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mx id: 11341 | OBO id: HAO:0002423 | URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HAO_0002423

specillum

Definition:

The median, smooth area that is smooth, is surrounded by sculptured areas and is on the abdominal mediotergite 4.

written by: Mineo, G., and V. Caleca. 1992. New Characters in Gryonini (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae). Phytophaga 4:11-16.

Relationships / properties:

The specillum is a area.

The specillum is part of the abdominal mediotergite 4. The specillum is part of the cuticle.

specillum by Mineo, G., and V. Caleca. 1992. New Characters in Gryonini (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae). Phytophaga 4:11-16.

specillum by Caleca, V., and G. Mineo. 1995. On the genus Dyscritobaeus Perkins, 1995 (Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea: Scelionidae). Bollettino del Laboratorio di Entomologia Agraria 'Filippo Silvestri' Portici 50:9-21.

comment added over 8 years ago by Istvan Miko

See also Fig. VII in Caleca, V.; Mineo, G.; 1995 - On the genus Dyscritobaeus Perkins, 1995 (Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea: Scelionidae). - Bollettino del Laboratorio di Entomologia Agraria "Filippo Silvestri" Portici. 50:9-21Also for this character we have other pictures in the cited paper "Revision of Afrotropical Dyscritobaeus Perkins, 1910 (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae)", but not already published.

Reference: Tortorici, F. 2015. personal communication..
Cross reference: None provided.

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