Saphonecrus naiquanlini, Melika & Ács & Bechtold, 2004
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publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.12586486 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/CC6387DD-037E-FFAD-FDCD-672DFCEF66A0 |
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Felipe |
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scientific name |
Saphonecrus naiquanlini |
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sp. nov. |
Saphonecrus naiquanlini sp. n.
( Figs 42–52 View Figs 42–52 )
Description – Female. Head uniformly dark brown to black; pronotum, scutum and scutellum black; mesopleuron, propodeum dark brown, antennae and legs uniformly light brown; wing veins light brown; metasoma reddish brown. Head from above 2.2 times as wide as long ( Fig. 42 View Figs 42–52 ), 1.3 times as broad as high and subquadrate in front view, as broad as thorax, gena not broadened behind eye ( Fig. 43 View Figs 42–52 ); POL 3.5 times as long as OOL, OOL slightly longer than diameter of lateral ocellus; vertex, frons and gena delicately coriaceous; interocellar area and occiput with very weak, delicate dense transverse striae; lower face and gena with delicate striae irradiating from clypeus to eye and antennal socket ( Fig. 43 View Figs 42–52 ); malar space 0.5 times as long as height of eye ( Fig. 43 View Figs 42–52 ); lower face, clypeus and malar space with dense uniform white setae, frons with very sparse few white setae. Antenna 13-segmented, flagellomeres slightly broadened to F11, F1 1.6 times as long as pedicel and 1.3 times as long as F2 and nearly equal F3; F11 1.3 times as long as F10 ( Fig. 44 View Figs 42–52 ). Mesosoma 1.25–1.3 times as long as high from lateral view ( Fig. 46 View Figs 42–52 ). Pronotum with uniform dense pubescence, dorsally delicately coriaceous, with stronger sculpturing laterally, with strong lateral pronotal carina ( Fig. 46 View Figs 42–52 ). Scutum from above 1.25 times as broad as long, with weak, interrupted transverse rugae, interspaces between rugae delicately coriaceous; notauli complete, narrow and distinct, slightly broader posteriorly and narrowed down anteriorly; median scutellar line present in form of impression at the main base of scutum; parapsidal lines present, reach to 1/2 of scutum ( Fig. 47 View Figs 42–52 ). Mesopleuron with delicate transverse striae reach to the end of mesopleuron in ventral half, while upper half posteriorly smooth and shiny ( Fig. 46 View Figs 42–52 ). Scutellum slightly longer than broad, with sparse white setae, dull rugose, scutellar foveae narrow, distinctly delimited from disk of scutellum, separated by a central narrow carina, bottom of foveae smooth ( Fig. 47 View Figs 42–52 ). Propodeum finely coriaceous, with uniform short dense white setae laterally, lateral propodeal carinae straight, slightly diverging towards metascutellum, central area smooth, without setae; metascutellum smooth, shining. Fore wing margin ciliate; radial cell open, 3.0 times as long as broad, areolet distinct, small, closed, second abscissa of Rs only slightly curved not reaching wing margin, as well as R 1 ( Fig. 48 View Figs 42–52 ). Tarsal claws with basal lobe. Petiole sulcate; metasomal terga 2+3 without minute punctures posteriorly, prominent part of ventral spine of hypopygium short, nearly as long as broad ( Fig. 50 View Figs 42–52 ). Length 1.9–2.3 mm.
Male. Similar to female, except frons, lower face, pronotum, scutum and scutellum with very dense white pubescence; antennae and legs yellow; antenna 15-segmented, F1 curved and slightly expanded apically, F7–F9 broadest flagellomeres, F10 to F13 narrower ( Fig. 45 View Figs 42–52 ); fore wing narrower, with longer margin cilia, areolet slightly larger ( Fig. 49 View Figs 42–52 ); metasoma in Fig. 51 View Figs 42–52 .
Type material – Holotype female: both labels in Chinese language ( Fig. 52 View Figs 42–52 ) “ Zhejiang, Mt. Mogan, 450 m ”, “ 1964.VII.7., coll. Dingxi Liao ”, and a red label in English language “ HOLOTYPE. Female. Saphonecrus naiquanlini Melika, Ács & Bechtold , desig. G. Melika 2003”. One female and 2 male paratypes with the same collecting labels as the holotype . Holotype female and one paratype male in the Institute of Zoology of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing, China and 1 female and 1 male paratypes in the collection of the Systematic Parasitoid Laboratory, Kőszeg, Hungary .
Etymology – The species is named in honour of Dr. Nai-quan Lin, Professor of the Biological
Control Research Institute, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (Fuzhou, Fujian, China). Host cynipid galls are unknown .
Diagnosis – Closely related to S. diversus BELIZIN, 1968 , however, S. naiquanlini differs in the F1 of female antenna only 1.3 times as long as F2, F11 1.3 times as long as F10, subsequent flagellomeres nearly of the same length; the mesopleuron striate, the median scutellar line is very short, in a form of a depression at the main base of the scutum; the central propodeal area is smooth and shiny, without pubescence; the base of terga 2+3 without a line of sparse white setae. In S. diversus F1 almost nearly 2.0 times as long as F2, F11 2.0 times as long as F10, subsequent flagellomeres shortening to the end of the antenna; the mesopleuron is shiny and smooth; the scutum with a distinct median scutellar line; the propodeum is uniformly pubescent; the base of terga 2+3 with a line of sparse white setae.
Distribution – China, Zhejiang.
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Acknowledgements – We thanks to Dr. CHAODONG ZHU and Mr. WEN-QUAN ZHEN (Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) for organizing a collecting trip for us at the Xiaolongmen Biological Station. We appreciate Ms. ERIKA NAGY (University of West Hungary, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Mosonmagyaróvár, Hungary) for taking SEM photographs for us. Drawings were made by Ms. MÁRIA BECHTOLD.
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