Pulchrisolia sanbornei Lahey & Masner sp. nov.

Figures 44-48, 49

Description.

Female body length: 1.61-1.98 mm (n = 10). Male body length: 1.56-1.74 mm (n = 8). Coloration of head, female: concolorous with mesosoma. Shape of dorsal interantennal process: apically bilobed. Length of interantennal process: longer than radicle. Hyperoccipital carina: indicated as lateral tubercles; raised between lateral ocelli. Frontal ledge: present. Preocellar depressions: absent. Setation of pronotal cervical sulcus: absent. Setation of cervical pronotal area: absent. Sculpture of pronotal shoulders: rugose. Sculpture of anterior margin of pronotal shoulders: serrate. Posterolateral margin of pronotal shoulders: sharply angled. Posterior margin of pronotal shoulders: carinate. Antero-admedian line: absent. Anterior admedian depression or pit: absent. Parapsidial line: absent. Median mesoscutal line: absent. Notaulus: absent. Coloration of mesoscutum: concolorous with pronotum. Shape of mesoscutum in lateral view: flat to slightly convex. Scupture of mesoscutum: longitudinally striate. Sculpture of mesoscutellum: absent. Setation of anterodorsal metapleuron: absent. Setation of anteroventral metapleuron: absent. Foamy structures on anterior metapleuron: present. Shape of fore wing: oblong. Infuscate banding of fore wing: present. Costal margin of hind wing: darkly sclerotized posterior to hamuli. Marginal cilia of female fore wing: present. Marginal cilia of male fore wing: present.

Diagnosis.

The metapleuron completely covered in foamy structures and the rugose sculpture of the pronotal shoulders separates P. sanbornei from other species of Pulchrisolia .

Etymology.

Named in honor of the late Michael Sanborne (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada) for his efforts during a field expedition to South Africa which yielded a long series of this beautiful species. The epithet is treated as a noun in the genitive case.

Link to distribution map.

[http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=457751]

Material examined.

Holotype, female: SOUTH AFRICA: Limpopo Prov., 15km E Klaserie, Guernsey Farm, 19.XII-31.XII.1985, pan trap, M. Sanborne, OSUC 666387 (deposited in SAMC). Paratypes: SOUTH AFRICA: 8 females, 9 males, OSUC 666386, 666388-666403 (CNCI).