home species list Chelonus pictipes
Chelonus pictipes
authorWesmael, 1838
synonyms
body
shape♀ 1 2/3 li. (3.8 mm) [W2]. ♀ 4mm [Te1].
colorBlack [W2]
head
shape
sculptureThe head is slightly rugose [Te1]. The head is very finely rugose [W2].
colorThe palpi are pale, the mandibles are black and more or less yellowish in the middle [W2]. Palpi are yellow [Te1].
antenna
shape ♀Antennae a little shorter than the body, with 28 segments, of which the last segments decrease rapidly in length and width [W2]. Antennae shorter than body, 28 segments [Te1]. Antennae with 28 segments [S4].
shape ♂
colorAntennae black [W2].
mesosoma
shapePropodeum with two fairly short teeth [W2].
sculptureMesosoma rugose, scutellum covered with rugae and punctures, shiny [W2].
color
legs
shape
sculpture
colorThe legs are yellowish-brown; the hind coxae are black with yellowish-brown tip; the top half of the hind femora is black above and on the sides; hind tibiae are slightly dark at the base, black in their top third. The four anterior tarsi are brownish; hind tarsi are entirely black [W2]. The leg is reddish; posterior coxae, apex of the hind femora, base and apex of the hind tibia and hind tarsi black [Te1]. Hind femur and hind tibia partly red [S4]. Hind tibiae black with brown base, hind tarsi black [S1].
wings
shape
colorThe wings have a very slight dark tint; the pterostigma and most of the veins are black; the parastigma is pale [W2]. The wings are slightly smoky; the pterostigma is black [Te1].
metasoma
shapeThe posterior edge of the carapace is weakly sinuated [W2]. Metasoma slightly notched ventrally at apex [Te1]. Metasoma as long as head and mesosoma [S1].
sculptureMetasoma rugose [W2][Te1].
colorMetasoma with the anterior third or quarter more or less yellowish; this pale band still has a black spot in the middle of the base; its posterior border is very rarely straight, almost always indented by the black color that protrudes in the middle, and which sometimes continues in a longitudinal line down to the base. Ventrally same color as dorsally [W2]. Metasoma with 2 yellow spots at the base [Te1]. Metasomal base yellow [S1].
♀ ovipositorOvipositor hidden, it has the shape of a small slender body, cylindrical, straight [W2]. The ovipositor is short and straight [Te1].
♂ aperture
other info
distributionBE, CH, DE, CZ, FR, NL [FE].
remarksThis species, the C. Gravenhorstii sensu Wesmael, differs slightly from C. Gravenhorstii, Nees. In the case of this difference Wesmael proposes the name C.pictipes [M].
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