Ficomila gabonensis Lotfalizadeh, 2024
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5401.1.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10524420 |
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Ficomila gabonensis Lotfalizadeh |
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Ficomila gabonensis Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus sp. n.
( Figs 30–32 View FIGURE 30 View FIGURE 31 View FIGURE 32 )
Type material examined. Holotype ♀: Gabon, Makokou, ex syconia of F. artocarpoides , 23.ix.1988, Maldès J.- M. leg. Deposited in CBGP. Paratypes: same data as holotype, 31♀. Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, Lamto, 6.222197° -5.024070°, ex syconia of Ficus lutea , 26.vi.1989, Rasplus J.-Y. leg., 1♀. Cameroon, Ebogo, 10.i.1993, ex syconia of F. artocarpoides, Gibernau M. leg., 7♀ & 2♂.
Etymology. The specific name refers to the type locality of the species.
Diagnosis. Female body brown dark ( Fig. 30A View FIGURE 30 ). POL at least 1.5× OOL ( Fig. 30D View FIGURE 30 ). Flagellum with fu2– fu5 longer than wide ( Fig. 30B View FIGURE 30 ). Mesoscutum densely coriaceous with sparse umbilicate puncture ( Fig. 31A View FIGURE 31 ). Propodeum with a median carina reaching its basal half, smooth median band short ( Fig. 31B View FIGURE 31 ). Gaster compressed laterally, dorsally angulate.
Body of male yellowish, partly dark, not robust ( Fig. 32A View FIGURE 32 ). Antennal formula 11152, fu2–fu4 long, longer than broad, first segment of clava separated from the rests ( Fig. 32B View FIGURE 32 ). Propodeum with one row of areolae medially ( Fig. 32C View FIGURE 32 ). Fore wing partly bare, not densely setose ( Fig. 32D View FIGURE 32 ).
Description of holotype ♀ ( Figs 30–31 View FIGURE 30 View FIGURE 31 ). Length 6.03 mm. Body generally dark ( Fig. 30A View FIGURE 30 ), except scape yellowish, pedicel brown and clava distally yellowish-brown, pronotum with small brown spot anterolaterally, tegula yellowish-brown, tibia and tarsomeres brown; fore wing with a dark brown spot below mv, lower margin of mv obscured by dark brown spot, dark brown spot reaching base of mv ( Fig. 31D View FIGURE 31 ); gaster uniformly coloured ( Fig. 31C View FIGURE 31 ); body setation whitish, setation of fore wing entirely dark.
Head 1.5× as broad as high [HW 208 & HH 138] ( Fig. 30C View FIGURE 30 ), in dorsal view transverse, 2.1× as broad as long [HW 208 & HL 99] ( Fig. 30D View FIGURE 30 ); face and vertex coriaceous with sparse punctures; malar space 0.51× length of eye [sm 45 & EH 88]; malar sulcus distinct, straight ( Fig. 30E View FIGURE 30 ); lower margin of gena sinuous, edged but not carinate; antennal toruli widely separated, interantennal space not raised, carinate laterally; scrobal depression smooth, reaching the median ocellus, carinate on margin (at least dorsally); POL 1.41× as long as OOL [POL 48 & OOL 34] ( Fig. 30D View FIGURE 30 ); temple margined, 0.16× the eye length (in dorsal view) [TL 18 & EL 11]; setation oriented downwards on face, outwards on the punctuate frons.
Antenna. Scape not reaching median ocellus, 3.52× as long as broad, [SL 88 & SW 25]; fu1 1.79× as long as broad, [fu1L 68 & fu1W 38], distinctly longer than pedicel, bulging dorsally; funiculars (fu2–fu4) with three rows of mps and several whorls of short adpressed setae, fu2–fu5 distinctly longer than broad ( Fig. 30A View FIGURE 30 ).
Mesosoma weakly arched dorsally, 1.4× as long as wide (150:110), with obliterate punctures ( Fig. 31A View FIGURE 31 ); pronotum with sparse umbilicate punctures; mesodiscrimen with a ring-like process, adjacent to mesocoxa; mesoscutum 0.55× as long as wide (60:110), 0.65× longer than length of pronotal collar (60:90), sparsely umbilicate, coriaceous anteriorly; notauli conspicuous, slightly obliterated by mesoscutum sculpture; prepectus bare, with raised sculpture; mesoscutellum distinctly umbilicate laterally and coriaceous medially; mesepimeron transversally strigose; metepimeron subtriangular and areolate with long white hairs; propodeum ( Fig. 31B View FIGURE 31 ) with deep median depression, with a smooth median band, and a distinct median carina; lateral rows of areolae long and extending at least over posterior half of propodeum, inverted U-shaped basal carina, lateral branches of propodeal basal carina slightly convex, width of basal carinae about 0.5× width of nucha.
Fore wing with short marginal fringe, apically subtruncate (pointed anteriorly); dark brown spot below mv; basal cell bare or nearly so; mv slightly enlarged, normally broadened, in lower margin concave; stv curved up; pmv not distinct, not longer than stv; ventral side of costal cell sparsely setose, dorsally bare; speculum present; parastigmal bristles absent.
Legs. Fore coxa without depression on frontal surface, hind coxa bare basodorsally; fore (35:15) and hind femora (40:16); hind tibia dorsally with more 10 setae, setae shorter than tibia width basally ( Figs 31D, E View FIGURE 31 ).
Metasoma. Petiole shorter than broad dorsally, ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present. Metasoma 1.60× as long as wide (165:105) ( Fig. 31C View FIGURE 31 ), longer than mesosoma, strongly compressed laterally and dorsally angulate; ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present; petiole in dorsal view not longer than wide, shorter than half-length of hind coxa; tergites finely sculptured; Gt4 (in lateral view) slightly as long as Gt3, sinuous posteriorly; Gt5 partly covering Gt6, sinuous posteriorly; Gt 6 in ventral half densely setose; ovipositor upturned ( Fig. 31C View FIGURE 31 ).
Male ( Fig. 32 View FIGURE 32 ) Length 4.17–4.45mm. Similar to female with longer petiole ( Fig. 32A View FIGURE 32 ); exhibiting entirely different colouration, mostly yellowish-brown, head and mesosoma dorsally, gaster basally and distally dark, antenna brown; antennal formula 11152, fu1–fu4 much longer than broad, at least 2× as long as broad; each funicular with several rows of mps and several whorls of relatively short setae ( Fig. 32B View FIGURE 32 ); fore wing more setose than in female, without speculum, dark brown spot small, just behind mv ( Fig. 32D View FIGURE 32 ).
Variation. Length 4.22–6.03 mm. Sometimes dark brown spot of fore wing smaller. Gastral yellowish-brown spots varied from small to relatively large.
Host plants. Ficus artocarpoides and F. lutea .
Geographical distribution. Cameroon, Gabon and Republic of Côte d’Ivoire.
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