Omphale connectens Graham 1963

Omphale connectens Graham, 1963 Figs 1 B, 3 A – K Omphale connectens Graham, 1963: 261, holotype ♀, Berkshire, England, UK, HDOU, not examined. Material examined. • 4 ♀: 2 ♀ [NEFU; 1 on card, 1 on slide], China, Chongqing City, Simian Mountain, Dawopu, 04. VIII. 2018, leg. Guang-Xin Wang and Jun-Jie Fan, by sweep netting • 2 ♀ [NEFU; 1 on card, 1 on slide], China, Inner Mongolia, Ulanhot City, Sanhe Village, 12. VII. 2021, leg. Yuan-Yuan Jin and Yue Qin, by sweep netting. Diagnosis. Female. Body length 1.0– 2.4 mm. Vertex and face bronze, golden green, golden blue to purple metallic; antenna with scape yellow, along dorsal edge dark brown, pedicel and flagellum dark brown; mesoscutum bluish green, bronze to purple metallic; scutellum with similar color to mesoscutum, sometime darker; propodeum bluish green to purple metallic; legs with procoxa dark brown, mesocoxa and metacoxa yellowish brown to yellow; femora yellowish brown to brown; tibiae yellow to yellowish brown; protarsus pale brown, mesotarsus and metatarsus yellow to yellowish brown; gaster with first tergite bluish green metallic, remainder dark brown metallic. Head (Fig. 3 A, B) with face and vertex smooth to with very weak sculpture partly; antennal scrobes meeting on the nearly V-shaped frontal sulcus; frontal cross-ridge present; clypeus trapezoid to semicircular 1.4–1.6 × as wide as high; antenna (Fig. 3 C) with 3 - segmented funicle and 2 - segmented clava, F 1 –3 with two sets of setae, one set attached closed to base and another attached subapically or medially on the flagellomere, F 1 1.1 × as long as F 2. Mesosoma (Fig. 3 D, E) with mesoscutum and scutellum with shallow reticulation; midlobe of mesoscutum with two pairs of setae; scutellum 1.2 × as long as wide, with anterior margin almost straight or weakly curved forwards; propodeum smooth, without median carina. Fore wing (Fig. 3 J) speculum closed, with 6–10 admarginal setae arising from MV and membrane just below MV, STV short, PMV 1.5–2.0 × as long as STV, radial cell small and setose, only along PMV bare. Metasoma (Fig. 3 I), gaster 1.6–2.0 × as long as mesosoma, and longer than head + mesosoma (1.2: 1.0). Male. Not collected from China, see Hansson and Shevtsova (2012). Host. Unknown. Distribution. China (Inner Mongolia and Chongqing Provinces) (new record); United Kingdom (Graham 1963); Ireland (north and south) (Bouček and Askew 1968); France, Germany, Netherlands (Gijswijt 1976); Croatia, Serbia (Bouček 1977); Sweden (Hansson 1991); Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Russia (Hansson and Shevtsova 2012); Romania (Hansson 2016).