Character Details

Character

Separation of Mt8 and Mt9 of females [121]

Description

Most chalcidoids with a separate Mt9 have it articulating broadly with the posterior margin of Mt8. State 1, in which the two are separated by a membranous region, is part of a complex of states defining Torymidae, but similar structures are present in a few other taxa. In Rileyinae, Buresiinae, and Heimbrella (all Eurytomidae) and Chalcididae, a remnant of the separation between MT8 and MT9 is visible as a transverse carina followed by deep depressions in which the cercal plates are found (Lotfalizadeh et al., 2007); this special state was not coded here. Citations: Grissell (1995: 24); Lotfalizadeh et al. (2007: 150).

States

-: inapplicable (Mt8 and Mt9 fused into syntergum)
notes:
coded examples: Cales noacki Howard, 1907, Coccophagus rusti, Eurytoma gigantea, Coccobius fulvus, Nasonia vitripennis (toggle remainder)
0: Mt8 and Mt9 separate, but without interceding membranous region
5759_mximage
1.Euderus
6064_mximage
2.Boucekius primevus
 
notes:
coded examples: Cleonymus Latreille, 1809, Cirrospilus coachellae, Gonatocerus ashmeadi, Australomymar sp. Chile, Foersterella reptans (toggle remainder)
1: Mt8 and Mt9 separated by a membranous region
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1.Monodontomerus dentipes
 
notes: Torymidae
coded examples: Megastigmus transvaalensis, Chromeurytoma sp., Yrka Boucek, 1988, Leucospis affinis Say, 1824, Smicromorpha doddi Girault, 1913 (toggle remainder)