Conidarnes santineloi Farache & Rasplus

Farache, Fernando Henrique Antoniolli & Rasplus, Jean-Yves, 2015, Conidarnes, a new oriental genus of Sycophaginae (Hymenoptera, Agaonidae) associated with Ficus section Conosycea (Moraceae), ZooKeys 539, pp. 119-145 : 127-130

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Agaonidae

Conidarnes santineloi Farache & Rasplus sp. n. Figs 7, 8, 9

Holotype.

♀: BRUNEI: Temburong National Park, 4.554° 115.157°, 100m, 25.XI.1996, Rasplus J.Y., ex Ficus pallescens , n° JRAS00114 (CBGP).

Paratypes. 9♀, 5♂: same locality and information as holotype (7♀, 3♂ CBGP; 1♀, 1♂ SAMC; 1♀, 1♂ RPSP).

Diagnosis.

Antenna with one anellus. Funicular segments mostly transverse. Mesoscutum and mesoscutellum sculpture reticulate. Prosternal posterior margin not medially acute. Propodeum with a depressed median line. Length of the ovipositor sheaths 0.3 × body length.

Description.

Female. Size and colour. Body length 1.6 mm. Length of the ovipositor sheaths 0.45 mm. Head, mesosoma, and metasoma black, slightly green. Metallic lustre faint. Antennae and legs yellow, forecoxae brown.

Head. Scape 3.5 × as long as wide. Antenna with one anellus. Funicular segments mostly transverse. Terminal antennomere inconspicuous. Antennae inserted just below the middle line of compound eyes. Supraclypeal area higher than clypeus, wide. Face sculpture reticulate. Scrobe without a median longitudinal sulcus.

Mesosoma. Pronotum sculpture reticulate. Pronotum not elongated, 1.5 × as long as wide in lateral view or less. Prosternal posterior margin not medially acute. Mesoscutum and mesoscutellum sculpture reticulate. Notauli complete. Frenal sulcus crenulated. Metascutellum long, rectangular to trapezoidal. Anterior margin of propodeum smooth. Propodeum sculpture slightly reticulate to smooth. Propodeum with a depressed median line.

Metasoma. Length of the ovipositor sheaths 0.3 × body length.

Male. Similar to female except the following characters: Mesosoma and metasoma yellow. Mesoscutum, axillae, axillulae, and dorsal metasoma partially brown black, with faint metallic lustre. Legs completely yellow. Pedicel and funicular segments slender. Antenna more setose. Pronotum slender.

Etymology.

The specific name is dedicated to our friend and colleague Rodrigo Augusto Santinelo Pereira due to his excellent and pioneering work on fig wasps and Ficus in Brazil.

Biology.

Collected from syconia of Ficus pallescens L., the form with small leaves (see Berg and Corner 2005).