Bocchus hyalinus Olmi, 1998

Derafshan, Hossein Ali, Olmi, Massimo, Moghaddam, Mostafa Ghafouri, Nader, Elham & Rakhshani, Ehsan, 2021, New records of Dryinidae Haliday, 1833 (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea) from Iran, Zoosystema 43 (23), pp. 563-583 : 575

Bocchus hyalinus Olmi, 1998 *

( Figs 2C ; 3E ; 11 )

Bocchus hyalinus Olmi, 1998: 65 .

TYPE LOCALITY. — Oman, 4 km South of Dhagmar (holotype ♀, CNC).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Iran (new record) • 1 ♀; MNHN; Kerman province, Faryab ; 5.VIII.2016; M. Arab leg.; Malaise trap in Natural Ecosystem • 1 ♀; DPPZ; Sistan-o Baluchestan province, Iranshahr, Daman ; 27°25’N, 060°54’E; 879 m; 18.VI.2016; H. Davari leg.; Malaise trap 2 mounted among planted Mazari palm, Nannorrhops ritchiana (Griff.) Aitch . • 3 ♀; DPPZ, MOLC; same locality label; 27°24’N, 060°50’E; 876 m; 16-26.VI.2016; Malaise trap 4 .

Oman • 1 ♀ 5 ♂; NHMUK, MOLC; Al-Uyaina – Samail; 30.IV.2006; K. Al-Miqbali leg.; ex. Ommatissus lybicus De Bergevin (Tropiduchidae) on date palm .

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN ( Fig. 14A ). — Kerman and Sistan-o Baluchestan provinces.

GENERAL DISTRIBUTION ( Fig. 14A ). — AFR and W-PAL.

DESCRIPTION

Female ( Figs 2C ; 11 )

Body almost totally yellow-whitish, except ocelli slightly darkened; occasionally mesothoracic axilla and sutures behind mesoscutum, mesoscutellum and metanotum darkened ( Fig. 11 D-F). Antenna short, with antennomeres 5-9 longer than broad (antennomere 5: 6:3; antennomere 9: 4.5:3.5); head dull, completely granulate and reticulate rugose ( Fig. 11 A-C); frontal line complete ( Fig. 11B ). Pronotum crossed by strong transverse impression, reticulate rugose ( Fig. 11E ); pronotal tubercle reaching tegula ( Fig. 11E ); lateral regions of prothorax continuous with mesopleuron so that the epicnemium is not exposed ( Fig. 11D ); notauli posteriorly separated, occasionally hardly visible ( Fig. 11E ); mesoscutellum very slightly granulate, not rugose ( Fig. 11E ); metanotum short and rugose ( Fig. 11F ); metapectal-propodeal disc reticulate rugose; propodeal declivity dull and rugose ( Fig. 11F ). Petiole very long, much shorter than metasoma (6:27) ( Fig. 11F ). Protarsomere 5 with one preapical lamella, two bristles and an inner band ( Fig. 2C ).

Male.

Not collected in Iran.

REMARKS

In specimens from the United Arab Emirates, mesosoma ferruginous and metasoma brown; mesoscutum strongly reticulate rugose, with notauli almost completely invisible; mesoscutellum with anterior half unsculptured and posterior half reticulate rugose. In contrast, in specimen from Kenya, mesosoma ferruginous and metasoma partly brown and partly ferruginous; mesoscutum strongly reticulate rugose, with notauli completely invisible; mesoscutellum granulate.

Figures

FIG. 2. — Chelae, female: A, Anteon abdulnouri Olmi, 1987 (Lebanon – Redrawn from Olmi 1987); B, Anteon pubicorne (Dalman,1818) (Italy – redrawn from Olmi, 1984); C, Bocchus hyalinus Olmi, 1998 (Oman – Redrawn from Olmi 1998); D, Dryinus tamaricicola Rakhshani & Olmi, 2016 (Iran – redrawn from Derafshan et al. 2016). Scale bars: 100 μm.

FIG. 3. — Male genitalia: A, Anteon abdulnouri Olmi, 1987 (Yemen – Redrawn from Olmi & Van Harten 2000); B, Anteon pubicorne (Dalman, 1818) (England – redrawn from Olmi, 1984); C, Aphelopus melaleucus (Dalman, 1818) (France – original drawing); D, Aphelopus orphanidesi Olmi, in Olmi & Orphanides 1994 (Holotype, Cyprus – redrawn from Olmi & Orphanides 1994); E, Bocchus hyalinus Olmi, 1998 (Oman – redrawn from Olmi et al. 2019); F, Dryinus tamaricicola Rakhshani & Olmi, in Derafshan et al. 2016 (Iran – original drawing). Scale bars: A-E, 50 μm; F, 100 μm.

FIG. 11. – Bocchus hyalinus Olmi, 1998, female: A, head, lateral view; B, head, frontal view; C, head, dorsal view; D, mesosoma, lateral view; E, mesosoma, dorsal view; F, metapectal-propodeal complex, dorsal view; G, chela. H, habitus, lateral view. Scale bars: A-C, E, F, 300 μm; D, 500 μm; G, 200 μm; H, 1 mm.

FIG. 14. — Distribution map of the Iranian Bocchinae Richards, 1939 (A): Bocchus hyalinus Olmi, 1998; Mirodryinus atlanticus Olmi, 1984; and Dryininae Haliday, 1833 (B): Dryinus gharaeii Olmi, 2005; Dryinus tamaricicola Rakhshani & Olmi, 2016; Dryinus tarraconensis Marshall, 1868 (Hym., Dryinidae) in a worldwide background.