Ceranisus votetoda, S. Triapitsyn, 2005

Triapitsyn, Serguei V., 2005, Revision of Ceranisus and the related thrips-attacking entedonine genera (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) of the world, African Invertebrates 46, pp. 261-315 : 297-298

Ceranisus votetoda sp. n.

Figs 42–45

Etymology: “Vot eto da” stands for “wow” in Russian.

Diagnosis: This species seems to be unrelated to C. pacuvius but in some regards is rather more similar to C. barsoomensis sp. n. (in having an elongated body, a long pronotum, and very short wings) and also to C. femoratus (in having a somewhat similar chaetotaxy on the forewing and a short ovipositor).All three species ( C. votetoda sp. n., C. barsoomensis sp. n., and C. femoratus ) have an angulate, broadly V or Y-shaped vertexal suture. Female of C. votetoda sp. n. can be easily distinguished from that of C. barsoomensis sp. n. by a much shorter ovipositor and different proportions of funicle segments, and from female of C. femoratus by a very small F1 without sensilla, a much longer pronotum, and much shorter marginal setae on the forewing.

Description: Female (holotype). Body slender; general body colour brown, appendages light brown.

Vertexal suture angulate (broadly Y-shaped). Antenna ( Fig. 42 ) with scape slender, about 6 x as long as wide; pedicel a little longer than funicle; funicle short, F1 notably smaller than F2 and without sensilla, F2 with 1 sensillum; clava about 2.4 x as long as wide, its two segments subequal in length, with several sensilla.

Mesosoma almost as long as metasoma; pronotum, mesoscutum, scutellum, and axillae with faint cellulate sculpture; pronotum very long for the genus (about as long as scutellum); notauli indistinct, faintly marked by change in sculpturing; midlobe of mesoscutum with 2 pairs of setae. Forewing ( Fig. 43 ) 2.6–2.7 x as long as wide; longest marginal setae very short, less than 1/10 maximal width of forewing; disc hyaline, with numerous, very short setae, more or less uniformly setose behind and beyond base of marginal vein except for a narrow bare area along posterior margin behind base of marginal vein (this bare area not as prominent as in C. menes , the line of hairs demarcating it just a little sinuate); postmarginal vein about as long as stigmal vein. Hind wing about 8 x as long as wide; longest marginal setae equal to wing’s maximal width. Fore- and hind coxae faintly sculptured.

Petiole much wider than long. Ovipositor occupying about 3/5 length of gaster, not exserted; ovipositor length/metatibia length ratio about 1.4:1.

Measurements (n=1, holotype). Body: 867. Antenna: scape: 109; pedicel: 55; F1: 20; F2: 28; clava: 70. Forewing: 500/188; longest marginal seta: 16. Hind wing: 425/55; longest marginal seta: 55. Ovipositor: 221.

Male. Body larger and darker (dark brown, with appendages brown to light brown), with shorter pronotum, and also wings notably broader than in female; otherwise similar to female except for normal sexually dimorphic features, as follows. Antenna ( Fig. 44 ) with scape strongly dilated, smooth, about 1.7 x as long as wide; funicle as in female, clava compact, a little longer than funicle, about 1.7 x as long as wide. Genitalia as in Fig. 45 .

Holotype: Female on slide, labelled: 1. “ 29.21S 117.20E, 15 km N by E Mt. Singleton WA, 28-29 Sept. 1981 I. D. Naumann, J. C. Cardale ”; 2. “caught in yellow tray; ex alcohol collection”; 3. “Mounted at UCR/ ERM by V. V. Berezovskiy 2004 in Canada balsam. ANIC”; 4. (red) “ Ceranisus votetoda S. Triapitsyn HOLOTYPE ^” [ ANIC].

Paratype: AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: same data as the holotype, 1ơ on slide (also labelled as “ơ Ceranisus nr pacuvius Walk. det. Z. Boucek, 1986”) [ANIC].

Host: Unknown.

Figures

Figs 42–45. Ceranisus votetoda sp. n.: (42, 43) female (holotype): (42) antenna, (43) forewing; (44, 45) male (paratype): (44) antenna, (45) genitalia. Scale lines = 0.1 mm.