Netomocera sedlaceki Bouček, 1988

Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan, 2019, Revision of Netomocera Bouček (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae), excluding the Oriental species, European Journal of Taxonomy 568, pp. 1-87 : 72-75

Netomocera sedlaceki Bouček, 1988

Figs 167–177

Netomocera sedlaceki Bouček, 1988: 336 (holotype (♀) in ANIC, not examined).

Diagnosis

Both sexes

Head black ( Figs 168–169 , 176 ). Clypeal margin slightly produced ( Fig. 170 ). Scrobes deep and smooth ( Fig. 168 ). Upper face and vertex with 12 large setae ( Fig. 169 ). Occiput margin blunt ( Fig. 169 ). Pronotal collar wide but not long ( Fig. 173 ). Mesepimeral sulcus shallow ( Fig. 172 ). Propodeum ( Fig. 174 ) without a well-defined V-shaped area basally. Visible part of petiole very short, distinctly transverse, with more or less obliterate sculpture ( Figs 174 ).

Female

Brachypterous ( Fig. 167 ). Toruli only slightly below lower margins of eyes ( Fig. 168 ). Face with piliferous punctures barely visible. Antenna uniformly reddish or yellowish, moderately clavate, with clava slightly asymmetric; fu1 and fu7 moderately transverse ( Fig. 171 ). Mesoscutum width 2.8–3.1 × length.

Male

Body length 0.8–1.2 mm. Mesosoma dorsally with reticulation not dense, alveolae shallow (cf. Fig. 173 ). Funicular segments thick and short, fu1 wider than pedicel, length 1.6–2.0× width ( Fig. 177 ).

Material examined

Paratypes

AUSTRALIA – Queensland • 1 ♀; “Brisbane – Brookfield, QNSLD. 14. I. 83. Bouček”; “ Paratype ”; “ ♀ Netomocera sedlaceki sp. n. det. Z. Bouček 1983”; BMNH • 1 ♀; same data as for preceding; “ 18. I. 83 ”; BMNH • 4 ♂♂; “ AUSTRALIA: Qld., Cooloola, vi. 1980 ”; “ J.S. Noyes, B.M. 1981-299”; “ Paratype ”; “ PARATYPE ♂ Netomocera sedlaceki sp. n. Bouček det. 1987”; BMNH • 1 ♂; “SE. QUEENSLAND: Mt. Tamborine, 21.xii.76. Bouček”; “ Paratype ”; “ PARATYPE ♂ Netomocera sedlaceki sp. n. Bouček det. 1987”; BMNH • 1 ♂; same data as for preceding; “3/3.1984. Masner”; BMNH • 1 ♂; “SE. QUEENSLAND: 40km W. of Warwick, 31.x.76. Bouček”; “ Paratype ”; “ PARATYPE ♂ Netomocera sedlaceki sp. n. Bouček det. 1987”; BMNH • 2 ♂♂; “QLD: Brookfield Nr Brisbane, xii.1982. Bouček”; “ Paratype ”; “ ♂ Netomocera sedlaceki sp. n. det. Z. Bouček 1984”; BMNH • 1 ♂; “ AUSTRALIA: Qld., Capalaba, 8.vi.1980 ”; “ J.S. Noyes, B.M. 1981-299”; “ Paratype ”; “ PARATYPE ♂ Netomocera sedlaceki sp. n. Bouček det. 1987”; BMNH • 1 ♂; “ AUSTRALIA: Qld., Mt Tibrogargan, 5.vi.1980 ”; “ J.S. Noyes, B.M. 1981-299”; “ Paratype ”; “ PARATYPE ♂ Netomocera sedlaceki sp. n. Bouček det. 1987”; BMNH • 3 ♂♂; “Rockhampton: Mt. Archer, QUEENSLD., 4.xii.76. Bouček”; “ Paratype ”; “ PARATYPE ♂ Netomocera sedlaceki sp. n. Bouček det. 1987”; BMNH • 1 ♂; “ QNSLD, Brisbane: Acacia Ridge, 15.i.77. Bouček”; “ Paratype ”; “ PARATYPE ♂ Netomocera sedlaceki sp. n. Bouček det. 1987”; BMNH • 1 ♂; “Acacia Ridge, Brisbane S. E. Q., 15.i.77. Bouček”; “ Paratype ”; “ PARATYPE ♂ Netomocera sedlaceki sp. n. Bouček det. 1987”; BMNH • 1 ♂; “S. QUEENSLAND: Mt. Tamborine, X. 1977. Galloway”; “ Paratype ”; “ PARATYPE ♂ Netomocera sedlaceki sp. n. Bouček det. 1987”; BMNH • 1 ♂; “ QUEENSLAND: Mt. Ossa nr. Mackay, 28.xi.76. Bouček”; “ Paratype ”; “ PARATYPE ♂ Netomocera sedlaceki sp. n. Bouček det. 1987”; BMNH • 1 ♂; “Conway Range, nr. Proserpine, QLD., 2.xii.76. Bouček”; “ Paratype ”; “ PARATYPE ♂ Netomocera sedlaceki sp. n. Bouček det. 1987”; BMNH .

– Australian Capital Territory • 1 ♂; “ AUSTRALIA, A.C.T.: Ainslie , 8.ii.77. Bouček”; “ Paratype ”; “ PARATYPE ♂ Netomocera sedlaceki sp. n. Bouček det. 1987”; BMNH .

Description

Female (habitus: Fig. 167 )

COLOUR. Head ( Figs 168–169 ) black. Mandibles yellow, teeth reddish-yellow. Antenna ( Fig. 171 ) yellowish or reddish-yellow. Mesosoma ( Figs 172–174 ) reddish-brown. Legs reddish-yellow. Wing stumps ( Fig. 175 ) subhyaline, venation brown, setation brown. Metasoma with petiole reddish-brown ( Fig. 174 ); gaster ( Fig. 167 ) mostly dark reddish-brown, ventrally paler. Body setation pale except for several large, symmetrically arranged, dark brown setae.

BODY LENGTH. 0.9–1.5 mm.

HEAD. Clypeus virtually smooth; apical margin slightly produced ( Fig. 170 ). Lower face reticulate, piliferous punctures mostly indistinct. Upper face including vertex reticulate ( Fig. 169 ). Scrobes deep, smooth and shiny; parascrobal region extensively striate-reticulate ( Fig. 168 ). Occiput coriaceousalutaceous; margin blunt ( Fig. 169 ). Toruli with lower margins slightly below lower margins of eyes ( Fig. 168 ). Antenna moderately clavate, with clava slightly asymmetric ( Fig. 171 ). Upper face and vertex with 12 large setae. Head in dorsal view with width 2.1–2.2 × length and in frontal view about 1.2× height. POL 3.5–3.7 × OOL. Eye height about 1.3× length, 2.75–3.10 × malar space and about 1.4× scape length. Head width about 1.2 × length of pedicel plus flagellum. Fu1 length 0.9–1.0 × width; fu7 width 1.1–1.4× length; clava length 1.8–2.2× width.

MESOSOMA. Pronotal collar slightly narrower than mesoscutum, with eight large setae ( Fig. 173 ). Mesonotum moderately setose ( Fig. 173 ). Mesoscutum and axillae with fine reticulation ( Fig. 173 ). Scutellar disc with similar sculpture as mesoscutum and longitudinally striate on frenal area ( Figs 173– 174 ). Mesepisternum mainly reticulate, less conspicuously so dorsally ( Fig. 172 ). Mesepimeron smooth; mesepimeral sulcus shallow ( Fig. 172 ). Propodeum mainly smooth, with intricate pattern of carinae, interspaces smooth ( Fig. 174 ). Brachypterous; fore and hind wings reduced and represented by stumps ( Fig. 167 ); fore wing with truncate apex well surpassing posterior margin of propodeum; basal cell mostly bare, rest of the wing setose; fore wing with complete submarginal vein, reduced marginal vein and indistinct postmarginal and stigmal veins ( Fig. 175 ). Mesosoma length about 1.3× width and about 1.1× height. Pronotal collar about 0.4× as long as mesoscutum and about 0.9× as wide as mesoscutum. Mesoscutum width 2.8–3.1× length. Scutellum length 0.8–0.9× width. Propodeum length about half scutellum length. Fore wing length 3.0–3.1 × width.

METASOMA. Petiole barely visible, transverse, smooth except for a few superficial longitudinal striae ( Fig. 174 ). Gaster ovate, length about 1.5× width ( Fig. 167 ); gt1 longest, length about 0.9× width, with hind margin straight to slightly produced; gt2–6 short; syntergum acutely pointed. Ovipositor sheaths slightly protruding beyond apex of gaster. Cercal setae not surpassing apex of gaster.

Male (habitus: Fig. 176 )

Differs from female mainly as follows. Body length: 0.8–1.2 mm. Flagellum uniformly dark brown ( Fig. 177 ). Mesosoma dorsally dark brown except metanotum and propodeum reddish; lateral panel of pronotum, mesepimeron and metapleuron reddish ( Fig. 176 ). Fu1 length 1.6–2.0× width; combined length of pedicel plus flagellum about 2.4× head width. Macropterous, fore wing length about 2.5× width; MV about 3.4 × SV; PV about 1.2× SV. Gaster (when not inflated) much shorter than mesosoma, usually with only gt1 visible.

Distribution

Australia.

Remarks

The colour of the mesosoma and gaster varies the most in males. The majority of the observed specimens have most of the mesosoma dorsally and the gaster dark brown, except for the propodeum, which seems to be always orange ( Fig. 176 ). A few other specimens have the entire mesosoma and most of the gaster bright orange, except its tip, which is brownish.

Figures

Figs 167–171. Netomocera sedlaceki Bouček, 1988, paratype, ♀, (BMNH). 167. Habitus, lateral view. 168. Head, frontal view. 169. Head, dorsal view. 170. Lower face. 171. Antenna. Scale bars: 0.2 mm.

Figs 172–177. Netomocera sedlaceki Bouček, 1988. 172. Paratype, ♀, mesosoma, lateral view. 173. Paratype, ♀, mesosoma, dorsal view. 174. Paratype, ♀, propodeum, dorsal view. 175. Paratype, ♀, fore and hind wings. 176. Paratype, ♂, habitus, lateral view. 177. Paratype, ♂, antenna. Scale bars: 0.2 mm.