Character Details

Character

Posterior margin of prosternum [38]

Description

The form and shape of the median spinelike process is variable in form, and potentially articulation with the mesepisternum. Currently different forms are being lumped into the same state (1), but requires a more thorough assessment to better refine the homology with function.

States

-: unassigned
notes:
coded examples: Buresium rufum Boucek, 1969, Epistenia_D0397, Micradelus rotundus, Tetracampe_Taiwan, UCRC_ENT_00237975 (toggle remainder)
0: median spinelike process absent
7104_mximage
1.Asaphes
 
notes:
coded examples: Cales noacki Howard, 1907, Coccophagus rusti, Cirrospilus coachellae, Eurytoma gigantea, Coccobius fulvus (toggle remainder)
1: median spinelike process present
7102_mximage
1.Nasonia giraulti
7101_mximage
2. Perilampus...
 
notes:
coded examples: Cleonymus Latreille, 1809, Nasonia vitripennis, Cheiloneurus flaccus, Chiloe micropteron, Chromeurytoma sp. (toggle remainder)
2: forked process present
7925_mximage
1.Dipara
 
notes:
coded examples: Parurios Girault, 1913, Oodera_D1792