Pristaulacus lagrecai Turrisi & Smith, 2011

Turrisi, Giuseppe Fabrizio & Smith, David R., 2011, Systematic revision and phylogeny of the endemic southeastern Asian Pristaulacus comptipennis species group (Hymenoptera: Aulacidae) 2959, Zootaxa 2959 (1), pp. 1-72 : 38-40

Pristaulacus lagrecai Turrisi & Smith , sp. nov.

( Figs 100–108 )

Type material. VIETNAM: holotype ♀, “ Vietnam: Ha Tinh, Huong Son , 900 m, 18°22'N, 105°13'E, 18– 28.V.1998, L. Herman, MT/USNM, 2046975/ Pristaulacus lagrecai Turrisi & Smith sp. n. ♀, 2009, Holotypus ” ( USNM) .

Etymology. Named after the late Italian zoologist Marcello La Greca (Cairo 1914-Catania 2001).

Description. FEMALE (holotype). Length: 12.8 mm; fore wing length: 9.3 mm; ovipositor length: 11.0 mm.

Colour black, except: mandible reddish orange medially; maxillo-labial complex dark brown with palpi lighter; antenna dark brown, ventral surface slightly lighter; legs dark brown except fore and mid tibiae, tarsi (excluding pretarsus dark brown) yellowish to yellowish orange; wings hyaline; fore wing with a small irregular dark brown spot between cells SB and SD1, most of cell B dark brown, a very wide subrectangular dark brown spot below stigma (about wide as stigma length and extended posteriorly to cell D2) and apex infuscate; hind wing with apex very slightly infuscate; metasoma partly and irregularly dark reddish with segment 1 blackish, segment 2 extensively and irregularly reddish orange, otherwise dark brown. Setae: mostly whitish; brownish on upper half of frons; goldish on mandible.

Head, from above 1.2 × wider than long, moderately shiny to dull on vertex; occipital margin strongly concave, with a wide and deep medial groove; temple, from above, well developed, slightly rounded, longer than eye length; occipital carina moderately wide, 0.4–0.5 × diameter of an ocellus; POL:OOL= 1.3; ocellar area 1.9 × wider than long; vertex with fine, superficial and scattered punctures (distance between punctures 4.0–5.0 × or more puncture diameters); temple with fine, deep and scattered (upper part) to dense (behind eye) punctures (distance between punctures 4.0–5.0 × or more to 2.0 × puncture diameters); frons with fine, deep and dense punctures (distance between punctures 2.0 × puncture diameters), slightly denser on lower half; clypeus with coarse, deep and dense punctures; malar area with fine to coarse, deep and dense punctures; occipital area with fine, deep and dense punctures; antenna 0.7 × fore wing length; A3 5.6 × longer than wide; A4 12.2 × longer than wide, and 1.7 × longer than A3; A5 10.0 × longer than wide, and 1.2 × longer than A3. Setae: erect to semi erect, short and scattered on vertex and upper temple; semi erect, short and moderately dense on lower temple (behind eye) (length of setae 0.5 × diameter of an ocellus); erect, long and dense on upper half of frons; recumbent, long and dense on lower half of frons and on clypeus; recumbent, short and dense on malar area.

Mesosoma coarsely sculptured; pronotum areolate-rugose, with one anterior long tooth-like process on each lateroventral margin; propleuron polished and shiny with coarse, deep and dense punctures on dorsal surface, fine to coarse, superficial and dense punctures on ventral surface (distance between punctures 2.0 × puncture diameters); prescutum triangular, wide, long, very weakly concave (except basally), transverse-carinate; mesoscutum mostly transverse-carinate to areolate rugose partly on anterior lobe (sides) and along transscutal fissure; dorsally convex and slightly prominent; anterior margin slightly prominent and rounded (lateral view); notauli deep and wide; scutellum transverse-carinate, except along transscutal fissure; mesopleuron areolate-rugose, except a wide part of subalar area, confused-rugose-punctate with coarse and dense punctures; metanotum longitudinally carinate, medially areolate-rugose; propodeum coarsely areolate-rugose, areolate on dorsal surface; anterior margin longitudinally carinate; venter of mesosoma polished to transverse-carinulate, with narrow transverse carinae medially; fore wing with vein 2-rs+m short; coxa I polished, weakly shiny, punctate, with fine to moderately coarse, deep and dense punctures; coxa II transverse-carinulate punctate with fine, deep and dense punctures; coxa III transverse-carinate, with coarse, deep and dense punctures on ventral surface (distance between punctures 1.0– 2.0 × puncture diameters); spurs of mid tibia subequal in length; inner spur of hind tibia longer than outer spur; hind basitarsus 11.1 × longer than wide, and 1.2 × as tarsomeres 2–5; tarsal claw with four tooth-like processes. Setae: erect, short and dense on dorsal surface; semi erect to recumbent, long and dense on sides and venter of mesosoma (especially on pronotum); erect, long and dense on hind surface of propodeum; erect, long and dense on propleuron (setae length at most 0.7–0.8 × pretarsus length).

Metasoma pyriform (lateral view), strongly compressed laterally; petiole elongate, slender, 5.4 × longer than wide; segments 1 and 2 mostly polished and shiny, with a few scattered coarse and deep punctures medially on T1; remaining tergites with fine, deep and dense punctures (punctures of sternites not evident); S7 polished, with coarse, deep and dense punctures; T8 coarsely microreticulate, with coarse, superficial to deep and dense punctures; ovipositor 1.2 × fore wing length. Setae: segments 1 and 2 glabrous, except a few scattered semi erect and short setae on distal half; recumbent to semi erect, short and dense on remaining tergites and medially on sternites.

MALE unknown.

Distribution. Vietnam (Ha Tinh Province), known only from the type locality ( Fig. 186 ).

Biology. Unknown.

Figures

FIGURE 186. Distribution map of Pristaulacus comptipennis species group. The number of species is indicated for each subregions, north: Japanese islands, middle: China and surroundings, south: Laos, Thailand, Vietnam. Letters refer to species: a, P. asiaticus; b, P. boninensis; c, P. comptipennis; d, P. corellianus; e, P. dilleri; f, P. emarginaticeps; g, P. excisus; h, P. gusenleitneri; i, P. insularis; j, P. jenningsi; k, P.konishii; l, P. lagrecai; m, P. nobilei; n, P. porcatus; o, P. sharkeyi; p, P. thailandensis; q, P. vietnamensis; r, P. vilhelmseni; s, P. vivaldianus; t, P. watanabei.

FIGURES 100–104. Pristaulacus lagrecai sp. nov., holotype ♀. 100. Head, dorsal view. 101. Head, frontal view. 102. Head, lateral view. 103. Mesosoma, dorsal view. 104. Pronotum, lateral view.

FIGURES 105–108. Pristaulacus lagrecai sp. nov., holotype ♀. 105. Wings. 106. Mesosoma, lateral view. 107. Hind coxae, ventral view. 108. Metasoma, lateral view.