Torymus cretaceus Graham & Gijswijt, 1998.
Type material.- Holotype, (BMNH): Italy "N. Italy. Dolomites, Seis am Schlern, 1-13 vi. 1964". Paratype: (BMNH): same data as holotype.
Description of female.-
Morphology: head in dorsal view 2.3 times as broad as long; temples 0.19 length of eyes, strongly convex and curved; POL 2.05 OOL, OOL 1.1 OD. Vertex extremely finely reticulate, with a number of small punctures. In frontal view the mouth is 1.8-1.85 times malar space, the latter O.34-0.36 length of eye. Genae straight. Clypeus slightly produced, curved. Antennae with toruli well above lower eyeline; scape 4.5 times as long as broad; pedicellus about 1.5 times as long as broad; pedicellus plus flagellum 1 2 times breadth of head; flagellum proximally slightly stouter than pedicellus, moderately clavate; F1 1.3 times as long as broad, F2-F5 quadrate, F6 and F7 slightly transverse; clava about 1.9 times as long as broad; sensilla numerous, uniseriate.
Mesosoma nearly 1.7 times as long as broad. Propodeum sloping at an angle of about 45°. Mesoscutum 1.4 times as broad as long, finely reticulate but more scaly in frontal part, punctures numerous, minute. Scutellum 1.4 times as long as broad, sculptured as mesoscutum, rounded at base, punctures small, separated twice their diameter, flange narrow, finely but distinctly trabeculate. Dorsellum smooth with a trace of a sulcus. Propodeum with very fine superficial reticulation. Mesepimeron about as long as high, 0.75 shorter than mid coxa. Hind coxa twice as long as broad, with rather coarse raised reticulation, the hind edge strongly curved and with thick pilosity over basal half. Spur of hind tibia 0.4 times length of basitarsus. Hind wing 2.2 times as long as broad; costal cell about ten times as long as broad, above with one row of setae which is broken medially, underside with one row plus some scattered setae in the middle; basal cell with a row of hairs below SM, closed below; basal vein with five setae; speculum rather small, extending beyond parastigma, partly open; relative lengths of wing veins are M:PM:ST = 62:15:6.2; stigma nearly sessile, small.
Gaster only slightly compressed, basal sternite hardly extending beyond coxa; hypopygium at about 0.75 length of gaster, bare, except tip, which has a few hairs. Ovipositor index 1.46-1.55. Length 2.0-2.2 mm.
Colour: body bright green, with golden tinge in places; in paratype face and sides of mesosoma coppery. Palpi testaceous. Antennae black; scape yellow with dorsal edge fuscous. Fore coxae partly to mainly yellow; mid and hind coxae coloured like mesosoma; legs otherwise yellowish-testaceous with posterior edge slightly darker. Wings hyaline with testaceous venation.
Male.- Unknown.
Comments.- The female of cretaceus differs from T. ruschkai by the length of the ovipositor index 1.46-1.55 (in ruschkai 1.9), the mouth is 1.80-1.85 times malar space (in ruschkai. slightly less than 0.8 and respectively.). Genae, just behind malar sulcus are distinctly alutaceous, without or with at most a very narrow smooth area. Legs, including 1/3-1/2 of fore coxae, yellowish-testaceous; or at most hind femur and tibia slightly darkened. cretaceus differs from caudatulus spec. nov. in having a slightly longer ovipositor, and a slightly shorter malar space.
Biology.- Unknown.
Distribution.- Italy.