Kleidotoma

Carl M. Yoshimoto, 1962, Hymenoptera: Eucoilinae (Cynipoidea), Insects of Micronesia 19 (3), pp. 89-107 : 96

4. Kleidotoma sp.

Male: Fuscous; antennal segments brownish except segments 1 and 2 and legs, testaceous; abdomen ferrugineus.

Malar space equal to one-half height of eye; hairs on frons evenly spaced forming a column at each side, extending from base of antennal fossa to posterior margin of clypeus; clypeus with a column of long hairs at lateral margin; mandible with few long hairs at its base. Antennal segments striate, filiform; segment 1 obconical, twice as long as broad; segment 2 subcylindrical, as long as broad, shorter than 1; segment 3 longitudinally emarginate at inner side; other segments subequal in length, decreasing slightly in thickness toward apical segment. Prothorax hemispheric, three times as broad as deep. Prothorax with a column of evenly spaced hairs longitudinally behind pronotal truncation. Mesonotum with a single series of hairs along anterior and lateral borders. Scutellar disc narrow, angulate; scutellar cup elongate-ovate, anterior portion prolonged into a point, surface longitudinally convex; anterior lateral margin with a single hair and a rounded pit at posterior end. Dense whitish hairs on anterior dorsal portion of pronotum and propodeum, and woolly hairy ring at base of tergite 2 plus sternite. Tergites 2 and 4 visible at apex. Length 1.0 mm.; forewing 1.5 mm.

fem ale: Unknown.

Koror, Palau Is., Nov. 30, 1947, Dybas.

DISTRIBUTION: Eastern Carolines (Palau). Lacking the female, I am hesitant to give this unique male specimen a specific name.