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Type data: Holotype whereabouts unknown; probable type depository Natural History Museum of Denmark
Figure 10. (a-c) Heterodontonyx solomonis female non-type (a) dorsal view (b) head, frontal view (c) fronto-lateral view, right side. Scale bars: 1mm.
Length 35 mm; colour black; body heavily covered with black setae; head of female black; mesosoma black except for brown wings and legs; propodeum with half-tubercles; metasomal segments black.
Female
Colouration. Head black except for antenna which is dark brown; mesosoma black; tibiae and tarsi brown; femora black basally, brown apically; metasomal segments black; wings dark brown.
Head. Head wider than long, TFD/FD = 1.2; posterior ocelli closer to each other than to the compound eye, POL: OOL = 0.88; frons with the median line not reaching median ocellus; clypeus rather short, clypeus length: width = 2.6; labrum on same plain as clypeus, slightly exposed beneath; malar space very short, almost non-existent; first flagellar segment
longer than the second.
Mesosoma. Mesosoma setose; pronotum relatively short, with a weak median line, its posterior margin angulate; metanotum without knob; propodeum wrinkled across with a median line; without any prominent tubercles (half-tuberculate); the dorsal edge of the hind tibia with spine-bearing scale-like elevations; tarsal claws dentate.
Metasoma. Metasoma setose, densely punctate, pygidium covered by short, abundant black setae, metasoma 1.13x the length of mesosoma.
Male: Unknown
Figure 10. (a-c) Heterodontonyx solomonis female non-type (a) dorsal view (b) head, frontal view (c) fronto-lateral view, right side. Scale bars: 1mm.
Distribution: Guadalcanar Island, Solomons
Material examined
One non-type female specimen studied from the Solomon Islands; Accession number BM-048, collected by R.A. Lever and determined by R. Wahis in 1967.