Character Details

Character

Number of separate claval segments in female [8]

Description

The clava may or may not be club-shaped, but the number of claval segments is defined by rigid connections between segments, different from the more narrow and flexible connections of the distal funicular segments. A club is considered as 1-segmented if there is no evidence of fusion between segments, even if it is presumed to be a fusion product of more than one segment. Further, regardless of whether the apical flagellomere is differentiated by size or other features, a flagellum is always considered to have a clava and therefore any specimen with a flagellum has at least one claval segment. The spicule extending from the club in Cleonymus is not interpreted as homologous with the terminal button, following Gibson (2003), and thus the club is interpreted as being 1-segmented here. This character may be redundant for presence of the 12th flagellomere (mxc 887). Citations: Schauff (1984: 5); Woolley (1988: 7); Gibson (1989: 2; 2003: 12); Noyes & Hayat (1994: 21); Lotfalizadeh et al. (2007: 68); Burks et al. (2011: 2); Kim & Heraty (2012: 1).

States

-: unassigned
notes:
coded examples: Notaspidium giganteum Halstead, 1991, Neapterolelaps male, Erimerus wickhami Ashmead, 1904, amber_UCRC_ENT305755, UCRC_ENT_305754 (toggle remainder)
1: 1
notes:
coded examples: Cleonymus Latreille, 1809, Cales noacki Howard, 1907, Eurytoma gigantea, Gonatocerus ashmeadi, Australomymar sp. Chile (toggle remainder)
2: 2
notes:
coded examples: Coccobius fulvus, Eriaphytis chackoi Subba Rao, 1980, Indosema indica Husain & Agarwal, 1983, Endobia donacis Erdos, 1964, Bephrata ruficollis Cameron, 1884 (toggle remainder)
3: 3
5111_mximage
1.Eunotus
 
notes:
coded examples: Coccophagus rusti, Cirrospilus coachellae, Acanthochalcis_nigricans, Cheiloneurus flaccus, Eunotus sp. (toggle remainder)
4: 4
4705_mbimage
1. Megastigmus transvaalensis...
 
notes:
coded examples: Nasonia vitripennis, Megastigmus transvaalensis, Asaphes sp., Chromeurytoma sp., Idioporus affinis (toggle remainder)
5: 5
notes:
coded examples: Haeckeliania_sperata
6: 6
5088_mximage
1.Rotoitidae
 
notes:
coded examples: Chiloe micropteron, Rotoita basalis Boucek & Noyes, 1987
7: 7
notes:
coded examples: none coded
8: 8
notes:
coded examples: none coded