Omphale brevibuccata Szelényi, 1978

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 brevibuccata Szelényi, 1978

Figs 1 A , 2 A – I

Omphale brevibuccata Szelényi, 1978: 222, holotype ♀, Hungary, HNHM, not examined.

Material examined.

• 14 ♀: 1 ♀ [ NEFU; on card, right antenna and right wings on slide], China, Guangdong Province, Shaoguan City, Chebaling National Nature Reserve , 29–30. IV. 2019, leg. Wen-Jian Li and Jun Wu, by yellow-pan trapping • 3 ♀ [ NEFU; on cards], China, Shandong Province, Qingdao City, Laoshan Scenic Spot, Beijiushui , 8–10. VII. 2014, leg. Hui Geng, Guo-Hao Zu, Zhi-Guang Wu, and Hai-Feng Bai, by yellow-pan trapping • 2 ♀ [ NEFU; on cards], China, Shandong Province, Qingdao City, Jimo District, Mashan Park , 11. VII. 2014, leg. Si-Zhu Liu, Guo-Hao Zu, and Zhi-Guang Wu, by sweep netting • 2 ♀ [ NEFU; 1 on slide, 1 on card], China, Shandong Province, Qingdao City, Laoshan Scenic Spot, Beijiushui , 12. VII. 2014, leg. Hui Geng, Guo-Hao Zu, Zhi-Guang Wu, and Hai-Feng Bai, by sweep netting • 4 ♀ [ NEFU; on cards], China, Shandong Province, Qingdao City, Dazhushan , 13–14. VII. 2014, leg. Ye Chen and Chao Zhang, by yellow-pan trapping • 2 ♀ [ NEFU; on cards], China, Liaoning Province, Anshan City, Qianshan , 20. VIII. 2015, leg. Hui Geng, Yan Gao, and Zhi-Guang Wu, by sweep netting .

Diagnosis.

Female. Body length 1.2–1.8 mm. Vertex golden-green, face dark brown with golden or purple reflections; antenna with scape yellow to pale brown, pedicel and flagellum brown; mesoscutum dark brown, mesoscutellum with anterior 1 / 3–1 / 2 yellowish brown and remainder brown to dark brown; axillae with anterior 1 / 2 dark brown to brown, remainder yellowish brown to yellowish white; propodeum pale brown; other parts of mesosoma yellow to yellowish white (including legs); gaster dark brown. Head (Fig. 2 A ) with antennal scrobes meeting on the V-shaped frontal sulcus; frontal cross-ridge absent; gena very short, HE: MS: WM ~ 5.0: 1.0: 3.4; clypeus semicircular 1.7 × as wide as high; antenna (Fig. 2 B ) slender, with five flagellomeres separated from each other, F 1 1.1 × as long as F 2. Mesosoma (Fig. 2 C ) with mesoscutum and scutellum with weak reticulation; midlobe of mesoscutum with two pairs of setae; scutellum 1.0–1.2 × as long as wide, with anterior margin almost straight; propodeum smooth, with a weak median carina, and anteromedially with a fovea. Fore wing (Fig. 2 D ) speculum closed, with seven or eight admarginal setae arising from MV and membrane just behind MV, radial cell setose, PMV 1.8 × as long as STV. Metasoma (Fig. 2 F ), gaster 1.6 × as long as mesosoma, and nearly as long as head + mesosoma.

Male. Unknown.

Host.

Unknown.

Distribution.

China (Liaoning, Shandong, and Guangdong Provinces) (new record); Hungary ( Szelényi 1978); United Kingdom ( Askew 2003); Russia, Sweden, Netherlands, Bulgaria ( 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 2. Omphale brevibuccata, ♀ A head, frontal view B antenna C mesosoma, dorsal view D fore wing E hind wing F metasoma, dorsal view G – I fore, mid and hind leg, respectively. Scale bars: 100 μm.