Torymus capitonis Graham & Gijswijt, 1998.
Type material.- Holotype, (RMNH): "France Vaucluse M.J. Gijswijt, Gigondas (Beauregard) 21 ix 1989".
Description of female.-
Morphology: head in dorsal view (fig. 48)1.6 times as broad as long; temples 0.38 apparent length of eye. POL 2.5 OOL, OOL 0.9 OD. Vertex finely reticulate without punctures. Frontally seen the head is oval with straight genae; clypeus truncate. Antennae with toruli well above lower eyeline, only slightly nearer to clypeus than to anterior ocellus; scape 3.2 times as long as broad, reaching middle of anterior ocellus; pedicellus plus flagellum 1.4 breadth of head, flagellum slightly clavate; pedicellus 1.6 times as long as broad; anellus narrow and quadrate; F1 1.25 times as long as broad, distinctly broader than pedicellus, F2-F3 longer than broad, F4-F6 quadrate, F7 transverse; clava 2.1 times as long as broad; in side view F1 has one sensillum, F2 and F3 three, the other segments more.
Mesosoma 1.9 times as long as broad. Mesonotum 1.26 times as broad as long, sculpture as on vertex but transversely rippled, without visible punctures, setae short, slightly raised. Scutellum 1.2 times as long as broad, sculpture as on mesoscutum, with a few small punctures and truncate at base. Propodeum with alutaceous sculpture. Mesepimeron 1.2 times longer than broad, as long as mid coxa. Hind coxa 2.2 times as long as broad, hairy in basal part dorsally. Spur of hind tibia 0.52 length of basitarsus. Fore wing (fig. 49) 2.3 times as long as broad; costal cell 9.5 times as long as broad, upper side with a single row of setae in distal half, an interrupted row on the lower side plus a second one in the distal part; speculum open; basal cell closed with a few setae under subcostal vein; M:PM:ST= 46:9:4.
Gaster compressed; basal sternite slightly projecting beyond coxa; hypopygium projecting about 0.75 along gaster bare except for some hairs at tip. Ovipositor index 2.8, as long as metasoma plus half mesosoma. Length 2 mm.
Colour: green, slightly bluish in places. Sides of mesosoma more or less brassy; fore and middle legs testaceous, hind legs with femora brown-metallic, hind tibiae brown. Gaster darker, brownish. Wings hyaline, venation yellowish.
Male.- Unknown.
Comments.- The female of capitonis resembles T. crassiceps spec. nov. which differs mainly in having a shorter ovipositor (index 2.2); POL 2.3 OOL. M 3 times length of PM. Torymus capitonis resembles smaller specimens of T. aceris Boucek, which differs in having POL only 1.8-2.0 OOL, aceris also has the legs more slender, with hind femora 4.2-4.5 times as long as broad; the fore coxae are wholly yellowish, hind femur wholly yellow, rarely infuscate.
Biology.- Unknown.
Distribution.- France.