Pleurotroppopsis maculatipennis Girault, 1913

Cao, Huan-Xi, Dale-Skey, Natalie, Burwell, Chris J. & Zhu, Chao-Dong, 2022, Review of the genus Pleurotroppopsis Girault (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) with interspecific phylogenetic relationships based on morphological characters, Zootaxa 5190 (4), pp. 451-484 : 470

Pleurotroppopsis maculatipennis Girault, 1913

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Pleurotroppopsis maculatipennis Girault, 1913: 149 . Holotype ♀, QMB (Hy. 1651, examined).

Diagnosis. FEMALE. Antenna brown except scape with proximal part white. Fore wing with a large dusky round spot below apex of MV and STV, with small speculum ( Fig. 12c ). Legs with white tarsomeres and blackish claws, and tibiae whitish apically ( Figs 12b, 12c ). MLM almost smooth posteriorly, with a reduced median groove that is difficult to discern. Scutellum between sublateral grooves with engraved transverse striation medially. Gt 1 with eye-like patches brown.

MALE. Unknown.

Material examined. Type material. Holotype ♀: card-mounted mesosoma and metasoma with labels “ Pleurotroppopsis maculatipennis Girault , Type, Bouček 1976 ”; slide-mounted antennae and head with labels “1651” ( QMB, Hy. 1651).

Biology. Unknown.

Distribution. Australia: Queensland, Nelson (Cairns) ( Girault 1913).

Remarks. Pleurotroppopsis maculatipennis was described based on a single female collected by sweeping and has not been recorded since. The mesosoma and metasoma of the holotype are card-mounted, and the broken antennae (without the basal 1/2 of the scape) and head fragments are slide-mounted. Head features could not be discerned due to the fragmentation of the head of the holotype. Thus, it is unknown whether there are differences in the head characters between P. japonica and P. maculatipennis . Pleurotroppopsis maculatipennis is very similar to females of P. japonica , and additional material is required to establish if they are separate species. In the meantime, we have included differences based on the holotype of P. maculatipennis in the above diagnosis and the key to species for reference. See remarks under P. japonica .

Figures

FIGURE 12. Pleurotroppopsis maculatipennis Girault, holotype female: a, mesosoma in dorsal view; b, mesosoma in lateral view; c, fore wing in dorsal view; d, gaster in dorsal view; e, antenna; f, labels. Scale bar: 0.25 mm.