Scelio ememeye Yoder, 2009

Yoder, Matthew, Polaszek, Andrew, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman & Valerio, Alejandro, 2009, Revision of Scelio pulchripennis - group species (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea, Platygastridae), ZooKeys 20 (20), pp. 53-118 : 76-78

Scelio ememeye Yoder , sp. n.

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Figs 37–42; Morphbank 16

Description. Female body length: 3.16–3.61 mm (n=3). Male body length: 3.06– 3.32 mm (n=3). Color of antenna in female: A1–A3 yellow to light brown, remaining brown. Color of head in female: black. Color of mesosoma in female: dark brown to black. Color of coxae in female: amber-orange. Color of leg past coxa in female: amber-orange. Color of metasoma in female: brown to dark brown.

Sculpture of lower frons in female: predominantly transverse to slightly arcuate striae. Sculpture of ventrolateral frons in female: smooth, with some clearly defined fine umbilicate sculpture. Form of malar sulcus in female: not percurrent, with some sections variously obliterated. Sculpture of upper frons of female: rugulose, with dorsoventral trend. Sculpture of dorsal head between and posterior to lateral ocelli in female: rugulose, obliterated in spots or not. Mandible of female: upper tooth typically developed, lower tooth very short but clearly present, truncate to pointed.

Transverse pronotal carina in female: well developed, linear or with extremely slight deviations, contiguous with mesoscutum or interrupted by a single subpolygonal cell, anterior shoulder relatively abruptly transitioned to anterior pronotum. Sculpture of medial mesoscutum in female: anterior patch of transverse striae, otherwise with a medial band of irregular rugluae/foveas bounded by thin more or less smooth strips. Sculpture of notaular course in female: broad band of confused minute foveae. Sculpture of lateral mesoscutum in female: absent, or with obliterated patch that covers at least 1/2 of area. Sculpture of mesoscutellum in female: minute round reticulations, patch immediately laterad median slightly obliterated. Sculpture of lateral pronotum in female (excluding interstitial sculpture): with smooth to obliterated patch immediately below lateral epomial carina, otherwise reticulate with few to moderate longitudinal elements. Pronotal verricule in female: base more or less unmodified, with tightly clumped clump of short to moderately elongate setae. Pronotal setal patch posteroven- tral to end of lateral epomial carina in female: dense (around 5 to many) small patch of appressed to slightly semi-decumbent setae. Sculpture of mesopleural depression in female: reticulate, with a smooth band in anterior half. Pilosity of anteroventral metapleuron in female: glabrous, or sparsely setose. Dorsal surface of hind tibia in female: typical distribution and moderate length, setae appressed to loosely appressed, more or less straight. Shape of hind femur in female: narrow, dorsal and ventral surfaces relatively symmetrical. Basal pigmented spot of fore wing in female: medially situated, not reaching fore or hind margin, not fusing with apical pigmented area, or percurrent

Figures 37–42 .55 Scelio ememeye sp. n. (OSUC 211567) 37 Habitus, dorsal view 38 Habitus, lateral view 39 Mesosoma, dorsal view 40 Mesosoma, lateral view 4Ι Head, anterior view 42 Mesonotum, dorsolateral view. Abbreviation: nt, notauli. Scale bars in millimeters.

from submarginal vein to posterior margin, striplike (a band), divided only by hyaline course of M+Cu. Basal fascia of fore wing in female: subrectangular, striplike, percurrent from anterior to posterior margin. Apical fascia of fore wing in female: anterior margin with slightly lighter smaller patch, posterior margin even fainter (less contrasting), broadly divided medially by coloration that gradually fades to apex of fore wing.

Sculpture of dorsal T 1 in female: polygonal-reticulate, interstices more or less smooth. Sculpture of dorsal T 2 in female: fine parallel to slightly reticulate striae with minutely colliculate to transverse sculpture within interstices. Sculpture of anterior T2 through anterior depression in female: percurrent, interrupted with by a smooth strip, majority of sculpture not contiguous with that of posterior T2. Sculpture of dorsal T 3 in female: fine parallel to irregular longitudinal striae, with reticulation absent to moderately present. Medial sculpture of T 4 in female: present. Medial sculpture of T 5 in female: present. Sculpture of T2–T5 curved transition from dorsal to lateral terga in female: obliterated to smooth. Profile of female metasoma in lateral view: dorsal and ventral surfaces more or less evenly convex. Sculpture of lateral T2–T 6 in female: with some fine striae ventrally, particularly medially, dorsally smooth. Pilosity of laterotergites in female: present on T1–T2.

Diagnosis. Most similar to S. tria which shares the presence of notauli and a medial mesoscutal division in the form of longitudinal carinae (Fig. 42, nt). Differing from S. tria by the sculpture of the mesoscutellum (longitudinally striate in S. tria , obliterate or reticulate in S. ememeye ).

Etymology. Phonetically MMI, or 2001, in reference to one of the most famous novels of Arthur C. Clarke.

Link to distribution map. [http://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/HymOnline/maplarge.html?id=238051]

Material examined. Holotype female: SRI LANKA: Western Prov. , Colombo Dist., seashore, Pamunugama, 16.III.1981, K.-V. Krombein, T. Wijesinhe & L. Weeratunge, OSUC 211567 (deposited in CNCI) . Paratypes (2 females, 3 males): NEPAL: 2 males, OSUC 234823 , 234825 ( CNCI) . SRI LANKA: 2 females, 1 male, OSUC 211568 ( CNCI) ; OSUC 244200–244201 ( USNM) .

Comments. The patch of transverse striae of the lower frons is relatively small for species of the pulchripennis -group.