Ufo abei Melika & Pujade-Villar
- Dataset
- New species of cynipid inquilines of the genus Ufo Melika & Pujade-Villar, 2005 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Cynipidae
- genus
- Ufo
- species
- Ufo abei
diagnosis
Diagnosis. Differs from all other Ufo species by the smooth, glabrous head (particularly smooth frons) and the short malar space. The body is uniformly reddish brown to black; the head is transversely ovate; the frons is smooth, shiny; the compound eye 1.1´longer than the malar space; the lower face with sparse white setae (Figs 30 – 33); notauli are incomplete, extending maximum to the half length of the mesoscutum (Fig. 37); the 2 nd metasomal tergite not or very slightly incised posterodorsally.
distribution
Distribution and Biology. Known only from Honshu (Hiroshima), Japan; collected from Q. variabilis, from an unknown host (Melika et al. 2005). Females known only.
Name
- Homonyms
- Ufo abei Melika & Pujade-Villar