Synopeas koreana, Buhl, 2006

Buhl, P. N., 2006, Taxonomical And Distributional Notes On New And Known Palaearctic Platygastrid Species (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 52 (3), pp. 287-311 : 307-308

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.12585869

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12585953

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Synopeas koreana
status

sp. nov.

Synopeas koreana View in CoL sp. n.

( Figs 45–49 View Figs 45–49 )

Female – Length: 1.0– 1.2 mm. Black, A1–A6 and legs yellow; A7–A10, coxae, apical half of hind femur and of hind tibia, and last segment of all tarsi more or less darkened. Head from above ( Fig. 45 View Figs 45–49 ) 1.7 times as wide as long, very slightly wider than mesosoma, distinctly and uniformly reticulate-coriaceous all over (not transversely so); occipital carina complete but not strong. Lateral ocellus fully twice as long as OOL. Head in frontal view 1.1 times as wide as high; antenna ( Fig. 46 View Figs 45–49 ) with A1 0.9 times as long as height of head. Mesosoma 1.5 times as long as wide, almost 1.2 times as high as wide. Sides of pronotum smooth, with rugosity in upper anterior corner. Mesoscutum sparsely hairy, uniformly and slightly finer reticulate-coriaceous than head, without notauli; hind margin medially with a tiny, unmodified prolongation, at sides with numerous long hairs; scuto-scutellar grooves wide, much transverse. Mesopleuron smooth. Scutellum ( Fig. 47 View Figs 45–49 ) smooth but with denser hairs than mesoscutum, along middle with a keel which ends in a vertical, hardly semitransparent lamella. Metapleuron with pilosity all over. Propodeal carinae moderately high, slightly curved, faintly semitransparent. Fore wing clear, 0.8 times as long as body, 2.3 times as long as wide, with moderately dense microtrichia, without marginal cilia. Hind wing 6.3 times as long as wide; marginal cilia 0.4 width of wing. Mesosoma ( Fig. 48 View Figs 45–49 ) 0.8 times as long as head and mesosoma combined, as wide as mesosoma, 1.4 times as wide as high. Hind margin of T3–T5, and most of T6, reticulate-coriaceous; apical tergites with a few hairs.

Male – Length: 1.0 mm. Antenna ( Fig. 49 View Figs 45–49 ) with very short flagellar pubescence.

Material examined: Holotype female: North Korea, South Pyongan, Chang-lyong san, 50 km N of Pyongyan, 13.VIII.1971. S. HORVATOVICH & J. PAPP leg. Paratypes: 1 female, North Korea, Gang-von, district On-dzong, Kum-gang san, near Hotel Go-song , 250 m, 5.VIII.1975, J. PAPP & A. VOJNITS leg.; 1 male, North Korea, Mt. Pektusan , environs Sam-zi-yan hotel, wood, 18–20.VII.1977, netting in grasses. DELY & DRASKOVITS leg. Preserved in HNHM.

Runs to S. gracilicornis KIEFFER, 1916 and S. bifoveatus (KIEFFER, 1912) in KIEFFER’ s (1926) key, but differs from S. gracilicornis in having less elongate female A4, and from S. bifoveatus in shape of scuto-scutellar grooves.

Eight further specimens from the environs of Sam-zi-yan (1 female, 7 males) are possibly conspecific with types though they have distinct scutellar spine and fore wings with marginal cilia.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Platygastridae

Genus

Synopeas

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