Teasienna heratyi, Mitroiu, 2017

Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan, 2017, Revision of world Austroterobiinae and Parasaphodinae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae), parasitoids of giant scales (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Monophlebidae), Zootaxa 4301 (1), pp. 1-63 : 45

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4301.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:67A78566-A4FD-4E37-96E9-DCC4CCF321E5
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6038620
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4D3D879A-FF8A-FF83-FF16-C783F81FF889
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Teasienna heratyi
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Teasienna heratyi sp. nov.

( Figs 111–120 View FIGURES 111, 112 View FIGURES 113 – 120 )

Diagnosis. Female (male unknown): flagellum progressively lighter towards pale yellow clava ( Figs 115, 120 View FIGURES 113 – 120 ); fore wing uniformly and broadly infumate ( Figs 111 View FIGURES 111, 112 , 119 View FIGURES 113 – 120 ); body setation long (longest genal setae about 1/2 length of tegula) and brown ( Figs 113–116 View FIGURES 113 – 120 ); antenna ( Figs 115, 120 View FIGURES 113 – 120 ) strongly clavate, clava about twice as wide as F1; funicular segments strongly transverse; mesosoma length about 1.3× width.

Teasienna heratyi can be easily separated from all previously described species, mostly by the conspicuously and broadly infumate fore wings ( Figs 111 View FIGURES 111, 112 , 119 View FIGURES 113 – 120 ), long brown body setae ( Figs 113–116 View FIGURES 113 – 120 ), lighter colouration of the head, mesosoma and clava ( Fig. 111 View FIGURES 111, 112 , 120 View FIGURES 113 – 120 ), and larger body size of females. Additionally, from T. eirene it differs mainly in having the antenna much more strongly clavate, with the distal funicular segments strongly transverse ( Figs 115, 120 View FIGURES 113 – 120 ).

Material examined. Type material. Holotype ♀ (deposited in UCR) [entire except right front leg beyond coxa missing and left front leg glued aside; on triangular card]. KENYA: ‘ Kenya : Kakamega D. Yala R. Nature Res. MT, 0°12’N 34°52’ E, 1450 m, 20.iii.2002; R. Snelling’, ‘ UCRCENT 00486814 ’. GoogleMaps

Description. Female. Body length: 2 mm.

Colour. Head dark brown except clypeus and malar region lighter ( Figs 113–118 View FIGURES 113 – 120 ). Mesosoma dorsally dark brown except pronotum and propodeum lighter ( Figs 116, 118 View FIGURES 113 – 120 ); membranous area between pronotum and fore coxa whitish ( Fig. 117 View FIGURES 113 – 120 ); mesopleuron ( Fig. 117 View FIGURES 113 – 120 ) with upper mesepisternum dark brown, lower mesepisternum and mesepimeron lighter. Gaster brown, paler ventrally ( Figs 111, 112 View FIGURES 111, 112 ). Eyes and ocelli whitish ( Fig. 114 View FIGURES 113 – 120 ). Antenna ( Figs 115, 120 View FIGURES 113 – 120 ) with scape, pedicel and anelli light brown; F1 brown, the following funicular segments progressively lighter towards pale yellow clava. Mandibles light brown, teeth reddish-brown ( Fig. 113 View FIGURES 113 – 120 ). Legs ( Fig. 111 View FIGURES 111, 112 ) with coxae and femora light brown; trochanters, tibiae and tarsi, except for brown pretarsi, pale yellow. Wings uniformly infumate, tegula and venation brown ( Figs 111 View FIGURES 111, 112 , 119 View FIGURES 113 – 120 ). Body and wing setation brown ( Figs 113–116, 119 View FIGURES 113 – 120 ).

Sculpture. Head and mesosoma smooth to finely coriaceous-alutaceous ( Figs 113–116 View FIGURES 113 – 120 ); gaster smooth.

Structure. Head. Longest genal setae about 1/2 the length of tegula. Head in profile with face slightly convex at toruli level ( Fig. 115 View FIGURES 113 – 120 ). Lower margins of toruli below lower eye margins ( Fig. 113 View FIGURES 113 – 120 ). Scape reaching median ocellus ( Fig. 113 View FIGURES 113 – 120 ). Antenna strongly clavate, clava twice as wide as F1 (9.0:4.5) ( Figs 115, 120 View FIGURES 113 – 120 ). Eyes oval, inner margins subparallel ( Fig. 113 View FIGURES 113 – 120 ); eye in lateral view not distinctly inclined relative to vertical axis of head ( Fig. 115 View FIGURES 113 – 120 ). Head width 2.65× length in dorsal view (53:20) and about 1.2× height in frontal view (53:44). POL about 1.3× OOL (12:9). Eye height about 1.3× length (24:19) and 1.6× malar space (24:15). Scape length about 1.2× eye height (28:24). Head width 1.15× length of pedicel plus flagellum (53:46). F1 width about 1.3× length (4.5:3.5); F5 width about 1.8× length (8.0:4.5); clava length about 1.4× width (13:9).

Mesosoma. Scutellar spine large, but hardly visible among dense setae ( Fig. 116 View FIGURES 113 – 120 ). Propodeum ( Fig. 118 View FIGURES 113 – 120 ) smooth, median carina very strong; spiracles very large, oval. Fore wing ( Fig. 119 View FIGURES 113 – 120 ) with very small speculum (effaced by setae on ventral side of the wing), otherwise completely setose; parastigma with hyaline break. Mesosoma length about 1.3× width (58:45), width 1.15× height (45:39). Mesoscutum width 2.25× length (45:20). Mesoscutellum length subequal to width (25:24). Propodeum length about 0.4× mesoscutellum length (9:25). Fore wing length about 2.3× width (150:65). MV length about 2.9× width (13.0:4.5); SV about 1.9× MV (25:13); PV about 3.4× MV (44:13).

Gaster. Short ovate, about as long as head plus mesosoma ( Figs 111, 112 View FIGURES 111, 112 ); length 1.65× width (73:44).

Male. Unknown.

Distribution. Kenya.

Biology. Unknown.

Etymology. Named in honour of Dr. John Heraty (UCR), for his contribution to the systematics of Chalcidoidea .