Eupelmus (Macroneura) falcatus (Nikol'skaya, 1952)

Fusu, Lucian, 2017, An integrative taxonomic study of European Eupelmus (Macroneura) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eupelmidae), with a molecular and cytogenetic analysis of Eupelmus (Macroneura) vesicularis: several species hiding under one name for 240 years, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 181 (3), pp. 519-603 : 543

EUPELMUS (MACRONEURA) FALCATUS

(NIKOL’SKAYA)

FIGS 39 , 59 , 85 , 92 (♀), 23, 31, 40, 103 (♂)

Figures

Figures 35–42. Habitus of Eupelmus (Macroneura) species: E. aseculatus ♀ (35), E. rameli ♀ holotype (36), E. seculatus ♀ (37) and ♂ (38) with the insert showing the characteristic colour of the head, Eupelmus falcatus ♀ (39) and ♂ (40), E. barai ♀ (41) and ♂ (42). Scale bars – 1 mm.

Figures 56–67. Mesosoma in dorsal view in Eupelmus (Macroneura) females: E. aseculatus (56), E. rameli (57), E. seculatus (58), E. falcatus (59), E. balcanicus (60), E. barai (61), E. vesicularis clade B from Canada (62), E. vesicularis from Sweden (63), E. messene (64), E. impennis (65), E. maculatus (66), E. vladimiri (67). Scale bars – 0.2 mm.

Figures 68–87. Metasoma and mesotarsus in Eupelmus (Macroneura) females: E. rameli (68, 77), E. balcanicus (69, 78), E.barai from Romania (70, 79),E. barai from Spain (71, 82), E.messene (72, 80), E.vesicularis from Sweden (73, 83),E.vesicularis from Slovenia (74), E. vesicularis clade B from Canada (75), E. seculatus (76), E. messene (lectotype of Eupelminus coleopterophagus) (81), E. impennis (84), E. falcatus (85), E. muellneri (86), E. vladimiri (87). Scale bars – 0.2 mm.

Figures 88–95. Mesosoma in lateral view and scutellar-axillar complex in females of: Eupelmus aseculatus (88), holotype of E. rameli (89, 94), E. barai (90), E. muellneri (91), E. falcatus (92), E. impennis (93), E. vesicularis clade B (95). Scale bars – 0.2 mm for 88–91 and 50 µm for 92–95.