Tetrastichus johnnoyesi, Hansson & Schmidt, 2020

Hansson, Christer & Schmidt, Stefan, 2020, A revision of European species of the genus Tetrastichus Haliday (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) using integrative taxonomy, Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 59177-59177 : 59177

Tetrastichus johnnoyesi sp. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/API_Public/specimen?ids=BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-D08; catalogNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-D08 ; recordNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-D08; recordedBy: J.S. Noyes; individualID: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-D08; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Tetrastichusjohnnoyesi; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Eulophidae; genus: Tetrastichinae; taxonRemarks: Holotype deposited in NHM; Location: country: Romania; decimalLatitude: 47.298; decimalLongitude: 25.368; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; institutionCode: NHM; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/API_Public/specimen?ids=BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-D12; catalogNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-D12 ; recordNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-D12; recordedBy: J.S. Noyes; individualID: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-D12; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Tetrastichusjohnnoyesi; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Eulophidae; genus: Tetrastichinae; Location: country: Romania; decimalLatitude: 47.298; decimalLongitude: 25.368; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/API_Public/specimen?ids=BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-D10; catalogNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-D10 ; recordNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-D10; recordedBy: J.S. Noyes; individualID: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-D10; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Tetrastichusjohnnoyesi; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Eulophidae; genus: Tetrastichinae; Location: country: Romania; decimalLatitude: 47.298; decimalLongitude: 25.368; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/API_Public/specimen?ids=BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-D09; catalogNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-D09 ; recordNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-D09; recordedBy: J.S. Noyes; individualID: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-D09; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Tetrastichusjohnnoyesi; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Eulophidae; genus: Tetrastichinae; Location: country: Romania; decimalLatitude: 47.298; decimalLongitude: 25.368; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Description

FEMALE holotype (Fig. 33). Body length 2.5 mm (paratypes 2.2 mm). Head. Width/length in dorsal view 2.1, width/length in frontal view 1.3, POL/OOL 2.1, widths head/mesosoma 1.1, mouth width/malar space 1.1, malar space/eye height 0.8. Antenna. Scape length/eye height 1.1, pedicel+flagellum length/mesosoma width 1.1, length/width F1, F2, F3 2.0, 1.9, 1.7, clava length/width 3.2, lengths pedicel/F1 0.7, lengths F1/F2 1.1, F1/F3 1.2, lengths F1, F2, F3/clava 0.6, 0.5, 0.5, widths F1/pedicel (dorsal view) 1.0, lengths antennal spicule/C3 0.3. Mesosoma. Length/width 1.7, mesoscutal mid-lobe length/width 1.0 (width measured in anterior part), mid-lobe with median groove, with four adnotaular setae on either side, length of mesoscutum/mesoscutellum (measured medially) 1.3, lengths dorsellum/propodeum 0.6, mesoscutellum length/width 1.0, length/width of enclosed space between submedian grooves 3.3, distance between SMG/distance between SMG and SLG 1.1, propodeum with strong reticulation, propodeal callus with four setae. Fore wing. Costal cell length/width 8.2, lengths costal cell/marginal vein 1.0, lengths marginal/stigmal veins 2.4. Gaster. Ovate, length/width 1.8, lengths gaster/mesosoma 1.1, Gt7 length/width 0.5, length of longest cercal seta/next longest seta 1.4, longest cercal seta straight, ovipositor sheaths not reaching apex of Gt7.

Colour. Body golden-green, scape yellowish-brown, pedicel brownish, flagellum dark brown, tegulae black with metallic tinge, wings hyaline with venation yellowish-white, coxae and femora concolorous with body, trochanters black, tibiae and tarsi yellowish-brown.

MALE (Fig. 33). Body length 2.0 mm. Head. Width/length in dorsal view 2.3, width/length in frontal view 1.3, mouth width/malar space 1.1, widths head/mesosoma 1.1. Antenna. F1-F4 without basal whorls of setae, scape length/eye height 1.1, scape length/width 3.0, ventral plaque placed in central part of scape, lengths of ventral plaque/scape 0.7, pedicel+flagellum length/mesosoma width 1.4, length/width F1, F2, F3, F4 1.2, 1.9, 1.9, 1.9, clava length/width 3.8, lengths pedicel/F1 1.1, lengths F1/F2 0.6, F1/F3 0.6, F1/F4 0.6, lengths F1, F2, F3, F4/clava 0.3, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5.

Colour. Scape black. Otherwise similar to female.

Diagnosis

Mesoscutellum with ratio length/width of enclosed space between submedian grooves 3.3; antennal clava 3.2 × as long as wide.

Etymology

Named after John S. Noyes (NHM), collector of the type specimens.

Distribution

France and Romania.

Notes

Holotype and paratypes deposited NHM.

Host

Unknown.

Additional paratypes

3♀ 1♂: 2♀ 1♂ with same label data as holotype (NHM, MZLU); 1♀ "FRANCE, B. du Rhone, Fonscolombe, 7.vii.1990, M.W.R. de V. Graham" (NHM).