Stalk-eyed wasps - Review of a largely unnoticed group of morphologically bizarre chalcidoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae: Axima)

Diana Carolina Arias-Penna; Thomas Pape; Lars Krogmann

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3866.4.8

Stalk-eyed wasps - Review of a largely unnoticed group of morphologically bizarre chalcidoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae: Axima)

Diana Carolina Arias-Penna^*, Thomas Pape, Lars Krogmann

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Abstract

Axima Walker is a small genus of Eurytomidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) exclusive to the Western Hemisphere. Some species are distinctive in having stalked eyes and Axima sidi , sp. n. is described as the third stalk-eyed species based on a single female from Colombia. A key to facilitate species identification of stalk-eyed Axima is included. The only species of Axima for which host biology is known is a primary parasitoid of dwarf carpenter bees of the genus Ceratina Latreille (Apidae: Xylocopinae). A hypothesis about the possible function of stalked eyes in Axima as devices to assist the escape of adult wasps from hosts enclosed in the soft pith of plant stems is proposed.

Original language	English
Journal	Zootaxa
Volume	3866
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	583-590
Number of pages	8
ISSN	1175-5326
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3866.4.8
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2014

Keywords

Chalcidoidea
Colombia
Functional morphology
New species

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Stalk-eyed wasps - Review of a largely unnoticed group of morphologically bizarre chalcidoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae: Axima)

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