Trichiscus zuparkoi Azevedo

Azevedo, Celso O., 2014, Revision of Trichiscus Benoît, 1956 (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), Zootaxa 3802 (3), pp. 318-334 : 330

Trichiscus zuparkoi Azevedo , sp. nov.

( Figs 20 , 60–62 )

Description. MALE. Length 4.2 mm. Head and mesosoma almost black, metasoma dark castaneous. Wings subhyaline. Clypeus with median lobe slightly concave, apical margin thick in frontal view, medially with wide trapezoidal polished area; median carina absent. Frons strongly coriaceous, punctures little distinguishable from texture surface. Vertex almost straight. Notaulus present on anterior half of mesoscutum. Propodeal disc rugose. Hypopygium ( Fig. 20 ) with posterior margin with short and narrow median emargination, with sides subparallel. Genitalia ( Figs 60–62 ). Basal parameral expansion ill-defined, virtually absent. Aedeagal ventral ramus very short, laminar, surface vertical, subrectangular in lateral view. Aedeagal dorsal body with three pairs of apical lobes, outer pair laminar, surface vertical, apex somewhat sharpened and ventrad in lateral view; ventral pair laminar, surface vertical, ventral corner apical spine-shaped; inner pair stout, membranous, hairy.

FEMALE unknown.

Material examined. Holotype ♂, ZAMBIA, 20 km SE. Kitwe, 3-5.i.1980, T. Grout, SAM-HYM-P043948 ( ISAM)

Etymology. This species is named after Robert Zuparko, for his great job as curator of CASC, especially for sorting thousands of Malagasy samples.

Figures

FIGURES 10 – 22. Hypopygium, dorsal view; 10. Trichiscus suzannae; 11. T. wittei; 12. T. noorti sp. nov.; 13. T. denisi sp. nov.; 14. T. briani sp. nov.; 15. T. copelandi sp. nov.; 16. T. mourei sp. nov.; 17. T. lynnae sp. nov.; 18. T. normani sp. nov.; 19. T. luboi sp. nov.; 20. T. zuparkoi sp. nov.; 21. T. ohli sp. nov.; 22. T. camargoi sp. nov. (Scale bars = 50 µm).

FIGURES 54 – 62. Male genitalia. 54 – 56 Trichiscus normani sp. nov.; 54. dorsal view; 55. ventral view; 56. lateral view. 57 – 59 T. luboi sp. nov.; 57. dorsal view; 58. ventral view; 59. lateral view. 60 – 62 T. zuparkoi sp. nov.; 60. dorsal view; 61. ventral view; 62. lateral view. (Scale bars = 50 µm).