Synaldis jujisae Peris

Peris, Francisco Javier, Papp, Jeno, Belokobylskij, Sergey A. & Jiménez, Ricardo, 2014, Seven new Spanish species of the genus Synaldis (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae) with mesoscutal pit, Zootaxa 3764 (1), pp. 39-60 : 49-50

Synaldis jujisae Peris –Felipo, sp. nov.

( Figs 37–48 )

Etymology. Named in honor Dr Judit Jiménez Sainz for her valuable help to the first author.

Type material. Holotype: female, Spain, Alicante Province, Alcoi, Natural Park of Carrascal de La Font Roja, 0 4.06.2007 (F.J. Peris–Felipo leg.) ( ENV). Paratypes: 1 female, 5 males, same label as in holotype, but 12.09.2005, 17.07, 25.09 & 23.10.2006, 0 2 & 30.07.2007 ( ENV, ZISP).

Description. Female.

Head entirely smooth; in dorsal view 1.65 times as wide as median length, 1.5 times as wide as mesoscutum, with rounded temples behind eye. Eye in lateral view 1.5 times as high as wide and as wide as temple medially. POL 1.55 times OD; OOL 2.9 times OD. Face 1.95 times as wide as high; inner margins of eyes subparallel. Clypeus slightly curved ventrally, 3.3 times as wide as high. Paraclypeal fovea not reaching middle distance between clypeus and eye. Mandible widened towards apex, as long as its maximum width. Upper tooth of mandible longer than middle tooth; middle tooth narrowed towards apex, rounded apically; lower tooth shorter than upper tooth, rounded apically. Antennae thick, 15–segmented. Scape 2.25 times as long as pedicel. First flagellar segment 1.55 times as long as its apical width, 0.7 times as long as second segment; second segment 1.4 times as long as its maximum width. Third to sixth flagellar segments 1.35–1.45 times, seventh and eighth segments 1.20–1.25 times, and ninth to twelfth segments 1.4–1.6 times as long as their width. Thirteenth flagellar segment 1.9 times as long as its maximum width.

Mesosoma 1.2 times as long as high (lateral view). Mesoscutum 1.1 times as long as maximum width. Notauli mainly absent. Mesoscutal pit present, elongate. Prescutellar depression smooth, with two lateral carinae. Precoxal suture present, not reaching anterior and posterior margins of mesopleuron. Posterior mesopleural furrow entirely smooth. Propodeum sculptured, with median longitudinal carina from anterior to posterior propodeal margins, with short transverse carinae in apical third not reaching propodeal margins. Propodeal spiracles small, 0.25 times as long as distance between spiracle and apical margin of propodeum.

Wings. Length of fore wing 2.9 times its maximum width. Radial cell reaching apex of wing, 4.1 times as long as its maximum width. Nervulus weakly postfurcal. Brachial cell closed, short, widened apically, 2.3 times as long as its maximum width. Hind wing 4.9 times as long as its maximum width.

Legs. Hind femur 3.4 times as long as its maximum width. Hind tibia weakly widened towards apex, about 8.7 times as long as its maximum subapical width, as long as hind tarsus. First segment of hind tarsus twice as long as second segment.

Metasoma distinctly compressed. First tergite completely smooth, weakly widened towards apex, 1.75 times as long as its apical width. Ovipositor 1.15 times as long as first tergite, distinctly shorter than metasoma, as long as hind femur.

Colour. Body and legs brown to dark brown. Wings hyaline. Pterostigma brown.

Body length 1.6 mm; fore wing length 1.8 mm.

Male. Body length 1.8–1.9 mm; fore wing length 2.1–2.15 mm. Antenna 16–19–segmented. First flagellar segment 2.4 times as long as maximum width, second segment 2.1 times as long as its maximum width. Hind femur 3.6–3.65 times as long as its maximum width.

Diagnosis. According to the key by Fischer (2003), new species is similar to S. lacessiva Fischer, 1975 and S. jordanica Fischer, 1993 . S. jujisae sp. nov. differs from S. lacessiva in having the first flagellar segment 1.55 times as long as its width (1.25 times in S. lacessiva ), the middle flagellar segments 1.2–1.6 times as long as their width (as long as their width in S. lacessiva ), hind femur 3.4 times as long as its maximum width (3.0 times in S. lacessiva ), the first metasomal tergite 1.75 times as long as its apical width (2.0 times in S. lacessiva ), and mesoscutal pit elongated (rounded in S. lacessiva ). On the other hand, S. jujisae differs from S. jordanica in having the first flagellar segment 1.55 times as long as its width (2.0 times in S. jordanica ), hind femur 3.4 times as long as its maximum width (4.0 times in S. jordanica ), and mesoscutal pit elongated (rounded in S. jordanica ).

According to the key by Belokobylskij (2004a), this new species also resembles S. fraudulenta (Papp, 1981) , but differs from it in having the first flagellar segment 1.55 times as long as its width (3.0 times in S. fraudulenta ), the middle flagellar segments 1.2–1.6 times as long as their width (as long as their width in S. fraudulenta ), hind femur 3.4 times as long as its maximum width (4.0 times in S. fraudulenta ), the first metasomal tergite 1.75 times as long as its apical width (2.00 times in S. fraudulenta ), and mesoscutal pit elongated (oval in S. fraudulenta ).

Figures

FIGURES 37 – 42. Synaldis jujisae sp. nov. (female). 37. Habitus, lateral view. 38. Head, lateral view. 39. Mandible. 40. Antenna. 41. Basal segments of antenna. 42. Head, dorsal view.

FIGURES 43 – 48. Synaldis jujisae sp. nov. (female). 43. Mesosoma, lateral view. 44. Mesonotum. 45. Propodeum. 46. First metasomal tergite. 47. Hind leg, metasoma, ovipositor, lateral view. 48. Fore and hind wings.