Torymus curticauda Graham & Gijswijt, 1998.
Type material.- Holotype, (BMNH): Great Britain: "Hell Coppice nr. Oakley, Bucks., 14.vi.1958, M.W. Graham". Paratypes: 2 ±±, 1 (BMNH): 14.vi.1958, 1 (MJG), 24.vi.1958, 1 (BMNH), 17.vii.1962, topotypic; 1 (BMNH), "Wales: Pembr. Cenarth 22.vi.1977 Noyes & Boucek. Brit. mus. 1977-308"; Czech Republic, 1 (BMNH), "Bohemia Brehyne raseliny 10.vii.1954 A. Hoffer"; 1 (RMNH) "Netherlands NB. Udenhout "De Brand" 14-21.VII.1990 Ins. WG. Tilburg RMNH"
Description of female.
Morphology: head in dorsal view (fig. 74) twice as broad as long and 1.15 times as broad as mesoscutum; temples about 0.15 apparent length of eyes, converging strongly, curved. POL 1.4-1.55 OOL, OOL 1.6-1.8 OD. Eyes 1.25 times as long as broad,separated by their own length. Vertex excessively finely reticulate, with scattered minute punctures. Head in front view trapeziform, genae nearly straight. Mouth 1.8 malar space, the latter 0.37 length of eye. Anterior margin of clypeus not produced, virtually straight. Antenna (fig. 75): toruli situated above ventral edge of eyes, but slightly nearer to anterior margin of clypeus than to anterior ocellus; scape length about 0.66 length of eye and distinctly less than breadth of eye, not nearly reaching anterior ocellus; pedicellus plus flagellum hardly 1.2 times breadth of head, flagellum proximally not stouter than pedicellus but thickening moderately distad; pedicellus about 1.65 times as long as broad, nearly twice as long as F1; anellus somewhat broader than long; F1 quadrate or hardly longer than broad, tending to be slightly shorter than F2, following segments quadrate, or F7 very slightly transverse; clava nearly twice as long as broad, nearly as long as F7+F6+F5; sensilla sparse, uniseriate.
Mesosoma 1.9 times as long as broad, moderately arched dorsally. Propodeum sloping at 40 degrees. Mesoscutum nearly 1.5 times as broad as long, very finely reticulate; notauli rather shallow; piliferous punctures very small, separated on average by about twice their diameter; setae slightly raised, rather short. Scutellum 1.25 times as long as broad, very finely reticulate, its base rounded; piliferous punctures a little longer than those of mesoscutum; setae of posterior third longer and very distinctly raised, flange very narrow, not distinctly trabeculate. Dorsellum very finely reticulate. Propodeum including callus with fine superficial alutaceous sculpture, with a row of very small foveae along its base; spiracles small, about 1.3 times as long as broad, about 2.5 times their length from posterior margin. Mesepimeron less high than mid coxa (16:20), about 1.2 times as high as broad. Hind leg with coxa twice as long as broad, its hind margin strongly curved; bare dorsally in basal half; external surface with rather coarse, slightly raised reticulation, femur about 3.3 times as long as broad, longer spur of tibia 0.5 length of basitarsus. Wing 2.4 times as long as broad; costal cell 8-10 times as long as broad, its upper surface with a complete row of setae, lower surface with a complete row plus scattered setae in basal 0.25 and distal 0.33; M:PM:ST=44:11:5, ST moderately oblique, stigma shortly petiolate, small,; basal cell with a few setae in upper part, nearly closed below; basal vein with 4-7 setae; speculum moderate sized, partly open below, extending below M for about one third length of the vein, thence as a narrow tapering strip to ST; wing just beyond speculum somewhat sparsely setose, distally more thickly.
Gaster ovate, somewhat shorter and narrower than mesosoma, slightly flattened dorsally; basal sternite extending somewhat beyond tip of hind coxa; posterior margin of tergite 4 shallowly emarginate; hypopygium bare except for a few setae at tip, which is situated at about 0.75 length of gaster. Ovipositor index 0.85-1.0, sheaths about 0.7 length of gaster. Length 1.8-2.0 mm.
Colour: body blue-green to green. Antennae black; scape testaceous beneath, or wholly so except dorsally. Coxae, and hind femora except their tips, coloured like the body; fore and mid femora black with tips broadly pale; hind tibiae broadly fuscous to black medially; legs otherwise testaceous, with tips of tarsi brown. Tegulae testaceous, with hind margin often fuscous. Wings hyaline, venation testaceous.
Description of male. Differs from female as follows:
Morphology: antenna: pedicellus plus flagellum about 1.35 breadth of head; pedicellus about 1.5 times as long as broad, slightly longer than F1; flagellum proximally stouter than pedicellus, thickening slightly distad; funicular segments quadrate, F1 a little shorter than the others; flagellum thickly clothed with curved fuscous setae. Hind femora 3.5-3.7 times as long as broad. Gaster oval, narrower and much shorter than mesosoma.
Colour: antennal scape black, or at most the radicula pale.
Comments.- Morphologically T. curticauda is near to T. amurensis (Walker), which has (in females) temples slightly longer, ratio POL:OOL greater, OOL at most 1.5 OD, Forewing slightly broader, posterior margin of tergite 4 more deeply emarginate, ovipositor index 1.1-1.3. In colour, T. amurensis differs in having the legs on average paler, fore coxae sometimes partly yellow, fore and mid femora yellow or only partly infuscate, hind femora less heavily infuscate, hind tibiae less strongly infuscate or wholly testaceous.
In general aspect, the female T. curticauda also resembles that of pascuorum Boucek, which differs in having some setae on the dorsal surface of the hind coxa, temples longer, ratio POL:OOL greater, mesosoma less elongate.
Biology.- Unknown.
Distribution.- Czech Republic, Great Britain (including Wales), Netherlands.