Fusicornia tehrii Mukerjee, 1993

Taekul, Charuwat, Johnson, Norman F., Masner, Lubomír & Shu-Pei, Chen, 2008, Revision of the world species of the genus Fusicornia Risbec (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae, Scelioninae), Zootaxa 1966, pp. 1-52 : 48-51

Fusicornia tehrii Mukerjee

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Fusicornia tehrii Mukerjee, 1993: 75 , 77 (original description).

Fusicornia noonae Buhl, 1998: 271 (original description), new synonymy. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:81B4D5C1-EC6E-4667-9E6D-EE886748B3B9 ; urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts: 152819

Description. Female body length: 1.55–1.87 mm (n=20). Male body length: 1.38–1.56 mm (n=11).

Head: Vertex between posterior ocelli: rounded. Female OOL: less than or equal one ocellar diameter. Frontal sculpture: at least partly smooth or considerably effaced. Sculpture of central frons: smooth or with shallowly impressed reticulate microsculpture. Setation of central frons: glabrous. Inner orbit in frontal view: more or less parallel. Upper gena in dorsal view of female: expanded, convex, therefore in lateral view compound eye separated from posterior margin by gena. Sculpture of gena behind lower half of eye: smooth, with reticulate to coriaceous microsculpture. Setation of gena: sparsely setose. Antenna: Radicle color: yellow to orange brown. Color of female A1: yellow to orange-brown. Color of female funicle (A3–A6): dark brown. Claval formula: 1-2-2-2-2. Claval color: dark brown to black.

Mesosoma: Pronotal cervical sulcus: absent. Mesoscutum sculpture: reticulate. Longitudinal sculpture in posterior half of mesoscutum: absent. Admedian line: absent. Mesoscutal humeral sulcus: foveolate. Notauli: absent. Mesoscutellum shape: rounded. Sculpture of mesoscutellum: almost entirely smooth. Length of medial metascutellar spine: medial spine short to moderately long, distinctly shorter than distance between medial and lateral spines. Length of lateral metascutellar spine: short, only slightly longer than wide. Sculpture of propodeal nucha: strongly foveolate to longitudinally striate. Sculpture of suprahumeral area of pronotum: puncticulate. Sculpture in lower pronotum: reticulate to weakly rugulose. Netrion setation: sparsely setose to glabrous. Mesopleural carina: present dorsally, interrupted or absent ventrally. Mesepimeral sulcus: complete or briefly interrupted, foveate above, appearing as fold ventrally. Area 2 on metapleuron: polygonal, setose. Setation of area 4 of metapleuron: setose ventrally. Setation in anteroventral metapleural triangle: absent. Setation of propodeum anterior to spiracle: sparsely setose (less than 10) or absent. Legs: Coxae color: all coxae yellow.

Wings: Female fore wing maculation: hyaline or with slight infuscation below marginal vein.

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Metasoma: Length of T1: less than or equal to one times width. Horn on T1 of female: absent, T1 longitudinally furrowed throughout length. Lateral setation of T1: sparsely to moderately setose (6–15/side). Medial sculpture on T3: smooth and shiny.

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Diagnosis. The smooth or with shallowly impressed reticulate microsculpture on the central portion of the frons distinguishes Fusicornia tehrii from the cohort of the species from Asia, F. koreica , F. indica , and F. episcopus . This species is also immediately distinguished by the very short lateral metanotal spine and the almost entirely smooth mesoscutellum ( Figs. 147–150).

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Material examined. Fusicornia tehrii , holotype female: INDIA: Narendra Nagar (Tehri), M.K. Mukerjee & party (deposited in North Regional Station , Zoological Survey of India). Fusicornia noonae , holotype male: PHILIPPINES: Mindanao, Sapamoro, Curuan District , 20.XII.1961 (deposited in ZMUC). BANGLA- DESH: 2 females , OSUC 211161–211162 (deposited in CNCI). Brunei: 3 females , OSUC 149020 , 206280–206281 ( CNCI). INDIA: 1 male , OSUC 149007 ( CNCI). INDONESIA: 1 male, 5 females , OSUC 149005 , 149008 , 149019 , 149026 , 206231 ( CNCI); UCRC ENT 171070 ( UCRC). JAPAN: 1 female OSUC 179124 ( BPBM). LAOS: 1 male, 1 female , OSUC 179119 , 179120 ( BPBM). MALAYSIA: 5 males, 2 females , OSUC 179114 ( BPBM); OSUC 149011 , 149030 , 164022 , 206230 , 206232 , 206234 ( CNCI). PAPUA NEW GUINEA: 1 female , OSUC 179116 ( BPBM). PHILIPPINES: 4 females , OSUC 179111 , 179121 , 179122 , 211164 ( BPBM). SINGAPORE: 1 male , OSUC 149006 ( CNCI). SRI LANKA: 3 male, 2 females , OSUC 149023 , 149024 , 206283 , 206286 ( CNCI); OSUC 210293 ( USNM). TAIWAN: 6 males , 7

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Comments: F. tehrii was originally described by Mukerjee (1993) on the basis of a single male specimen from Narendra Nagar (Tehri), India. Subsequently, Buhl (1998) described F. noonae from the Philippines, also on the basis of a single male specimen ( Figs. 150–154). The characters of F. noonae presented by Buhl (1998) are identical to the description of F. tehrii . These characters comprise the smooth sculpture of the central frons, sparse setation of the gena, the smooth and shining sculpture of the scutellum, and smooth and shining sculpture on T3 ( Figs. 147–150). Buhl (1998) compared his species with F.indica , F.bambeyi , and F. spinosa , presumably on the basis of the literature. No mention was made of F. tehrii . Dr. Rajmohana K. (Zoological Survey of India, Calicut) kindly examined the holotype of F. tehrii and compared it with the species concepts developed in this paper.