Orgilus detectus Provancher 1886

Que.

Orgilus detectus Provancher

Orgilus detectus Provancher, 1886, p. 139.

This species seems to be most similar to solidus, new species, but it differs in its relatively longer malar space, its shiny and very weakly punctate face and its somewhat longer ovipositor.

FEMALE.—Length about 3.5 mm. Head in dorsal view about 0.6 as long as wide; face only slightly wider than eye height, shiny, with scattered setigerous punctures; malar space about 0.45 as long as eye height and a little longer than clypeus; temples rather strongly receding, smooth and shiny; antennae of holotype 29-segmented, some of the preapical segments quadrate.

Mesoscutum shiny, hairy, indistinctly punctate; propodeum finely rugulose except on the basal third where it is nearly smooth; mesopleuron smooth and shiny, the longitudinal furrow strongly foveolate; metapleuron smooth and shiny on the upper part, changing to rugose below. Hind coxa a little rugulose above and on upper part of outer side; inner calcarium of hind tibia a little more than half as long as metatarsus. Radial cell on wing margin about as long as stigma; second abscissa of radius on a line with intercubitus; nervulus a little postfurcal; lower abscissa of basella a little longer than nervellus but less than half as long as mediella.

Abdomen moderately stout; first tergite about 0.75 as wide at apex as long, finely rugulose over most of its surface; second tergite about 1.25 times as broad at base as long, confluently punctate on the basal two-thirds, smooth and polished apically and along the lateral margins; remainder of abdomen smooth and polished; ovipositor sheath fully as long as propodeum and abdomen combined.

Black; antennae darkened except for the basal flagellar segments; legs yellowish, the hind coxae black at their bases, the trochanters, femora, and tibiae shaded with brown, the tarsi dark; tegulae blackish, wing bases yellowish; wings slightly infumated.

MALE.—Unknown.

HOLOTYPE.—In the Quebec Provincial Museum collection, which is maintained at Laval University, Sainte Foy, Quebec.

DISTRIBUTION.—Known only from the female holotype, which was taken at Ottawa, Canada. I have seen no other specimen that I could confidently identify as this species.