Tetramesa phragmitis (Erdös, 1952)

Lotfalizadeh, Hossein, Karimpour, Younes, Delvare, Gérard & Rasplus, Jean-Yves, 2020, Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) obtained from common reed, Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. (Poaceae) in Iran with new records and descriptions of two new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 710, pp. 1-35 : 13

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.710

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E3A0F9FD-53DA-4716-8218-9EE898C6CBFF

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4332941

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BF4C30-FFDD-7635-622D-FA1F11522DDD

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Valdenar

scientific name

Tetramesa phragmitis (Erdös, 1952)
status

 

Tetramesa phragmitis (Erdös, 1952)

Fig. 9 View Fig

Material examined

IRAN – West-Azarbaijan Province • 9 ♀♀, 1 ♂; Urmia, Hesar-e Türkmän ; 37º26′ N, 45º13′ E; 1293 m a.s.l.; Apr. –early May 2017; Y. Karimpour leg.; ex Phragmites australis ; HMIM GoogleMaps 14 ♀♀, 2 ♂♂; Urmia, Täzehkand-e Qäterchï ; 37º39′ N, 44º58′ E; 1335 m a.s.l.; Apr. –early May 2017; Y. Karimpour leg.; ex Phragmites australis ; HMIM GoogleMaps .

Remarks

This species is known as a gall-stem wasp of Phragmites australis . Tetramesa phragmitis is widely distributed in the Palaearctic region from Europe to Japan ( Bouček 1968; Zerova 1978; Kalina 1989; Zerova & Fursov 2016).

This species has recently been redescribed ( Zerova & Fursov 2016) and our specimens exhibit the following variations: body larger, 5 mm (vs 2.7–4.3 mm in Zerova & Fursov 2016), mainly dark, with yellow spots reduced to head, below eyes and lower face ( Fig. 9A, E View Fig ) vs yellow spots on head and thorax, also much lighter specimens occur in Israel and Tajikistan ( Zerova & Fursov 2016). Fore wing ( Fig. 9C View Fig ) mainly infuscate with two distinct dark spots, the first one under marginal and stigmal veins and the second as a V-shaped dark spot below submarginal vein vs unclear yellow spot under marginal vein ( Zerova & Fursov 2016); and distinctly dark-brown veins vs yellowish veins ( Zerova & Fursov 2016).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Eurytomidae

Genus

Tetramesa

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