Omphale connectens Graham, 1963

Li, Ming-Rui, Wang, Jia-Sheng, Jing, Ze-Ji, Meng, Qing-Fan, Zhao, Hong-Rui, Li, Xing-Peng, Liu, Sheng-Dong & Li, Cheng-De, 2024, Four new species and four newly recorded species of Omphale Haliday (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) from China, with a key to Chinese species, ZooKeys 1215, pp. 209-234 : 209-234

Omphale connectens Graham, 1963

Figs 1 B , 3 A – K

Omphale connectens Graham, 1963: 261, holotype ♀, Berkshire, England, UK, HDOU, not examined.

Material examined.

• 4 ♀: 2 ♀ [ NEFU; 1 on card, 1 on slide], China, Chongqing City, Simian Mountain, Dawopu , 04. VIII. 2018, leg. Guang-Xin Wang and Jun-Jie Fan, by sweep netting • 2 ♀ [ NEFU; 1 on card, 1 on slide], China, Inner Mongolia, Ulanhot City, Sanhe Village , 12. VII. 2021, leg. Yuan-Yuan Jin and Yue Qin, by sweep netting .

Diagnosis.

Female. Body length 1.0– 2.4 mm. Vertex and face bronze, golden green, golden blue to purple metallic; antenna with scape yellow, along dorsal edge dark brown, pedicel and flagellum dark brown; mesoscutum bluish green, bronze to purple metallic; scutellum with similar color to mesoscutum, sometime darker; propodeum bluish green to purple metallic; legs with procoxa dark brown, mesocoxa and metacoxa yellowish brown to yellow; femora yellowish brown to brown; tibiae yellow to yellowish brown; protarsus pale brown, mesotarsus and metatarsus yellow to yellowish brown; gaster with first tergite bluish green metallic, remainder dark brown metallic. Head (Fig. 3 A, B ) with face and vertex smooth to with very weak sculpture partly; antennal scrobes meeting on the nearly V-shaped frontal sulcus; frontal cross-ridge present; clypeus trapezoid to semicircular 1.4–1.6 × as wide as high; antenna (Fig. 3 C ) with 3 - segmented funicle and 2 - segmented clava, F 1 –3 with two sets of setae, one set attached closed to base and another attached subapically or medially on the flagellomere, F 1 1.1 × as long as F 2. Mesosoma (Fig. 3 D, E ) with mesoscutum and scutellum with shallow reticulation; midlobe of mesoscutum with two pairs of setae; scutellum 1.2 × as long as wide, with anterior margin almost straight or weakly curved forwards; propodeum smooth, without median carina. Fore wing (Fig. 3 J ) speculum closed, with 6–10 admarginal setae arising from MV and membrane just below MV, STV short, PMV 1.5–2.0 × as long as STV, radial cell small and setose, only along PMV bare. Metasoma (Fig. 3 I ), gaster 1.6–2.0 × as long as mesosoma, and longer than head + mesosoma (1.2: 1.0).

Male. Not collected from China, see Hansson and Shevtsova (2012).

Host.

Unknown.

Distribution.

China (Inner Mongolia and Chongqing Provinces) (new record); United Kingdom ( Graham 1963); Ireland (north and south) ( Bouček and Askew 1968); France, Germany, Netherlands ( Gijswijt 1976); Croatia, Serbia ( Bouček 1977); Sweden ( Hansson 1991); Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Russia ( Hansson and Shevtsova 2012); Romania ( Hansson 2016).

Figures

Figure 1. Omphale spp., habitus A O. brevibuccata, ♀, lateral B O. connectens, ♀, lateral C O. longigena sp. nov., holotype, ♀, lateral D O. longitarsus sp. nov., holotype, ♀, lateral E O. melina, ♀, dorsal F O. melina, ♂, dorsal G O. rectisulcus sp. nov., holotype, ♀, dorsal H O. obscura, ♀, lateral I O. sulciscuta, ♀, lateral. Scale bars: 500 μm.

Figure 3. Omphale connectens, ♀ A, B head, frontal view C antenna D, E mesosoma, dorsal view F – H fore, mid and hind leg, respectively I metasoma, dorsal view J fore wing K hind wing. Scale bars: 100 μm.