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Aulacinus truncatus Kieffer 1911: 220, 221.—Kieffer 1912: 350, 357; Hedicke 1939: 26.
Aulacus truncatus (Kieffer)—Smith 2001: 276, comb. nov.; Jennings 2010 [on-line checklist]; Turrisi 2017: 933; Jennings et al. 2018: 87.
Figure 79. Aulacus truncatus (Kieffer), holotype female, A, lateral habitus; B. metasoma and ovipositor. Scale bar = 1.00 mm. Images © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London.
Figure 80. Aulacus truncatus (Kieffer), holotype female, A, lateral head; B, dorsal head; C, lateral mesosoma; D, dorsal mesosoma; E, metasoma and ovipositor; F, wings. Images © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London.
Diagnostic description.
Female. Body size 7.0 mm, ovipositor length 6.0 mm, fore wing length 5.2 mm (Fig. 79); colouration mesosoma mostly black, head, antenna, anterior lobe of pronotum and metasoma brown, legs light brown or orange, ovipositor sheath dark brown; wings hyaline with brown infuscation of apical fifth of 1st marginal and apex third of 4th submarginal cell, hind wing veins spectral (Fig. 80F); head quadrate, width 1.4 × length, postocular space 0.5 × eye length in dorsal view (Fig. 80B), raised transverse carina above toruli absent, malar space 0.5 × height of eye (Fig. 80A); length of scape 1.7 × pedicel length, 1st flagellomere 1.0 × length of scape, 0.6 × 2nd flagellomere; mesosoma length 1.4 × height, mesoscutum in lateral view rounded antero-dorsally (Fig. 80C), length 0.8 × width in dorsal view (Fig. 80D); medial lobe rugulose-punctate; ovipositor guide oblique, positioned medially; ovipositor sheath length 1.2 × fore wing length (Fig. 79); fore wing vein 2-Rs+M 0.8 × 1-Rs+M, two hamuli equidistant (Fig. 80F); metasoma pyriform (Fig. 80E), T1+T2 length 1.4 × width in dorsal view.
Material examined.
Holotype. AUSTRALIA – Victoria ♀, "Victoria 7.ix.[19]07" "Australia. R. E. Turner. 1907–244" (NHMUK: 010837007). Left flagellomeres 6–12, left hind tarsomeres 4–5 and claw, and right hind femur, tibia, tarsus and claw missing (examined from photographs).
Figure 79. Aulacus truncatus (Kieffer), holotype female, A, lateral habitus; B. metasoma and ovipositor. Scale bar = 1.00 mm. Images © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London.
Figure 80. Aulacus truncatus (Kieffer), holotype female, A, lateral head; B, dorsal head; C, lateral mesosoma; D, dorsal mesosoma; E, metasoma and ovipositor; F, wings. Images © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London.
Distribution.
This species is known only from the type locality Victoria without further details.
Biology.
Unknown.