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M. S. Abdul-Rassoul 
Bull. Iraq nat. Hist. Mus. 
(2000) 9 (2):1-4 
 

A NEW SPECIES OF LIODONTOMERUS GAH. FROM IRAQ 
(HYMENOPTERA, TORYMIDAE) 

 
M. S. Abdul-Rassoul 

Iraq Natural History Museum. Baghdad University.Baghdad .Iraq 
 

ABSTRACT 
    A study of the Torymid collection of Iraq. resulted in undescribed species of the genus 
Liodontonierus Gah. L. longicorpus sp. n. with 2 figures. 
 

Liodontornerus longicorpus sp.n. 
(Text—figs. 1.2) 

    Head and thorax metalic green with purplish tint. Anennae dark brown. scape coppery 
green, sides of thorax and legs dark violet .tip of tibiae and tarsi yellowish, claws black; 
Gaster dark violet all over with metalic green tint at base : wings hyaline .venation yellowish 
Female. - Length 3.4- 3.7mm. Head transverse, slightly broader than thorax, clearly longer 
than broad; vertex finely reticulate, shining, dorsal ocelli nearly twice as far from other as eye 
margin: eyes bare, less than twice as long as broad: cheeks somewhat half length of eyes; 
front strongly shining, finely reticulate; antennal groove deep. reaching anterior ocellus, about 
as wide as a third of width of front; antennae inserted just above lower eye margin, flagellum 
clavate , scape slender . slightly compressed from sides and three times as long as 
pedicel ;pedicel more than one and half times as long as broad: funicle with two ring-like 
segments; rest segments quadrate ; club as long as two preceding segments combined.  
    Thorax somewhat slim, more than twice as long as broad, finely reticulate. shining, covered 
with short hairs: propodeum abruptly declining strongly shining and nearly smooth with sharp 
reticulation on both sides: fore and middle coxae nearly smooth, hind ones sharply reticulate 
at outer side: fOre femur finely reticulate. strongly shining, fore and hind femora distinctly 
swollen: wings hyaline. marginal vein four as long as postmarginal vein and more than four 
times as long as stigmal vein: postmargin vein one and half as long as stigmal one. 
    Gaster distinctly longer than thorax and head combined, nearly bare above, finely and 
densely reticulate at sides , first tergite deeply incised at hind margin . second tergite slightly 
incised at hind margin , distal margin of each tergite with transverse row consisting of some 
few bristles 
    Male. -Length 2.4-2.5mm. Metalic green with purplish tint: all femora dark violet, tibiae 
yellowish, fore and hind femra distinctly swollen gaster much shorter than thorax, truncate 
behind: antennae less clavate. segments subquadrate. otherwise as female. 
Host-Unknown. 
    Material examined. -Iraq, Diyala.. Adhaim 1+ (Holotype). l>(Allotype ) and 9.++. I> 
(paratypes). coil. 27.iii.1977, (leg. M.S.Adbul-Rassoul). The types were deposited in Iraq 
Natural History Museum. 
    Liodontomerus longicorpus sp. n. differs from all the known members of the genus (see 
Szelenyi, 1959: Erdos, 1960 and 1964; Boucek. 1970; Subba Rae° and Bhati. 1961) by the 
elongate body particularly thorax (hence the specific name). and the character of the antennae. 

 



 

 

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Inheritance of dark head 
 

LITERATURE CITED 
Boucek,Z. 1970. On some new or otherwise interesting Torymidae. Ormyridae. Eurytomidae 

and Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera). mainly from the Mediteranean subregion. 
Bull. Lab. Ent.. agr. Filippo Silvestri 27: 27-54. 

 
Erdos. J.1960. Chalcidoidae II. Fauna Hungariae 52 (3): 1-230. 
 
------------------.1964. Chalcidoidae nova in Gallia et Numidia inventa. Bull. Soc. ent. France, 

Paris 69: 89-100. 
 
Subba Rao, B.R. and Bhatia, S.K. 1961. Liodontonierus indictis new species ( Hymenoptera. 

Torymidae ) a parasite of Systole albipennis walk. Indian fErn., New Delhi 
23:125- 127. 

 
Szelenyi. G. 1959. Two new species of Liodontonierus Gah. (Hym., Chalcidoidea). Acta zool. 

Acad. Sci. Hung. 5:141-146. 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
  
  



 

 

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Figs. 1,2. Liodontomerus longicorpus sp. n. 1. female antenna. 2. forewing. 
  
  

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