FIGURE 1:
Detail of Brazil map (scale of 1:1000) highlighting the localities (1-18) selected for wasps (sensu lato) collecting by the project “Richness and Diversity of Hymenoptera and Isoptera along a latitudinal gradient in the Atlantic forest - the Eastern Brazilian Rain Forest” (Biota/SP - FAPESP). (1) CEPA Rugendas, SC; (2) CEPA Vila da Glória, SC; (3) Parque Estadual do Pau Oco, PR; (4) Parque Estadual de Intervales, SP; (5) Estação Ecológica Juréia-Itatins, SP; (6) Estação Biológica de Boracéia, SP; (7) Parque Estadual Serra do Mar, SP; (8) Reserva Biológica do Tinguá, RJ; (9) Parque Estadual do Desengano, RJ; (10) Estação Biológica de Santa Lúcia, ES; (11) Reserva Biológica de Sooretama, ES; (12) Estação Ecológica Pau Brasil, BA; (13) Mata da Esperança, BA; (14) Reserva de Sapiranga, BA; (15) Reserva Ecológica do Castro, SE; (16) Reserva Biológica Pedra Talhada, AL; (17) Horto Dois Irmãos, PE; (18) Mata do Buraquinho, PB.
FIGURE 2:
Venational scheme for the Belytinae forewing, modified from Nixon (1957NIXON, G.E.J. 1957. Hymenoptera Proctotrupoidea Diapriidae subfamily Belytinae. In: Handbook for the identification of British insects. London, Royal Entomological Society. v. 8, part 3.).
FIGURE 3:
Lyteba sp. (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae, Belytinae) from Parque Estadual de Intervales, SP (Biota project 2000-2002): (A) head of male, frontal view; (B)
habitus of male, lateral view; (C) part of mesosoma, dorsolateral view (arrow indicates the tooth in the scutellar bridge); (D) mesosoma of male, dorsal view; (E) female antenna.
FIGURE 4:
Forewing of six Belytinae spp. (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) from the Biota project (2000-2002): (A) female forewing of Scorpioteleia collected in Parque Estadual Serra do Mar, SP; (B) female forewing of Cinetus collected in CEPA Rugendas, SC; (C) female forewing of Scorpioteleia collected in Parque Estadual de Intervales, SP; (D) female forewing of Cinetus collected in Parque Estadual de Intervales, SP; (E) female of Belyta collected in Estação Ecológica Pau Brasil, BA; (F) male forewing of Belyta collected in Reserva Biológica do Tinguá, RJ.
FIGURE 5:
Forewing of four different Belytinae spp. (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) from Biota project (2000-2002): (A) male forewing of Aclista collected in CEPA Rugendas, SC; (B) male forewing of Camptopsilus collected in CEPA Rugendas, SC; (C) male forewing of Lyteba collected in Parque Estadual de Intervales, SP; (D) male forewing of Lyteba collected in Parque Estadual de Intervales, SP.
FIGURE 6:
Belyta sp. (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae, Belytinae) from Reserva Biológica do Tinguá, RJ (Biota project 2000-2002): (A) head of male, frontal view; (B)
habitus of male, lateral view; (C) mesosoma of female, lateral view; (D) mesosoma of male, dorsal view; (E) mesosoma of male, lateral view.
FIGURE 7:
Mesoscutum and pronotum of two Belyta spp. (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae, Belytinae) from the Biota project (2000-2002): (A) male from Mata da Esperança, BA (arrow indicates the rounded pronotal shoulder); (B) male from Parque Estadual do Desengano, RJ (arrow indicates the angular pronotal shoulder).
Figure 8:
Metasoma in dorsal view of three Cinetus spp. (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae, Belytinae), females collected by the Biota project (2000-2002): (A) from Parque Estadual do Desengano, RJ; (B) from CEPA Rugendas, SC; (C) from Parque Estadual de Intervales, SP.
FIGURE 9:
Cinetus sp. (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae, Belytinae), female collected in the Parque Estadual de Intervales, SP (Biota project 2000-2002): (A) head, frontal view; (B)
habitus, lateral view; (C) propodeum, dorsal view; (D) mesosoma, lateral view; (E) mesosoma, dorsal view.
FIGURE 10:
Scorpioteleia sp. (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae, Belytinae) from Parque Estadual de Intervales, SP (Biota project 2000-2002); (A) head of female, frontal view; (B)
habitus of female, lateral view; (C) mesosoma of female, dorsal view; (D) metasoma of male, lateral view; (E) fore tibia of male (arrow indicates the modified setae); (F) metasoma of female, dorsal view.
FIGURE 11:
Miota sp. (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae, Belytinae), male collected in the Parque Estadual da Pedra Azul, ES (collection of the Federal University of Espírito Santo); (A) head, frontal view; (B)
habitus, lateral view; (C) mesosoma, dorsal view; (D) forewing.
FIGURE 12:
Head in frontal view of three different Belytinae spp. (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) from Biota project (2000-2002): (A) female of Aclista collected in Parque Estadual de Intervales, SP; (B) female of Belyta collected in Reserva Biológica do Tinguá, RJ; (C) female of Cinetus collected in CEPA Rugendas, SC.
FIGURE 13:
Tropidopsilus sp. (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae, Belytinae), female collected in the Parque Estadual do Desengano, RJ (Biota project 2000-2002): (A)
habitus, lateral view; (B) head, frontal view; (C) mesosoma, lateral view; (D) forewing; (E) mesosoma, dorsal view.
FIGURE 14:
Scutellar disc, metascutellum and propodeum in lateral view of four Belytinae spp. (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) from Biota project (2000-2002): (A) male of Lyteba collected in Parque Estadual de Intervales, SP; (B) female of Cinetus collected in Parque Estadual do Desengano, RJ; (C) female of Tropidopsilus collected in Parque Estadual do Desengano, RJ; (D) female of Tropidopsilus collected in CEPA Vila da Glória (arrow indicates the crenulation in the posterior margin of scutellar disc).
FIGURE 15:
Mesosoma in dorsal view of six Belytinae spp. (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) from Biota project (2000-2002): (A) female of Camptopsilus collected in Parque Estadual Serra do Mar, SP; (B) female of Camptopsilus collected in CEPA Rugendas, SC; (C) female of Aclista collected in Reserva Biológica Pedra Talhada, AL; (D) male of Belyta collected in Parque Estadual do Desengano, RJ; (E) male of Belyta collected in Mata da Esperança, BA; (F) male of Aclista collected in Parque Estadual Serra do Mar, SP.
FIGURE 16:
Camptopsilus sp. (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae, Belytinae) from Reserva Biológica Pedra Talhada, AL (Biota project 2000-2002): (A) head of female, frontal view; (B)
habitus of female, lateral view; (C) mesosoma of female, lateral view; (D) mesosoma of female, dorsal view; (E) male antenna, proximal part; (F) metasoma of male, lateral view; (G) forewing of female.
FIGURE 17:
Odontopsilus sp. (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae, Belytinae), female colleted in the Reserva Biológica do Tinguá, RJ (Biota project 2000-2002): (A) head, frontal view; (B)
habitus, lateral view; (C) mesosoma, dorsal view; (D) antenna; (E) scutellar disc, metascutellum e propodeum, lateral view (arrow indicates the tooth in the middle posterior part of the scutellar disc); (F) forewing.
FIGURE 18:
Aclista sp. (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae, Belytinae), female colleted in the Reserva Biológica Pedra Talhada, AL (Biota project 2000-2002): (A) head, frontal view; (B)
habitus, lateral view; (C) mesosoma, dorsal view; (D) forewing; (E) mesosoma, lateral view.
FIGURE 19:
Mesosoma in lateral view of three Aclista spp. (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae, Belytinae), females collected by the Biota project (2000-2002): (A) from Reserva Biológica Pedra Talhada, AL; (B) from Parque Estadual Serra do Mar, SP (arrow indicates the tooth in the scutellar bridge); (C) from CEPA Vila da Glória (arrow indicates the tooth in the scutellar bridge).
FIGURE 20:
Proximal part of Belytinae (eight different morphospecies) male antenna (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) from the Biota project (2000-2002): (A)
Aclista from Parque Estadual de Intervales, SP; (B)
Odontopsilus from Reserva Biológica do Tinguá, RJ; (C)
Aclista from Reserva Biológica Pedra Talhada, AL; (D)
Aclista from Parque Estadual do Desengano, RJ; (E)
Aclista from Parque Estadual Serra do Mar, SP; (F)
Aclista from Parque Estadual do Desengano, RJ; (G)
Aclista from Reserva Biológica Pedra Talhada, AL; (H)
Aclista from Reserva Biológica Pedra Talhada, AL.
FIGURE 21:
Female antenna of six Aclista spp. (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae, Belytinae) from Biota project (2000-2002): (A) from Parque Estadual de Intervales, SP; (B) from CEPA Rugendas, SC; (C) from Reserva Biológica Pedra Talhada, AL; (D) from Reserva Biológica Pedra Talhada, AL; (E) from Reserva Biológica Pedra Talhada, AL; (F) from Parque Estadual de Intervales, SP.
FIGURE 22:
Distribution of Belytinae genera (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) in the Atlantic Forest collected by the Biota project (2000-2002): (A) Tropidopsilus, at a scale of 1:1000; (B) Scorpioteleia, at a scale of 1:300; (C) Cinetus, at a scale of 1:1000.
FIGURE 23:
Distribution of Belytinae genera (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) in the Atlantic Forest collected by the Biota project (2000-2002), at a scale of 1:1000: (A)
Camptopsilus;
(B)
Lyteba;
(C)
Belyta.
FIGURE 24:
Distribution of Belytinae genera (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) in the Atlantic Forest: (A)
Aclista from Biota project (2000-2002), at a scale of 1:1000; (B)
Odontopsilus from Biota Project (2000-2002), at a scale of 1:1000; (C)
Miota from collection of the Federal University of Espírito Santo, at a scale of 1:300.