Belyta, Jurine, 1807

Ostrovsky, A. M., 2025, NEW FOR THE FAUNA OF BELARUS FAMILY DIAPRIIDAE (HYMENOPTERA: DIAPRIOIDEA), Far Eastern Entomologist 515, pp. 16-18 : 17-18

Belyta depressa Thomson, 1858

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MATERIAL EXAMINED. Republic of Belarus: Gomelskaya oblast , Loev district, NE of Abakumy, 51°59′35″ N, 30°51′55″ E, h= 113 m, young pine stands, 11.VI 2021, 1♀, leg. A.M. Ostrovsky. The examined specimen is housed at the author's collection .

DIAGNOSIS. Diagnostic features of this specimen are briefly reported below: body length 3.2 mm; face smooth and pubescent; head in dorsal view as long as wide, smooth and pubescent; POL 0.65 times as long as OOL; A4–A14 transverse; epomia moderately prominent; mesoscutum and scutellum flat and pubescent; anterior scutellar pit reniform; fore wing length 2.2 mm; radial cell open; marginal vein 0.5 times as long as its distance from basal vein; propodeum bare; median propodeal keel widely bifurcate; petiole in dorsal view 1.3 times as long as wide, with coarsely sculpture; T2 anteriorly with a median groove, grooves and sculpture laterally.

DISTRIBUTION. Belarus (new record); Russia, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Malta, Poland, Scotland, Slovakia, Sweden, Iran ( Nixon, 1957; Hellén, 1964; Wall, 1993; Macek, 1996; Notton & Mifsud, 2019; Chemyreva, 2019; Izadizadeh et al., 2023).

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Fig. 1. Belyta depressa Thomson, 1858, female, dorsal (A), ventral (B) and lateral (C) view.