Copidosoma isfahan Japoshvili

George Japoshvili, Hamid Rakhshani & Jahangir Khajehali, 2016, Zoology in the Middle East, Zoology in the Middle East 62 (3), pp. 261-264 : 262-263

Copidosoma isfahan Japoshvili sp. n.

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Material. Holotype ♀, Northeast of Isfahan , Shahinshahr & Komshecheh , 13.vi. 2015, H. Rakhshani (card mounted); – Paratypes 2♀, 1♂, same data as holotype (slide mount- ed) ; 2♂, same data as holotype (card mounted, one individual missing head). All material deposited in the collection of the Institute of Entomology , Agricultural University of Georgia, Tbilisi ( IEAUG) .

Diagnosis. Copidosoma isfahan sp. n. is close to the following species: C. charon Guerrieri & Noyes, 2005 , C. filicorne (Dalman, 1820) and C. fulgens Sharkov, 1985 , howev- er it differs from these species by the characters given in Table 1 .

Description. Female. Length 1.34-1.4 mm (1.44-1.5 mm including exserted part of ovipositor). Holotype 1.4 mm (1.5 mm). – Body black; head with shiny golden-green metallic reflection; pronotum, mesoscutum, axillae similar colouration as head; scutellum with shiny purple-silver metallic reflection; propodeum, metanotum, gaster with shiny golden-green metallic reflection; mesopleuron with purple-silver metallic reflection; tegullae and legs almost all white, only mid and hind coxa dark, with some metallic reflection; wings hyaline. Head about two times as wide as frontovertex; frontovertex 1.2x as long as wide; scape about 4x as long as wide; mandible tridentate; pedicel plus funicle 1.65x as long as head wide; clava longer than F4-6; occiputal margin sharp; metasoma slightly longer than mesosoma and almost 2x as long as broad; mesoscutum almost 0.7x as long as broad; scutellum almost as long as or slightly longer than broad; sculpture on mesoscutum and scutellum little different, on the mesoscutum with round- ed polygonal cells, scutellum with little elongated, but with wide cells similar to that of mesoscutum; metasoma with ovipositor straight, and exserted part about 0.2-0.23x as long as metasoma (holotype 0.23) and as long as or very slightly longer than basitarsus; hypopygium reaching apex of gaster.

Relative measurement: HW (maximum head width) 19; FV (minimum frontovertex width) 10; POL (posterior ocellar line) 4; AOL (distance between posterior and anterior ocelli) 3; OOL (ocular-ocellar line) 1; OCL (occipital-ocellar line) 1.5; OD (greatest diameter of an ocellus) 2; EL (maximum eye length) 11; MS (malar space, i.e. shortest distance from the eye to mouth margin) 7; SL (scape length) 13, SW (maximum scape width) 2; FWL (maximum forewing length) 55; FWW (maximum forewing width) 25.

Male. 1.18- 1.28 mm. Colouration as female.

Biology. Gregarious endoparasitoid of Altenia mersinella ( Lepidoptera : Gelechiidae ) on Pistacia vera (Anacardiaceae) .

Distribution. Iran.

Etymology. The name is after the collecting site name of the city Isfahan , Iran. The city was a capital of Persia during the XI-XVIII centuries.

Figures

Figure 1. Female Copidosoma isfahan sp. n. Card mounted: A. Dorsal view; A. Lateral view; C. Head from dorsal view. Slides: D. Head from frontal view; E. Thorax from dorsal view; F. Ovipositor; G. Antenna; H. Fore wing.

Tables

Table 1. Comparison of the females of Copidosoma sp. n., C. filicorne, C. charon and C. fulgens.

	C. isfahan sp.n.	C. charon	C. filicorne	C. fulgens
Legs	All legs yellow except mid and hind coxa	Mid and hind coxae, hind femur and tibia largely brown	Legs brown, midtibia and sometimes fore tibia yellowish	All legs yellow except mid and hind coxa
Head	Head 2x as wide as FV	Head 2.2x as wide as FV	Head 2x as wide as FV	Head 2.36x as wide as FV
First funicle segment (F1)	F1 1.9x as long as broad and 0.85x as long as pedicel	F1 2.4x as long as broad and 0.8x as long as pedicel	F1 2x as long as broad and 0.7x as long as pedi- cel	F1 2.6x as long as broad and as long as pedicel
Fore wing	2.2x as long as broad	2.5x as long as broad	2.1x as long as broad	2.5x as long as broad
Mesoscutum and scutel- lum	Mesoscutum with rounded polygonal cells and scutellum moreless elongated, but with wide cells not with striate appear- ance and more similar to that of mesoscutum structure	Mesoscutum and scutellum with similar sculpture of small, elongate, cells, medially these striate ap- pearance particu- larly on scutellum	Similar to that of C. charon	Mesoscutum and scutellum with similar sculpture of small cells