Abstract
Raphiglossa rasnitsyni Fateryga, sp. n. is described from Turkmenistan. The new species resembles R. eumenoides S.S. Saunders, 1850 in its body size and proportions of the metasomal tergum 1 but strongly differs from it by having a narrow propodeal concavity which is less wide than the metasomal tergum 1 at base, anterior margin of clypeus deeply emarginated and with a single tooth at center in the female, and male genitalia with reduced parameral spine (gonostylus), digitus lacking posterior process, and robust aedeagus broadened (in lateral view) towards the apex and curved dorsally.
Highlights
Raphiglossa S.S. Saunders, 1850 is a small genus of solitary wasps in the subfamily Raphiglossinae
Provision is usually tightly packed weevil larvae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae); R. natalensis was reported to hunt on caterpillars (Meade-Waldo, 1913) but these data were not confirmed by further studies on the same species known at present as weevil-larva hunter (Gess & Gess, 2014)
Three-year diapasuse of the prepupa is reported for R. natalensis (Meade-Waldo, 1913)
Summary
Raphiglossa S.S. Saunders, 1850 is a small genus of solitary wasps in the subfamily Raphiglossinae (sensu Bank et al, 2017).
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