Kollasmosoma sentum (lat.) - a species of riders from the family Braconidae , parasitizing on runner ants Cataglyphis ibericus . Spain ( Madrid , Carretera de La Coruña; Granada , Orhiva ) [1] . Scientists from the International Institute for the Study of Species at Arizona University have recognized its discovery as one of the 10 most interesting species of living organisms described in 2011 [2] [3] [4] .
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| Scientific classification |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| Subtype : | Tracheo-breathing |
| Infraclass : | Winged insects |
| Treasure : | Fully Transformed Insects |
| Superfamily : | Ichmonmonoid Riders |
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| International scientific name |
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Kollasmosoma sentum
van Achterberg & Gómez, 2010 [1] |
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Body length 1.8–2.1 mm, front wing 1.1–1.4 mm. Antennae of females 12-segmented. Body color is mostly black; clips, face, labrum, palps, propleron, tegula, wing bases, fore and middle legs are whitish; scapus and antennae pedicellus, hind legs ivory; pronotum sides with brownish spots; the veins of the wings are brown; other parts of antennae, lateral parts of metasome, parastigm and pterostigmus are dark brown. The parasitic rider Kollasmosoma sentum is associated with the runner Cataglyphis ibericus ( Emery , 1906) , which is attacked from behind, laying down in the ant’s abdomen. All the time from high-speed diving to laying an egg takes only 1/20 second [1] .
The species Kollasmosoma sentum is assigned to the genus Kollasmosoma van Achterberg & Argaman, 1993 from the tribe Braconid Neoneurini . Species of the genus Kollasmosoma are associated with ants of the genus Cataglyphis Foerster, 1850 . The species Kollasmosoma platamonense (Huddleston, 1976) (eastern Mediterranean) is associated with the desert runner Cataglyphis bicolor (Fabricius, 1793) , and Kollasmosoma marikovskii (Tobias, 1986) ( Kazakhstan ) was derived from the meadow ant Formica pratensis [5] .