ICHNEUMON-FLIES — GELINAE : MESOSTENINI 



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Camera euryaspis (Cameron), new combination 



Figure 337,c 



Mesostenus euryaspis Cameron, 1885, Biologia Centrali-Americana, Insecta, 

 Hymenoptera, vol. 1, p. 226; ?. Type: 9, Presidio, Mexico (London). 



Front wig 6.0 to 7.0 mm. long; occipital carina running to lower 

 condyle of mandible; venation as shown in figure 321,b; postpetiole 

 not swollen; male postpetiole smooth, almost impunctate; basal half 

 of female postpetiole (the black area) with coarse, strong, subconfluent 

 punctures; apical half of female postpetiole (the white area) smooth 

 and almost impunctate; second tergite subpolished, in male with 

 small, weak punctures that are separated by about 1.3 their diameter, 

 in female with moderate-sized strong punctures that are separated by 

 about 0.3 their diameter; ovipositor about 4.7 as long from nodus to 

 apex as it is deep at nodus. 



Male: Head, thorax, and hind coxa marked with black and white as 

 in female (fig. 337,c), except that face has a fuscous triangular area 

 just above clypeus; palpi white; antenna black, the scape with a white 

 mark in front and flagellum with a white band covering 2.5 segments; 

 front and middle legs colored as in female except that tarsi are brown 

 with the joints paler; hind trochanters fuscous, the first trochanter 

 white below and apically above; hind femur fulvous, its apical 0.1 

 fuscous, the fuscous extending basad along dorsal edge; hind tibia 

 fuscous, bro\vnish medially below; hind tarsus white, the basal 0.33 

 of first segment and all of last segment, black; abdomen black, each 

 tergite with a broad white apical band and fh'st tergite with a lateral 

 subbasal white stripe. 



Female : Head, body, and hind coxa marked with black and white as 

 in figure 337, c; palpi whitish; antenna black, the scape white below 

 and flagellum with a white band that covers about 6 segments; front 

 and middle coxae white, with an external apical fuscous spot; front 



Figure 242. — Localities for 

 Camera euryaspis. 



