home species list Chelonus hiemalis
Chelonus hiemalis
authorGautier & Cleu 1930
synonyms
body
shapeBody length: 3mm [GC]. 3mm [Te1].
colorblack [GC].
head
shapeThe head is transverse [Te1].
sculptureHead completely reticulate. Frontal depression quite marked, reticulate, with a small smooth surface on either side of the middle zone. Clypeus coarsely punctated [GC]. The head is completely reticulate. The pits on the forehead at the base of the antenna are rugose, separated by a longitudinal ridge. Clypeus roughly punctate [Te1].
colorMandibles black. Palps blackish-brown. Black eyes. Ocelli mostly blackish [GC].
antenna
shape ♀Antennae with 16 segments, longer than the head and mesosoma, shorter than the body, a little swollen from the 7th to the 12th segment of the antenna [GC]. Antennae shorter than body, 16-segmented, thickened in the middle [GC].
shape ♂Antennae with 27 segments [Te1].
colorThe antennae are brown [Te1].
mesosoma
shapeThe antero-inferior border of the neck stands out clearly, in the form of a protruding blade, from the external part of the pro-episternum. The scutellum is not protruding. The prescutellar sulcus is shallow, subdivided into fairly large secondary dimples. Metanotum with median height in the form of a thin, slightly protruding spur, from which smooth parts descend on each side, going further to form the posterior edge. All the rest of the metanotum with very large, quite deep areoles [GC].Propodeum with four teeth, the middle ones smaller and more blunt than the lateral ones. [GC].
sculptureMesosoma fully reticulated. Pronotum reticulate, with very small areoles, almost punctate. Propleurae: neck and propleural triangle continuous, fully reticulated, with small areoles.The lower part (prepectus) of the pro-episternum is entirely reticulated, or in some places, very strongly punctuated. Prepectus with a linear median longitudinal groove. In the antero-superior part of the mesonotum, the areoles are smaller, some of them almost reduced to pits. In front of the scutellum the aeroles are large. Axillae with reticulated auricles. Episternum smooth, with only scattered pits. Propodeum and metapleurae fully reticulated [GC]. Mesonotum is reticulate-rugose, matte, with a coarser sculpture in front of the scutellum. The scutellum weakly rugose-punctate, smooth in the middle. Propodeum with very coarse sculpture [Te1].
colorMesosoma black [GC]
legs
shape
sculpture
colorFore and mid legs: orange-yellow coxae and trochanters, partly brownish. Mid coxae blackish-brown upper part. Femora blackish brown above, tibiae blackish brown above except towards the base. Tarsi blackish-brown, except the base of the metatarsi. Hind coxae orange-yellowish with blackish-brown outer part. Femur more strongly blackish-brown above. Tibia blackish-brown at the base and also a little below the tip, for more than half of its length inside, about four-fifths outside [GC]. Legs are black-brown; the anterior ones are somewhat reddish yellow [Te1].
wings
shapeWingspan: 6 mm. [GC].
colorTips of wings slightly smoky. Stigma black-brown, Radial vein and most of the midwing brownish; [GC]. The wings are slightly smoky; the stigma is brown [Te1].
metasoma
shape
sculptureMetasoma fully reticulated, even at the underside of the body to the limiting rim, without groove at the ventral side of the apex [GC]. The metasoma is reticulate and rugose, matte [Te1].
colorMetasoma black [GC].
♀ ovipositorOvipositor quite short, but clearly visible, its end very slightly exceeding the metasoma [GC]. The ovipositor is short [Te1].
♂ aperturemetasoma with an excavation at the end [GC]. The opening on the apex of the abdominal carapace is rounded [Te1].
other info
distributionFR [FE].
remarks
hostsArgyresthia chrysidella [GC].