Platygaster delyi, 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 : 294-295

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.12585869
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12585926
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6D7187C8-FFFB-F10C-FD78-FE1EFDE35307
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Platygaster delyi
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Platygaster delyi View in CoL sp. n.

( Figs 12–15 View Figs 12–15 )

Female – Length: 1.3 mm. Black, antennae and legs excluding coxae dark reddish-brown; A2, both ends of fore tibia, base of mid and hind tibiae, and base of all tarsi slightly lighter. Head in dorsal view ( Fig. 12 View Figs 12–15 ) 2.0 times as wide as long, nearly 1.2 times as wide as mesosoma; occiput finely and somewhat irregulary transversely striated; vertex reticulate-coriaceous and with transverse striation between ocelli; frons smooth, slightly sculptured along inner orbits and with distinct oblique striation above antennal insertions. Head in frontal view 1.25 times as wide as high; antenna ( Fig. 13 View Figs 12–15 ) with A1 0.8 times as long as height of head; A9 fully 1.1 times as long as wide. Mesosoma 1.5 times as long as wide, very slightly higher than wide. Sides of pronotum smooth except in upper anterior corner. Mesoscutum sparsely hairy, smooth, reticulate-coriaceous in about anterior third, notauli nearly complete; mid lobe posteriorly narrow, slightly prolonged to base of scutellum; scuto-scutellar grooves with a few long hairs. Mesopleuron smooth. Scutellum ( Fig. 14 View Figs 12–15 ) smooth, moderately hairy, evenly rounded. Metapleuron with pilosity all over. Propodeal carinae short, widely separated, without sculpture between them. Fore wing hardly overreaching tip of metasoma, 2.4 times as long as wide, almost clear, with fine and dense microtrichia; marginal cilia very short. Hind wing 5.3 times as long as wide; marginal cilia 0.25 width of wing. Metasoma ( Fig. 15 View Figs 12–15 ) 1.2 times as long as head and mesosoma combined, hardly as wide as mesosoma. T1 smooth, with two longitudinal carinae. T2 with basal foveae almost smooth, between them striated to hardly 0.2 length of tergite. T3 smooth, with a transverse row of rather superficially implanted hairs. T4 and T6 with spots of faint rugosity and with some scattered hairs. T5 with distinct rugosity over most of surface and with a few hairs. Sternite 2 without hump.

Material examined: Holotype female: North Korea, Sa Gam , 30–40 km N of Pyongyan, water-basin, wood, 5.VII.1977, netting in grasses. DELY and DRASKOVITS leg. Paratype: 1 female, North Korea, Sa Gam , 30 km N of Pyongyang, 24. V .1970. S. MAHUNKA and H. STEINMANN leg. Preserved in HNHM .

Named after one of the collectors. P. delyi is superficially similar to P. iolas WALKER, 1835 , but this species has strongly striated occiput, more slender preapical segments of flagellum, and differently sculptured metasoma than in P. delyi , cf. VLUG (1985).