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Salius erythroura Cameron 1906. Type data: Type depository unknown, female, Type locality: Lake Sentani
Diagnosis (modified from Cameron 1906)
Length 35 mm; colour black and orange; body heavily setose; head of the female with vertex black and disc of frons orange; propodeum with two distinct tubercles; second metasomal segment black.
Female
Colouration. Head orange except for the vertex backward and the end of the mandible which are dark/black; mesosoma black; tibiae and tarsi orange; femora black basally, orange apically; first and second metasomal segments black; third metasomal segment onward orange; wings yellow-orange, with a narrow apical darkening.
Head. Head slightly wider than long, TFD/FD = 1.1; posterior ocelli closer to each other than to the compound eye, POL: OOL = 0.75; frons with the median line reaching median ocellus; apical margin of clypeus straight; clypeus slightly long, clypeus length: width = 1.94; labrum on same plain as clypeus moderately exposed beneath; malar space very short, almost non-existent; first flagellar segment clearly longer the second.
Mesosoma. Setose, pronotum relatively short, with a very weak median line, its posterior margin convergent towards the median line; metanotum knobbed; metapostnotum suppressed; propodeum wrinkled across without a median line,
tuberculate; the dorsal edge of the hind tibia with spine-bearing elevations; tarsal claws dentate.
Metasoma. Metasoma setose, punctate, pygidium covered by short, abundant setae, metasoma 1.2x length of mesosoma.
Male
Unknown
Distribution: Bulolo, PNG
Material examined
One non-type female specimen studied Accession number: BM O.I.E.Coll.A 5723; collected in 07. Oct.1968 by F.R.Wylie in Bulolo Morabe province, PNG