Cratocentrus fastuosus ( Masi, 1944 )

Abul-Sood, Medhat I., Gadallah, Neveen S., Hossni, Mohammed T. & Delvare, Gérard, 2018, The subfamily Cratocentrinae (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae): reappraisal of their morphological characters and review of the West Palaearctic species, with the description of two new species, Zootaxa 4377 (4), pp. 490-516 : 500-502

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Cratocentrus fastuosus ( Masi, 1944) View in CoL

( Figs 1 View FIGURE 1 , 32‒38 View FIGURES 32–38 )

Cerachalcis fastuosa Masi, 1944: 123 View in CoL –125. Original description ♀ ♂. Algeria, Oran and Libya, Cyrenaica. = Cerachalcis carambycida [sic] Masi, 1944: 126 –127. Steffan, 1957: 239.

Cratocentrus fastuosus: Steffan, 1957: 239 View in CoL ; Steffan, 1959: 313.

Type material. Cerachalcis fastuosa . Paratypes, 2 ♀, one entire on a minutien, labelled 'Cyneraica R. U. Agraria Geo C. Krüger Gerges Lb.' / ' Cerachalcis fastuosa' [manuscript] / 'co-typus' / 'Museo Civico di Genova, the second only with remains of the gaster, partly dissected (MCSN) ( Fig. 66 View FIGURES 65–68 ). Cerachalcis carambycida . Holotype ♀ (MNHN) (see Fig. 65 View FIGURES 65–68 for the labelling).

Other material. EGYPT: Meadi [sic] ( Maadi ), 26.3.1930, H. Priesner leg. (1 ♂) ( NMP) ; Kafr El-Hamam (Sharqia), 16.10.2015, Abul-Sood leg (1♀) ( EFC) . MOROCCO: Tarhazoute, 20 km N Agadir , 04.v.1989, H. Tussac leg. (1 ♀ 1 ♂) ( GDPC) ; Moulay Idriss, ruins of antic city of Volubilis , N34°04'34" W05°33'14", 15.v.2000, H. Tussac leg. (1 ♀) ( GDPC) GoogleMaps ; ' Maroc Rabat 22.7.38, Ch. Rungs leg.' (1 ♀) ( MNHN) . SAUDI ARABIA: Jizan hot springs 25/3/1980 K.M. Guichard leg (1 ♂) ( NMP) . SPAIN: Alméria, Mojacar, 13.vi.1994, on Zizyphus lotus, M. Tussac leg. (1 ♀) ( GDPC) .

Comment. The holotype of C. fastuosa could not be traced in MNB.

Diagnosis. Female. Setation silvery on whole body ( Figs 1 View FIGURE 1 , 32 View FIGURES 32–38 ). Frons with adpressed setation not completely covering integument and mixed with sparser suberect setae ( Fig. 33 View FIGURES 32–38 ). Scape reddish. Teeth on vertex sharp. Pronotal carina well expanded, only narrowly broken mesally ( Fig. 32 View FIGURES 32–38 ). Dorsum of pronotum with 2 transverse rows of large areolae mesally having their anterior margins raised into crests. Mesoscutal fasciae moderately expanded ( Fig. 32 View FIGURES 32–38 ). Setation on posterior slope of axillae not very dense. Mid lobe of mesoscutum with large areoles posteriorly. Fore wing distinctly infuscate at apex ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 ). GT5 and GT6 with well expanded and well delimited fasciae but those on GT5 widely separated ( Figs 1 View FIGURE 1 , 32 View FIGURES 32–38 ). Ovipositor sheaths relatively short, only 2.3× as long as the carinate dorsal edge of syntergum ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 ). Male with all flagellomeres somewhat transverse ( Fig. 35 View FIGURES 32–38 ) and syntergal projection short, with the usual pair of lateral points at apex ( Figs 37, 38 View FIGURES 32–38 ).

Recognition. Cratocentrus fastuosus can be separated from the Afrotropical species by the entirely silvery setation of the whole body ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 ), the presence of elongate fasciae along the notauli ( Fig.32 View FIGURES 32–38 ) and the relatively short ovipositor sheaths ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 ). It is distinguished from the Palaearctic species by the reddish scape, the sharp teeth on the vertex ( Fig. 33 View FIGURES 32–38 ) and the well expanded pronotal carina ( Fig. 32 View FIGURES 32–38 ).