Revision of Archaeoteleia Masner (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea, Scelionidae)
Author
Early, John W.
Author
Masner, Lubomír
Author
Johnson, Norman F.
text
Zootaxa
2007
1655
1
48
journal article
48613
10.5281/zenodo.179829
e0532cf8-5ab7-4eab-82e7-4fbc30389804
1175-5326
179829
Archaeoteleia simulans
Masner
,
new species
Figures 68–71
Description: Female. Length
2.55 mm
. Color: generally ebony black; with the exception of A5, mandible (except for very tip), palpi, tegula, legs including coxae, yellowish; hind coxa slightly darker than remainder of legs; wings clear, without cloud of pigmentation below marginal, stigmal veins.
Head (Figs. 69–71): vertex, occiput, frons (except facial striae), upper gena smooth, without microsculpture, with minimum appressed minute setae; upper frons, interocellar space glabrous; eye glabrous; LOL slightly greater than OOL; occipital carina fine, but complete, with minuscule crenulation; frons without median keel, but shallow depression present above antennal insertion; facial striae dense, reaching inner orbit, reaching not beyond lower third of height of eye, very short posterior to malar sulcus; clypeus triangular, smooth, anterolateral corners minute; rim of torulus confluent with dorsal margin of clypeus; antenna remarkably slender: A1 5.4–6.0 times as long as wide; A2 2.3 times as long as wide; A3 3.6–3.8 times as long as wide; flagellum with fairly short setae; claval formula A6–A12/2-2-2-2-2-2-1.
Mesosoma (Figs. 70–71): transverse pronotal carina sharp, slightly arcuate, curved forward medially, anterolateral corners angular, but not spikelike; vertical epomial carina present, distinct in upper half, somewhat irregular ventrally; horizontal epomial carina complete, sharp, pronotal shoulders well developed, with row of foveolae both along the horizontal carina and adjacent to mesoscutum, moderately developed, nearly smooth between foveolae; lateral pronotum with large glabrous field, with very delicate microsculpture; netrion well defined by foveolae, considerable micropilosity; mesoscutum with middle lobe smooth and shining, entire surface, particularly posterior two-thirds, regularly covered with setigerous punctures, setae semidecumbent, lateral lobe of mesoscutum almost entirely glabrous, with only few setigerous punctures near posterior notaulus; admedian lines present, fine; notaulus complete, rather narrow, finely foveolate, subparallel; parapsidal line absent or faintly indicated; transscutal articulation well developed, posterior flanking foveolae large; scutellum without microsculpture, with only few setigerous punctures; scutellar spines short, pointed, slightly incurved, distinctly shorter than length of scutellar disk; mesopleural carina absent; dorsal portion of mesopleuron smooth, glabrous, mesepisternum smooth, with fairly dense appressed pilosity; acetabular carina sharply raised; chain of foveolae along posterior margin of mesopleuron well developed, extending ventrally to mid coxal cavity; metapleuron with dense pilosity, both upper and lower parts almost smooth, without microsculpture; propodeum with fine pilosity, almost without medial depression, but median keels well-developed; wings almost clear, widely surpassing tip of metasoma; basal vein, M, Cu, Rs nebulous, with delicate infuscation under marginal vein; postmarginal vein stublike, extremely short; stigmal vein short, slightly curved apically; legs extremely long and slender, femora very weakly incrassate.
Archaeoteleia simulans
,
n.sp.
,
paratype
female (OSUC 146493), Lateral habitus;, head, frontal
view;
70
, head and mesosoma, lateral view;
71
, head and mesosoma, dorsal view. Scale bars in millimeters.
Metasoma (Figs. 68, 71) relatively short, length 2.4 times width, most terga with rather long, scattered, semierect hairs; T1 entirely longitudinally costate except for narrow, smooth band along posterior margin, horn not or only weakly developed, anterior margin with only moderate elevation, length of T1 0.5 times width; length of T2 0.5 times width, strongly costate throughout; length of T3 0.4 times width, costae finer than on T2, both T2, T3 with narrow smooth band along posterior margin; length of T4 0.5 times width, with finer longitudinal costae, larger smooth area posteriorly; length of T5 0.5 times width, predominantly with very short longitudinal rugulosity anteriorly, mostly smooth in posterior half; T6 very short, bluntly triangular, length 0.8 times width.
Male. Differing from the female in the following characters: both A4 and A5 with keels, keels not exceeding basal third of antennomere; length of A1 4.3 times width; length of A2 1.3 times width; length of A3 1.8 times length of A1; propodeal keels less pronounced than in female; all metasomatic terga longitudinally costate, but progressively finer, on T4 only anterior half with longitudinal sculpture.
Diagnosis. Most similar to
A. araucana
, distinguished by the even coverage of distinct setigerous punctures on the entire middle lobe of the mesoscutum, and the low and completely striate bulge on T
1 in
the female.
Etymology. The specific epithet
simulans
, derived from Latin for imitate or copy, refers to the similarity of this species to
Archaeoteleia araucana
.
Link to Distribution Map. [http://atbi.biosci.ohio-state.edu:210/hymenoptera/eol_scelionidae.content _page?page_level=3&page_id=taxon_page_data&page_version=
190989
&page_option1=M]
Material examined.
Holotype
female:
CHILE
:
Los Lagos
, Antillanca,
1300 m
,
Nothofagus
tree line, Puyehue N.P., Osorno Prov.,
16.II.1988
, L. Masner, OSUC 174423. Deposited in CNCI.
Paratypes
:
CHILE
:
Araucanía
, Monte Verde, Carahue, Prov. de Cautín,
29.I–2.II.1993
, L.E. Peña, female, OSUC 146493 (CNCI); Nahuelbuta National Park, forest,
9.II.2005
, L. Masner,
2 females
, OSUC 203943, 203944 (CNCI).
Los Lagos
, Lago Tepuhueico,
42°48'45"S
73°56'24"W
,
15 m
, UCR AToL C05-015, shoreline forest, Miraflores, Chiloé Isl.,
13.II.2005
, male, OSUC 174444 (CNCI); Las Trancas,
500 m
,
Nothofagus
,
30 km
W La Unión, Valdivia Prov.,
7–12.II.1988
, L. Masner,
4 males
,
1 female
, OSUC 203936–203939, 203945 (CNCI); Petrohué, Llanquihue Prov. (old),
26–29.III.1968
, L.E. Peña, male, OSUC 151832 (AEIC); Puntra River,
100 m
,
Nothofagus
forest, Route 5, Chiloé Isl., Los Lagos Reg.,
Chile
,
24.II.1988
, L. Masner,
2 males
, OSUC 203941 (CNCI).