Synergus ashmeadi Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar, 2021

Lobato-Vila, Irene & Pujade-Villar, Juli, 2021, The genus Synergus Hartig (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini) in the New World: a complete taxonomic revision with a key to species, Zootaxa 4906 (1), pp. 1-121 : 14-16

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4906.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4447505

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scientific name

Synergus ashmeadi Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar
status

sp. nov.

Synergus ashmeadi Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar , sp. nov.

( Figures 1 View FIGURE 1 , 42a View FIGURE 42 )

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Type material. HOLOTYPE ♀ deposited in JP-V coll. ( UB) with the following labels: ‘ MEX: P141, Sierra Fría (Aguascalientes, AGS), 22°11’51.1’’N, 102°35’29.5’’W’ (white label) / ‘Ex. Andricus sp., 2464m, Q. potosina , (14. ii.2011) 17.ii.2011, E. Estrada & A. Equihua leg.’ (white label) / ‘Holotype ♀ Synergus ashmeadi Lobato-Vila & Pujade-Villar , IL-V desig-2020’ (red label). GoogleMaps PARATYPE (1♀) deposited in JP-V coll. ( UB) with the same data as the holotype.

Etymology. Named in honor of Mr. William Harris Ashmead (1855–1908), an American entomologist who specialized on parasitic Hymenoptera , including gall wasps.

Diagnosis. Synergus ashmeadi , sp. nov. is the only species that lacks notauli, which at most appear as very shallow, inconspicuous, and hardly traceable grooves visible only under optimal illumination of the specimen. In addition, it is one of a few species that have the mesoscutum uniformly coriaceous-punctate, with conspicuous punctures covering all of the surface ( Fig. 1g View FIGURE 1 ) (usually entirely alutaceous, coriaceous, or more or less carinated in the rest of species). Synergus ashmeadi , sp. nov. is also characterized by having the mesopleuron entirely sculptured, with parallel striae covering all of the surface, including the speculum ( Fig. 1e View FIGURE 1 ); hyaline wings ( Fig. 1a View FIGURE 1 ); and the mesoscutellum medially coriaceous and laterally and posteriorly wrinkled ( Fig. 1g View FIGURE 1 ).

Description

FEMALE. Length. Body length 2.0 mm (n = 2).

Color ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 ). Body black and yellow. Head mainly yellow, vertex and occiput medially and around the occipital foramen, black. Antenna yellow, the tip somewhat darker. Mesosoma mainly black; pronotum yellow or anterolaterally black and the rest, yellow; mesopleuron completely black or with yellow speculum; mesopleural triangle and tegula, yellow. Metasoma black dorsally, yellow laterally and ventrally. Legs pale yellow. Wings hyaline, veins pale yellow.

Head. In frontal view ( Fig. 1b View FIGURE 1 ) trapezoid, about 1.1 times as wide as high, gena not broadened behind eye. Face faintly pubescent, lower face with dense striae radiating from clypeus, reaching eyes and toruli; medial striae short to absent. Clypeus indistinct, ventral margin straight, not projected over mandibles. Malar space about 0.5-0.6 times as long as height of eye. Anterior tentorial pits visible; pleurostomal and epistomal sulcus absent. Transfacial line about as long as height of eye. Toruli situated slightly under mid-height of eyes; distance between torulus and eye about as long as diameter of toruli; distance between toruli slightly longer than diameter of toruli. Frons finely coriaceous, with a few weak wrinkles and very few small piliferous punctures; frontal carinae narrow, branched in their whole length and reaching lateral ocelli. Head in dorsal view ( Fig. 1c View FIGURE 1 ) is 2.0 times as wide as long. Vertex finely coriaceous, with some weak wrinkles and small punctures. POL: OOL: LOL = 6.5: 5.5: 3 and diameter of lateral ocelli, 3. Occiput finely coriaceous, with some weak wrinkles and small punctures.

Antenna ( Fig. 1d View FIGURE 1 ). 14-segmented (7: 4: 12: 11: 11: 10: 8: 8: 6: 5.5: 4.5: 4: 4: 7.5); filiform, not broadened apically; pubescence dense and short; placodeal sensilla visible on flagellar segments F3–F12. Pedicel about 1.6 times as long as wide; F1 slightly longer than F2, F2 as long as F3. Last flagellar segment about 2.5 times as long as wide and almost 2.0 times as long as F11.

Mesosoma. About 1.2 times as long as high in lateral view including nucha, with short and not dense pubescence ( Fig. 1e View FIGURE 1 ). Ratio of length of pronotum medially/laterally: 0.33. Pronotal plate indistinct. Lateral pronotum strongly coriaceous to weakly wrinkled; lateral carina absent, pronotum rounded seen from above. Mesoscutum ( Fig. 1g View FIGURE 1 ) about 1.1 times as wide as long, uniformly coriaceous-punctate; anterior parallel lines shallow but visible, extended about 1/3 of the mesoscutal length; notauli absent, at most with two very weakly depressions on the mesoscutum where notauli are usually present; median mesoscutal line absent; parapsidal lines weakly impressed, reaching tegulae. Mesoscutellum ( Fig. 1g View FIGURE 1 ) rounded, almost as long as wide, anteriorly coriaceous, posteriorly and laterally wrinkled, interspaces coriaceous; circumscutellar carina weak but visible, somewhat obscured by wrinkles, not projected; scutellar foveae subquadrate to ovate, well impressed and delimited, the bottom with longitudinal weak carinae and separated by a narrow carina. Mesopleuron ( Fig. 1e View FIGURE 1 ) regularly and densely striated, interspaces finely coriaceous anteriorly; slightly pubescent basally. Metapleural sulcus reaches about 3/4 parts of mesopleural height. Propodeum weakly sculptured; propodeal carinae almost straight and parallel. Nucha weakly sulcate dorsally and laterally.

Legs. Tarsal claws with a basal lobe.

Wings. Fore wing pubescent with short marginal setae, slightly longer than body length. Radial cell closed, about 2.5 times as long as wide; areolet inconspicuous, only the posterior vein somewhat pigmented ( Fig. 1h View FIGURE 1 ). Rs+M inconspicuous, almost reaching the basal vein. Basal cell with sparsely spaced setae.

Metasoma. Shorter than head plus mesosoma, almost as high as long in lateral view ( Fig. 1f View FIGURE 1 ). First metasomal segment sulcate dorsally and laterally. Syntergum smooth, with an anterolateral pubescence composed of very few setae and posteriorly with an incomplete band of micropunctures extended almost 1/3 of its length, less widespread dorsally ( Fig. 1f View FIGURE 1 , dot line); not dorsodistally incised, pointed. Hypopygial spine almost 3.0 times as long as wide (very narrow) and with a few lateral setae; without apical setae.

MALE. Unknown.

Distribution. Mexico: Aguascalientes.

Biology. Reared from tuberous galls induced by an undetermined species of Andricus ( Fig. 42a View FIGURE 42 ) on Q. potosina .

UB

Laboratoire de Biostratigraphie

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Cynipidae

Genus

Synergus

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