NORSK ENTOMOLOGISK TIDSSKRIFT - Norsk entomologisk forening

112 CHR. STENSETH
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Fig. 1. Nasonovia vannesii n.sp.: Apt.viv. female;
A, head; B, cauda; C, siphunculus; D, apical rostral
segment.
hairs. Legs brown with basal part of femora
and middle part of tibia brownish yellow.
Subgenital plate with 4-9 anterior and 10-14
posterior hairs. 8th abdominal tergite with 4­
(6) hairs, maximum hair-length 0.030-0.047
mm. Hairs on 3rd abd. tergite maximally 0.016­
0.39 mm, 0.5-1.0 X articular diameter of antennal
segment Ill. Abdominal sclerotisation
as shown in Fig. 2, brown. Abdominal tergite
2-5 with small marginal tubercles.
Colour in life: antennae, head, thorax, and
siphunculi black. Cauda smoky black. Abdomen
green with sclerotic pattern black.
APTEROUS OVIPAROUS FEMALE
Body 1.92 mm long. Frontal lateral tubercles
rather rectangular, median tubercle low. Antennal
segment III with 9-15 secondary
rhinaria. Length of antennal segments: Ill,
0.39; IV, 0.29; V, 0.31; VI, 0.11 + 0.63 mm.
Apical rostraI segment 0.143 mm long with 10
secondary hairs. Siphunculi 0.414 mm and
cauda 0.230 mm long. Hind tibia with pseudosensoria.
Second segment of hind tarsi 0.10
mm. 8 tergite with 9 hairs. Subgenital plate
with 14 anterior and 27 posterior hairs. Other
c
characters as in apterous viviparous female.
Colour in life yellow-green.
ALATE MALE
Body 2.3-2.5 mm long. Antennal flagellum
2.9-3.3 mm long. Length of antennal segments
and distribution of secondary rhinariae as in
a!. viv. female. Apical rostral segment 0.156­
1.66 mm long, 1.4 X second segment of hind
tarsi. Cauda with seven hairs, and shorter
than in al.viv. female.
Abdomen with marginal sclerites, ante- and
postsiphuncu1ar sclerites, not with a central
sclerite. Tergite 1-8 with spinal sclerotic patches
which sometimes are connected with intersegmental
sclerites. Other characters as in alate
viviparous female.
Fig. 2. Nasonovia vannesiin.sp.: AI. vivo female, dorsal
view of abdomen.