home species list Chelonus mirandus
Chelonus mirandus
authorTobias 1964
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body
shape♀ 4.5 mm [T19].
colorThe body is slightly pubescent [T19].
head
shapeHead as wide as mesosoma, roundly narrowed behind eyes, almost 2.5 times wider than its length; the occiput is deeply cut; temples equal to the width of the eye; ocelli in an obtuse triangle, the base of which is equal to the distance from it to the eye; distance between posterior ocelli 4 times the ocelli diameter; longitudinal diameter of eye twice as long as transverse, almost three times as long as malar space; height of face half its width, slightly more than height of clypeus; clypeus half as wide as its height; distance between tentorial pits markedly greater than distance from fovea to eye, slightly greater than clypeus height; proboscis poorly developed; maxillary palps very thin, rather long, slightly shorter than head height [T19].
sculptureHead non-coarsely rugose-punctate, matte; clypeus punctate, shining; occiput [?] softly striated across [T19].
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antenna
shape ♀Antennae slightly shorter than body, 32-33-segmented, slightly thickened in the middle, setae-shaped behind the middle; Scapus three times as long as wide; 3rd segment much longer than 4th, half as long as the scape, almost three times as long as wide; segments of the flagellum gradually shorten from its base to the middle, more or less transverse behind the middle [T19].
shape ♂Antenna with 32 antennomeres [P14].
colorBasal half of antennae brownish red;
mesosoma
shapeMesosoma 1.5 times as long as high. Notauli in the form of roughly sculpted weak impressions; Propodeum sharply abrupt posteriorly, with transverse carina and two powerful lateral teeth [T19].
sculptureMesosoma is roughly reticulate [T19][T16]. Mesosomal sculpture alveolate [T4].
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legs
shapeHind femora 5 times as long as wide; greater spur of hind tibia noticeably shorter than half of 1st tarsus segment; 5th segment of hind tarsus slightly shorter than 3rd, almost half as long as 2nd [T19].
sculpture
colorLegs black; medium apical half of fore femur, back of fore and middle tibia, except for apical third, fore tarsus and the first segment of middle and hind tarsi brownish yellow; Anterior and middle coxae ventrally, trochanters of all legs, basal half of middle femora and hind femora brownish red. Most part of middle and hind tarsus and apical third of hind tibia brown [T19]. ♂ Hind femur apically reddish yellow, hind tibia pale yellow, its distal third brown to blackish [P14].
wings
shapeThe forewings are equal in length to the metasoma and mesosoma up to the tegulae; 1-R1 is equal to the length of the pterostigma; 3-SR slightly shorter than r, 4 times shorter than SR1, half as long as 2-SR; 1-CU1 half as long as 2-CU1 [T19].
colorThe wings are slightly darkened, the stigma and veins are brown, the veins in the basal half of the wing are yellowish [T19]. Tegulae black [T4]. Tegula yellow [♂, P14].
metasoma
shapeThe metasoma is equal in length to the mesosoma, oval, bent backward; its length is almost twice its width in the middle part, three times its height in the posterior third; the length of the lower opening of the carapace is 7/8 of its length [T19]. ♂ Carapace somewhat longer than mesosoma [P14].
sculptureMetasoma rugose-punctured, without distinct longitudinal rugae [T19]. ♂ metasoma with longitudinal rugosity [P14].
colormetasoma entirely black [T4][T16].
♀ ovipositor
♂ aperture
other info
distributionPL [FE].
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