Fusicornia eos Taekul & Johnson, 2008

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 : 22-24

Fusicornia eos Taekul & Johnson , new species urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:BBED57CA-3E05-49EE-A703-A9A810BE2042

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Description. Female body length: 1.72–1.98 mm (n=15). Male body length: 1.54–1.68 mm (n=4).

Head: Vertex between posterior ocelli: rounded. Female OOL: less than or equal one ocellar diameter. Frontal sculpture: entirely and evenly sculptured. Sculpture of central frons: punctate. Setation of central frons: with dense, decumbent silvery setae. 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: with reticulate to coriaceous microsculpture.

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Setation of gena: very densely setose. Antenna: Radicle color: yellow to orange brown. Color of female A1: yellow to orange-brown. Color of female funicle (A3–A6): A3, A4, base of A5 yellow, apex of A5, A6 dark brown. Claval formula: 1-2-2-2-2-1. Claval color: dark brown to black.

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Mesosoma: Pronotal cervical sulcus: absent. Mesoscutum sculpture: densely coriaceous. Longitudinal sculpture in posterior half of mesoscutum: absent. Admedian line: present. Mesoscutal humeral sulcus: foveolate. Notauli: absent. Mesoscutellum shape: rounded. Sculpture of mesoscutellum: almost entirely covered by microsculpture, with broad smooth area medially, reticulate punctate laterally. 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: smooth to weakly sculptured. Sculpture of suprahumeral area of pronotum: densely punctate. Sculpture in lower pronotum: reticulate to weakly rugulose. Netrion setation: densely setose. Mesopleural carina: present dorsally, interrupted or absent ventrally. Mesepimeral sulcus: abbreviated, 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: with distinct infuscation at level of marginal vein.

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: densely setose (>20/side). Medial sculpture on T3: smooth and shiny.

Diagnosis. Fusicornia eos can be distinguished in both sexes by the mesoscutum and scutellum which are almost entirely covered by densely coriaceous microsculpture ( Figs. 10, 57, 58). In the female, F.eos is immediately recognized by the bright yellow color of A 5 ( Fig. 60).

Etymology. The epithet eos , meaning dawn, refers to the bright yellow A5 of the female antenna, a distinctive character for this species.

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Material Examined. Holotype female: BURKINA FASO: Kompienga , 25 km SE Pama, savanna/edge of river, Kompienga Prov., 3–24.IX.1988, interception trap, Sanborne, Genier & Tou, OSUC 206174 (deposited in CNCI) . Paratypes: BURKINA FASO: 1 male, 6 females, OSUC 148966 , 148967 , 206172 , 206173 , 206175 , 206176 , 206182 ( CNCI) . MALI: 2 males, 4 females, OSUC 148970 , 164024 , 164025 , 206179–206181 ( CNCI) . NIGERIA: 1 male, 3 females, OSUC 148968–148969 , 206177–206178 ( CNCI) . TANZANIA: 8 males, 2 females, OSUC 248234–248243 ( SAMC) . YEMEN: 2 females, OSUC 206249 , 206259 ( CNCI) .