Phasgonophora rubra Binoy, 2022
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https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2022.2134059 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7377191 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/19168793-FF81-FF8D-FE09-FB1370B1098D |
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Plazi |
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Phasgonophora rubra Binoy |
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sp. nov. |
Phasgonophora rubra Binoy , sp. nov.
( Figures 1 View Figure 1 , 2a–h View Figure 2 , 3a–d View Figure 3 )
Type material
Holotype ♀, India: Kerala, shrub jungle near Athirappilly waterfall (10.277°N, 76.541°E; 98 m above mean sea level), Thrissur district , standard yellow pan trap, 17 February 2021, Coll. C. Binoy. GoogleMaps Paratype, ♀, same details as holotype.
Recognition
Body black with pronotum, mesoscutum and axilla bright red ( Figure 2f View Figure 2 ); setation on body and wings sparse and stout ( Figure 2c, e, f View Figure 2 ); clava 1-segmented ( Figure 2b View Figure 2 ); mesoscutellum moderately convex, broadly emarginate posteriorly ( Figure 2f View Figure 2 ); propodeal tooth present ( Figure 3a View Figure 3 ); fore wing hyaline with brown setation, slight brown infumation adjoining STV with line of infumation along Rs ( Figure 3b View Figure 3 ); Gt 1 dorsally smooth ( Figure 3c View Figure 3 ); syntergum hardly protruding, 0.2× mesotibia ( Figure 3d View Figure 3 ).
Description of holotype
Female, Length 4.24 mm; length of fore wing 3.39 mm.
Colour. Body black with ocelli golden yellow, radicle and pedicel, tegula, fore and mid coxae and all trochanters liver-brown, scape and flagellar segments brown-black ( Figure 2a View Figure 2 ), clava apically brown-orange ( Figure 2b View Figure 2 ), mandibles red-brown with teeth black ( Figure 2d View Figure 2 ), pronotum, mesoscutum and axilla red-brown, extending onto anterior margin of mesoscutellum, explanate apex of mesoscutellum brown ( Figure 2f, h View Figure 2 ), postscutellum medially with a red-brown oval areola; wings hyaline with veins deep brown; fore wing with line of infumation along Rs; fore and mid femora brown with apex red-brown, fore and mid tibia with base and apex red-brown, hind coxae black with ventral red streak, hind femur black, hind tibia black with faint red patch, all tarsi testaceous ( Figure 3a View Figure 3 ), metasoma black with all terga red-orange on posterolateral side, all sterna black with posterior margin faintly red-brown ( Figure 3d View Figure 3 ).
Setation. Pubescence on head, mesosoma and metasoma suberect, sparse, white, arising from pits; pubescence dense on legs.
Head. Head 1.1× as wide as mesosoma in dorsal view, 2.2× as long as wide, with coarse setigerous punctures and setae arising from papilla, punctures smaller near ocellar region, interstice distinctly raised, imbricate; ocelli large, OOL 2.1× POL; OOL 2.5× OD; anterior ocellus placed in a smooth depression beyond carinate scrobal margin; frons, vertex and occiput similarly sculptured ( Figure 2e View Figure 2 ); in frontal view, head 1.4× as wide as long, with coarse setigerous punctures, interstices imbricate; interantennal projection subtriangular, wide and conspicuously punctate as remainder of face, its anterior end pointed reaching 0.6× of scrobal depression; antennal scrobe dumbbell shaped at antennal attachment point, cavity coarsely and transversely strigose ( Figure 2c View Figure 2 ); obsolete ‘X’-shaped carina below antennal scrobe; faint preorbital carina indicated ( Figure 2d View Figure 2 ); malar sulcus absent; eye glabrous, 2.2× as long as malar space, 2.0× as wide as maximum width of gena; eye almost reaching occiput posteriorly; gena with three short carinae, basal two reaching genotemporal margin; post-orbital carina faintly indicated, running to temple and not beyond ( Figure 2a View Figure 2 ); radicle long, 0.3× as long as scape; scape long, curved, not reaching anterior ocellus; pedicel short, annellus short, subquadrate, 0.4× as long as pedicel; basal funiculars not much longer than wide, apical ones subquadrate with 1–2 rows of multiporous plate sensilla and adpressed setae; length: width of scape, pedicel, anellus, fl2 and fl8 (first and last funiculars) and clava = 5.03, 0.95, 0.47, 1.07, 0.91 and 2.21.
Mesosoma. Slightly convex in profile ( Figure 2g View Figure 2 ), pronotum, mesonotum and scutellum bearing short, thin suberect setae; pronotum entirely punctured, posterior margin markedly convex, without any median depression ( Figure 2f View Figure 2 ); lateral panel with irregular rugae, followed by transverse striae ventrally; mesonotum cristate-punctured, transverse crests slightly raised in profile ( Figure 2g View Figure 2 ); notauli shallowly impressed ( Figure 2f View Figure 2 ); tegula finely imbricate, bearing short patch of setae baso-ventrally; mesoscutellum slightly convex in lateral view ( Figure 2g View Figure 2 ), dorsal outline straight, markedly emarginate apically, with large fovea; postscutellum shiny with longitudinal areola; propodeum declining steeply onto metasoma, with posterolateral limit forming a right angle, with large irregular areola, carinate margin, median areola prominent and followed by nucha; propodeal spiracle slitlike; lateral costula setose; epicnemial carina faintly indicated ( Figure 2g View Figure 2 ); ventral shelf virtually punctate as mesopleuron; adscrobal area of mesepisternum, entire mesepimeron and metepimeron with coarse setigerous punctures, setae short and suberect as on thoracic notum, interstices imbricate; femoral scrobe of mesopleuron strigose, margins well raised ( Figure 2g View Figure 2 ).
Legs. Procoxa deeply depressed on front side, depression margined posterodorsally by raised carina forming a short flange ( Figure 2g View Figure 2 ); protibia with apicodorsal short spine; mesotibia without any dorsal pegs, stout spine apico-ventrally; hind leg bearing sparse, thin and suberect setae more concentrated on ventral side of coxa, outer disc of femur and dorsal side of tibia; metafemur on outer disc with piliferous setigerous points without engraved network; its ventral margin with a row of 11 regularly distributed equal teeth, basal tooth not prominent, without any inner basal tooth; all tarsi thin, bearing slender normal claws without modification ( Figure 3a View Figure 3 ).
Wings. Fore wing with moderate adpressed microtrichiae, ventral line of setae along the wing margin; MV 0.3× as long as SMV, 2.8× as long as PMV; PMV 1.3× as long as STV; hind wing with three similar closely set hamuli ( Figure 3b View Figure 3 ).
Metasoma. Short petiole visible dorsally, dorsal surface with medio-longitudinal depression ( Figure 3c View Figure 3 ); metasoma shorter than mesosoma, sub-acuminate apically; Gt1 as long as 0.54× entire length of metasoma, 1.1× as wide as long, smooth on dorsal disc with very fine microsculpture (visible only in certain angle of light), laterally with scattered pits and raised spiracle; Gt2–Gt5 finely microsculptured, dorsally with one row of setigerous micropits, laterally with setigerous punctures on anterior margin, posteriorly very finely microsculptured ( Figure 3c View Figure 3 ); Gt6 densely punctured, with 5–6 rows of setigerous punctures, interspaces matt; spiracle conspicuous, peritreme raised; syntergum very short, spiracle conspicuous, medially carinate; sterna as sculptured as terga; ovipositor sheath barely visible dorsally ( Figure 3d View Figure 3 ).
Male
Unknown.
Etymology
The species name is the Latin feminine adjective rubra referring to the red pronotum and mesoscutum of the species.
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.
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