Netomocera desaegeri, Mitroiu, 2019

Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan, 2019, Revision of Netomocera Bouček (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae), excluding the Oriental species, European Journal of Taxonomy 568, pp. 1-87 : 30-35

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2019.568
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5944331
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scientific name	Netomocera desaegeri
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Netomocera desaegeri sp. nov.

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Figs 54–64 View Figs 54–58 View Figs 59–64

Diagnosis

Both sexes

Macropterous; fore wing slightly to conspicuously and uniformly infumate ( Fig. 62 View Figs 59–64 ). Clypeal margin straight to very slightly produced ( Fig. 57 View Figs 54–58 ). Scrobes shallow and finely reticulate. Upper face and vertex with eight large setae ( Fig. 56 View Figs 54–58 ). Occiput margin sharply defined ( Fig. 56 View Figs 54–58 ). Pronotal collar not unusually long or wide ( Fig. 60 View Figs 59–64 ). Mesoscutum, scutellum and axillae densely reticulate, appearing dull under setation ( Fig. 60 View Figs 59–64 ); scutoscutellar sutures superficial, hardly visible ( Fig. 60 View Figs 59–64 ); frenal area not distinct, i.e., sculpture not different than on rest of scutellum ( Fig. 60 View Figs 59–64 ). Mesepimeral sulcus conspicuous ( Fig. 59 View Figs 59–64 ). Propodeum ( Fig. 61 View Figs 59–64 ) with uniform, more or less dense sculpture, without a well-defined V-shaped area basally. Fore wing with basal third extensively setose except for narrow bare region ( Fig. 62 View Figs 59–64 ). Visible part of petiole very short, distinctly transverse, with more or less obliterate sculpture ( Fig. 61 View Figs 59–64 ).

Female

Head dark brown to black, occasionally slightly bluish or bluish-green ( Figs 55–56 View Figs 54–58 ). POL 4.2–5.3 × OOL. Setation of mesonotum dense and pale brown, not conspicuous ( Fig. 60 View Figs 59–64 ). MV 3.5–4.5× SV.

Etymology

The species is named (noun in the genitive case) for Henri De Saeger, who organized the expedition to Belgian Congo during which thousands of specimens of Pteromalidae were collected.

Material examined

Holotype

TOGO • ♀; “ Togo: Région des Plateaux: main road between Agbanon and Agoté, at creek Tomezuitoe, Creek bank at teak-forest ( Tectona grandis), shady cocoa plantation, 7°15′53″ N 0°47′51″ E, 360 m a.s.l., 15.4.2008, swept, eclector; v. Tschirnhaus (Tg1878)”; entire, on rectangular card; BMNH. GoogleMaps

Allotype

TOGO • ♂; same data as for holotype; BMNH. GoogleMaps

Additional paratypes

D.R. CONGO • 1 ♀; “ Congo Belge P.N.G., Miss. H. de Saeger, Aka , 14-V-1952, H. de Saeger. 3450”; RMCA • 1 ♀; “ Congo Belge P.N.G., Miss. H. de Saeger, Ndelele /K.117, 27.III-1952, H. de Saeger. 3267”; RMCA • 1 ♀; “ Congo Belge P.N.G., Miss. H. de Saeger, II/fd/17, 2-VII-1951, Réc. H. de Saeger. 2032”; RMCA • 1 ♀; “ Congo Belge P.N.A, Nyasheke ( Volc. Nyamuragira ), 1820m. 14/ 26-VI-1935, G.F. de Witte: 1493”; RMCA • 1 ♂; “ Congo Belge P.N.G., Miss. H. de Saeger, Makpe /8, 5-XI-1951, Réc. H. de Saeger. 2718”; RMCA • 1 ♀; “ Congo Belge P.N.A., 7-15-VII-1955, P. Vanschuytbroeck, 13274-309”; RMCA • 1 ♂; “ Congo Belge P.N.G., Miss. H. de Saeger, Pp. K.72, 27-VIII-1951, Réc. H. de Saeger. 2338”; RMCA .

GABON • 2 ♀♀; “ GABON: 17 Km N. of Libreville , XII. 1987, J. Noyes ”; “ ♀ Netomocera, det. Z. Bouček 1997 ”; NMPC .

GAMBIA • 1 ♀; “Gambia, Abuko, 5/11 1981, K.-J.Hedqvist ”; “Standing over Netomocera alboscapus in Hedqvist coll., BMNH (E) 2011-27 ”; BMNH .

KENYA • 1 ♂; “ KENYA, Nairobi , iii.1982 ”; “Brit. Mus. 1982-347”; NMPC .

MALAWI • 1 ♀; “ Coll. Mus. Tervuren, Malawi: Chisasira (Chinteche), 3-20.I.1978, R. Jocqué ”; RMCA .

SOUTH AFRICA • 1 ♀; “S. Africa, R. E. Turner. Brit. Mus. 1924-235”; “Port St. John, Pondoland. 16- 28.iv.1924 ”; NMPC • 1 ♂; “S. Africa, R. E. Turner. Brit. Mus. 1923-363”; “Port St. John, Pondoland. June 12 -30.1923”; NMPC.

TANZANIA • 1 ♀; “Africa or. Katona”; “Arusha-Ju 1905. XII”; “Arusha-9”; “ Netomocera ”; NMPC • 1 ♀; “Mto-ja-Kifaru”; “Africa or. Katona”; “no frenal groove” [Bouček’s handwriting]; NMPC.

TOGO • 1 ♂; same data as for holotype; MICO GoogleMaps .

UGANDA • 1 ♀; “Uganda, Entebbe, Oct.-Nov. 1972 ”; “ ♀ Netomocera, Det. Z. Bouček, 1991 ”; NMPC .

ZIMBABWE • 1 ♀; “ RHODESIA, Salisbury, A. Watsham /WF.193, viii.75 ”; “505.R”; BMNH • 1 ♀; “ RHODESIA, Salisbury, A. Watsham /WF.224, (i)76”; BMNH • 1 ♀; “ RHODESIA, Salisbury, A. Watsham /WF.218, (xii)75”; BMNH • 1 ♀; “ RHODESIA, Salisbury, A. Watsham /WF.205, (x)75” ;

BMNH • 2 ♀♀; “ RHODESIA: Chishawasha , Nr. Salisbury ”; “ XII. 1978, A. Watsham ”; NMPC • 1 ♂; “ RHODESIA, Mazoe , i.75, A. Watsham ”; NMPC .

Other material

SOUTH AFRICA • 1 ♀; “Zululand, Eshowe, 1-22.iv.1925 ”; “ S. Africa, R. E. Turner. Brit. Mus. 1925- 175”; NMPC .

Description

Female (habitus: Fig. 54 View Figs 54–58 )

COLOUR. Head ( Figs 55–56 View Figs 54–58 ) black, occasionally dark brown or with slight bluish or bluish-green reflections. Mandibles reddish-brown.Antenna ( Fig. 58 View Figs 54–58 ) with scape whitish to yellowish, extreme apices usually darker; pedicel yellowish-brown but dorsally darker; flagellum light brown to brown, usually gradually darkening towards dark brown clava. Mesosoma ( Figs 59–61 View Figs 59–64 ) dark brown to black. Legs with coxae yellowish-brown to dark brown; fore and mid trochanters and trochantelli yellowish-brown to brown, hind trochanter and trochantellus yellowish to yellowish-brown; femora yellowish-brown to brown, hind femur progressively lighter apically; tibiae yellowish, fore and hind tibiae basally usually darker; tarsi yellowish, pretarsi brown. Fore wing ( Fig. 62 View Figs 59–64 ) slightly to conspicuously and uniformly infumate; venation light brown; setation light brown. Metasoma ( Fig. 54 View Figs 54–58 ) with petiole black; gaster brown to almost black. Body setation light to dark brown except several large, symmetrically arranged reddish-brown setae.

BODY LENGTH. 1.50–2.75 mm.

HEAD. Clypeus finely coriaceous; apical margin straight to very slightly produced ( Fig. 57 View Figs 54–58 ). Lower face with shallow piliferous punctures among reticulation. Upper face reticulate, with reticulation becoming denser towards vertex ( Fig. 56 View Figs 54–58 ); scrobes shallow, reticulate except smooth near toruli; parascrobal area with elongate cells ( Fig. 55 View Figs 54–58 ). Occiput alutaceous; margin sharply defined ( Fig. 56 View Figs 54–58 ). Toruli with lower margins from slightly below to about level with lower margins of eyes ( Fig. 55 View Figs 54–58 ). Antenna with flagellum strongly widening towards clava; clava conspicuously asymmetric ( Fig. 58 View Figs 54–58 ). Upper face and vertex with eight large setae ( Fig. 56 View Figs 54–58 ). Head in dorsal view with width 2.15–2.40× length (70:31) and in frontal view 1.1–1.2 × height (70:60). POL 4.2–5.3 × OOL (24.0:4.5). Eye height about 1.4–1.5 × length (41:28), 2.4–2.9 × malar space (41:14) and about 1.1–1.3 × scape length (41:32). Head width 0.9–1.1 × length of pedicel plus flagellum (70:69). Fu1 length 1.25–1.50 × width (7:5); fu7 width 1.6–2.0× length (9:5); clava length 2.0–2.4 × width (24:10).

MESOSOMA. Pronotal collar conspicuously narrower than mesoscutum, with eight large setae ( Fig. 60 View Figs 59–64 ). Mesonotum moderately setose dorsally ( Fig. 60 View Figs 59–64 ). Mesoscutum and axillae with dense reticulation, dull ( Fig. 60 View Figs 59–64 ). Scutellar disc similarly sculptured as mesoscutum, cells somewhat elongate and smaller on frenal area ( Figs 60–61 View Figs 59–64 ). Upper mesepisternum partly smooth, partly striate-reticulate, lower mesepisternum reticulate ( Fig. 59 View Figs 59–64 ). Mesepimeron mainly smooth; mesepimeral sulcus conspicuous ( Fig. 59 View Figs 59–64 ). Propodeum with intricate pattern of carinae forming a raised tooth anteriorly, interspaces smooth to slightly wrinkled ( Fig. 61 View Figs 59–64 ). Macropterous; fore wing uniformly and densely setose except for small, elongate bare region ( Fig. 62 View Figs 59–64 ). Mesosoma length 1.25–1.30 × width (75:60) and 1.40–1.45 × height (75:55). Pronotal collar about 0.3–0.4× as long as mesoscutum (6:22) and about 0.8 × as wide as mesoscutum (49:60). Mesoscutum width 2.5–3.0 × length (60:22). Scutellum length about 0.9× width (32:35). Propodeum length about 0.6–0.7 × scutellum length (20:32). Fore wing length 2.4–2.5× width (140:55); MV 3.5–4.5× SV (39:11) and 2.2–3.3 × PV (39:18).

METASOMA. Petiole very short, transverse, virtually smooth ( Fig. 61 View Figs 59–64 ). Gaster ovate-acuminate, length 1.5– 2.0× width (92:50) ( Fig. 54 View Figs 54–58 ); gt1 longest, from slightly longer than to slightly shorter than wide (50:50), with hind margin slightly produced curved posteriorly; gt2–5 very short, transverse, sometimes almost completely retracted under gt1; gt6 much wider than long, semicircular; syntergum acutely pointed. Ovipositor sheaths conspicuously protruding beyond apex of gaster. Cercal setae almost reaching gaster apex.

Male (habitus: Fig. 63 View Figs 59–64 )

Differs from female mainly as follows. Body length: 0.90–1.75 mm. Antenna with flagellum yellowishbrown to dark brown. Fu1 length 2.0–2.8 × width; combined length of pedicel plus flagellum 2.3–2.4 × as wide as head. Eye height about 2.10–2.35 × malar space. POL 2.7–3.6 × OOL. Occipital margin blunt in small specimens. Mesosoma sculpture shallower. Propodeum without a tooth anteriorly. Gaster, when not inflated, much shorter than mesosoma, with only gt1 visible.

Distribution

D.R. Congo, Gabon, Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

Remarks

The species can be recognized mainly by the dull dorsal surface of the mesonotum, without any differentiated frenal area ( Fig. 60 View Figs 59–64 ). One female from South Africa (NMPC), excluded from the type series, has both fore wings abruptly shortened beyond the parastigma, as if cut off (no trace of shortened venation), and the hind wings also shortened and very narrow. I do not include these character states in the description because this seems to be an exceptional case.