Loboscelidia cuneata, Hisasue & Pham & Mita, 2023

Hisasue, Yu, Pham, Thai-Hong & Mita, Toshiharu, 2023, Taxonomic revision of the genus Loboscelidia Westwood, 1874 (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae: Loboscelidiinae) from Vietnam, European Journal of Taxonomy 887 (1), pp. 1-68 : 19-22

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2023.887.2203

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8224864

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3F79CA71-7008-44DD-A6F7-619E71318F67

taxon LSID

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treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Loboscelidia cuneata
status

sp. nov.

Loboscelidia cuneata sp. nov.

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Figs 9 View Fig , 25F View Fig

Etymology

Named after the Latin ‘ cuneata ’, meaning ‘cuneate’, referring to the cuneate setae on the body.

Type material

Holotype VIETNAM • ♂; Thua Thien Hue Province, Bach Ma NP , 19 km point; 16.198° N, 107.860° E; 2 Aug. 2016; T. Mita leg.; VNMN. GoogleMaps

Paratypes VIETNAM • 3 ♂♂; same collection data as for holotype; VNMN GoogleMaps 3 ♂♂; Thua Thien Hue Province, Bach Ma NP , pheasant trail; 16.231° N, 107.852° E; 4 Aug. 2016; T. Mita leg.; VNMN GoogleMaps 1 ♂; Tuyen Quang province, Na Hang Reserve ; 360 m a.s.l.; 16–20 May 1997; S.B. Peck leg.; FIT; CNC (paratype of L. laminata ) .

Description

Male ( Fig. 9A View Fig )

MEASUREMENTS. Body length 2.8–3.3 mm; forewing length 2.8–3.3 mm.

HEAD. Head ( Fig. 9B–D View Fig ) 1.7–1.8 times as long as high, 1.2–1.3 times as long as wide; inner ocular length 0.57–0.58 times as long as head width; frontal projection rectangular in frontal view ( Fig. 9B, D View Fig ); apical margion of frontal projection depressed ( Fig. 9D View Fig ); frons granulate, finely microstriate ( Fig. 9D View Fig ); frons with low ridge extending from posterior ocellus along inner orbit of eye ( Fig. 9D View Fig ); spraclypeal area with transverse carinae ( Fig. 9B View Fig ); temple 0.98–1.1 times as long as MOD ( Fig. 9D View Fig ); POL 0.83–1.3 times as long as MOD; OOL 1.2–1.5 times as long as MOD; LOL 0.33–0.50 times as long as MOD; behind ocelli without transverse depression ( Fig. 9D View Fig ); cervical expansion weakly convex in lateral view ( Fig. 9C View Fig ); basal part of cervical expansion parallel in dorsal view ( Fig. 9D View Fig ); scape 3.1 times as long as wide, with longitudinal grooves; F1 1.7 times as long as wide; F2 1.7 times as long as wide; F11 2.9–3.4 times as long as wide; relative length of F1–F11: 1.1: 1.1: 1.0: 1.1: 1.1: 1.1: 1.1: 1.1: 1.3: 1.3: 1.6.

MESOSOMA. Pronotum 0.79–0.85 times as long as posterior width of pronotum ( Fig. 9E View Fig ); posterior width of pronotum 1.4–1.9 times as wide as anterior width and 1.1 times as wide as head width; dorsolateral surface of pronotum carinate ( Fig. 9A View Fig ); notauli of scutum slightly curved, not reaching posterior margin ( Fig. 8G View Fig ); scrobal sulcus present, strongly depressed ( Fig. 9A View Fig ); scutellum punctured and rugose ( Fig. 9G View Fig ); metanotum with medial ridge, 0.48–0.63 times as long as scutellum ( Fig. 9G View Fig ); propodeal angle strongly developed; propodeum without transverse carina above foramen.

WINGS. Forewing ( Fig. 9F View Fig ) with M curved; cu-a 0.31–0.40 times as long as R; A extending half of Cu+M; R1 0.7–1.0 times as long as R; Rs 2.9–3.2 times as long as R.

LEGS. Fore and hindtibiae carinate; flange on forefemur 0.42–0.54 times longer, as wide as tubular part of forefemur; flange on foretibia 0.50–0.60 times longer, 0.60 times wider than tubular part of foretibia; flange on midfemur 0.47–0.60 times longer, 0.88 times wider than tubular part of midfemur; flange on midtibia 0.43–0.62 times longer, 0.57–0.75 times wider than tubular part of midtibia; hindcoxa dorso-laterally carinate; basal part of hindfemur producing; hindfemur basally not stout, as wide as distal part; ventral margin of hindfemur slightly swollen; outer surface of hindfemur smooth; flange on hindfemur 0.69–0.75 times longer, 0.75–0.80 times wider than tubular part of hindfemur; outer surface of hindtibia smooth; flange on hindtibia 0.63–0.71 times longer, as wide as tubular part of hindtibia.

PILOSITY. Spraclypeal area with sparse erect cuneate setae ( Fig. 9B View Fig ); lower gena with sparse decumbent cuneate setae ( Fig. 9C View Fig ); hypostoma with sparse decumbent cuneate setae; scape with sparse decumbent and suberect simple and cuneate setae; pedicel with sparse erect simple and cuneate setae; propleuron with sparse erect cuneate setae ( Fig. 9A View Fig ); tegula with sparse decumbent and erect simple setae ( Fig. 9G View Fig ); metanotum with sparse suberect simple setae ( Fig. 9G View Fig ); forecoxa with sparse decumbent simple and cuneate setae; forefemur with dense decumbent simple and cuneate setae; apical part of foretibia with sparse decumbent cuneate setae; midcoxa with sparse decumbent cuneate setae; apical part of midtibia and hindtibia with sparse decumbent cuneate setae.

COLORATION. Body reddish brown; antenna reddish brown; legs reddish brown; flanges yellowish brown; ribbon-like setae whitish yellow.

Female

Unknown.

Distribution

Vietnam (Northern Vietnam, Central Vietnam) ( Fig. 27 View Fig ).

Remarks

Loboscelidia cuneata sp. nov. resembles L. cucphuongensis sp. nov., L. laminata and L. parallela sp. nov. in having the following characteristics: reddish brown body color; weakly convex cervical expansion in lateral view; basal part of cervical expansion parallel in dorsal view ( L. cucphuongensis sp. nov. and L. parallela sp. nov.); curved M vein; and Rs 3.0 times as long as R. However, L. do sp. nov. can be distinguished by the following characteristics: scape more than 3.0 times as long as wide (much less than 3.0 times as long as wide in L. do sp. nov. and L. laminata ); scape with longitudinal grooves (smooth in L. do sp. nov. and L. laminata ); L. cuneata sp. nov. has cuneate setae on the forefemur and all tibiae (simple setae in other species); R1 as long as R (much shorter than R in other three species); and scutellum rugose and punctured surface (polished and almost impunctured in L. parallela sp. nov. and L. do sp. nov.).

FIT

FIT

CNC

Canada, Ontario, Ottawa, Canadian National Collection of Insects

VNMN

Vietnam National Museum of Nature

CNC

Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

SubOrder

Apocrita

SuperFamily

Chrysidoidea

Family

Chrysididae

SubFamily

Loboscelidiinae

Genus

Loboscelidia

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