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Aulacus burnsi Jennings & Austin, 2018: 29.—ABRS 2019 [on-line checklist].
Figure 17. Aulacus burnsi Jennings & Austin, A, paratype female, lateral habitus; B, male, lateral habitus. Scale bar = 1.00 mm.
Figure 18. Aulacus burnsi Jennings & Austin, holotype female, A, lateral head; B, frontal face; C, dorsal head; D, lateral mesosoma; E, dorsal mesosoma; F, ovipositor guide; G, fore wing. Scale bar = 1.00 mm.
Diagnostic description.
Female. Body size 9.3 (8.0–9.5) mm, ovipositor length 7.5 (6.2–8.4) mm, fore wing length 6.0 (5.5–6.6) mm (Fig. 17A); colouration, head and mesosoma black except propleuron, ventral half of pronotum, scape and pedicel orange, flagellomere 1–5 and 10–14 black, 6–9 cream; fore and mid legs orange except tarsomeres 1–4 cream and tarsomere 5 brown, hind legs orange except most of tibia, base of tarsomere 1 and tarsomere 5 brown, rest of tarsomeres cream, metasomal T1 and T2 orange, remainder dark brown, ovipositor sheaths dark brown; Wing hyaline, apex 1st marginal and 4th submarginal cell infuscated, hind wing veins spectral (Fig. 18G); head shape quadrate, width 1.4 (1.3–1.5) × length, postocular space 0.5 (0.5–0.6) × eye length in dorsal view (Fig. 18C), raised transverse carina above toruli absent, malar space 0.2 (0.2–0.3) × height of eye (Fig. 18A); length of scape 1.2 (1.2–1.6) × length of pedicel, 1st flagellomere 1.5 (1.4–1.5) × length of scape, 0.6 (0.5–0.6) × 2nd flagellomere; mesosoma length 1.8 (1.6–1.8) × height, mesoscutum in lateral view rounded antero-dorsally (Fig. 18D); mesoscutum length 0.8 (0.8) × width in dorsal view (Fig. 18E); ovipositor guide oblique positioned medially (Fig. 18F); ovipositor sheath length 1.3 (1.3) × fore wing length (Fig. 17A); 2-Rs+M 0.6 (0.5–0.6) × 1-Rs+M, three hamuli, equidistant; metasoma clavate (Fig. 18G); T1+T2 length 4.3 (3.7–4.3) × width in dorsal view.
Male. Body size (8.0–10.8) mm. Similar to female except no cream colouration on antennae, first tarsomere mostly dark brown (Fig. 17B).
Material examined.
Holotype. AUSTRALIA – Queensland • ♀, " Dunk Is[land]., 5.Jan.1950, G.B." "A.N. Burns Collection." (MVMA).
Paratypes. AUSTRALIA – Queensland • 1 ♀, Bushley, 3.Sep.1924, no collector (MVMA) • 1 ♀, Greenbank, 13.xii.1962, G. Monteith leg. (QM) • 1 ♀, Brisbane, xii.1973, J. Sedlacek leg. (AEI) • 1 ♀, Bribie Is, 22.xii-10-24.Jan.2011, G. Monteith leg. (QM) • 1 ♀, Mt. Cootha, xi-xii (AEI).
Other material examined
AUSTRALIA – Queensland • 1 ♀, Kuranda, 13.Dec.1920, F.P. Dodd leg. (SAMA) • 1 ♂, Brisbane, 3.Nov.1979, ex Cerambycid Chlorophorus annularis (QDPI) • 1 ♀, 2 ♂, Brisbane, Mt Crosby, 7.Oct.1984, R. de Keyzer leg., emerged from Acacia concurrens early Dec 1984 (QM) • 1 ♂, Auchenflower, Brisbane, 30.Nov.1984, T.A. Heard leg. (QM) • 1 ♀, Cow Bay N of Daintree, 23.Feb–29.Mar.1983, Malaise trap, Cunningham/ Storey (QM) • 1 ♀, Talegalla Weir, -25.789465, 152.696387, 5.Dec.2021, S. Gavins, iNaturalist observation 102522883. – NSW • 1 ♀, Boonanghi State forest, The Blowhole, W of Kempsey. 15-20.Feb.1994, G. Williams leg., emerged from fallen Backhousia myrtifolia branch ex rainforest (AMS).
Figure 17. Aulacus burnsi Jennings & Austin, A, paratype female, lateral habitus; B, male, lateral habitus. Scale bar = 1.00 mm.
Figure 18. Aulacus burnsi Jennings & Austin, holotype female, A, lateral head; B, frontal face; C, dorsal head; D, lateral mesosoma; E, dorsal mesosoma; F, ovipositor guide; G, fore wing. Scale bar = 1.00 mm.
Distribution. This species is known from several localities across Queensland and NSW (Fig. 89).
Biology.
The species has been reared from a branch of Backhousia myrtifolia and from the cerambycid Chlorophorus annularis (Bamboo borer).