Aphanogmus Thomson 1858
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: GenusAphanogmusThomson, 1858 Aphanogmus Thomson, 1858: 287, 305. Type species: Aphanogmus fumipennis Thomson, designated by Ashmead (1893): 132. 1 Diagnosis. Posterolateral process of gena absent. Occipital depression absent. Dorsal margin of occipital carina ventral to dorsal margin of lateral ocellus in lateral view. Dorsomedian flange of occipital carina absent. Submedial flange of occipital carina absent. Ocular impression and postocular orbital carina absent. Postocellar carina absent. Transverse scutes on upper face absent. Frontal ledge absent. Subantennal groove absent. Intertorular carina present. Median process on intertorular carina absent. Intertorular ridge adjacent medially to epistomal ridge. Genal verricules absent. Number of mandibular teeth 2. Median conjunctiva of cardines absent. Number of maxillary palpomeres 4. Sensilla trichodea curvata on male flagellomeres absent. Erect, elongate setae on male flagellomeres present. Male specific ventral sensilla present on F 5–9. Female flagellomeres 8, with few exceptions known (former Neoceraphron, see Dessart 1979) in which flagellomere number is 7. Female antenna widening apically. Mesosoma compressed laterally and distinctly higher than wide. Ventrolateral invagination of the pronotum present. Atrium of the anterior thoracic spiracle as wide as distal trachea. Pronope present. Posterodorsal branch of pronotal Y absent. Notaulus absent. Axillular carina absent. Posterolateral margin of mesoscutellum blunt. Sternaulus absent. Mesometapleural sulcus absent. Metapleural carina present. Anterior metapleural carina absent. Lateral propodeal carina inverted “ V ”: left and right lateral propodeal carinae are adjacent medially at their intersection with antecostal sulcus of the first abdominal tergum. Metapleural carina extending ventrally of propodeal spiracle. Ventral invagination of the metapleural carina absent. Median propodeal carina absent. Propodeal and metacoxal verricules absent. Mostly fully developed wings without pterostigma in fore wings, rarely with reduced wings. Ventral margin of the synsternum without anterior concave area. Single (not paired) Waterston’s evaporatorium present. Acrotergal calyx of Waterston’s evaporatorium present. Row of short setae delimiting apical cercus bearing area of male T 9 present; male T 10 folded medially along weakly sclerotised line. Proximal margin part of male S 9 concave. Proximolateral corner of male S 9 shape acute. Cupula ventromedially not extended more proximally than dorsomedially. Proximodorsal notch of cupula absent. Dorsal submedian impression of cupula present. Proximodorsal apodeme of cupula absent. Proximoventral margin of gonostyle / volsella complex shape convex and pointed proximally. Parossiculi fused with the gonostipes. Proximal region of penisvalva curved ventrally. Posterior region of female S 7 not chisel-shaped, lateral concave areas absent. Intravalviferal articulation absent. Anterior flange of the first valvifer absent.
Institutions: Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, University of New Hampshire, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, University of Cologne, Ilia State University, Agricultural University of Georgia
Language: English
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7140205828