Miscogasteriella vladimiri Tselikh, Lee et Ku, 2023

Tselikh, E. V., Lee, J. & Ku, D. - S., 2023, New data on the chalcid wasps of the family Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from South Korea, Far Eastern Entomologist 482, pp. 10-21 : 18

* Miscogasteriella vladimiri Tselikh, Lee et Ku, 2023

Figs 8–14

MATERIAL EXAMINED. South Korea: GN, Nogu-ri , Seo-myeon, Namhae-gun, 13.VIII 2022, 1 ♀, 1 ♂, coll. D.S. Ku, J.H. Lee, H.J. Jeong ( NIBR, ZISP) .

DESCRIPTION. Male (hitherto unknown). Body length 4.40 mm; fore wing length 3.10 mm. Head black; antenna with scape and pedicel yellowish-brown, flagellum cupreous. Mesosoma dark, in dorsal view with metallic green and diffuse coppery lustre, in lateral view with diffuse violet-coppery lustre. Fore coxa brown, mid yellowish-brown, hind coxa apically dark with diffuse violet-coppery lustre, basally yellowish-brown; fore and mid femur yellowish-brown, hind femur brown; all tibia and tarsus yellowish-brown. Fore wing hyaline, venation yellowish-brown. Metasoma cupreous.

Head in frontal view weakly reticulate, in dorsal view and clypeus smooth and shiny. Mesosoma reticulate, but axilla and frenum alutaceous, dorsellum shiny, propodeum weakly alutaceous. Metasoma weakly alutaceous and shiny.

Head in dorsal view 2.14 × as broad as long and 1.73 × as broad as mesoscutum; in frontal view 1.28 × broader than high. POL 0.83 × OOL. Eye height 1.31 × eye length and 3.50 × as long as malar space. Distance between antennal toruli and lower margin of clypeus 0.88 × distance between antennal toruli and median ocellus. Antenna with scape 0.57 × as long as eye height and 0.75 × as long as eye length; pedicel as long as broad and 0.20 × as long as F1; combined length of pedicel and flagellum 3.13 × breadth of head; flagellum almost filiform; all anelli transverse; F1 4.66 × as long as broad, with seven of dense sensilla; F2–F6 longer than broad; clava with three separate segments.

Mesosoma 2.30 × as long as broad. Scutellum as long as broad. Propodeum without nucha and costula, 0.94 × as long as scutellum; medial longitudinal depression shallow, lateral depressions 0.45 × as long as propodeum.

Fore wing 2.85 × as long as maximum width; basal cell, cubital vein, basal vein pilose; speculum absent; PST 0.75 × as long as M, M 0.53 × as long as P and 2.67 × as long as S.

Metasoma lanceolate, 1.80 × as long as mesosoma and 1.33 × as long as mesosoma and head.

DISTRIBUTION. Japan (Shikoku) ( Tselikh et al., 2023), South Korea.

BIOLOGY. Unknown.

Figures

Figs 8–14. Miscogasteriella vladimiri Tselikh, Lee et Ku, 2023, male: 8 – body, lateral view; 9 – mesosoma and petiole, dorsal view; 10 – wing; 11– head, frontal view; 12 – antenna; 13 – head, dorsal view; 14 – body, dorsal view.