Associated observations |
Date Added
March 13, 2022
01:39 AM AEDT
Description
How to key with Gauld:
- Spiracle placed 0.6 of the way along the 1st tergite
- 2m-cu with a single bulla
- Female with non-rigid ovipositor sheath (if long)/subgenital plate not triangular in profile. Male without elongate, spine-like gonosquama
- Gaster with tergites 2-4 depressed, tarsal claws never pectinate
Hind leg with fifth tarsal segment more than 1.5 times as long as the second, flagellum slightly clavate
-> To LABENINAE
Mandible long and slender, labrum exceptionally large. Ovipositor very short (as seen here)
-> To LABIUM
Labium species keyed with Turner & Waterston:
- Antennae more than 30-jointed
- Face and clypeus not entirely fused or in the same plane, scarcely pilose (hairy)
- Hind empodia elongate, at least two-thirds of the length of the tarsal ungues (claws), mesonotum (mesoscutum) without broad black facia on each side
Mesonotum (propodeum) shining, smooth or finely punctured.
Dentiparal area unarmed, or at most with inconspicuous tooth (i.e. around apophyses)
- Flagellum of antenna always with several apical joints ferruginous or ochraceous (orange)
- Dentiparal area more coarsely sculptured than the external or both smooth and shining
- Hind femora ferruginous
- Antenna more than 40-jointed
- Mandibles simple (not bi-dentate)
- Dentiparal area armed, the carinae strongly raised forming small teeth at the outer angles
Antenna 47-jointed, face yellow, closely and evenly punctured
-> To L. approximatum
This seems to match with the gbif record here fairly well:
https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/2366166881
@dhobern, @maddigiannotta, thoughts?
I have collected the specimen and can provide higher resolution and further photos.
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