Character Details

Character

Specular area (speculum) [93]

Description

The speculum is a bare region between the basal fold and more distal discal setae (= state 0). Presence and of a speculum can be subjective when it is relatively small or when it has a few setae within it. Citations: Heraty (1994: 37).

States

-: inapplicable (wing or wing setation entirely absent)
notes:
coded examples: Chiloe micropteron, Neapterolelaps female, Thysanus ater Walker, 1840, Euryischia Riley, 1889, Mymaromella chaoi Lin, 1994 (toggle remainder)
0: bare dorsally and ventrally
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1.Nasonia vitripennis
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2.Psilocharis afra
 
notes:
coded examples: Cirrospilus coachellae, Nasonia vitripennis, Acanthochalcis_nigricans, Megastigmus transvaalensis, Mymaromma (toggle remainder)
1: setose dorsally and ventrally (speculum absent)
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1.Coccophagus rusti
 
notes:
coded examples: Cleonymus Latreille, 1809, Cales noacki Howard, 1907, Coccophagus rusti, Eurytoma gigantea, Coccobius fulvus (toggle remainder)
2: bare dorsally, setose ventrally
notes:
coded examples: Kapala floridana (Ashmead, 1885), Ormyrus rosae Ashmead, 1885, Bootanelleus deleteme , Promuscidea comperella (Ghesquière, 1955), Micrapion Kriechbaumer, 1894 (toggle remainder)
3: setose dorsally, bare ventrally
notes:
coded examples: Neapterolelaps male, Pnigalio mediterraneus Ferriere and Delucchi, Copidosoma floridanum (Ashmead, 1900), Comperiella bifasciata Howard, 1906, Aphelinus_D2705 (toggle remainder)