Conomorium turhalensis, Doğanlar, 2020

Doğanlar, Miktat, 2020, Review Of The Species Of Conomorium Masi (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), Munis Entomology & Zoology 15 (1), pp. 235-251 : 240-242

Conomorium turhalensis n. sp.

( Figs. 1a , 2a1 , a2 , 3a , 4a1 , a2 )

Etymology. The name is derived from the name of Turhal, Tokat from which the types were collected.

Type material. Holotype ♀, Tokat, Turhal, Şenköy , 13.iv.1987, swept from leaves Prunus avium (H. Çam) ; Paratype, ♂, Tokat, 28.ix.1984, swept from pasture in cherry orchard, (M. Doğanlar). The types were deposited in Insect Museum of Biological Control Station, Yüreğir, Adana, Turkey ( IMBC).

Description female. Body length 2.1 mm. Head and mesosoma dark blue-black with metallic lustre. Antenna with scape pale yellow, pedicel and anelli testaceous, flagellum fuscous. Setae on mesosoma dark. Coxae concolorous with body, rest of legs testaceous, wings hyaline, venation brownish testaceous; petiole and first tergit of metasoma pale testaceous, other part metallic dark brown to black.

Head ( Fig. 1a ) about 1.2 times as wide as mesoscutum, in dorsal view about 1.73 times as broad as long; vertex moderately convex; POL 1.23 OOL; A) = 4.8;.temple 0.6 times as long as eye length, forming a right angle with occiput. Eyes 1.42 times as high as wide, separated by 1.26 times their height, inner orbits very slightly divergent ventrally; malar sulcus superficial but traceable, malar space 0.23 times eye height. Head in frontal view about 1.35 times as wide as high; lower margin of toruli at or slightly below level of lower ocular line; Head in lateral view with lower face receding at an angle of about 90 with respect to upper face. Head reticulate, meshes largest on gena and temple; clypeus finely striate, its anterior margin narrowly and rather deeply emarginate. Antenna ( Fig. 2a 1 ) with scape extending to slightly above level of middle of anterior ocellus; scape about 7.86 times as long as wide; pedicel in lateral view 2.12 times as long as wide; combined length of pedicel plus flagellum 0.88 times head width; both anelli strongly transverse and subequal in length; first funicular segment1.57x as long as apical wide, 3.66x as long as basal wide; 1.22x as long as pedicellus, distal third with a row of longitudinal sensillae; the subsequent funicular segments transverse, the sixth about 1.5 times as wide as long, each segment with one row of longitudinal sensilla and densely covered with short setae; clava 1.72 times as long as wide and about as long as first funicular segment.

Mesosoma about 1.4 times as long as wide, in lateral view moderately strongly bent dorsellum and propodeum sloping at an angle of about 28° with respect to dorsal plane of mesoscutum and scutellum. Pronotum short, distinctly narrower than mesoscutum; pronotal collar about 0.2x as long as mesoscutum, broadly reticulate, its anterior edge distinctly carinate in whole front margin; hind margin of pronotum with a smooth and shiny strip and a row of moderately long setae. Mesoscuturn about 2.1 times as wide as long; notauli superficial and extending about two thirds length of mesoscutum; mesoscutum finely reticulate, meshes rather high, areoles small and only slightly enlarged in median part of sclerite. Scutellum 1.13x as long as wide, almost flat in lateral view; reticulation on scutellum about as strong and coarse as on posterior part of mesoscutum, areoles more or less isodiametric; sculpture on frenum the same as on rest of scutellum, frenal line indicated by one or two rows of smaller and more superficial areoles; scutellum on each side with 5 setae anterior to frenal line; sculpture on inner half of axilla as strong as on scutellum, reticulation on outer half distinctly weaker but still slightly raised. Dorsellum with anterior margin slightly raised its surface with short longitudinal carinulae. Reticulation on meso- and metapleuron about as strong as on mesoscutum, except on upper mesepimeron, which is smooth or only very superficially reticulate. Fore wing ( Fig. 3a ), 2.2 times as long as wide; basal cell bare; costal cell bare on upper surface, lower surface with about 8-11 hairs in distal half, hair line widely spaced medially; wing disc on upper surface with sparse and minute hairs beyond speculum; area between post marginal vein and stigmal vein with 4-5 setae; angle between stigmal vein and postmarginal vein 530; with marginal vein 1.23 times as long as postmarginal vein and 1.1x as long as stigmal vein, the latter 1.1x as long as post marginal vein; stigma small, space between post marginal vein and stigma about twice of length of stigma. Propodeum 0.56 times as long as scutellum; median area twice as wide as long; median carina strong and straight; plica bent inwards in anterior two fifths and strong, but absent posteriorly; inner comer of plica anteriorly with a depression; median area evenly reticulate, its sculpture as strong as on mesoscutum; spiracle separated from posterior edge of metanotum by its diameter, the area between spiracle and plica convex; postspiracular sulcus extremely superficial, almost missing; callus covered with numerous long setae; nucha without setae, forming a lunate, transversely aciculate strip, whose length occupies about one third median length of propodeum.

Petiole as long as wide. Metasoma ( Fig. 4a 1 ) subcircular, 1.1 times as long as wide, about 1.13 times as wide as mesoscutum and about 1.1x as long as mesosoma; gastral tergites dorsally slightly sunken, first tergite occupying 0.28x length of gaster, its hind margin slightly curved backwards medially; tergites 1-4 smooth and shining, tergites 4-6 alutaceous laterally, the syntergite entirely so. Ovipositor sheaths slightly projecting.

Description male. Body length 2.1 mm. Similar to female, except as follows: Head and mesosoma black with metallic blue tints; antenna pale yellow. Legs pale yellow, except coxae concolorous with mesosoma. Petiole and metasoma in basal 1/3 part pale testaceous, other part metallic dark brown to black.

Head having antenna ( Fig. 2a2 ) with scape as long as eye height and about 4.5 times as long as wide, extending above vertex; ventral shiny. plaque extending over upper three fourths of the length of scape; combined length of pedicel plus flagellum 1.1 times as long as head width; pedicel in lateral view 1.7 times as long as wide; flagellum filiform, first funicular segment slightly constricted basally and about 1.13 times as wide as subsequent segments; 1.4 times as long as second segment and 1.16 times as long as pedicel; second funicular segment about 1.25 times as long as wide and 1.33 times as long as sixth segment; sixth funicular segment 1.14 times as long as wide; clava acuminate, 2.33 times as long as wide, 1.3x as long as two preceding funicular segments combined.

Petiole about 0.7 times as wide as long, moderately widening posteriorly. Metasoma ( Fig. 4a 2 ) oblong, about 1.38 times as long as wide, 0.93 times as long as mesosoma, lateral margins narrowing to tip; hind margin of first tergite straight.

Biology. Unknown.

Figures

Figures 1. Heads of Conomorium Masi, 1924: a. C. turhalensis n. sp., b. C. goelbasinensis n. sp., c. C. guenemekensis n. sp., d. C. taslıcayensis n. sp., e. C. helvaciogluae n. sp., f. C. kayserinensis n. sp., g. C. hacipasanensis n. sp.

Figures 2. Antennae of Conomorium Masi, 1924: a. C. turhalensis n. sp., b. C. goelbasinensis n. sp., c. C. guenemekensis n. sp., d. C. taslıcayensis n. sp., e. C. helvaciogluae n. sp., f. C. kayserinensis n. sp., g. C. hacipasanensis n. sp.

Figures 3. Forewings of Conomorium Masi, 1924: a. C. turhalensis n. sp., b. C. goelbasinensis n. sp., c. C. guenemekensis n. sp., d. C. taslıcayensis n. sp., e. C. helvaciogluae n. sp., f. C. kayserinensis n. sp., g. C. hacipasanensis n. sp.

Figures 4. Metasoma of Conomorium Masi, 1924: a. C. turhalensis n. sp., b. C. goelbasinensis n. sp., c. C. guenemekensis n. sp., d. C. taslıcayensis n. sp., e. C. helvaciogluae n. sp., f. C. kayserinensis n. sp., g. C. hacipasanensis n. sp.