Character Details

Character

Marginal rim of scutellum [106]

Description

The posterior margin of the scutellum sometimes has a strongly transverse “rim” differentiated by crenulae or a sulcus (Fig. 4g, h). Some chalcidoids have both a frenum and marginal rim (e.g., Gibson, 2003, figs 11, 14), but it can be difficult to determine whether a strongly transverse, posteriorly differentiated region of the scutellum is a marginal rim or a reduced frenum when only one of these region is present (e.g., Gibson, 2003, fig. 12). Various Neanastatinae (Eupelmidae) were scored as having a marginal rim, even though it is just a very thin flange apically or apicolaterally on the scutellum (cf. Gibson, 2009a). Citations: Darling (1983: 9); Gibson (2003: 23); Krogmann & Vilhelmsen (2006: 56).

States

-: unassigned
notes:
coded examples: Tanaostigmodes howardii, Doddifoenus wallacei, Euperilampus triangularis Say, 1828, Dirhinus giffardii Silvestri, 1913, Spalangia_nigroaenea_D2346 (toggle remainder)
0: absent
7177_mximage
1.Nasonia giraulti
 
notes:
coded examples: Cales noacki Howard, 1907, Coccophagus rusti, Cirrospilus coachellae, Coccobius fulvus, Gonatocerus ashmeadi (toggle remainder)
1: present
7176_mximage
1.Cleonymus
7175_mximage
2. Perilampus tristis...
 
notes:
coded examples: Cleonymus Latreille, 1809, Eurytoma gigantea, Acanthochalcis_nigricans, Megastigmus transvaalensis, Chiloe micropteron (toggle remainder)