Microsphecodes fernandoi Graham & Packer 2024

Microsphecodes fernandoi Graham & Packer Figs. 11, 13–18, 29, 32 & 36. Diagnosis: The colour pattern of this species is unique: the head is black except the clypeus is dark yellowish brown (Fig. 11), the mesosoma is brown, T1 and the base of T2 are somewhat paler than the remaining terga (except for the somewhat paler translucent apical impressed areas) which are dark brown (Figures 14 & 17). This is the only species with the entire mesosoma somewhat paler than the discs of T2–T6 (Figs. 14–17). Description: Holotype female: Dimensions: Total body length 4.6 mm; forewing length 3.76 mm. Head broader than long, width 1.42 mm, length 1.22 mm. Intertegular distance not measurable due to distortion caused by pin. Colouration: Light brown except as follows: Mandible brown, apical 1/4 red-brown; labrum and clypeus orange-brown; supraclypeal area dark brown; torulus, scape and pedicel orange-brown; flagellum brown; rest of head black; tegula yellow, wing veins dark brown, wing membrane translucent. All legs orange-brown. T1 orange-brown, with a dark brown apical impressed area; T2 orange-brown basally, dark brown elsewhere; T3 dark brown, apical appressed area paler; T4–T5 and pygidial plate dark brown; S1 orange-brown; S2 orange-brown basally, dark brown apically; remaining sterna dark brown; apical impressed areas translucent yellow. Pubescence: pale yellowish, relatively sparse fine simple sub-erect to erect except when stated otherwise; clypeus hairs short, branched, with longer simple hairs intermixed; lower paraocular area hairs denser with many branches, hairs marginally longer than on rest of face; sparser on vertexal area than face, shorter than longest hairs of clypeus; anterior surface of flagellum hairs sparse and long, underlying placodea dark, obscure against dark background. Pronotal collar with short, dense white hair laterally, dorsally less dense; side of mesosoma with dense somewhat plumose short white subappressed hairs with sparse erect long white hairs intermixed; hypoepimeral area almost entirely glabrous; mesoscutum hairs short sparse (surface of mesoscutum obstructed by pin posteromedially); scutellum hairs long white sparse; metanotum with dense white long hairs; posterior surface of propodeum with short, dense white hairs with some longer hairs intermixed; metatibia hairs simple suberect longest apically, shorter than or equal to apical width of tibia; dorsal surface of metatibia with pale bristles bearing few short branches on dorsal side of rachis. T1 glabrous except laterally hairs of medium length, sparsely branched; T2 as for T1, but with short appressed hairs basally; T3–T5 hairs moderately dense and short on disc, with sparse long hairs intermixed laterally and apically, subappressed medium length and white anterolaterally. S1 hairs long sparse along midline, absent elsewhere; S2–S5 hairs scattered long suberect, D-shaped glabrous area apicomedially; S6 hairs short subappressed. Surface Sculpture: Integument shiny lacking microsculpture unless stated otherwise. Face densely punctate i<d, with the exception being more sparse towards apex of supraclypeal area; vertexal area punctures sparser i=1–4d; impunctate around ocelli; genal area punctures small sparse i=1–3d;hypostomal area weakly imbricate except on disc, sparsely punctate. Mesoscutum very weakly imbricate, punctures distinct, varying in size, irregularly spaced i=0.5– 2.5d, densest laterally, sparsest on disc (obscured by pin posteriorly); mesoscutellum faintly imbricate, punctures scattered on disc, denser around margins i~1d; metanotum punctures dense i~1d. Metapostnotum dorsal surface margined by strong carina, indented posteromedially; areolate, median pair of areolae on either side of apically complete median carina take up most of the dorsal surface, margined by smaller elongate areolae. Preepisternum and hypoepimeral areas weakly rugose; mesepisternum punctate posteriorly punctures small, i

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