominantly yellow to golden. Notaulus in female: not delimited; indicated by a row of cells. Form of axillular carina in female: small, not particularly expanded or projected from the lateral edge of the mesoscutellum. Pilosity of propodeal nucha: absent. Pilosity of netrion: absent. Surface of mesopleural depression in female: sculptured throughout; with small smooth patch ventrally . Form of ventral margin of villus in female: very slightly concave, almost straight. Color of coxae in female: brown. Color of hind femur: dark brown with white base. Color of hind tibia: yellow throughout. Fore wing length in female: apex between anterior margin of T5 and posterior margin of T6. Color of metasoma: entirely dark brown. Sculpture of laterotergites in female: predominantly smooth. Pilosity of laterotergites in female: absent. Sculpture of medial T1 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Sculpture of medial T 2 in female: most prominent elements predominantly reticulate rugulose; most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Pattern of sculpture on T3-T5 in female: T3 predominantly reticulate, T4-T5 predominantly longitudinally striate to strigose. Color of pilosity on lateral T3-T5 in female: predominantly white; predominantly golden to brown; more or less evenly split between white and brown. Lateral profile of T6 in female: more or less horizontal. Sculpture of T6 in female: predominantly rugulose to reticulate. Sculpture of lateral metasomal sternal bar in female: minutely reticulate throughout. Distribution of felt fields: 2 pairs present (S2, S3).</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Very similar to Scelio pipilo which shares a similar habitus, reticulate sculpture of the frons, brown to dark brown scape, somewhat bulging eye, and brown pilosity of the lateral metasoma. Differing from Scelio pipilo by the narrow gena with genal carina weakly developed (gena wide and no genal carina discernible in Scelio pipilo).</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a noun in apposition derived from the Latin word for squeak like a mouse.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244987</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: KENYA: Nyanza Prov., Nyangera, 00°03'55.9"S, 34°04'52.2"E, 10. X– 6.XII.2003, malaise trap, I. Prikryl, OSUC 214122 (deposited in CNCI). Paratypes: (32 females, 13 males) BENIN: 1 female, OSUC 212848 (CNCI). BURKINA FASO: 1 female, OSUC 214085 (CNCI). IVORY COAST: 11 females, OSUC 211360, 212859, 212919, 212921, 213014, 213062, 213066, 213069 (CNCI); OSUC 142586, 142593, 57143 (OSUC). KENYA: 12 females, 5 males, OSUC 214104, 214113, 214115-214116, 214138, 214140, 214142, 214146, 214148-214152, 214181, 234634, 234701, 234703 (CNCI). NIGERIA: 2 females, 7 males, OSUC 212170, 212178, 212612, 212626, 212631-212632, 212688-212689, 213034 (CNCI). UGANDA: 1 female, 1 male, OSUC 214136, 214160 (CNCI). ZIMBABWE: 4 females, OSUC 212100, 212344, 213006-213007 (CNCI). Other material: (3 females) GHANA: 1 female, OSUC 213557 (OSUC). NIGERIA: 2 females, OSUC 212810, 213156 (CNCI).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>The villus of Scelio destico is very similar to that of Scelio pipilo . However, in most specimens it tends to be slightly more concave ventrally, while in Scelio pipilo it is more or less straight. Scelio destico is smaller than Scelio pipilo (3.80-4.32 mm vs. 4.64-5.52 mm in females). The color of pilosity of the lateral portion of the metasoma in Scelio destico is highly variable, from more or less completely white to nearly completely brown. This is more variation than observed in Scelio pipilo which has predominantly brown setae in all individuals. The interstitial sculpture (between reticulations or longitudinal striae) of the lateral metasoma is somewhat less dense (more smooth patches) and more irregular in Scelio destico than in Scelio pipilo in which there is dense colliculate sculpture more or less throughout. Three individuals from Nigeria and Ghana (OSUC 212810, 213156, 213557) have the scape is distinctly yellow at the base and brown apically as in Scelio howardi . These three are not included in the paratype series and may ultimately represent a separate species based on the scape color and the absence of the genal carina.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/98FBD1A181BA684F14B405DBA6226DA7	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
A38E4AAC9DAA13EC56059B58555D0D17.text	A38E4AAC9DAA13EC56059B58555D0D17.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio memorabilis Yoder	<div><p>Scelio memorabilis Yoder sp. n. Figures 22, 233-238; Morphbank 54</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 4.08 mm (n=1). Color of pilosity of dorsal head in female: golden to brown. Occipital carina in female: percurrent. Color of pilosity of the frons below the anterior ocellus in female: predominantly golden to brown. Pilosity of eye in female: absent. Medial keel on interantennal process: absent. Width of lower gena in lateral view: wide, posterior margin of lower half of gena parallel to posterior orbit. Genal carina: absent. Color of genal pilosity: brown. Color of scape in female: yellow throughout. Surface of the pronotal nucha in female: predominantly smooth. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: golden to dark brown, concolorous with that of mesoscutum. Sculpture of medial mesoscutum in female: predominantly angular reticulate to rugulose. Color of pilosity of mesoscutum in female: predominantly light brown to brown. Notaulus in female: indicated by a row of cells. Form of axillular carina in female: small, not particularly expanded or projected from the lateral edge of the mesoscutellum. Pilosity of propodeal nucha: absent. Pilosity of netrion: absent. Surface of mesopleural depression in female: sculptured throughout. Form of ventral margin of villus in female: bent ventrally in posterior, obviously not straight throughout. Color of coxae in female: basal half brown, distal half yellow. Color of hind femur: dark brown throughout. Color of hind tibia: yellow throughout. Fore wing length in female: apex not reaching anterior margin of T5. Color of metasoma: light reddish brown. Sculpture of laterotergites in female: predominantly aciculate. Pilosity of laterotergites in female: absent. Sculpture of medial T1 in female: most prominent elements predominantly reticulate rugulose. Sculpture of medial T2 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Pattern of sculpture on T3-T5 in female: predominantly longitudinally striate. Color of pilosity on lateral T3-T5 in female: predominantly golden to brown. Lateral profile of T6 in female: vertically sloped in posterior half. Sculpture of T6 in female: predominantly rugulose to reticulate. Sculpture of lateral metasomal sternal bar in female: predominantly smooth to slightly irregularly rugose. Distribution of felt fields: 3 pairs present (S2, S3, S4).</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Superficially similar to other Afrotropical howardi-group species of the brown subgroup, sharing the brown pilosity of the pronotal shoulder. This species may be distinguished from all African Scelio by the brachypterous wings (Fig. 233). The robust sculpture of the lateral metasoma (Fig. 238) is also relatively distinct for African Scelio .</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is an adjective, the Latin word for memorable, in reference to the unique state of the wing development.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244972</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: SOUTH AFRICA: KwaZulu-Natal Prov., coastal forest, KW00-Y71, Umtamvuna Provincial Nature Reserve, 31°03.798'S, 30°10.448'E, 20m, 13. XI– 20.XI.2000, yellow pan trap, S. van Noort, OSUC 244026 (deposited in SAMC).</p><p>Comments .</p><p>Scelio memorabilis is apparently the only known brachypterous species of Scelio . Though only a single specimen is known, its odd combination of characters states suggests that it warrants species status. The basal half of the coxa is brown and the apex yellow. The sculpture of the metanotum is somewhat rugulose reticulate, though it is still dominated by longitudinal elements. We have coded the third pair of felt fields as present which is quite rare for Afrotropical Scelio. Additional specimens will be required to confirm their consistent presence.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A38E4AAC9DAA13EC56059B58555D0D17	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
EFB318786FE759E60FA902E676CBE79F.text	EFB318786FE759E60FA902E676CBE79F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio philippinensis Ashmead	<div><p>Scelio philippinensis Ashmead Figures 18, 239-244; Morphbank 55</p><p>Scelio philippinensis Ashmead, 1905: 963 (original description); Kieffer 1908: 126 (keyed); Kieffer 1914: 289 (keyed); Kieffer 1926: 310, 321 (description, keyed); Timberlake 1932: 157 (diagnosis); Masner and Muesebeck 1968: 45 (type information).</p><p>Scelio (Scelio) philippinensis Ashmead: Kieffer 1910: 74 (subgeneric assignment).</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.32-4.06 mm (n=15). Male body length: 3.46-4.00 mm (n=2). Color of pilosity of dorsal head in female: golden to brown. Occipital carina in female: percurrent. Color of pilosity of the frons below the anterior ocellus in female: predominantly white; predominantly golden to brown. Pilosity of eye in female: absent. Medial keel on interantennal process: absent. Width of lower gena in lateral view: wide, posterior margin of lower half of gena parallel to posterior orbit. Genal carina: absent. Color of genal pilosity: white. Color of scape in female: brown to dark brown throughout. Surface of the pronotal nucha in female: predominantly smooth. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: golden to dark brown, concolorous with that of mesoscutum. Sculpture of medial mesoscutum in female: predominantly with rounded cells. Color of pilosity of mesoscutum in female: predominantly light brown to brown. Notaulus in female: not delimited. Notaulus in male: not delimited. Form of axillular carina in female: small, not particularly expanded or projected from the lateral edge of the mesoscutellum. Pilosity of propodeal nucha: present. Pilosity of netrion: present. Surface of mesopleural depression in female: sculptured throughout. Form of ventral margin of villus in female: very slightly concave, almost straight. Color of coxae in female: brown. Color of hind femur: dark brown throughout. Color of hind tibia: yellow at extreme base, otherwise light brown. Fore wing length in female: apex between anterior margin of T5 and posterior margin of T6. Color of metasoma: entirely dark brown. Sculpture of laterotergites in female: predominantly smooth. Pilosity of laterotergites in female: present. Sculpture of medial T1 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Sculpture of medial T2 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Pattern of sculpture on T3-T5 in female: predominantly longitudinally striate. Color of pilosity on lateral T3-T5 in female: predominantly white; predominantly golden to brown. Lateral profile of T6 in female: vertically sloped in posterior half. Sculpture of T6 in female: predominantly rugulose to reticulate. Sculpture of lateral metasomal sternal bar in female: predominantly smooth to slightly irregularly rugose. Distribution of felt fields: 2 pairs present (S2, S3).</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Easily differentiated from all other Afrotropical howardi-group species by the setose netrion and the sparsely setose anterior of the propodeal nucha.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=5303</p><p>Associations .</p><p>Emerged from Oxya Serville [ Orthoptera: Acrididae].</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, male, PHILIPPINES: Manila, R. Brown, USNM no. 8336 (deposited in USNM). Other material: (15 females, 2 males) CAMEROON: 1 female, OSUC 212920 (CNCI). CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: 6 females, OSUC 213315, 213638, 213920, 214194, 244017, 254658 (SAMC). GUINEA: 1 female, 1 male, OSUC 211270-211271 (CNCI). IVORY COAST: 7 females, OSUC 213073, 213077, 213220, 213224, 213242-213243 (CNCI); OSUC 142590 (OSUC). MOZAMBIQUE: 1 male, OSUC 213106 (CNCI).</p><p>Comments .</p><p>We here adopt a broad concept of Scelio philippinensis which includes both African and Oriental specimens. While specimens from the two regions can be consistently distinguished on the basis of coxal color–Africa: brown, Oriental: yellow–we found no other corroborating morphological characters. We suspect that it will be necessary to adopt molecular or morphometric approaches to further test species boundaries of this taxon. Scelio philippinensis is highly atypical for Afrotropical Scelio in general. The setae of the anterior propodeal nucha are not seen in any other species of African Scelio . The color of the pilosity of the frons and the lateral metasoma is difficult to interpret due to its short length and narrow width. It appears that there is some variation, with individuals possessing either predominantly white or predominantly brown pilosity. The sculpture of the lateral metasomal sternal bar is variable: in some individuals the surface is more or less smooth, in others only a thin smooth strip is present ventrally.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EFB318786FE759E60FA902E676CBE79F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
48BA52F1C831277FC627D0106DD4D3DD.text	48BA52F1C831277FC627D0106DD4D3DD.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio pipilo Yoder	<div><p>Scelio pipilo Yoder sp. n. Figures 20, 245-250; Morphbank 56</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 4.64-5.52 mm (n=13). Male body length: 4.20-5.39 mm (n=5). Color of pilosity of dorsal head in female: white. Occipital carina in female: percurrent. Color of pilosity of the frons below the anterior ocellus in female: predominantly white. Pilosity of eye in female: absent; present. Medial keel on interantennal process: absent. Width of lower gena in lateral view: wide, posterior margin of lower half of gena parallel to posterior orbit. Genal carina: absent. Color of genal pilosity: white. Color of scape in female: brown to dark brown throughout. Surface of the pronotal nucha in female: predominantly sculptured. Color of pilosity of pronotal shoulder in female: white to light brown, lighter than that of mesoscutum. Sculpture of medial mesoscutum in female: predominantly angular reticulate to rugulose. Color of pilosity of mesoscutum in female: predominantly yellow to golden. Notaulus in female: indicated by a row of cells. Form of axillular carina in female: small, not particularly expanded or projected from the lateral edge of the mesoscutellum. Pilosity of propodeal nucha: absent. Pilosity of netrion: absent. Surface of mesopleural depression in female: sculptured throughout. Form of ventral margin of villus in female: very slightly concave, almost straight. Color of coxae in female: brown. Color of hind femur: dark brown throughout. Color of hind tibia: yellow throughout. Fore wing length in female: apex between anterior margin of T5 and posterior margin of T6. Color of metasoma: entirely dark brown. Sculpture of laterotergites in female: predominantly smooth. Pilosity of laterotergites in female: absent. Sculpture of medial T1 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Sculpture of medial T2 in female: most prominent elements predominantly longitudinal. Pattern of sculpture on T3-T5 in female: T3 predominantly reticulate, T4-T5 predominantly longitudinally striate to strigose. Color of pilosity on lateral T3-T5 in female: predominantly golden to brown. Lateral profile of T6 in female: more or less horizontal. Sculpture of T6 in female: predominantly rugulose to reticulate. Sculpture of lateral metasomal sternal bar in female: minutely reticulate throughout. Distribution of felt fields: 2 pairs present (S2, S3).</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Very similar to Scelio destico in habitus, reticulate sculpture of the frons, brown to dark brown scape, somewhat bulging eye, and brown pilosity of the lateral metasoma . This species differs in the absence of a genal carina and, in lateral view, the posterior margin of the lower half of the gena is parallel to the posterior orbit making the gena appear wider.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a noun in apposition derived from the Latin word for chirp, twitter.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244984</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Sangha-Mbaéré Préf . Écon ., 21.4km (53°) NE Bayanga, Mabéa Bai, lowland rainforest / marsh clearing, CAR01-M49, Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, 03°02.01'N, 16°24.57'E, 510m, 5. V– 6.V.2001, malaise trap, S. van Noort, OSUC 244025 (deposited in SAMC). Paratypes: (12 females, 5 males) BENIN: 3 females, OSUC 211367, 211371-211372 (CNCI). CAMEROON: 1 female, OSUC 211217 (CNCI). CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: 3 females, OSUC 213979 (OSUC); OSUC 254636-254637 (SAMC). GHANA: 1 female, OSUC 213554 (OSUC). KENYA: 1 female, 1 male, OSUC 214114, 214126 (CNCI). NIGERIA: 1 female, OSUC 212613 (CNCI). UGANDA: 2 females, 4 males, OSUC 214135, 214153-214154, 214159, 214161-214162 (CNCI).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/48BA52F1C831277FC627D0106DD4D3DD	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
C30F53778C9C5CAC30E3DBD1DE906264.text	C30F53778C9C5CAC30E3DBD1DE906264.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio aurantium Yoder	<div><p>Scelio aurantium Yoder sp. n. Figures 251-256; Morphbank 57</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 5.12-5.72 mm (n=9). Male body length: 5.32-5.50 mm (n=2). Color of scape in female: brown. Surface of dorsal head in female: covered throughout with very fine sculpture. Occipital carina in female: broadly obliterated medially. Profile of posterior margin of head in lateral view: produced posteriorly, head appearing wedge-shaped. Width of genal setae: narrow to moderately wide. Shape of medial anteclypeus in female: strongly projected, trapezoidal, bilobed apically. Surface of mandible base in female: smooth. Form of mesosoma in female: typically formed, with propodeal shelf moderately elongate and clearly visible in dorsal view. Surface of pronotal nucha in female: sculptured throughout. Transverse pronotal carina in female: developed laterally, absent medially, not percurrent. Shape of mesoscutellum: semicircular to weakly transverse, evenly rounded posteriorly. Surface of propodeal nucha in female: with medial furrow, otherwise smooth. Surface of propodeal shelf in female: sculptured throughout. Color of metasoma in female: orange throughout. Sculpture of T6: finely longitudinally striae.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>This species is most similar to Scelio ipomeae and Scelio impostor which share the medially interrupted transverse pronotal carina. It is easily distinguished from both these species by the prominently bilobed anteclypeus (truncate to slightly concave in both others), the broadly obliterated occipital carina (percurrent in both others), and the completely orange metasoma (apically brown in Scelio ipomeae and brown throughout in Scelio impostor, but see Comments for these species). Scelio aurantium is further recognizable by its relatively large size and slightly elongate habitus.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a noun in apposition derived from the Latin word for orange, the fruit.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244752</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: SOUTH AFRICA: Limpopo Prov., 15km NE Klaserie, woodland, Guernsey Farm, 19.XII-31.XII.1985, malaise trap/flight intercept trap, S. Peck &amp; J. Peck, OSUC 212992 (deposited in CNCI). Paratypes: SOUTH AFRICA: 9 females, 2 males, OSUC 211286, 211393, 212308, 212672, 212985 (CNCI); OSUC 234720 (OSUC); OSUC 213354, 213370, 213395-213396, 213423 (SANC).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>The posterior propodeal margin in Scelio aurantium approaches the angular to dentate state seen in species of Afrotropical ernstii-group, although it does not reach that extreme. The dense fine pilosity of T1, characteristic of the ipomeae-group, is well developed. The humeral sulcus is relatively well-developed as a short broad channel along the posterolateral mesoscutum. Scelio aurantium is one of the few Afrotropical species in which the occipital carina is broadly obliterated medially. No variation of metasomal color was observed: it is orange throughout in all individuals. In most specimens the mesoscutum at a position roughly corresponding to the location of the parapsidal lines is irregularly flattened and slightly polished in a short strip. Two males are associated and well match the females.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C30F53778C9C5CAC30E3DBD1DE906264	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
A5BE3BC39455A288273C76285476CEC6.text	A5BE3BC39455A288273C76285476CEC6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio impostor Yoder	<div><p>Scelio impostor Yoder sp. n. Figures 257-262; Morphbank 58</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.20-4.44 mm (n=12). Male body length: 3.80 mm (n=1). Color of scape in female: brown. Surface of dorsal head in female: covered throughout with very fine sculpture. Occipital carina in female: percurrent. Profile of posterior margin of head in lateral view: produced posteriorly, head appearing wedge-shaped. Width of genal setae: narrow to moderately wide. Shape of medial anteclypeus in female: narrow, trapezoidal, not strongly projected medially, apically slightly truncate to very weakly bilobed. Surface of mandible base in female: smooth. Form of mesosoma in female: typically formed, with propodeal shelf moderately elongate and clearly visible in dorsal view. Surface of pronotal nucha in female: sculptured throughout. Transverse pronotal carina in female: developed laterally, absent medially, not percurrent. Shape of mesoscutellum: semicircular to weakly transverse, evenly rounded posteriorly. Surface of propodeal nucha in female: sculptured throughout. Surface of propodeal shelf in female: sculptured throughout. Color of metasoma in female: brown, T5-T6 dark brown. Sculpture of T6: finely longitudinally striae.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>This species is most similar to Scelio ipomeae which shares a similarly developed clypeus and anteclypeus and similar general habitus. Scelio impostor may be distinguished from Scelio ipomeae by the sparse, narrow pilosity of the gena ( Scelio ipomeae with pilosity of the gena denser, setae thicker) and the brown metasoma (orange in Scelio ipomeae, but see Comments for that species). Individuals of Scelio ipomeae have the head somewhat wedge shaped in lateral view (Fig. 266), whereas those of Scelio impostor are typically more rounded (Fig. 262).</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a noun in apposition derived from the English, in reference to the similarity to Scelio ipomeae .</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244754</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: SOUTH AFRICA: Western Cape Prov., 25km N Prince Albert, damp wash, SA-018, Kat River Crossing, 33°05'39"S, 21°49'59"E, 500m, 3. X– 24.X.2004, malaise trap, Irwin, Parker &amp; Hauser, OSUC 250816 (deposited in SANC). Paratypes: SOUTH AFRICA: 12 females, 1 male, OSUC 211315, 212515, 250812-250815, 250817, 250972-250974 (CNCI); OSUC 213944 (OSUC); OSUC 222098, 234715 (SAMC).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A5BE3BC39455A288273C76285476CEC6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
03AAB9E0BEFC29B01143AB32CFF2F71C.text	03AAB9E0BEFC29B01143AB32CFF2F71C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio ipomeae Risbec	<div><p>Scelio ipomeae Risbec Figures 6, 9, 263-268; Morphbank 59</p><p>Scelio ipomeae Risbec, 1950: 589 (original description); Risbec 1954: 1038 (junior synonym of Scelio mauritanicus Risbec).</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.34-3.48 mm (n=2). Male body length: 2.77-4.50 mm (n=19). Color of scape in female: yellow. Surface of dorsal head in female: covered throughout with very fine sculpture. Occipital carina in female: percurrent. Profile of posterior margin of head in lateral view: evenly arcuate, head appearing lenticular. Width of genal setae: thick. Shape of medial anteclypeus in female: narrow, trapezoidal, not strongly projected medially, apically slightly truncate to very weakly bilobed. Surface of mandible base in female: smooth. Form of mesosoma in female: typically formed, with propodeal shelf moderately elongate and clearly visible in dorsal view. Surface of pronotal nucha in female: sculptured throughout. Transverse pronotal carina in female: developed laterally, absent medially, not percurrent. Shape of mesoscutellum: semicircular to weakly transverse, evenly rounded posteriorly. Surface of propodeal nucha in female: sculptured throughout. Surface of propodeal shelf in female: sculptured throughout. Color of metasoma in female: orange, T6 and/or T5 infuscate brown. Sculpture of T6: finely longitudinally striae.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>This species is most similar to Scelio aurantium and Scelio impostor which share the medially interrupted transverse pronotal carina. Scelio ipomeae differs from Scelio aurantium by the complete occipital carina (vs. broadly obliterated) and the brown infuscation of T5 and T6 (vs. orange metasoma throughout). It differs from Scelio impostor by the dense patch of thicker white setae on the gena (vs. sparse thinner setae), wedge-shaped head in lateral view (vs. more rounded), and orange metasoma (vs. brown).</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=9739</p><p>Associations .</p><p>Solitary egg parasitoid of Locusta migratoria (Linnaeus) [ Orthoptera: Acrididae].</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Lectotype (present designation), female: SENEGAL: Diourbel Rég ., sweet potato leaves, Bambey, 16.XI.1946, OSUC 254718 (deposited in MNHN). Paralectotype: SENEGAL: 1 female, OSUC 254719 (MNHN). Other material: (450 females, 215 males, 3 unknowns) BENIN: 2 females, 1 male, OSUC 211363-211364 (CNCI); OSUC 142669 (OSUC). BOTSWANA: 187 females, 117 males, OSUC 202824-202825 (AEIC); OSUC 211266, 213195 (CNCI); OSUC 160041-160042, 160045 -160050, 160052 (EMEC); OSUC 254551 (MZLU); OSUC 164131, 164133, 164135-164136, 164138-164139, 164141-164144, 164146-164150, 164152-164164, 164167-164170, 164172-164175, 164177-164188, 164190-164192, 164194-164198, 164201-164204, 164206-164214, 164216-164232, 166262-166270, 166303-166322, 166324-166341, 166345-166346, 166350-166351, 166353, 166355-166356, 166358, 166361-166363, 166366-166367, 166370, 166372-166375, 166377-166378, 166381-166392, 211626, 211683, 212041-212061, 212064-212078, 212080-212084, 212089, 212093, 212096, 254728 (OSUC); OSUC 171009, 171116, 171119-171120, 171124-171127, 171142-171148, 171150-171157, 171160-171164, 171339, 171342, 171344-171345, 171347-171348, 171352, 171355, 171359-171361, 171364-171368, 207549, 207552-207553, 207555-207557, 207559-207574, 211805-211811, 211813, 211815, 211818, 211821, 244076 (USNM). BURKINA FASO: 4 females, 2 males, OSUC 213084-213085, 213090, 213092, 214092 (CNCI); OSUC 213387 (SANC). ERITREA: 1 female, OSUC 210359 (MCSN). KENYA: 6 females, 12 males, CASENT 2042603-2042610 (CASC); OSUC 212341, 212355, 214106-214107, 214111, 214118, 234633, 234642 (CNCI); OSUC 244094-244095 (USNM). MALAWI: 1 male, OSUC 212926 (CNCI). MOZAMBIQUE: 1 female, OSUC 213103 (CNCI). NIGER: 1 female, OSUC 251071 (TAMU). NIGERIA: 17 females, 2 males, OSUC 212196, 212730-212732, 213147, 213177, 250793, 250947-250949, 250969, 250989-250990, 250994, 251003-251007 (CNCI). SENEGAL: 1 female, OSUC 254720 (MNHN). SOUTH AFRICA: 215 females, 79 males, 3 unknowns, OSUC 202813 (AEIC); OSUC 211280, 211285, 211304, 211307, 211311, 211313, 211320-211321, 211324-211325, 211328, 211330, 211332-211337, 211339-211345, 211391-211392, 211396-211397, 211924-211927, 211929, 211931, 211933, 211936-211937, 211939-211940, 212221, 212223, 212240-212241, 212243-212245, 212249, 212254, 212263-212268, 212275-212281, 212283, 212285-212287, 212289, 212291-212293, 212297-212298, 212301-212305, 212307, 212314-212318, 212321-212322, 212324-212326, 212329-212336, 212368, 212383, 212385, 212387, 212389-212391, 212418, 212428, 212430-212431, 212437-212439, 212447, 212601, 212652, 212656, 212660-212664, 212666-212668, 212671, 212673, 212675-212682, 212745-212746, 212748, 212750-212752, 212754, 212759, 212765-212766, 212769-212770, 212772-212774, 212856-212857, 212863, 212865-212867, 212869, 212875, 212878-212881, 212883-212885, 212888-212889, 212913-212915, 212917-212918, 212922, 212927, 212978-212979, 212981-212982, 212984, 212986-212991, 212994-212999, 213114, 213129, 234667, 234669, 234674-234675, 250729 (CNCI); OSUC 250712 (MZLU); OSUC 142596, 142598, 142603-142604, 142607-142615, 171686-171687, 176244-176248, 211672-211673, 211685, 212388, 213609, 213623-213633, 222121-222127, 222131, 222135, 222303-222309, 234719, 234721-234723, 234725, 234728-234730, 244041-244045, 244202, 250735-250736, 250976, 250978, 250981 (OSUC); OSUC 213535, 213661 (SAMC); OSUC 213330, 213334, 213343, 213347, 213356, 213363, 213379, 213382, 213384, 213397, 213402-213403, 213415, 213435-213436, 213441, 213448, 213456- 213459, 213471-213472, 213478, 213484, 213490, 214381 (SANC). TANZANIA: 1 female, 1 male, OSUC 212972, 250952 (CNCI). YEMEN: 2 females, OSUC 212492, 212948 (CNCI). ZIMBABWE: 12 females, OSUC 212102-212103, 212105, 212112, 212214, 212220, 212229, 212402, 212414, 213040, 213214, 213217 (CNCI).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>Scelio ipomeae is a widespread species and one of the most abundant in collections. The species exhibits relatively large variation in size, but large and small individuals are easily diagnosable. The S3 felt field is generally somewhat narrower than in other species. The coloration throughout (yellow scape, brown head and mesosoma, orange metasoma with brown T5-T6) is remarkably constant for all but the short series of atypical specimens discussed below. The sculpture of the dorsal head is often somewhat obliterated.</p><p>We include several atypical specimens in Scelio ipomeae . Three specimens from Yemen (OSUC 212948, 212341, 212492) have the metasoma yellow throughout but otherwise match well. They are all smaller than individuals of Scelio aurantium, which has a similarly colored metasoma, and have the occipital carina complete (vs. broadly obliterated). Two individuals from Kenya (OSUC 224094, 214118) have dark coloration as in Scelio impostor (brown metasoma), but the genal pilosity and head shape matches well with the core series. A third individual from Kenya (OSUC 244095) has a pictate fore wing, with a white band just past the apical extent of the stigmal vein. A smaller individual from Mozambique (OSUC 213103) has a more ovoid head and slightly sparser setae than typical.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AAB9E0BEFC29B01143AB32CFF2F71C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
EBAE5099E3C7386BC6A30D8016E9E8C8.text	EBAE5099E3C7386BC6A30D8016E9E8C8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio ntchisii Yoder	<div><p>Scelio ntchisii Yoder sp. n. Figures 269-274; Morphbank 60</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 4.40 mm (n=1). Color of scape in female: brown. Surface of dorsal head in female: covered throughout with very fine sculpture. Occipital carina in female: percurrent. Profile of posterior margin of head in lateral view: evenly arcuate, head appearing lenticular. Width of genal setae: narrow to moderately wide. Shape of medial anteclypeus in female: narrow, strip like, truncate apically. Surface of mandible base in female: with fine reticulate sculpture. Form of mesosoma in female: compact, with propodeal shelf short very strongly sloped and barely visible in dorsal view. Surface of pronotal nucha in female: with slight but prominent obliterated/smooth patch, otherwise sculptured throughout. Transverse pronotal carina in female: percurrent, not interrupted medially. Shape of mesoscutellum: semicircular to weakly transverse, evenly rounded posteriorly. Surface of propodeal nucha in female: with medial furrow, otherwise smooth. Surface of propodeal shelf in female: sculptured throughout. Color of metasoma in female: brown, T5-T6 dark brown. Sculpture of T6: coarsely rugose reticulate.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Scelio ntchisii is most similar to Scelio somaliensis with which it shares the similarly shaped, compact mesosoma and percurrent transverse pronotal carina. It differs from Scelio somaliensis by the coarse reticulate sculpture of T6 (longitudinal, fine in Scelio somaliensis) and the brown scape (yellow in Scelio somaliensis). Scelio ntchisii is the only species in the ipomeae-group to have the oxter more or less sculptured (reticulate) throughout.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a genitive noun derived from the name of the type locality.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244751</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: MALAWI: Ntchisi forest Reserve, 1500m, 3. XII– 4.XII.1980, Lundt &amp; Stuckenberg, OSUC 212835 (deposited in CNCI).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EBAE5099E3C7386BC6A30D8016E9E8C8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
8CA34F9FF07C6898C27F5927E6ABF92B.text	8CA34F9FF07C6898C27F5927E6ABF92B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio somaliensis Yoder	<div><p>Scelio somaliensis Yoder sp. n. Figures 275-280; Morphbank 61</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 2.86 mm (n=1). Color of scape in female: yellow. Surface of dorsal head in female: covered throughout with very fine sculpture. Occipital carina in female: percurrent. Profile of posterior margin of head in lateral view: evenly arcuate, head appearing lenticular. Width of genal setae: thick. Shape of medial anteclypeus in female: narrow, strip like, truncate apically. Surface of mandible base in female: with fine reticulate sculpture. Form of mesosoma in female: compact, with propodeal shelf short very strongly sloped and barely visible in dorsal view. Surface of pronotal nucha in female: sculptured throughout. Transverse pronotal carina in female: percurrent, not interrupted medially. Shape of mesoscutellum: semicircular to weakly transverse, evenly rounded posteriorly. Surface of propodeal nucha in female: smooth throughout. Surface of propodeal shelf in female: sculptured throughout. Color of metasoma in female: brown. Sculpture of T6: finely longitudinally striae.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>This species is most similar to Scelio ntchisii which shares the similarly shaped compact mesosoma and percurrent transverse pronotal carina. It differs in the fine longitudinal sculpture of T6 (coarsely reticulate in Scelio ntchisii) and the yellow scape (brown in Scelio ntchisii).</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as an adjective derived from the country of the type locality.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244753</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: SOMALIA: Mogadishu, Shabelle (Shabelli) Valley, Afgooye (Afgoi), 25. V– 31.V.1979, malaise trap, F. Bin, OSUC 212608 (deposited in CNCI).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8CA34F9FF07C6898C27F5927E6ABF92B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
4655E428F3DD9B007882AD9CD41A5EC8.text	4655E428F3DD9B007882AD9CD41A5EC8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio transtrum Yoder	<div><p>Scelio transtrum Yoder sp. n. Figures 281-286; Morphbank 62</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female Body length: 3.88-4.68 mm (n=10). Male Body length: 4.45-4.65 mm (n=2). Color of scape in female: brown. Surface of dorsal head in female: with obliterated patches between lateral ocelli, otherwise with somewhat flattened sculpture. Occipital carina in female: percurrent; broadly obliterated medially. Profile of posterior margin of head in lateral view: produced posteriorly, head appearing wedge-shaped. Width of genal setae: narrow to moderately wide. Shape of medial anteclypeus in female: thicker, with rounded corners, extended forward on strongly projected clypeus. Surface of mandible base in female: smooth. Form of mesosoma in female: compact, with propodeal shelf short very strongly sloped and barely visible in dorsal view. Surface of pronotal nucha in female: with slight but prominent obliterated/smooth patch, otherwise sculptured throughout. Transverse pronotal carina in female: percurrent, not interrupted medially. Shape of mesoscutellum: transverse, broadly depressed posteromedially, posterolateral margins slightly elevated. Surface of propodeal nucha in female: with medial furrow, otherwise smooth; smooth throughout. Surface of propodeal shelf in female: with obliterated to smooth patches laterally; sculptured throughout. Color of metasoma in female: orange throughout. Sculpture of T6: finely longitudinally striae.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Scelio transtrum is most similar to Scelio ntchisii and, to a slightly lesser degree, Scelio somaliensis, all sharing the presence of the percurrent transverse pronotal carina and the compact form of the mesosoma with strongly sloped medial propodeal shelf. Scelio transtrum differs from those two species by the strongly projected clypeus/anteclypeus (strip like and not projecting in both others), the transverse mesoscutel lum that has slightly elevated posterolateral margins and medial depression (rounded, not particularly transverse, and otherwise unmodified in both others), and the orange metasoma (brown in both of the others). All but one individual (OSUC 213460 from South Africa) have obliterated or smoother patches on the anterolateral propodeal shelf. All other ipomeae-group species have the shelf sculptured throughout.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a noun in apposition derived from the Latin word for crossbeam, in reference to the percurrent transverse pronotal carina.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244750</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: YEMEN: #5046, Lahij (Lahj), VIII-2000, malaise trap, A. van Harten, OSUC 212935 (deposited in CNCI). Paratypes: (9 females, 2 males) KENYA: 2 females, CASENT 2042611 (CASC); OSUC 212505 (CNCI). SOUTHAFRICA: 1 female, OSUC 213460 (SANC). TANZANIA: 2 females, OSUC 212965, 212973 (CNCI). YEMEN: 4 females, 2 males, OSUC 212483, 212493, 212924, 212934, 212947 (CNCI); OSUC 212496 (OSUC).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>The occipital carina is generally present although it is obscured or absent for a short medial stretch in some. The gap is not as extensive as in Scelio aurantium . Two males are known and match the females well. The male has somewhat more robust sculpture which is particularly noticeable on the dorsal head and pronotal nucha. The male A5 is not as stalked basally and apically broad as in Scelio ipomeae .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4655E428F3DD9B007882AD9CD41A5EC8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
82A4022953EC9446B9B45C5C3CBC843C.text	82A4022953EC9446B9B45C5C3CBC843C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio harinhalai Yoder	<div><p>Scelio harinhalai Yoder sp. n. Figures 293-298; Morphbank 63</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.32-4.00 mm (n=20). Male body length: 3.32-3.92 mm (n=20). Sculpture of posterior vertex: weakly reticulate. Sculpture of frons in female: reticulate throughout; reticulate in upper 3/4. Arcuate carinae of lower frons: “open”, arcuate carina terminating along malar sulcus. Form of RSS on A5 in male: carinate. Sculpture of medial mesonotum: longitudinally striate in posterior half, otherwise reticulate. Surface of propodeal shelf in females: anterolaterally with small smooth patch, otherwise with slightly irregular curved sinuate carinae. Surface of meso- and metapleural depressions: sculptured throughout. Fore wing length: shorter than apex of metasoma.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>This species is most similar to Scelio parkeri with which it shares the combination of smooth patches on the meso- and metapleuron, a tendency for the mesoscutellum to be longitudinally striate, and reticulate sculpture of the posterior head. It differs from Scelio parkeri by the “closed” arcuate sculpture of the frons, with arcs terminating near base of mandible, not along the malar sulcus.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a genitive noun derived from the name of one of the three collectors who together amassed hundreds of specimens of the irwini-group.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244777</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: MADAGASCAR: Toliara Auto. Prov., 8km NW Amboasary, gallery forest, MA-02-22-10, Berenty Private Reserve, 25°00.40'S, 46°18.20'E, 85m, 16. XII– 27.XII.2002, malaise trap, M. Irwin, F. Parker &amp; R. Harin’Hala, CASENT 2132273 (deposited in CASC). Paratypes: MADAGASCAR: 141 females, 889 males, 2 unknowns, CASENT 2042048, 2042057, 2042118, 2042125 -2042126, 2042293, 2042962, 2043062, 2043153, 2043271, 2043273, 2043407, 2043624, 2043911, 2043922, 2132024, 2132088, 2132113-2132114, 2132117, 2132120-2132122, 2132125-2132126, 2132131-2132133, 2132137, 2132141-2132142, 2132145-2132146, 2132148-2132149, 2132153, 2132156, 2132160-2132163, 2132165-2132169, 2132173, 2132177, 2132182-2132183, 2132185-2132187, 2132189-2132192, 2132197, 2132201-2132204, 2132210, 2132213, 2132218, 2132220, 2132222-2132224, 2132228-2132230, 2132237, 2132239-2132241, 2132247, 2132249-2132252, 2132255, 2132261, 2132265, 2132271, 2132275-2132277, 2132284, 2132287-2132288, 2132292-2132294, 2132301, 2132306, 2132308-2132309, 2132311, 2132316, 2132319, 2132333, 2132337, 2132342, 2132344, 2132349, 2132355-2132357, 2132362-2132364, 2132366-2132368, 2132370, 2132372, 2132374, 2132376-2132377, 2132379, 2132385-2132386, 2132388-2132395, 2132399, 2132405, 2132415, 2132572-2132576, 2132580, 2132584, 2132591, 2132597, 2132600-2132601, 2132603-2132605, 2132607, 2132610-2132611, 2132614, 2132616, 2132619-2132621, 2132626-2132628, 2132630, 2132633, 2132637-2132639, 2132653, 2132663, 2132665-2132671, 2132673, 2132677-2132678, 2132683, 2132689-2132691, 2132695-2132699, 2132704-2132705, 2132771, 2132782, 2132801, 2132807, 2132815, 2132852-2132859, 2132861-2132862, 2132867, 2132870-2132871, 2132873, 2132875-2132882, 2132885-2132886, 2132888-2132890, 2132893, 2132895-2132896, 2132899, 2132901, 2132903-2132907, 2132909-2132911, 2132914, 2132916-2132917, 2132919-2132921, 2132923, 2132925, 2132927, 2132930-2132933, 2132937-2132938, 2132940-2132942, 2132944, 2132947, 2132949-2132950, 2132952-2132954, 2132962, 2132964, 2132966, 2132970, 2132979-2132980, 2132985-2132986, 2132988-2132989, 2133079, 2133082, 2133090, 2133095, 2133100, 2133105-2133106, 2133115-2133116, 2133149, 2133161, 2133168, 2133184, 2133250, 2133302, 2133329, 2133332, 2133338, 2133342, 2133344, 2133346, 2133359, 2133430, 2133503, 2133527-2133528, 2133530, 2133538, 2133550, 2133553, 2133555-2133557, 2133560, 2133563, 2133567, 2133569-2133570, 2133572, 2133574-2133576, 2133578, 2133585, 2133591, 2133593-2133594, 2133597-2133598, 2133600, 2133607, 2133610-2133612, 2133616-2133617, 2133619, 2133621-2133623, 2133632, 2133635, 2133637-2133639, 2133642, 2133644, 2133646, 2133648-2133651, 2133653, 2133657-2133659, 2133663, 2133669, 2133671, 2133674, 2133677, 2133683, 2133686, 2133688-2133689, 2133691, 2133695, 2133698, 2133700, 2133705, 2133708, 2133714-2133715, 2133717, 2133721-2133722, 2133724, 2133726, 2133729-2133730, 2133733, 2133735-2133736, 2133739-2133740, 2133744, 2133746-2133747, 2133749-2133752, 2133756, 2133758, 2133763, 2133768, 2133770, 2133772, 2133775, 2133778-2133780, 2133786-2133789, 2133792, 2133794, 2133801, 2133804, 2133825-2133826, 2133830, 2133835, 2133838, 2133842-2133844, 2133849, 2133851, 2133855-2133856, 2133860, 2133864, 2133871-2133872, 2133877-2133878, 2133938, 2133942, 2133953, 2133956, 2133958-2133959, 2133962, 2133966-2133967, 2133969, 2133971-2133972, 2133974, 2133978, 2133981-2133982, 2133986-2133987, 2133989, 2133992-2133994, 2133998, 2134012-2134016, 2134018-2134019, 2134021-2134022, 2134024-2134025, 2134027-2134031, 2134034, 2134038-2134039, 2134042-2134046, 2134048, 2134051-2134052, 2134116, 2134216, 2134253, 2134264, 2134268-2134269, 2134272, 2134275, 2134277, 2134301, 2134310-2134313, 2134315-2134316, 2134318, 2134322-2134324, 2134326, 2134329-2134331, 2134333, 2134335-2134336, 2134338-2134341, 2134343, 2134346-2134350, 2134352, 2134355, 2134357-2134367, 2134370-2134373, 2134377-2134384, 2134387-2134391, 2134393-2134400, 2134402-2134404, 2134444-2134445, 2134448-2134450, 2134521-2134522, 2134585-2134586, 2134629, 2134632, 2134639-2134640, 2134650, 2134654-2134655, 2134691, 2134769, 2134843, 2134847, 2134853, 2134878, 2134883, 2134893, 2135052-2135053, 2135296, 2135920, 2135933, 2135937, 2135981-2135982, 8097491, 8106051, 8106053, 8106060, 8106066-8106068, 8106090-8106091, 8106097, 8106119, 8106305, 8106673, 8106675-8106676, 8106679, 8106682-8106683, 8106686, 8106688-8106689, 8106694, 8106697, 8106700, 8106707, 8106709, 8106712, 8106714, 8106720-8106721, 8106724, 8106729, 8106731, 8106735-8106742, 8106744, 8106746-8106747, 8106759-8106760, 8106762, 8106764, 8106766-8106768, 8106770-8106772, 8106776-8106779, 8106784, 8106787, 8106790, 8106803, 8106805, 8106811, 8106813, 8106815, 8106820, 8106822, 8106825-8106826, 8106829, 8106831-8106832, 8106854, 8106858, 8106860, 8106862-8106863, 8106865, 8106867-8106870, 8106875, 8106878-8106879, 8106881, 8106887-8106890, 8106895, 8106898-8106899, 8106977, 8106993 (CASC); CASENT 2042007, 2042043, 2042045, 2042055, 2042107, 2042115, 2042120-2042122, 2042127-2042128, 2042250-2042251, 2042273, 2042670-2042671, 2042674, 2043069, 2043073, 2043075-2043078, 2043080, 2043082-2043083, 2043085-2043087, 2043089, 2043092-2043094, 2043097-2043098, 2043156, 2043201, 2043252, 2043272, 2043274, 2043298, 2043300, 2043349, 2043401, 2043405, 2043408, 2043410-2043412, 2043418, 2043453, 2043548-2043549, 2043615, 2043856, 2043913, 2043916, 2043921, 2043927-2043928, 2132096, 2132130, 2132140, 2132176, 2132178, 2132209, 2132226, 2132234, 2132267, 2132279, 2132281, 2132283, 2132291, 2132346-2132348, 2132783, 2132908, 2133072, 2133080-2133081, 2133089, 2133091, 2133093-2133094, 2133098-2133099, 2133101-2133102, 2133111-2133114, 2133117, 2133120-2133122, 2133160, 2133180, 2133189, 2133193, 2133236, 2133248-2133249, 2133254, 2133313-2133314, 2133318, 2133321, 2133323-2133324, 2133326, 2133331, 2133335, 2133337, 2133343, 2133345, 2133357, 2133363, 2133929, 2133951, 2134026, 2134406, 2134524, 2134604, 2134630-2134631, 2134633, 2134649, 2134661, 2134858, 2134888, 2135930, 8097460-8097461, 8097465, 8097468, 8097473, 8097477-8097479, 8097482-8097483, 8097486-8097487, 8097489-8097490, 8097493-8097494, 8106047, 8106049, 8106055, 8106057, 8106063-8106064, 8106072, 8106075, 8106077-8106078, 8106081-8106089, 8106092, 8106094-8106096, 8106098, 8106100-8106101, 8106103, 8106106-8106108, 8106110, 8106112, 8106115-8106116, 8106118, 8106120, 8106122, 8106124-8106130, 8106133-8106139, 8106215-8106216, 8106218-8106220, 8106223-8106224, 8106229, 8106231-8106232, 8106234-8106236, 8106239, 8106246, 8106252-8106253, 8106255-8106256, 8106264-8106265, 8106268-8106269, 8106282-8106283, 8106291-8106293, 8106298, 8106302-8106303, 8106307, 8106309-8106310, 8106312-8106313, 8106316-8106317, 8106321, 8106326-8106327, 8106329-8106331, 8106333-8106339, 8106344, 8106346, 8106351-8106353, 8106359, 8106362-8106364, 8106367-8106373, 8106376-8106379, 8106389, 8106394-8106395, 8106451, 8106506, 8106524, 8106527, 8106536, 8106538, 8106543, 8106547, 8106553-8106554, 8106566-8106567, 8106571-8106574, 8106576-8106580, 8106583, 8106591, 8106594-8106596, 8106599, 8106603, 8106608-8106609, 8106611-8106619, 8106621-8106624, 8106626, 8106629, 8106632-8106634, 8106639, 8106641, 8106643, 8106645-8106647, 8106653, 8106655, 8106658, 8106660, 8106662, 8106666-8106668, 8106670, 8106674, 8106677, 8106708, 8106749-8106750, 8106752-8106753, 8106757, 8106763, 8106824, 8106836-8106839, 8106841-8106842, 8106846-8106848, 8106850-8106851, 8106872, 8106876, 8106884 (OSUC).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>Scelio harinhalai has the smallest smooth patches on the meso- and metapleuron among species who share this character ( Scelio irwini has the largest). The arcuate carinae of the face are somewhat hidden due to the surrounding reticulate elements that are present more or less throughout. See also Scelio parkeri . The mesonotal sculpture medially tends to be more reticulate than longitudinal.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/82A4022953EC9446B9B45C5C3CBC843C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
00BB8E2DB25265A0D7BB0A53D2CCCD96.text	00BB8E2DB25265A0D7BB0A53D2CCCD96.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio irwini Yoder	<div><p>Scelio irwini Yoder sp. n. Figures 299-304; Morphbank 64</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.23-3.99 mm (n=19). Male body length: 3.74-4.32 mm (n=2). Sculpture of posterior vertex: transversely carinate. Sculpture of frons in female: linear throughout. Arcuate carinae of lower frons: “closed”, arcuate carinae terminating at ventrolateral corner of anteclypeus. Form of RSS on A5 in male: carinate. Sculpture of medial mesonotum: longitudinally striate in posterior half, otherwise reticulate. Surface of propodeal shelf in females: uniformly reticulate throughout. Surface of meso- and metapleural depressions: with prominent glabrous and smooth patch. Fore wing length: longer than apex of metasoma.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Scelio irwini is most similar to Scelio parkeri with which it shares the smooth patches on the meso- and metapleural depressions. It differs from this and all other irwini-group species by the dorsoventrally carinate to very slightly strigose sculpture of the frons, and unbroken transverse carinae on the posterior head (with at least some prominent reticulate areas outside the ocellar triangle in all others).</p><p>Etymology .</p><p>The epithet is used as a genitive noun derived from the name of our colleague Mike Irwin, one of the three collectors who together amassed hundreds of specimens of the irwini-group.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244778</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: MADAGASCAR: Antsiranana Auto. Prov., Montagne d’Ambre National Park, 12°30'52"S, 49°10'53"E, 960m, 21. I– 26.I.2001, malaise trap, M. E. Irwin, E. I. Schlinger &amp; R. Harin’Hala, CASENT 2042009 (deposited in CASC). Paratypes: MADAGASCAR: 35 females, 4 males, OSUC 211647 (AMNH); CASENT 2042003-2042004, 2042006, 2042011-2042015, 2042017-2042021, 2042023-2042026, 2042030, 2042032-2042033, 2042038-2042041, 2042056, 2042106, 2043318, 2043433, 2132030, 2134300, 2134572, 2135604, 2136585 (CASC); CASENT 2042008, 2042022, 2042027, 2042029, 2042031 (OSUC).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>The sculpture within the ocellar triangular can be irregularly reticulate in some individuals. The male RSS of A5 is intermediate in form between Scelio parkeri and Scelio obscuripennis, projecting slightly like the former, but retaining a bit more of a distinct carina like the latter. The medial mesonotal sculpture tends to be longitudinally striate strigose.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/00BB8E2DB25265A0D7BB0A53D2CCCD96	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
10AAE2B4AB80BA6ABD6CCF64D2F4D479.text	10AAE2B4AB80BA6ABD6CCF64D2F4D479.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio obscuripennis Johnson	<div><p>Scelio obscuripennis Johnson nom. nov. Figures 287-292; Morphbank 65</p><p>Lepidoscelio fuscipennis Kieffer, 1905: 130 (original description); Kieffer 1926: 348 (description); Masner 1976: 16 (type information).</p><p>Scelio obscuripennis http://zoobank.org/F9066C7F-A437-4FD2-85EF-B2A2DEE21AD2</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.08-5.00 mm (n=39). Male body length: 2.74-4.58 mm (n=33). Sculpture of posterior vertex: transversely carinate. Sculpture of frons in female: reticulate in upper half. Arcuate carinae of lower frons: “closed”, arcuate carinae terminating at ventrolateral corner of anteclypeus. Form of RSS on A5 in male: carinate. Sculpture of medial mesonotum: reticulate throughout; longitudinally striate in posterior half, otherwise reticulate. Surface of propodeal shelf in females: uniformly reticulate throughout. Surface of meso- and metapleural depressions: sculptured throughout. Fore wing length: shorter than apex of metasoma; meeting apex of metasoma.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Scelio obscuripennis may be distinguished from all other species of the irwini-group by the completely sculptured mesopleural and metapleural depressions (all other irwini-group species with a smooth patch).</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=4728</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: MADAGASCAR: Antsiranana Auto. Prov., Antsiranana ( Diégo-Suarez), 1893, C. Alluaud (deposited in MNHN). Other material: MADAGASCAR: 149 females, 139 males, CASENT 2042010, 2042028, 2042042, 2042044, 2042046, 2042050-2042051, 2042053, 2042108, 2042116-2042117, 2042123-2042124, 2042256, 2042263, 2042265, 2042703-2042710, 2042712-2042713, 2042715, 2042978-2042980, 2042982, 2043066, 2043251, 2043304, 2043332, 2043348, 2043394-2043395, 2043398-2043400, 2043403, 2043419, 2043422, 2043424-2043425, 2043466, 2043569, 2043571, 2043589, 2043616, 2043630, 2043959, 2132015, 2132022, 2132118, 2132151, 2132553, 2132565, 2132710, 2132712, 2132784, 2133069, 2133075, 2133128, 2133134, 2133138, 2133190, 2133211, 2133330, 2133341, 2133423, 2133923, 2133957, 2134127-2134134, 2134221, 2134229-2134230, 2134243, 2134246-2134248, 2134254, 2134263, 2134274, 2134530, 2134569, 2134578, 2134851, 2134869, 2134884, 2135113, 2135115-2135117, 2135120-2135121, 2135123, 2135125, 2135683, 2135924, 8106193-8106208, 8106210-8106213, 8106276-8106278, 8106286-8106287, 8106296, 8106348-8106349, 8106392-8106393, 8106400-8106401, 8106403-8106406, 8106408, 8106410-8106414, 8106417-8106418, 8106420-8106427, 8106430-8106439, 8106441, 8106505, 8106516, 8106522, 8106563, 8106631, 8106986-8106987, 8106997 (CASC); OSUC 212529, 212534, 212537 (CNCI); CASENT 2042005, 2042016, 2042047, 2042049, 2042058, 2042104-2042105, 2042111, 2042114, 2042130, 2042266, 2042277, 2042626 -2042627, 2042711, 2042714, 2043001, 2043056, 2043165, 2043254, 2043280, 2043282, 2043285, 2043345, 2043420-2043421, 2043426, 2043493-2043495, 2043574, 2043617, 2118395, 2132100-2132103, 2132402, 2132418, 2132554-2132557, 2132566, 2132762-2132763, 2132792, 2132830, 2133104, 2133127, 2133130, 2133167, 2133201, 2133212, 2133245, 2133276, 2133278, 2133291-2133292, 2133294, 2133466, 2133496, 2133926-2133928, 2134144, 2134597, 2134656, 2134692, 2134697, 2134787, 2134816, 2134850, 2134866-2134867, 2134874, 2135109, 2135114, 2135118-2135119, 2135122, 2135124, 2135126-2135127, 2135143, 2135912, 2135914, 2135916, 2135918, 2135926, 8106209, 8106280, 8106284, 8106315, 8106386, 8106402, 8106407, 8106409, 8106415, 8106419, 8106428-8106429, 8106440, 8106593, 8106817, OSUC 212038 (OSUC).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>Kieffer created the genus Lepidoscelio for Scelio -like species in which the metascutellum (which he referred to as the postscutellum in the original French description and later as the Metanotum in German in Das Tierreich) is upright and bilobed. This circumscription includes quite a number of species from the Old and New World. There is no additional evidence that these species are each others closest relatives. In fact, a number of apparently unrelated Neotropical species have such a metascutellum. We conclude that based solely on this character state, the genus Lepidoscelio is polyphyletic. Further, recognition of the concept in a more narrow sense to include only the irwini-group species would render Scelio paraphyletic. Therefore, we propose that Lepidoscelio is a junior synonym of Scelio (new synonymy). Transfer of the type species into Scelio necessitates a change in species name. The name Scelio fuscipennis is preoccupied, having been used by Ashmead (1887) for a Nearctic species. Therefore, we propose the name Scelio obscuripennis as a replacement name. Other than the type species, four other species are currently classified in Lepidoscelio . These are here formally transferred to Scelio (type material examined): Scelio cayennensis (Risbec), comb. n., Scelio insularis Ashmead, comb. r., Scelio luteus (Cameron), comb. n., and Scelio thoracicus Ashmead, comb. r.</p><p>Scelio obscuripennis is the most size variable and phenotypically plastic in the irwini species group. The sculpture of the mesonotum varies, though in most (particularly larger individuals) there is a stronger trend to more reticulate and less longitudinal sculpture medially. A series of individuals presently included, but excluded from the type series, were at one point considered to represent a separate species, however, given the general variation in size and the associated differences that accompany these differences we have elected to describe one rather polymorphic species. The second series (e.g. CASENT 2042111, 2042266, 2043254, 2043574, 2132100, 2132101) is composed of small individuals that have the submarginal vein obliterated prior to reaching the costal margin. Males in this series (e.g. CASENT 2043056, 2043494, 2042114, 8106280, 2132402, 2043282) have somewhat transverse flagellomeres following A5, and stockier legs. Most individuals in this series have a whitish stigma and broader, more compact habitus. These characters may be associated with allometric differences in size.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/10AAE2B4AB80BA6ABD6CCF64D2F4D479	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
A1D97E0252054A6F309CC3E6C366E3DD.text	A1D97E0252054A6F309CC3E6C366E3DD.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio parkeri Yoder	<div><p>Scelio parkeri Yoder sp. n. Figures 11, 305-310; Morphbank 66</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 1.78-5.41 mm (n=19). Male body length: 3.76-4.73 mm (n=20). Sculpture of posterior vertex: weakly reticulate. Sculpture of frons in female: reticulate in upper half. Arcuate carinae of lower frons: “closed”, arcuate carinae terminating at ventrolateral corner of anteclypeus. Form of RSS on A5 in male: node like and somewhat pointed. Sculpture of medial mesonotum: longitudinally striate in posterior half, otherwise reticulate. Surface of propodeal shelf in females: uniformly reticulate throughout. Surface of meso- and metapleural depressions: with prominent glabrous and smooth patch. Fore wing length: shorter than apex of metasoma.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Scelio parkeri is most similar to Scelio harinhalai which shares the smooth patches on the meso- and metapleural depressions. It differs from Scelio harinhalai by the “closed” arcuate sculpture of the frons, with arcs terminating near base of mandible, not along the malar sulcus. The ventralmost extension of the arcuate sculpture is never confused with reticulations in Scelio parkeri as it is in Scelio harinhalai . Males are unique among irwini-group species for the nodelike RSS (carinate in all other irwini-group species).</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a genitive noun derived from the name of Frank Parker, one of the three collectors who together amassed hundreds of specimens of the irwini-group.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244776</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: MADAGASCAR: Toliara Auto. Prov., nr. research station, parcel I, dry deciduous forest, MA-02-14A-04, Bezaha Mahafaly Special Reserve, 23°41.19'S, 44°35.46'E, 165m, 28. XI– 4.XII.2001, malaise trap, Harin’Hala, CASENT 2042035 (deposited in CASC). Paratypes: MADAGASCAR: 164 females, 317 males, CASENT 2042034, 2042036-2042037, 2042054, 2042109-2042110, 2042119, 2042292, 2042673, 2042675, 2042981, 2043079, 2043084, 2043090-2043091, 2043095-2043096, 2043099, 2043269, 2043305, 2043312, 2043343, 2043377, 2043402, 2043406, 2043413, 2043416, 2043430, 2043454, 2043619-2043623, 2043625, 2043633, 2043915, 2043917-2043919, 2132002, 2132013, 2132115-2132116, 2132127, 2132129, 2132195-2132196, 2132219, 2132225, 2132227, 2132238, 2132245, 2132257-2132259, 2132270, 2132278, 2132280, 2132296, 2132318, 2132321, 2132323, 2132325, 2132334, 2132341, 2132378, 2132382, 2132450, 2132587, 2132651, 2132672, 2132674, 2132680, 2132686, 2132806, 2132883-2132884, 2132887, 2132912-2132913, 2132918, 2132936, 2132959, 2132969, 2133070, 2133076-2133078, 2133088, 2133118, 2133140, 2133148, 2133150-2133152, 2133158-2133159, 2133162-2133164, 2133166, 2133169-2133173, 2133175, 2133178, 2133181-2133182, 2133235, 2133274, 2133287, 2133299, 2133307, 2133317, 2133322, 2133325, 2133327-2133328, 2133333-2133334, 2133336, 2133339, 2133351-2133354, 2133391, 2133429, 2133531, 2133541, 2133579, 2133592, 2133609, 2133613-2133614, 2133631, 2133633, 2133647, 2133655, 2133665, 2133667, 2133680, 2133682, 2133684, 2133694, 2133701, 2133703, 2133706, 2133709, 2133719, 2133725, 2133732, 2133737-2133738, 2133748, 2133759, 2133761, 2133790, 2133824, 2133827, 2133832, 2133839, 2133848, 2133943, 2133952, 2133954, 2133961, 2133963, 2133965, 2133970, 2133975-2133977, 2133984, 2134135, 2134180, 2134273, 2134314, 2134317, 2134325, 2134327-2134328, 2134342, 2134354, 2134374, 2134392, 2134602, 2134605, 2134659-2134660, 2134766, 2134784, 2134873, 2135060, 2135913, 2135915, 2135928, 2135980, 2136128, 8097462, 8097466, 8097470, 8097472, 8097488, 8097496, 8097498, 8106048, 8106050, 8106054, 8106056, 8106058-8106059, 8106061, 8106069-8106070, 8106074, 8106079-8106080, 8106099, 8106102, 8106104-8106105, 8106111, 8106113, 8106123, 8106214, 8106217, 8106222, 8106226, 8106237, 8106243, 8106254, 8106258-8106259, 8106261, 8106266-8106267, 8106273, 8106281, 8106290, 8106294-8106295, 8106297, 8106299, 8106318, 8106320, 8106324, 8106328, 8106340, 8106343, 8106350, 8106354, 8106356, 8106358, 8106375, 8106501-8106503, 8106520, 8106526, 8106528, 8106530, 8106548-8106550, 8106552, 8106555, 8106558, 8106570, 8106584, 8106586, 8106589-8106590, 8106600, 8106605, 8106610, 8106625, 8106628, 8106636-8106637, 8106644, 8106648-8106649, 8106651-8106652, 8106671-8106672, 8106680, 8106685, 8106692, 8106701, 8106718, 8106728, 8106743, 8106754, 8106758, 8106761, 8106765, 8106769, 8106783, 8106786, 8106796, 8106806, 8106827, 8106833, 8106835, 8106844, 8106864, 8106873, 8106883, 8106893 (CASC); CASENT 2042129, 2042276, 2043070, 2043250, 2043908, 2043910, 2043912, 2043920, 2043923-2043925, 2132004, 2132097, 2132128, 2132147, 2132155, 2132199, 2132231, 2132248, 2132253-2132254, 2132263, 2132272, 2132286, 2132299, 2132352, 2132387, 2132436, 2132577, 2132581-2132582, 2132592, 2132595-2132596, 2132598, 2132609, 2132615, 2132622, 2132632, 2132646, 2132650, 2132664, 2132676, 2132684, 2132688, 2132693, 2132706-2132707, 2132868, 2132915, 2132922, 2132924, 2132926, 2132934, 2132939, 2132955-2132956, 2132960, 2132974, 2132978, 2132982, 2132994, 2133092, 2133103, 2133107-2133109, 2133123-2133124, 2133141, 2133143-2133144, 2133146-2133147, 2133154-2133155, 2133157, 2133174, 2133176, 2133179, 2133315-2133316, 2133319, 2133371, 2133451, 2133504, 2133526, 2133554, 2133562, 2133566, 2133580-2133582, 2133590, 2133603, 2133605-2133606, 2133618, 2133620, 2133645, 2133668, 2133702, 2133716, 2133720, 2133741, 2133755, 2133765, 2133769, 2133785, 2133800, 2133803, 2133829, 2133964, 2133983, 2133990-2133991, 2133995-2133997, 2134023, 2134033, 2134215, 2134217, 2134320, 2134332, 2134334, 2134337, 2134345, 2134351, 2134356, 2134369, 2134375-2134376, 2134386, 2134601, 2134652, 2134800, 2135917, 8106071, 8106073, 8106093, 8106109, 8106114, 8106121, 8106175, 8106240, 8106300-8106301, 8106304, 8106396, 8106450, 8106452-8106453, 8106597, 8106602, 8106703, 8106711, 8106713, 8106722, 8106725, 8106756, 8106871, 8106891, 8106973-8106974, 8106978-8106979 (OSUC).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>Individuals of Scelio parkeri are generally larger than those of Scelio harinhalai, and the smooth patch on the meso- and metapleuron is generally larger and more prominent. The mesonotum, particularly the mesoscutellum, tends to have slightly more longitudinally striate strigose and also often somewhat finer sculpture than seen in the other species.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A1D97E0252054A6F309CC3E6C366E3DD	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
9E1EE7FD4E693CB2980ACA64D4621935.text	9E1EE7FD4E693CB2980ACA64D4621935.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio simoni Yoder	<div><p>Scelio simoni Yoder sp. n. Figures 3, 10, 311-316; Morphbank 67</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.08-3.73 mm (n=10). Male body length: 3.16-3.57 mm (n=16). Body color in female: dark brown to black. Setae between ommatidia in female: present. Form of RSS on A5 in male: nodelike. Surface of pronotal nucha in female: partially to completely transversely striate, at most with slight obliterated patch. Notauli in males: present. Surface of mesopleural depression in female: more or less sculptured throughout. Carinate division of posterior T6 in female: present.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>This species differs from Scelio simonolus by presence of a well-developed carina dividing T6 (as in Fig. 328) and the sculptured mesopleural depression. It dif fers from Scelio vannoorti by the presence of short microtrichia among the ommatidia, the nodelike RSS on male A5 (vs. linear and carinate) and the presence of notauli in the males.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a genitive noun derived from the name of the sole collector of all known material, Simon van Noort.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244593</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: SOUTH AFRICA: Western Cape Prov., Cape Town, Constantiaberg, 34°02'S, 18°23'E, 460m, 10. III– 17.III.1995, malaise trap, S. van Noort, OSUC 214201 (deposited in SAMC). Paratypes: SOUTH AFRICA: 9 females, 16 males, OSUC 212450 (CNCI); OSUC 213634, 213699 (OSUC); OSUC 213538, 213574, 213695, 213697-213698, 213700, 214202, 214232, 214235, 244040, 250669-250670, 250713, 250716, 250742-250744, 250746-250748, 250983 (SAMC); OSUC 250668 (SANC).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9E1EE7FD4E693CB2980ACA64D4621935	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
071D70531EFDA9A931485E5168764274.text	071D70531EFDA9A931485E5168764274.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio simonolus Yoder	<div><p>Scelio simonolus Yoder sp. n. Figures 317-322; Morphbank 68</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.06-3.08 mm (n=2). Body color in female: light brown to brown. Setae between ommatidia in female: absent. Surface of pronotal nucha in female: smooth (with only setigerous punctures) to slightly rugulose. Surface of mesopleural depression in female: almost completely smooth. Carinate division of posterior T6 in female: absent.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Scelio simonolus differs from both Scelio vannoorti and Scelio simoni by the nearly completely smooth mesopleural depression (Fig. 320) and the absence of a carina dividing T6 (Fig. 322, compare with Fig. 328).</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as an adjective derived from the name of the sole collector of all known material, Simon van Noort, and referring to the diminutive size of this species.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244594</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: SOUTH AFRICA: Western Cape Prov., Constantiaberg, Table Mountain N.P., site 3, Cape Town, 460m, no date, OSUC 250715 (deposited in SAMC). Paratype: SOUTH AFRICA: 1 female, OSUC 250745 (SAMC).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>Scelio simonolus is the least robustly sculptured of the three species in this group. The sculpture of the pronotal nucha is somewhat obliterated as compared to the transverse striae in the other two species.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/071D70531EFDA9A931485E5168764274	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
0D0D891063DFE0C192FFADEFF852C576.text	0D0D891063DFE0C192FFADEFF852C576.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio vannoorti Valerio & Yoder	<div><p>Scelio vannoorti Valerio &amp; Yoder sp. n. Figures 323-328; Morphbank 69</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.82-3.94 mm (n=2). Male body length: 3.68 mm (n=1). Body color in female: dark brown to black. Setae between ommatidia in female: absent. Form of RSS on A5 in male: linear, a fine carina. Surface of pronotal nucha in female: partially to completely transversely striate, at most with slight obliterated patch . Notauli in males: absent. Surface of mesopleural depression in female: more or less sculptured throughout. Carinate division of posterior T6 in female: present.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>This species differs from Scelio simonolus by the sculptured mesopleural depression (Fig. 326). It may be distinguished from the similar Scelio simoni by the absence of pilosity between the ommatidia and, in males, the linear RSS on A5 and the absence of discernible notauli.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a genitive noun derived from the name of the sole collector of all known material, Simon van Noort.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244595</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: SOUTH AFRICA: Western Cape Prov., Cape Town, Constantiaberg, 34°02'S, 18°23'E, 460m, 10. III– 17.III.1995, malaise trap, S. van Noort, OSUC 214201 (deposited in SAMC). Paratypes: SOUTH AFRICA: 1 female, 1 male, OSUC 212543, 213198 (CNCI).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0D0D891063DFE0C192FFADEFF852C576	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
F5A7CFA0F5362EF7D87F81747F9E25F2.text	F5A7CFA0F5362EF7D87F81747F9E25F2.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio afer Kieffer	<div><p>Scelio afer Kieffer Figures 7, 329-332, 335-340; Morphbank 70</p><p>Scelio afer Kieffer, 1905: 130 (original description); Kieffer 1908: 131 (keyed); Kieffer 1926: 310, 323 (description, keyed); Ferrière 1952: 118 (diagnosis); Masner 1976: 17 (lectotype designation).</p><p>Scelio (Scelio) afer Kieffer: Kieffer 1910: 74 (subgeneric assignment).</p><p>Scelio afer Scelio clarus Fouts, 1934: 102 (original description); Ferrière 1952: 118 (diagnosis); Bin 1974: 463 (type information).</p><p>Scelio afer http://zoobank.org/7359AD56-ACA0-4526-922D-9A6F4A2743C9</p><p>Scelio afer urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:5198</p><p>Scelio africanus Risbec, 1950: 586 (original description); Nixon 1958: 311, 317 (keyed); Masner 1976: 17 (type information). New synonymy.</p><p>Scelio afer http://zoobank.org/65EE302A-8AF3-4CF5-8530-0741502E1247</p><p>Scelio afer urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:5198</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.06-4.42 mm (n=18). Form of sculpture of frons below anterior ocellus in female: fine dorsoventral striae with few to no reticulations. Distribution of sculpture of frons posterior to anterior ocellus in female: with at least some obliterated or reduced patches of sculpture posteriorly. Color of pilosity of dorsomedial head in female: white or predominantly white. Sculpture of ventrolateral corner of frons adjacent to malar sulcus in male: predominantly dorsoventral. Form of anteclypeus between medial teeth in female: striplike, broadly concave. Form of anteclypeus between medial teeth in males: produced, rounded to truncate medially. Form of lateral gena below eye in anterior view in female: evenly rounded towards mandible, not bulging laterally. Sculpture of anteclypeus: smooth throughout. Sculpture of pronotal nucha in female: absent (smooth) in parts. Color of pilosity on mesonotum in female: predominantly white on mesoscutum, predominantly brown on mesoscutellum. Sculpture of mesoscutellum in female: predominantly irregular rugulose to reticulate. Sculpture of oxter: with prominent smooth patch. Pilosity of metapleuron overlapping or arising within posteroventral quadrant in female: 2 setae; 3 setae. Color of fore wing in female: evenly colored throughout. Color of fore wing in male: completely without color except at extreme base. Color of pilosity on lateral T2-T5 in female: T2-T5 white to off-white. Fine pilosity of lateral T1 in female: absent; present, not reaching posterior margin. Distribution of pilosity on metasomal terga 3-5 in female: more or less uniformly present throughout. Form of setae on lateral T2-T5: predominantly thick throughout. Pilosity of anterolateral corner of dorsal T3 in female: with patch of short appressed micropilosity. Form of medial surface of S3-S5 in males: broadly concave, S3 posterior concavity extending into anterior half of sclerite.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Scelio afer is similar to other species with a narrow, concave anteclypeus ( Scelio tritus, Scelio remaudierei, Scelio erugatus). It may be differentiated from Scelio remaudierei by the slightly narrower gena (very broad in Scelio remaudierei) and thicker and concolorous setae of the lateral metasoma (setae very thin in Scelio remaudierei, with those on T2 white and T3-T5 brown). Scelio afer differs from Scelio tritus by the presence of smooth patches on the pronotal nucha (robustly sculptured in all Scelio tritus), and the presence of microsetae in the anterolateral corner of T3 (glabrous to very sparse in Scelio tritus). Differing from Scelio popovi Nixon (described from Oman) by the pilosity of the lateral metasoma which is white and moderate to dense compared to brown and sparse.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=5165</p><p>Associations.</p><p>Living in Acacia nilotica (Linnaeus) [Fabales: Fabaceae]; emerged from ootheca of Acrida madecassa (Brancsik) [ Orthoptera: Acrididae].</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Lectotype, male, Scelio afer: GAMBIA: no date, Mocquerys (deposited in MNHN). Lectotype (present designation), male, Scelio africanus: CHAD: Chari-Baguirmi Rég ., shore, Mandjafa (Mandjaffa), 1904, J. Decorse, OSUC 244194 (deposited in MNHN). Paralectotype, Scelio africanus: CHAD: 1 female, OSUC 244190 (MNHN). Holotype, female, Scelio clarus: SOMALIA [Italian Somaliland]: V. Duca Abruzzi, iii.926, Miss. Enr. Paoli; Ex-coll Paoli; TYPE Scelio clarus Fouts, Det. R.M. Fouts; "La Specola" Firenze 289; Rientrato nel giugno 2008 nel Museo Civ. di Storia Naturale "G. Doria"di Genova; Esemplare rimasto per molto anni nel Museo Zool. de "La Specola" di Firenze (deposited in MCSN). Other material: (209 females, 78 males, 9 unknowns) BENIN: 2 females, 2 unknowns, BMNH(E)#790385-790386 (BMNH); OSUC 211369, 211373 (CNCI). BOTSWANA: 2 males, OSUC 211265 (CNCI); OSUC 160044 (EMEC). BURKINAFASO: 2 females, OSUC 213082, 213093 (CNCI). GABON: 1 female, OSUC 213125 (CNCI). IVORY COAST: 9 females, OSUC 213059, 213065, 213068, 213072, 213226, 213235-213236, 213239-213240 (CNCI). KENYA: 9 females, 2 males, OSUC 212820, 214018, 214157, 214177 (CNCI); OSUC 56046, 58976, 59016, 59018, 59035, 59076, 70701 (OSUC). MADAGASCAR: 17 females, 1 male, OSUC 261341-261358 (MNHN). MALI: 1 unknown, BMNH(E)#790383 (BMNH). NAMIBIA: 1 female, 1 unknown, BMNH(E)#790382 (BMNH); OSUC 213023 (CNCI). NIGER: 2 males, OSUC 251072-251073 (TAMU). NIGERIA: 3 females, 7 males, OSUC 250766, 250770, 250778, 250946 (CNCI); OSUC 142619-142622, 59132, 59135 (OSUC). SOUTH AFRICA: 110 females, 44 males, 3 unknowns, BMNH(E)#790379, 790381, 790384 (BMNH); OSUC 211269, 211279, 211282, 211287, 211297, 211355-211356, 212319, 212366-212367, 212433, 212518-212522, 212539-212541, 212545, 212547-212548, 212550-212552, 212554, 212556-212557, 212559-212562, 212566, 212739, 212768, 212834, 212864, 212870, 212877, 212886, 212993, 213000, 213020, 213120, 213255, 214084, 234668, 234670-234672, 250685, 250688-250695, 250697-250703 (CNCI); OSUC 254548 (MZLU); OSUC 211757, 211862-211865, 213534, 213536, 213539, 213541, 213543-213546, 213657-213660, 213674-213677, 213679-213680, 213683, 213929-213931, 213933, 214183-214186, 222324-222329, 223325, 254536-254539, 254618-254623 (SAMC); OSUC 174706-174707, 213326, 213329, 213331-213332, 213339-213342, 213344, 213348, 213350-213352, 213373-213374, 213380, 213386, 213392, 213398, 213405, 213407, 213419, 213421-213422, 213425, 213427-213428, 213430, 213437, 213442-213444, 213446, 213450, 213453, 213483 (SANC). SUDAN: 1 female, OSUC 244078 (USNM). SWAZILAND: 1 female, OSUC 254698 (CNCI). TANZANIA: 2 unknowns, BMNH(E)#790378, 790380 (BMNH). YEMEN: 20 females, 14 males, OSUC 212485, 212488, 212491, 212494, 212936-212937, 212941-212943, 212946, 250875-250878, 250880-250882, 250884-250887, 250889-250894, 250897, 250899, 250901-250904, 250941 (CNCI). ZIMBABWE: 33 females, 6 males, OSUC 211254, 211347-211349, 212099, 212113, 212128, 212131, 212133, 212135, 212150, 212152, 212206, 212208, 212226-212227, 212230, 212234, 212337, 212413, 212592, 212640, 212645, 212648, 212830-212831, 212839-212840, 212902, 212906, 213005, 213018, 213043, 213045, 213058, 213201, 213219, 213233, 213252 (CNCI).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>Scelio afer is the most widespread and perhaps most common species of the Afrotropical walkeri-group. Based on past determinations and the description of Nixon (1958), it largely corresponds to the past concept of Scelio remaudierei . As presently defined it is also the most morphologically variable, with variation roughly tracking longitude. Even given this variation, there is a core set of characters: 1) the pilosity of the dorsomedial head and mesoscutum is predominantly white, often with mesoscutum entirely white except for 1 (Fig. 337) or more pairs of brown pilosity posteromedially; 2) the metasoma has thick, white, somewhat sparse pilosity throughout the lateral margins of T2-T5; 3) the anteclypeus is concave medially; and 4) the sculpture of the dorsal head is obliterated in parts. The last state is difficult to discern in some individuals in which only a few sculptural lines are broken or obliterated, and very obvious in others in which the large majority of the sculpture is absent. The former case is largely seen in smaller individuals, the latter in larger.</p><p>Mesoscutal sculpture in this and other species seems to be relatively variable and largely uninformative. Within Scelio afer the size and density of the cells formed by reticulations on the mesoscutum is quite variable with those individuals in the south generally exhibiting much smaller more compact cells and those in the north larger cells and more frequent indication of longitudinal sculpture. In general the anteriormost cells are the largest.</p><p>The anteclypeus width between the medial teeth is slightly variable, as is the degree of concavity. While most specimens are clearly concave a small number of individuals, primarily from South Africa, have a nearly truncate anteclypeus that has only a hint of concavity. The number of setae of the posteroventral quadrant of the metapleuron is typically 2-3, they are less commonly decreased by 1 or increased by 1-2. The color of the pilosity of the dorsomedial portion of the head is consistently white or off-white (the latter can be discerned by comparison to pilosity of the mesoscutellum, which will be distinctly darker). Males can be diagnosed by the relatively broad depressions medially on the metasoma sterna (Fig. 332).</p><p>Several reared series, previously determined as Scelio remaudierei, are known from Madagascar. In these specimens the sculpture of the mesonotum is slightly finer than typical, with a more prominent longitudinal trend, and the sculpture of the dorsal head is notable for the extreme reduction of sculpture. Within continental Africa this type of sculpture is typically seen in larger specimens. A single male is is present in the series, it matches well (broad deep sternal depression) with other males. The material from Madagascar may ultimately prove to be a separate species, though additional evidence is likely needed. Testing this hypothesis may prove to be difficult or impossible; despite the extensive recent collecting efforts in Madagascar no new material of Scelio afer has been collected since 1964.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F5A7CFA0F5362EF7D87F81747F9E25F2	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
238630CBBAB271D039ECD86EF0DBA689.text	238630CBBAB271D039ECD86EF0DBA689.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio apospastos Yoder	<div><p>Scelio apospastos Yoder sp. n. Figures 341-346; Morphbank 71</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.18-4.08 mm (n=19). Form of sculpture of frons below anterior ocellus in female: fine dorsoventral striae with few to no reticulations. Distribution of sculpture of frons posterior to anterior ocellus in female: more or less uniform throughout. Color of pilosity of dorsomedial head in female: white or predominantly white; brown or predominantly brown. Form of anteclypeus between medial teeth in female: striplike, truncate. Form of lateral gena below eye in anterior view in female: evenly rounded towards mandible, not bulging laterally. Sculpture of anteclypeus: smooth throughout. Sculpture of pronotal nucha in female: present throughout. Color of pilosity on mesonotum in female: predominantly brown throughout; predominantly white on mesoscutum, predominantly brown on mesoscutellum. Sculpture of mesoscutellum in female: predominantly irregular rugulose to reticulate. Sculpture of oxter: present throughout; with prominent smooth patch. Pilosity of metapleuron overlapping or arising within posteroventral quadrant in female: 4 or more setae. Color of fore wing in female: evenly colored throughout. Color of pilosity on lateral T2-T5 in female: T2-T5 white to off-white. Fine pilosity of lateral T1 in female: absent. Distribution of pilosity on metasomal terga 3-5 in female: densely present in posterior half of T3-T4, anterior half more or less glabrous, T5 setose throughout. Form of setae on lateral T2-T5: predominantly thick throughout . Pilosity of anterolateral corner of dorsal T3 in female: sparsely setose to glabrous.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Scelio apospastos is most similar to Scelio modulus which shares the small, striplike anteclypeus (Figs 369, 375). It differs from Scelio modulus in the distribution (not reaching the anterior margin, Fig. 346) and amount (relatively large patches, Fig. 346) of pilosity on the lateral metasoma. It is also very similar to Scelio pilosilatus, but may be separated by the absence of the fine line of pilosity along lateral T1 and the thicker more prominent patch of setae in the posteroventral quadrant of the metapleuron.</p><p>Etymology .</p><p>The epithet is used as a noun in apposition derived from the Greek word for separated, in reference to setae of the lateral metasoma tergites which are separated from the anterior margins by a glabrous area.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244616</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: ZIMBABWE: Harare (Salisbury), Chishawasha, XII-1980, pan trap, A. Watsham, OSUC 213044 (deposited in CNCI). Paratypes:(55 females) MALAWI: 1 female, OSUC 212749 (CNCI). SOUTH AFRICA: 10 females, OSUC 212876, 212916, 213196 (CNCI); OSUC 213323, 213358, 213371, 213424, 213433, 213475-213476 (SANC). SWAZILAND: 1 female, OSUC 254697 (CNCI). ZIMBABWE: 43 females, OSUC 211230-211231, 211235, 211252-211253, 212104, 212111, 212129, 212132, 212137, 212143-212145, 212153, 212156-212157, 212213, 212228, 212338-212340, 212578-212579, 212642-212644, 212646, 212670, 212900, 212903, 212907, 212909, 212912, 212928, 213042, 213046, 213203, 213230, 213254 (CNCI); OSUC 212232, 212649, 212665, 213229 (OSUC).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>Scelio apospastos is very similar to Scelio modulus . The color of the pilosity on the lateral metasoma is also generally diagnostic between the two, with most individuals of Scelio modulus having finer brown pilosity on lateral T4-5, whereas in Scelio apospastos the pilosity is always white.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/238630CBBAB271D039ECD86EF0DBA689	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
9430BA0823E6D40719CDDFAE640639C1.text	9430BA0823E6D40719CDDFAE640639C1.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio clypeatus Yoder	<div><p>Scelio clypeatus Yoder sp. n. Figures 347-352; Morphbank 72</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 4.20-4.50 mm (n=8). Form of sculpture of frons below anterior ocellus in female: fine dorsoventral striae with few to no reticulations. Distribution of sculpture of frons posterior to anterior ocellus in female: more or less uniform throughout. Color of pilosity of dorsomedial head in female: brown or predominantly brown. Form of anteclypeus between medial teeth in female: produced, concave medially, forming two broad lobes. Form of lateral gena below eye in anterior view in female: evenly rounded towards mandible, not bulging laterally. Sculpture of anteclypeus: smooth throughout. Sculpture of pronotal nucha in female: present throughout. Color of pilosity on mesonotum in female: predominantly white on mesoscutum, predominantly brown on mesoscutellum. Sculpture of mesoscutellum in female: predominantly irregular rugulose to reticulate. Sculpture of oxter: with prominent smooth patch. Pilosity of metapleuron overlapping or arising within posteroventral quadrant in female: 4 or more setae. Color of fore wing in female: evenly colored throughout. Color of pilosity on lateral T2-T5 in female: T2-T5 white to off-white. Fine pilosity of lateral T1 in female: present, not reaching posterior margin. Distribution of pilosity on metasomal terga 3-5 in female: more or less uniformly present throughout . Form of setae on lateral T2-T5: predominantly thick throughout. Pilosity of anterolateral corner of dorsal T3 in female: sparsely setose to glabrous.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>This species is nearly identical to Scelio quasiclypeatus which shares the presence of a projected clypeus (Fig. 381) and densely setose posteroventral quadrant of the metapleuron (Figs 350, 380). It differs from Scelio quasiclypeatus by the absence of sculpture on the anteclypeus (Figs 351, 352) and the broadly bilobed anterior margin of the anteclypeus (truncate in Scelio quasiclypeatus). Scelio apospastos is also similar, though smaller and with the glabrous patch present along the anterior metasomal tergites T3-T5 (setose throughout in Scelio clypeatus).</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a noun in apposition derived from the Latin word for shield, in reference to the relatively large clypeus.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244620</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: GHANA: camp 15 / research camp, Bia National Park, 06°32'34"N, 03°03'06"W, 190m, 22. VI– 25.VI.2005, J. Gill &amp; T. K. Philips, OSUC 213552 (deposited in OSUC). Paratypes: (9 females) GABON: 3 females, OSUC 212736, 212788, 212797 (CNCI). GHANA: 4 females, OSUC 213547, 213562, 213565, 213568 (OSUC). ZIMBABWE: 2 females, OSUC 211229, 211233 (CNCI).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>Scelio clypeatus and Scelio quasiclypeatus are very nearly identical, and specimens of both have been collected together. If additional intermediates are discovered they may need to be synonymized. The posterior margin of the mesopleuron (roughly the mesepimeron) is thicker and smoother than seen in most species of this group. Two individuals from Zimbabwe (OSUC 211229, 211233) are included here. They may represent an intermediate linking the two species, though their clypeus is more well developed and the glabrous patch on lateral T3-T5 is not evident.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9430BA0823E6D40719CDDFAE640639C1	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
DBF14B0389A483C0A5D31261C0222FB9.text	DBF14B0389A483C0A5D31261C0222FB9.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio concavus Yoder	<div><p>Scelio concavus Yoder sp. n. Figures 353-358; Morphbank 73</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.59-3.85 mm (n=4). Form of sculpture of frons below anterior ocellus in female: fine dorsoventral striae with few to no reticulations. Distribution of sculpture of frons posterior to anterior ocellus in female: more or less uniform throughout. Color of pilosity of dorsomedial head in female: brown or predominantly brown. Form of anteclypeus between medial teeth in female: striplike, broadly concave. Form of lateral gena below eye in anterior view in female: evenly rounded towards mandible, not bulging laterally. Sculpture of anteclypeus: largely smooth, with few thick dorsoventral ridges. Sculpture of pronotal nucha in female: present throughout. Color of pilosity on mesonotum in female: predominantly brown throughout. Sculpture of mesoscutellum in female: predominantly irregular rugulose to reticulate. Sculpture of oxter: present throughout. Pilosity of metapleuron overlapping or arising within posteroventral quadrant in female: 1 seta; 2 setae. Color of fore wing in female: evenly colored throughout. Color of pilosity on lateral T2-T5 in female: T2 and much of T3 white, T4-T5 brown or predominantly brown. Fine pilosity of lateral T1 in female: present, extending to posterior margin. Distribution of pilosity on metasomal terga 3-5 in female: more or less uniformly present throughout. Form of setae on lateral T2-T5: uniformly thin throughout. Pilosity of anterolateral corner of dorsal T3 in female: sparsely setose to glabrous.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Scelio concavus is most similar to the other Afrotropical walkeri-group species with a broadly concave anteclypeus, in particular Scelio remaudierei which has similarly sparse and narrow pilosity on the lateral metasoma and no obliterated or smooth patches on the dorsal head. It differs from Scelio remaudierei by the narrower gena (strongly expanded in Scelio remaudierei), and less well developed medial clypeal teeth (very well developed in Scelio remaudierei). Sparsely setose specimens of Scelio modulus may be confused with Scelio concavus, but may be differentiated by the width and form of the clypeus (narrow and more or less truncate in Scelio modulus). The brown pilosity of the dorsomedial portion of the head and the mesoscutum differentiates this species from Scelio afer .</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a adjective derived from the Latin word for hollow or arched forward, in reference to the shape of the anteclypeus.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244622</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: KENYA: Rift Valley Prov., Ol Pejeta Conservancy, 01°01.306'N, 36°54.818'E, 13. I– 27.I.2006, malaise trap, R. Copeland, OSUC 214035 (deposited in NMKE). Paratypes: (3 females) KENYA: 2 females, OSUC 214101, 234661 (CNCI). RWANDA: 1 female, OSUC 212464 (CNCI).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>The brown pilosity of the dorsomedial part of the head and the mesonotum is striking (Fig. 355). Scelio modulus may be confused with the extralimital Scelio aegyptiacus which shares the presence of fine, brown, and sparsely distributed setae on the lateral metasoma. The fore wing of Scelio modulus is relatively darkly infuscate throughout, which contrasts the light/dark pattern seen in Scelio aegyptiacus .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DBF14B0389A483C0A5D31261C0222FB9	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
B9E24D6BDFE692780450C5A0E25801B2.text	B9E24D6BDFE692780450C5A0E25801B2.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio erugatus Yoder	<div><p>Scelio erugatus Yoder sp. n. Figures 359-364; Morphbank 74</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 4.26-4.35 mm (n=3). Form of sculpture of frons below anterior ocellus in female: fine dorsoventral striae with few to no reticulations. Distribution of sculpture of frons posterior to anterior ocellus in female: more or less uniform throughout. Color of pilosity of dorsomedial head in female: brown or predominantly brown. Form of anteclypeus between medial teeth in female: striplike, broadly concave. Form of lateral gena below eye in anterior view in female: evenly rounded towards mandible, not bulging laterally. Sculpture of anteclypeus: smooth throughout. Sculpture of pronotal nucha in female: absent (smooth) in parts. Color of pilosity on mesonotum in female: predominantly brown throughout. Sculpture of mesoscutellum in female: predominantly longitudinally rugulose. Sculpture of oxter: with prominent smooth patch. Pilosity of metapleuron overlapping or arising within posteroventral quadrant in female: 4 or more setae. Color of fore wing in female: evenly colored throughout. Color of pilosity on lateral T2-T5 in female: T2-T5 white to off-white. Fine pilosity of lateral T1 in female: absent. Distribution of pilosity on metasomal terga 3-5 in female: more or less uniformly present throughout. Form of setae on lateral T2-T5: predominantly thick throughout. Pilosity of anterolateral corner of dorsal T3 in female: sparsely setose to glabrous.</p><p>Diagnosis .</p><p>This species is most similar to Scelio tritus and Scelio afer which share the concave anteclypeus (Figs 339, 363, 405). It differs from Scelio tritus by the completely smooth pronotal nucha (sculptured in Scelio tritus) and from Scelio afer by the absence of white micropilosity on the dorsal anterolateral corner of T3. Scelio erugatus is generally further distinguishable by the somewhat transverse pronotum and mesoscutum in combination with the somewhat scattered color pattern of pilosity of the mesoscutum (Fig. 361).</p><p>Etymology .</p><p>The epithet is used as an adjective derived from the Latin word for clear of wrinkles or smooth, in reference to the surface of the pronotal nucha.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244625</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: NIGERIA: Oyo St., International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, XI-1987, screen sweeping, J. S. Noyes, OSUC 213153 (deposited in BMNH). Paratypes: (2 females) GHANA: 1 female, OSUC 213566 (OSUC). NIGERIA: 1 female, OSUC 213151 (CNCI).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>The pilosity of the mesoscutum, from anterior to posterior, consists of off-white, light brown and brown setae, the pattern and variation somewhat more notable due to the thickness of the setae. The dorsal metasoma is particularly glabrous, with almost no micropilosity. The setae on the lateral meso- and metanotum are white, moderately dense, and slightly wavy. The pronotal nucha is almost completely devoid of sculpture.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B9E24D6BDFE692780450C5A0E25801B2	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
7D5358C3D2B6DC8E7FE6439062E93E75.text	7D5358C3D2B6DC8E7FE6439062E93E75.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio modulus Yoder	<div><p>Scelio modulus Yoder sp. n. Figures 333, 334, 365-370; Morphbank 75</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.02-3.97 mm (n=20). Form of sculpture of frons below anterior ocellus in female: fine dorsoventral striae with few to no reticulations. Distribution of sculpture of frons posterior to anterior ocellus in female: more or less uniform throughout. Color of pilosity of dorsomedial head in female: brown or predominantly brown. Sculpture of ventrolateral corner of frons adjacent to malar sulcus in male: predominantly dorsoventral. Form of anteclypeus between medial teeth in female: striplike, truncate. Form of anteclypeus between medial teeth in males: striplike, truncate. Form of lateral gena below eye in anterior view in female: evenly rounded towards mandible, not bulging laterally. Sculpture of anteclypeus: smooth throughout. Sculpture of pronotal nucha in female: absent (smooth) in parts. Color of pilosity on mesonotum in female: predominantly brown throughout. Sculpture of mesoscutellum in female: predominantly irregular rugulose to reticulate. Sculpture of oxter: with prominent smooth patch. Pilosity of metapleuron overlapping or arising within posteroventral quadrant in female: 1 seta; 2 setae; 3 setae. Color of fore wing in female: evenly colored throughout. Color of fore wing in male: completely without color except at extreme base. Color of pilosity on lateral T2-T5 in female: T2 and much of T3 white, T4-T5 brown or predominantly brown. Fine pilosity of lateral T1 in female: absent; present, not reaching posterior margin; present, extending to posterior margin. Distribution of pilosity on metasomal terga 3-5 in female: more or less uniformly present throughout. Form of setae on lateral T2-T5: predominantly thick throughout. Pilosity of anterolateral corner of dorsal T3 in female: sparsely setose to glabrous. Form of medial surface of S3-S5 in males: evenly rounded throughout.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Scelio modulus is distinguished from all other species of the walkeri-group by the combination of the narrow, more or less truncate anteclypeus with the primarily brown pilosity of the mesonotum.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a noun in apposition derived from the Latin word for norm, model, or measure.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244621</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: IVORY COAST: ~160km NW Abidjan, Lamto Research Station, 06°13'N, 05°02'W, XI-1988, malaise trap/yellow pan trap, J. S. Noyes, OSUC 142574 (deposited in BMNH). Paratypes: (193 females, 2 males) BENIN: 2 females, OSUC 211368, 212851 (CNCI). BOTSWANA: 1 female, OSUC 212452 (CNCI). CAMEROON: 5 females, OSUC 211224, 212116, 212118, 212124, 212258 (CNCI). CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: 2 females, OSUC 211837, 211839 (SAMC). GABON: 1 female, OSUC 212796 (CNCI). GHANA: 5 females, OSUC 213550, 213555-213556, 213558, 213567 (OSUC). GUINEA: 1 female, OSUC 213121 (CNCI). IVORYCOAST: 39 females, OSUC 211361, 212854, 212858, 212860, 213070, 213096 (CNCI); OSUC 142572-142573, 142575, 142577-142580, 142582-142585, 142587-142588, 142591-142592, 57142, 57144, 59112-59117, 59123-59124, 59126, 59128-59130, 64612, 64614, 64719, 64723 (OSUC). KENYA: 75 females, 2 males, OSUC 212950-212951, 214019-214020, 214022, 214026, 214039, 214044, 234607, 234612, 234616-234618, 234622-234624, 234627-234628, 234637, 234685-234686, 250918 (CNCI); OSUC 142672, 58973-58975, 58977, 59020-59021, 59024, 59026, 59029, 59031-59033, 59036-59037, 59041, 59045, 59047-59049, 59051-59052, 59056, 59060, 59062, 59064, 59067-59070, 59072-59075, 59079, 59081-59083, 59086, 59088-59089, 59092, 59094, 59099, 59101, 59103, 59106-59107, 59109, 70696, 70699, 70708-70709 (OSUC); OSUC 244081, 244086 (USNM). NIGERIA: 43 females, OSUC 202814 (AEIC); OSUC 211679, 212741-212742, 212802, 212807, 212822-212823, 212842, 212844-212845, 213139, 213141, 213176, 213178, 213182, 213184-213185, 213187-213188, 213191, 213263, 213267, 213269, 213272, 213274-213275, 250718, 250720-250721, 250723, 250726, 250728, 250773, 250792, 250987-250988, 250992, 250996, 250999, 251001-251002 (CNCI); OSUC 244206 (OSUC). SOUTH AFRICA: 6 females, OSUC 211206, 211208, 211211-211212, 212980 (CNCI); OSUC 254549 (MZLU). SWAZILAND: 1 female, OSUC 254542 (MZLU). ZIMBABWE: 12 females, OSUC 211249, 212202, 212216, 212575, 212638, 212816, 212826, 212832-212833, 212836, 212838, 212899 (CNCI).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>Like Scelio afer, Scelio modulus is widespread and polymorphic. As currently delimited this species includes several smaller series of tentatively included specimens. The core characters are the primarily brown pilosity of the mesonotum and the relatively small and more or less truncate anteclypeus. While variation occurs in characters of pilosity (see below), most specimens exhibit the following pattern: 1) mesonotum pilosity nearly all brown; 2) lateral metanotal pilosity white on T2-T3, then brown and slightly finer on T4-T5; 3) anterolateral T3 sparsely setose to glabrous; and 4) only 1-2 setae overlapping the posterolateral quadrant of the metapleuron. Several specimens with more or less white pilosity throughout the lateral metasoma are included because they are otherwise indistinguishable. Most specimens do not have prominent fine setae on lateral T2 although several small series have well-developed, completely setose lines as seen in Scelio pilosilatus . The sculpture of the mesoscutum is variable: most specimens are predominantly reticulate, and a minority exhibit stronger parallel longitudinal tendencies.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7D5358C3D2B6DC8E7FE6439062E93E75	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
42B488B2986812B4F64020D834A6FA99.text	42B488B2986812B4F64020D834A6FA99.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio pilosilatus Yoder	<div><p>Scelio pilosilatus Yoder sp. n. Figures 371-376; Morphbank 76</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.14-4.56 mm (n=20). Form of sculpture of frons below anterior ocellus in female: fine dorsoventral striae with few to no reticulations. Distribution of sculpture of frons posterior to anterior ocellus in female: more or less uniform throughout. Color of pilosity of dorsomedial head in female: white or predominantly white. Form of anteclypeus between medial teeth in female: produced, truncate medially. Form of lateral gena below eye in anterior view in female: evenly rounded towards mandible, not bulging laterally. Sculpture of anteclypeus: smooth throughout. Sculpture of pronotal nucha in female: present throughout. Color of pilosity on mesonotum in female: predominantly white on mesoscutum, predominantly brown on mesoscutellum. Sculpture of mesoscutellum in female: predominantly irregular rugulose to reticulate. Sculpture of oxter: present throughout. Pilosity of metapleuron overlapping or arising within posteroventral quadrant in female: 1 seta; 2 setae; 3 setae; 4 or more setae. Color of fore wing in female: evenly colored throughout. Color of pilosity on lateral T2-T5 in female: T2-T5 white to off-white. Fine pilosity of lateral T1 in female: present, not reaching posterior margin; present, extending to posterior margin. Distribution of pilosity on metasomal terga 3-5 in female: more or less uniformly present throughout. Form of setae on lateral T2-T5: predominantly thick throughout. Pilosity of anterolateral corner of dorsal T3 in female: sparsely setose to glabrous.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Scelio pilosilatus differs from all Afrotropical walkeri-group species by the combination of the projecting anteclypeus, the dense, large patches of white pilosity that cover the lateral metasoma, the line of fine setae along the lateral margin of T1, and the relatively sparse (in appearance) pilosity of the posterolateral quadrant of the metapleuron.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a noun in apposition derived from the Latin words for hair and side, in reference to the particularly well-developed patches of setae on the lateral metasoma.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244617</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: SOUTH AFRICA: Limpopo Prov., 15km E Klaserie, Guernsey Farm, 19. XII– 31.XII.1985, pan trap, M. Sanborne, OSUC 211938 (deposited in CNCI). Paratypes: (36 females) SOUTH AFRICA: 34 females, OSUC 211291, 211294, 211352, 211395, 211928, 211930, 211934, 212224-212225, 212242, 212252-212253, 212255, 212288, 212320, 212419, 212421-212422, 212426-212427, 212432, 212435, 212448-212449, 212743, 212868, 212873, 212983 (CNCI); OSUC 211354, 211398, 212284 (OSUC); OSUC 213346, 213434 (SANC); OSUC 244079 (USNM). ZIMBABWE: 2 females, OSUC 212101, 212217 (CNCI).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>There is a tendency in Scelio pilosilatus to have slightly reticulate sculpture on the frons. The fine pilosity of the lateral portion of T1 is particularly well- developed and prominent and of particular use in distinguishing the species from Scelio apospastos . The pilosity of the posteroventral quadrant of the metapleuron is often only 1-2 setae, one of which is particularly minute (instead of thickened, white, and large). However, we have seen specimens in which 3-5 setae are present, but these individual setae are not typically as thick and the area retains its sparsely setose appearance. While the patches of lateral metapleural pilosity are particularly large, there is a tendency for the extreme anterolateral corners to be glabrous.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/42B488B2986812B4F64020D834A6FA99	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
4A99DA902C3ACDAD9E4B73C27C28C8AD.text	4A99DA902C3ACDAD9E4B73C27C28C8AD.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio quasiclypeatus Yoder	<div><p>Scelio quasiclypeatus Yoder sp. n. Figures 377-382; Morphbank 77</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.60-4.21 mm (n=16). Male body length: 3.20-3.63 mm (n=2). Form of sculpture of frons below anterior ocellus in female: fine dorsoventral striae with few to no reticulations. Distribution of sculpture of frons posterior to anterior ocellus in female: more or less uniform throughout. Color of pilosity of dorsomedial head in female: white or predominantly white. Sculpture of ventrolateral corner of frons adjacent to malar sulcus in male: predominantly dorsoventral. Form of anteclypeus between medial teeth in female: produced, truncate medially. Form of anteclypeus between medial teeth in males: produced, rounded to truncate medially. Form of lateral gena below eye in anterior view in female: evenly rounded towards mandible, not bulging laterally. Sculpture of anteclypeus: smooth throughout. Sculpture of pronotal nucha in female: present throughout. Color of pilosity on mesonotum in female: predominantly white on mesoscutum, predominantly brown on mesoscutellum. Sculpture of mesoscutellum in female: predominantly irregular rugulose to reticulate. Sculpture of oxter: present throughout. Pilosity of metapleuron overlapping or arising within posteroventral quadrant in female: 4 or more setae. Color of fore wing in female: base lighter until marginal vein, sometime strongly contrastingly so, apex darker, division relatively linear and abrupt. Color of fore wing in male: more or less evenly colored throughout. Color of pilosity on lateral T2-T5 in female: T2-T5 white to off-white. Fine pilosity of lateral T1 in female: absent. Distribution of pilosity on metasomal terga 3-5 in female: more or less uniformly present throughout. Form of setae on lateral T2-T5: predominantly thick throughout. Pilosity of anterolateral corner of dorsal T3 in female: sparsely setose to glabrous. Form of medial surface of S3-S5 in males: broadly concave, S3 posterior concavity extending into anterior half of sclerite.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>As the name suggests, this species is most similar to Scelio clypeatus with which it shares the presence of a projected clypeus and densely setose posteroventral quadrant of the metapleuron. It differs by the presence of weak sculpture on the anteclypeus and the truncate anterior margin of the anteclypeus (broadly bilobed in Scelio clypeatus).</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as an adjective derived from the Latin word for nearly or almost, in reference to the similarities with Scelio clypeatus .</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244623</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: CAMEROON: Nkoemvom, 30.XI.1979, malaise trap, D. Jackson, OSUC 212260 (deposited in BMNH). Paratypes: (15 females, 2 males) BOTSWANA: 1 female, OSUC 211264 (CNCI). CAMEROON: 4 females, OSUC 211218, 212257, 212262 (CNCI); OSUC 211223 (OSUC). GABON: 7 females, 2 males, OSUC 212792, 212798, 213159-213160, 213162-213164, 213169 (CNCI); OSUC 213158 (OSUC). KENYA: 1 female, OSUC 214144 (CNCI). SOUTH AFRICA: 1 female, OSUC 212458 (CNCI). TANZANIA: 1 female, OSUC 250958 (CNCI).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>The sculpture of the frons of this species is slightly more robust than typical and there are several reticulating elements, although it is still dominated by dorso-ventral elements. The fore wing of females appears only slightly lighter at the base. All specimens examined have the pilosity of the mesoscutum white except for 1 or 2 pairs of brown setae posteromedially. The gena is particularly broad, with almost no gap between the eye and the anterior of the head in lateral view. The core series from Gabon and Cameroon are nearly identical. A single specimen from Kenya (OSUC 214144) has the sculpture of the dorsal head somewhat obliterated as often seen in Scelio afer . The specimens from Botswana and South Africa (OSUC 211264, 212458) are slightly less robust, with pilosity less dense. The two males are tentatively included but excluded from the type material.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4A99DA902C3ACDAD9E4B73C27C28C8AD	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
20FC559B2929161CEC6E7D51F6B29885.text	20FC559B2929161CEC6E7D51F6B29885.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio remaudierei Ferriere	<div><p>Scelio remaudierei Ferriere Figures 383-388; Morphbank 78</p><p>Scelio remaudierei Ferrière, 1952: 116 (original description).</p><p>Scelio remaudieri: Nixon 1958: 309, 317 (keyed, spelling error).</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.14-3.71 mm (n=12). Form of sculpture of frons below anterior ocellus in female: fine dorsoventral striae with few to no reticulations. Distribution of sculpture of frons posterior to anterior ocellus in female: with at least some obliterated or reduced patches of sculpture posteriorly. Color of pilosity of dorsomedial head in female: brown or predominantly brown. Form of anteclypeus between medial teeth in female: striplike, broadly concave. Form of lateral gena below eye in anterior view in female: bulging, often surpassing eye laterally. Sculpture of anteclypeus: smooth throughout. Sculpture of pronotal nucha in female: absent (smooth) in parts. Color of pilosity on mesonotum in female: predominantly brown throughout. Sculpture of mesoscutellum in female: predominantly longitudinally rugulose. Sculpture of oxter: with prominent smooth patch. Pilosity of metapleuron overlapping or arising within posteroventral quadrant in female: none; 1 seta. Color of fore wing in female: evenly colored throughout. Color of pilosity on lateral T2-T5 in female: T2 white, T3-T5 brown. Fine pilosity of lateral T1 in female: absent. Distribution of pilosity on metasomal terga 3-5 in female: more or less uniformly present throughout. Form of setae on lateral T2-T5: uniformly thin throughout. Pilosity of anterolateral corner of dorsal T3 in female: with patch of short appressed micropilosity.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Within the study region this species is most similar to Scelio afer with which it shares a broadly concave anteclypeus and smooth sculptureless patches on the dorsal portion of the head. It differs from Scelio afer and all other Afrotropical species by the distinctly bulging gena. It may further be distinguished from other Afrotropical species by the fine, sparse pilosity throughout, particularly on the metasoma, a state which should only be confused with Scelio concavus .</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=5314</p><p>Associations.</p><p>Emerged from egg of Acrida turrita (Linnaeus) [ Orthoptera: Acrididae]; emerged from egg of Acrididae [ Orthoptera: Acrididae]; emerged from egg of Eyprepocnemis plorans plorans (Charpentier) [ Orthoptera: Acrididae, as Euprepocnemis senegalensis Bolívar)]; emerged from egg of Locusta cinerascens migratorioides (Reiche &amp; Fairmaire) [ Orthoptera: Acrididae, as Locusta migratoria migratorioides]; emerged from egg of Hilethera nigerica (Uvarov) [ Orthoptera: Acrididae, as Paracinema tricolor nigerica (Uvarov)].</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Lectotype (present designation), MALI: Dogo, II-1950, Remaudière, BMNH(E)#790429 (deposited in BMNH). Paralectoype, female, MALI: Dogo, II-1950, Remaudière, OSUC 173945 (deposited in MNHN). Other material: (12 females, 5 unknowns) EGYPT: 3 females, OSUC 244121-244123 (USNM). KENYA: 1 female, OSUC 59038 (OSUC). MALI: 5 unknowns, BMNH(E)#790424-790428 (BMNH). NIGER: 1 female, OSUC 212203 (CNCI). SOUTHAFRICA: 4 females, OSUC 212538, 212542, 250686 (CNCI); OSUC 213385 (SANC). UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: 2 females, OSUC 214056, 214073 (CNCI). YEMEN: 1 female, OSUC 254783 (CNCI).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>We initially interpreted specimens of Scelio remaudierei as a monstrous form of Scelio afer . However, specimens with nearly identical morphology from a broad distribution suggests that this morphotype warrants species status. Our material examined matches well with the type (see http://www.waspweb.org/Platygastroidea/Platygastridae/Scelioninae/Scelio/Scelio_remaudierei.htm).</p><p>Scelio aegyptiacus shares the relatively sparse and fine pilosity of the metasoma, the predominantly longitudinally striate sculpture of the mesoscutellum, the partially obliterated sculpture of the dorsum of the head (also shared with Scelio afer), and a relatively broad, but not as bulging gena. Given the available material the two species Scelio remaudierei and Scelio aegyptiacus are reliably separated by the presence ( Scelio remaudierei) of sculpture on the lateral sternites (smooth in Scelio aegyptiacus) and by the broader gena in Scelio remaudierei . Nixon’s (1958) concept of Scelio remaudierei appears to be broader and combines of the concepts of Scelio remaudierei and Scelio afer presented here. Scelio popovi Nixon (1958) may be a synonym of Scelio aegyptiacus . We do not formally proposed this at this point, but the issue should be reviewed in a future revision of the North African and middle Eastern Scelio .</p><p>The dorsoventral striae of the frons are somewhat more closely packed together in Scelio remaudierei than in most other species. The patches of obliterated sculpture on the dorsal head are smaller than those observed in Scelio afer, and the sculpture is also somewhat finer and more dense in Scelio remaudierei . The mandibles are very broad. It is difficult to discern if there are two setal types on the lateral portion of T2. T5 in females has a relatively well-developed median crease, and the lateral surface appears to be slightly pinched.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/20FC559B2929161CEC6E7D51F6B29885	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
21497D6D9AF50E4C86FD08C1AED3C0B8.text	21497D6D9AF50E4C86FD08C1AED3C0B8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio retifrons Yoder	<div><p>Scelio retifrons Yoder sp. n. Figures 389-394; Morphbank 79</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 5.15 mm (n=1). Form of sculpture of frons below anterior ocellus in female: robustly reticulate. Distribution of sculpture of frons posterior to anterior ocellus in female: more or less uniform throughout. Color of pilosity of dorsomedial head in female: white or predominantly white. Form of anteclypeus between medial teeth in female: produced, truncate medially. Form of lateral gena below eye in anterior view in female: evenly rounded towards mandible, not bulging laterally. Sculpture of anteclypeus: smooth throughout. Sculpture of pronotal nucha in female: present throughout. Color of pilosity on mesonotum in female: predominantly white throughout. Sculpture of mesoscutellum in female: predominantly irregular rugulose to reticulate. Sculpture of oxter: present throughout. Pilosity of metapleuron overlapping or arising within posteroventral quadrant in female: 2 setae. Color of fore wing in female: evenly colored throughout. Color of pilosity on lateral T2-T5 in female: T2-T5 white to off-white. Fine pilosity of lateral T1 in female: present, not reaching posterior margin. Distribution of pilosity on metasomal terga 3-5 in female: more or less uniformly present throughout. Form of setae on lateral T2-T5: predominantly thick throughout. Pilosity of anterolateral corner of dorsal T3 in female: with patch of short appressed micropilosity.</p><p>Diagnosis .</p><p>Scelio retifrons is most similar to Scelio pilosilatus with which it share the dense pilosity of the lateral metasoma and the projecting anteclypeus (Fig. 393). It differs from Scelio pilosilatus and all other Afrotropical walkeri-group species by the reticulate sculpture of the frons (Fig. 393).</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a noun in apposition derived from the Latin words for net and front, in reference to the sculpture of the frons.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244624</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: IVORY COAST: Lamto Research Station, 06°13'N, 05°02'W, 5.IV.1988, malaise trap, OSUC 213170 (deposited in CNCI).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>Scelio retifrons is presently known from only a single specimen. However, among Afrotropical walkeri-group species it is unique for its size (the only species&gt; 5 mm long) and sculpture of the frons. The frons has strong dorsoventral elements, but there are also relatively well-developed reticulations among these elements. Similar reticulate sculpture of the frons is known in species from the Arabian peninsula. The T3 anterolateral setal patch (Fig. 394) is particularly well developed and the posteroventral quadrant of the metapleuron has only 2 setae (Fig. 392).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/21497D6D9AF50E4C86FD08C1AED3C0B8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
B92E071277E3ED348166723A38A23F11.text	B92E071277E3ED348166723A38A23F11.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio striatus Priesner	<div><p>Scelio striatus Priesner Figures 395-400; Morphbank 80</p><p>Scelio striatus Priesner, 1951: 144 (original description); Kononova and Kozlov 2008: 139, 153 (description, keyed).</p><p>Scelio gaudens Nixon, 1958: 309, 317 (original description, keyed); Masner 1965: 93 (type information), syn. n.</p><p>Scelio striatus http://zoobank.org/4FF01A88-A8EF-4464-BFD3-1E836328215F</p><p>Scelio striatus urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:5241</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 2.95-4.09 mm (n=20). Male body length: 2.88-3.31 mm (n=11). Form of sculpture of frons below anterior ocellus in female: fine dorsoventral striae with few to no reticulations. Distribution of sculpture of frons posterior to anterior ocellus in female: more or less uniform throughout. Color of pilosity of dorsomedial head in female: brown or predominantly brown. Sculpture of ventrolateral corner of frons adjacent to malar sulcus in male: predominantly dorsoventral. Form of anteclypeus between medial teeth in female: striplike, broadly concave. Form of anteclypeus between medial teeth in males: deeply concave medially, bounded by two projecting rounded lobes. Form of lateral gena below eye in anterior view in female: evenly rounded towards mandible, not bulging laterally. Sculpture of anteclypeus: smooth throughout. Sculpture of pronotal nucha in female: present throughout. Color of pilosity on mesonotum in female: predominantly brown throughout; predominantly white on mesoscutum, predominantly brown on mesoscutellum. Sculpture of mesoscutellum in female: predominantly longitudinally rugulose. Sculpture of oxter: with prominent smooth patch. Pilosity of metapleuron overlapping or arising within posteroventral quadrant in female: 1 seta; 2 setae; 3 setae; 4 or more setae. Color of fore wing in female: evenly colored throughout. Color of fore wing in male: more or less evenly colored throughout. Color of pilosity on lateral T2-T5 in female: T2-T5 white to off-white. Fine pilosity of lateral T1 in female: present, not reaching posterior margin. Distribution of pilosity on metasomal terga 3-5 in female: pilosity densely present in anterior half, posterior half more or less glabrous. Form of setae on lateral T2-T5: predominantly thick throughout. Pilosity of anterolateral corner of dorsal T3 in female: sparsely setose to glabrous. Form of medial surface of S3-S5 in males: flat to slightly concave, S3 only slightly concave posteriorly.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Scelio striatus is easily distinguished from all other Afrotropical walkeri-group species by the setal pattern on the lateral tergites in which the pilosity is absent in the posterior half and dense in anterior half (Figs 395, 396, 400). Males are recognized among all Afrotropical walkeri-group species by the strongly concave medial anteclypeus bound by strong rounded projections (see Fig. 17 in Nixon 1958).</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=5338</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype Scelio striatus, female: EGYPT: Al Qahirah Gov., Al Ma’adi (Meadi), 10.VII.1933, H. Priesner, USNM Type No. 70883 (deposited in USNM). Paratypes, Scelio gaudens: MALI: 5 unrecorded sex, BMNH(E)#790433-790437 (BMNH). Other material: (104 females, 11 males, 13 unknowns) BOTSWANA: 1 female, OSUC 212416 (CNCI). ERITREA: 1 female, OSUC 210358 (MCSN). ETHIOPIA: 1 unknown, BMNH(E)#790449 (BMNH). IVORYCOAST: 8 females, OSUC 213015-213016, 213061, 213063, 213067, 213225, 213238 (CNCI); OSUC 213013 (OSUC). KENYA: 20 females, 1 male, OSUC 212359-212360, 212362, 214095, 214112, 214143, 214145, 214155-214156, 214158, 234650, 234657, 234660, 234662, 234696, 234700 (CNCI); OSUC 214097, 59022, 59028, 59096 (OSUC); OSUC 248099 (USNM). NAMIBIA: 1 unknown, BMNH(E)#790441 (BMNH). NIGERIA: 2 females, OSUC 211377, 250998 (CNCI). SOMALIA: 5 females, OSUC 211272, 212130, 212606-212607, 212904 (CNCI). SOUTH AFRICA: 7 females, 1 male, 10 unknowns, BMNH(E)#790438-790440, 790442-790448 (BMNH); OSUC 211273, 211292, 212352, 212669 (CNCI); OSUC 203963 (OSUC); OSUC 213365, 213381, 213463 (SANC). TANZANIA: 3 females, 1 male, OSUC 212891, 212966-212967, 212974 (CNCI). UGANDA: 1 unknown, BMNH(E)#790450 (BMNH). UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: 4 females, OSUC 214059, 214072, 214074-214075 (CNCI). YEMEN: 22 females, 8 males, OSUC 212471, 212473-212474, 212490, 212498, 212501, 212940, 212944, 250678, 250879, 250942-250943, 251033, 251039, 251044, 251051-251052, 251054, 251058, 254664, 254667, 254671, 254685, 254691, 254777, 254779, 254801 (CNCI); OSUC 212499, 251056 (OSUC); UCRC ENT 171006 (UCRC). ZIMBABWE: 31 females, OSUC 211234, 211237-211238, 211245, 211248, 212097-212098, 212139-212140, 212403, 212409, 212570-212571, 212573, 212577, 212580-212581, 212585-212587, 212589, 212595, 212597, 212600, 213003, 213009, 213011, 213055-213056, 213251 (CNCI); OSUC 211236 (OSUC).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>Scelio striatus is the most easily diagnosed member of the walkeri-group based on the distinctive metasomal pilosity. The association of males with females is largely based on observations of Nixon (1958), who treated the species as Scelio gaudens . A small series of females (OSUC 203963, 212669, 214143, 214156, 214158, 234650, 234696, 234700) is tentatively included here. They differ slightly in that pilosity of the lateral metasoma is slightly thinner. There are usually 2-3 setae in the posteroventral quadrant of the metapleuron of females. The sculpture of the dorsum of the head is more densely reticulate than in most species.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B92E071277E3ED348166723A38A23F11	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
6280CB4682C638F1B281E907460BAF43.text	6280CB4682C638F1B281E907460BAF43.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scelio tritus Yoder	<div><p>Scelio tritus Yoder sp. n. Figures 5, 401-406; Morphbank 81</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female body length: 3.30-4.36 mm (n=19). Male body length: 3.20-4.15 mm (n=20). Form of sculpture of frons below anterior ocellus in female: fine dorsoventral striae with few to no reticulations. Distribution of sculpture of frons posterior to anterior ocellus in female: more or less uniform throughout; with at least some obliterated or reduced patches of sculpture posteriorly. Color of pilosity of dorsomedial head in female: white or predominantly white; brown or predominantly brown. Sculpture of ventrolateral corner of frons adjacent to malar sulcus in male: predominantly dorsoventral. Form of anteclypeus between medial teeth in female: striplike, broadly concave. Form of anteclypeus between medial teeth in males: produced, rounded to truncate medially. Form of lateral gena below eye in anterior view in female: evenly rounded towards mandible, not bulging laterally. Sculpture of anteclypeus: largely smooth, with few thick dorsoventral ridges. Sculpture of pronotal nucha in female: present throughout. Color of pilosity on mesonotum in female: predominantly white throughout; predominantly brown throughout; predominantly white on mesoscutum, predominantly brown on mesoscutellum. Sculpture of mesoscutellum in female: predominantly irregular rugulose to reticulate. Sculpture of oxter: with prominent smooth patch. Pilosity of metapleuron overlapping or arising within posteroventral quadrant in female: 2 setae; 3 setae; 4 or more setae. Color of fore wing in female: evenly colored throughout. Color of fore wing in male: more or less evenly colored throughout. Color of pilosity on lateral T2-T5 in female: T2-T5 white to off-white. Fine pilosity of lateral T1 in female: absent. Distribution of pilosity on metasomal terga 3-5 in female: more or less uniformly present throughout. Form of setae on lateral T2-T5: predominantly thick throughout. Pilosity of anterolateral corner of dorsal T3 in female: sparsely setose to glabrous. Form of medial surface of S3-S5 in males: broadly concave, S3 posterior concavity extending into anterior half of sclerite.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>This species is most similar to Scelio afer with which it shares the broadly concave anteclypeus (Fig. 405) and, in some specimens, the slightly obliterated sculpture of the dorsal head (as in Fig. 337). It differs from Scelio afer by the sculptured dorsal pronotal nucha (vs. clearly evident smooth patches), the concolorous pilosity of the dorsomedial head and mesonotum (mesoscutellar pilosity distinctly darker in Scelio afer), and the absence of micropilosity on the anterolateral portion of T3.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet is used as a adjective derived from the Latin word for familiar or commonplace, in reference to its relatively abundance within Madagascar.</p><p>Link to distribution map.</p><p>http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=244618</p><p>Associations.</p><p>Emerged from egg of Acrididae [ Orthoptera: Acrididae]; emerged from ootheca of Heteracris zolotarevskyi Dirsh [ Orthoptera: Acrididae]; emerged from leaf of Kalanchoe delagoensis Eckl. &amp; Zeyh. [Rosales: Crassulaceae].</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype, female: MADAGASCAR: Mahajanga Auto. Prov., 3.4km (93°) E Bekopaka, Vazimba Tomb, tropical dry forest, BLF4233, Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park, 19°08'31"S, 44°49'41"E, 50m, 6. XI– 10.XI.2001, malaise trap, Fisher, Griswold et al., CASENT 8106001 (deposited in CASC). Paratypes: MADAGASCAR: 47 females, 62 males, CASENT 2042629-2042634, 2042891, 2043301, 2043333, 2043344, 2043588, 2043590, 2043592, 2043953, 2043994, 2043996, 2132180, 2132216, 2132285, 2132310, 2132322, 2132343, 2132579, 2132634, 2132703, 2132764, 2132827, 2132851, 2132874, 2133074, 2133083, 2133125, 2133183, 2133192, 2133204, 2133370, 2133492, 2133495, 2133497-2133498, 2133505-2133506, 2133523, 2133532, 2133599, 2133601, 2133656, 2133660, 2133681, 2133707, 2133773, 2133783, 2133802, 2133859, 2133861, 2133955, 2133985, 2134007, 2134011, 2134035, 2134179, 2134236, 2134249, 2134353, 2134405, 2134587, 2134745, 2134778, 2134846, 8097474, 8106003, 8106062, 8106076, 8106176, 8106263, 8106332, 8106342, 8106508, 8106521, 8106532, 8106535, 8106545, 8106562, 8106568, 8106638, 8106734, 8106774, 8106818, 8106852, 8106896, OSUC 212014, OSUC 212017, OSUC 212025, OSUC 212028, OSUC 212036, OSUC 212037 (CASC); OSUC 212466, 212468, 212530, 212532, 234770 (CNCI); CASENT 2043586, 2133234, 2134010, 2134715, OSUC 142625, OSUC 211868, OSUC 60591 (OSUC); OSUC 213378 (SANC). Other material: MADAGASCAR: 7 females, 18 males, OSUC 244181a, 244181 b– 244184a, 244184 b– 244185, 244187-244188b, 244188 c– 244189c, 244191-244193a, 244193c, 261194, 261196-261198, 261381-261386 (MNHN).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>Scelio tritus is not known from mainland Africa and is only one of two walkeri-group species in Madagascar (see also Comments on Scelio afer). Scelio tritus is very similar to the widespread Scelio afer, however, congruence in several subtle characters (see Diagnosis) can be used to separate the two. While a few specimens have similarly obliterated sculpture of the dorsal head as seen in Scelio afer, the majority do not. The color of pilosity on the dorsal head and mesonotum is more or less concolorous for a given specimen, but varies among individuals. This general pattern contrasts that of individuals of Scelio afer which always have the mesoscutellar pilosity darker than that of the mesoscutum. The pronotal nucha is relatively robustly sculptured as compared to other species in this group. The pilosity of the lateral metasoma tends to be less dense or absent towards the anterior and posterior of each tergite (Fig. 406). A small number of specimens (CASENT 2134007, 2134010, 2134011, and OSUC 142625, 213378) are notable for their dense, completely white and somewhat thicker pilosity. These otherwise fit well with the remaining material.</p><p>The five specimens from the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle with letters following the identifiers are mounted with other specimens on the same pins. They are excluded from the type series in order to try to avoid future confusions.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6280CB4682C638F1B281E907460BAF43	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yoder, Matthew J.;Valerio, Alejandro A.;Polaszek, Andrew;Noort, Simon van;Masner, Lubomir;Johnson, Norman F.	Yoder, Matthew J., Valerio, Alejandro A., Polaszek, Andrew, Noort, Simon van, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman F. (2014): Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
