Aximopsis deserticola Lotfalizadeh & Karimpour & Delvare & Rasplus 2020, comb. nov.

Aximopsis deserticola (Zerova, 2004) comb. nov.

Fig. 8

IRAN – West-Azarbaijan Province • 1 ♀; 1 ♂; Urmia, Häshtïan; 37º47′ N, 44º39′ E; 1680 m a.s.l.; Apr. 2017; Y. Karimpour leg.; ex Phragmites australis; HMIM • 1 ♀; 1 ♂; Urmia, Hesar-e Türkmän; 37º26′ N, 45º13′ E; 1293 m a.s.l.; Apr. 2017; Y. Karimpour leg.; ex Phragmites australis; HMIM.

The species has been reported from fruits of Cuscuta approximata Bab. (Cuscutaceae) in Tajikistan and Turkmenistan (Zerova 2010).

This species has characters of the nodularis species group (Lotfalizadeh et al. 2007), and with sharing conspicuous mesopleural shelf, carinate fore coxae and distinctly petiolate gaster, it is consequently transferred from Eurytoma Illiger, 1807 to the genus Aximopsis. Aximopsis deserticola can be separated from closely related species by the following set of characters: head round and slightly wider than long in frontal view (Fig. 8B); inner orbital margin coarsely punctate, and appearing to be slightly carinate; all funicular segments in female distinctly longer than wide (Fig. 8E), F1 about 2.5× as long as its width; fore coxa distinctly carinate in frontal view; mesopleuron with an obvious ventral shelf, carinate anteriorly and with an oblong comb anteromedially (Fig. 8D); marginal vein as long as postmarginal vein, slightly longer than stigmal vein, postmarginal vein about 1.5× as long as stigmal vein (Fig. 8C); metasoma of female rounded, as long as mesosoma in lateral view (Fig. 8A), with long petiole, slightly longer than wide.