Eucharitidae new to the fauna of Saudi Arabia (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), with the description of a new species and the previously unknown male of Eucharis (Psilogastrellus) albipennis Bouček
Author
Neveen S. Gadallah
Author
Ahmed M. Soliman
Author
Hathal M. Al Dhafer
text
Journal of Natural History
2017
51
1
96
113
journal article
36246
10.1080/00222933.2016.1245798
26b59fe1-93c8-445b-a3d9-f4ee5fa81d0c
0022-2933
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urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F1B1C493-AA83-4696-AF8B-3B3F62C09B41
Eucharis
(
Psilogastrellus
)
acuminata
Ruschka, 1924
(
Figure 7
c −e)
Eucharis acuminata
Ruschka, 1924
: 86
. Type data: Derbent, Caucasus. Holotype ♂, by monotypy. Type depository: NHMW.
Eucharis
(
Pachyeucharis
)
acuminata
;
Bouček, 1956
: 257 (in Key).
Psilogastrellus acuminata
;
Bouček, 1977
: 124, change in combination.
Material examined
1♂, Saudi Arabia, Rawdhat Khoreim (25.38305°N, 47.27833°E), 11 April 2011 (leg. Setvaningrum), sweep net (KSMA).
Host records
Unknown.
Distribution
Russia (
Ruschka 1924
). Saudi Arabia (new record).
Notes
The specimen closely agrees with Bouček
’
s diagnosis in his key in which the scutellum ends with two broadly rounded processes that are separated by a distance as broad as the length of each process (
Figure 7
e); mesoscutum closely punctate especially laterally, but somewhat sparser in the middle; wings whitish to transparent. It agrees very well with Ruschka
’
s description in having slender antennae that are sharply pointed at the apex, slightly submoniliform (
Figure 7
d), scutellar sulcus gradually bifurcates posteriorly in the form of an inverted Y (
Figure 7
e); petiole finely shagreened, with a very fine, hardly seen carina at posterior end; metasoma dark metallic green (
Figure 7
c); wings glassy hyaline.