Symphytopria fulva Kieffer 1910

Symphytopria fulva Kieffer, 1910 (Figs 1, 2, 3) Symphytopria fulva Kieffer, 1910: 740; 1916: 25. Symphytopria fusciceps Kieffer, 1910: 741; Kieffer, 1916: 25. Syn. nov. Symphytopria nigroclavata Kieffer, 1910: 741; Kieffer, 1916: 25. Syn. nov. Material examined. Type material. Holotype of Symphytopria fulva Kieffer: female, “ Castatbuono/ Sieilia / V– 1906 / A. Dodero ” (Fig. 1B). Holotype of Symphytopria fusciceps Kieffer: female, “Aritzo/ (Sardinia)/ 30.V.1902 / A. Dodero ” (Fig. 1F). Holotype of Symphytopria nigroclavata Kieffer: female, “Tempio/ Sardegna / 21.IV.903/ Dodero ” (Fig. 2B). Additional material. Italy: M. Arqueri, presso Seui, Sardegna, iv.1909, Salari [leg.], 2♀; Bannari, Sard. 9.v.[1]909, A. Dodero [leg.], 1♀; Ficuzza, Sicilia, v.1912, A. Dodero [leg.], 5♀; Aladei Sardi, Sard. v.[19]07, T. Derosas [leg.], 1♀; Sardegna, Massiccio del Gennargentu (NU) Bruncu Spina, m 1550, 9.v.2000, R. Poggi [leg.], 2♀; Sardegna, Cala Gonone (NU), 20.v.1980, R. Poggi [leg.], 1♀; Sicilia sett., Madonie, Piano Zucchi (PA) sub Crataegus, 9.vii.2011, m 1200, R. Poggi [leg.], 1♀; Sicilia, Ficuzza, Rocca Busambra (PA) 25.x.1982, m 1200, R. Poggi [leg.], 2♀, 1♂; Sicilia, Ficuzza, Bosco d. Cappelliere (PA) 25.x.1982, m 800, R. Poggi [leg.], 1♀; Sardegna, Aritzo, 1–10.v.1910, Solari [leg.], 2♀; Aritzo, Sard., xi.1911, A. Dodero [leg.], 1♀. Diagnosis. Head concolorous with meso- and metasoma or slightly darker, with a row of four pits between eyes (Figs 1D, 2C); border between scutellum and mesonotum without any trace of sculpture (Figs 1, 2); propodeum without median carina and with distinctly arcuate posterior margin (Figs 1C, 1D, 3A); petiole and base of T2 usually densely pubescent. Description. Male. Length of body about 2.0 mm. Body and appendages yellowish-brown, smooth. Top of head with four pits between eyes arranged in a row. Antennal shelf weakly sculptured along lower margin on frontal and lateral sides. The largest pleurostomal distance 0.8 times as long as the shortest distance between eyes. Eye as high as wide. Malar distance about 1.3 times as long as eye diameter. Antenna 14-segmented, entirely yellowish-brown, filiform; A4 the longest segment of flagellum, broadened apically and with straight carina developed from the base to top of this segment. Scutellum fused with mesonotum and metanotum, all smooth and scarcely setose. Mesopleuron narrow, smooth, bare laterally and pubescent ventrally. Petiole entirely pubescent, in lateral view swollen dorsally in its anterior part and distinctly elevated above margin of T2; its posterior part situated lower than margin of T2. Base of T2 and S2 with median and lateral grooves, densely pubescent while most of surface of T2 and subsequent tergites and sternites smooth and scarcely setose; T3–T5 short and equal in length; T6 and T7 short and weakly transverse, at rest situated almost perpendicularly to body axis; S3–S6 short, almost equal in length; S7 semicircular, finally punctured. Variation. Body length 1.8–2.5 mm. Metasoma dark brown to yellowish; clavomeres very weakly to distinctly darker than A1–A10. A4–A9 slightly to distinctly transverse. Antennal shelf with distinct (Fig. 2A) to weak vertical grooves (Fig. 3C) on frontal and lateral sides. Posterior half of plicae in lateral view curved upward or straight (Fig. 1A, E). The hump of petiole from almost bare on top to completely densely pubescent; in lateral view the top of hump situated higher or at the same level as anterior margin of T2. Distribution. Italy.