Character Details

Character

Mesotibial apical pegs [109]

Description

Most “jumping” chalcidoids with a greatly enlarged acropleuron have a row or patch of usually dark, comparatively short and thick pegs along the anteroapical margin of the mesotibia. The pegs are nothing more than modified setae and sometimes there is little structural difference between pegs and comparatively strong, spinelike setae of some other taxa. Citation: Gibson (1989: 13; 1995: 35).

States

-: unassigned
notes:
coded examples: Tetrapus costaricanus Grandi, 1925, Pleistodontes blandus Wiebes, 1963, Blastophaga psenes Linneaeus, 1758, Ceratosolen appendiculatus (Mayr, 1885), Waterstoniella Grandi, 1921 (toggle remainder)
0: mesotibia with at most with robust spines along anteroapical edge
7842_mximage
1.Nasonia
7841_mximage
2.Coccobius fulvus
 
notes:
coded examples: Cleonymus Latreille, 1809, Cales noacki Howard, 1907, Coccophagus rusti, Cirrospilus coachellae, Eurytoma gigantea (toggle remainder)
1: mesotibia with row or patch of thickened pegs along anteroapical edge
7881_mximage
1.Anagyrus psudococci
7843_mximage
2.Cynipencyrtus flavus
 
notes:
coded examples: Acanthochalcis_nigricans, Cheiloneurus flaccus, Neapterolelaps female, Lambdobregma Gibson, 1989, Metapelma spectabile Westwood, 1835 (toggle remainder)