Pseudoceraphron fijensis Desjardins, 2007

Desjardins, Christopher A., 2007, Phylogenetics and classification of the world genera of Diparinae (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), Zootaxa 1647 (1), pp. 1-88 : 76-77

Pseudoceraphron fijensis Desjardins , New Species

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Type Information: Holotype female ( QM) “ Fiji: Kadavu. Mt, Korogatule , 300m, near Matasawalevu, 4–7

July 1987, G. Monteith /Pyrethrum/Logs, Trees.” Paratype female ( QM) “ Fiji: Viti Levu , Nadarivatu Reserve, 11 July 1987, G. Monteith, QM Berlese No. 775, 17.34’S 177.57’E, Rainforest, 800m, sieved litter.”

Description: Female. 1.4 mm. Color: Head, pronotum, scape, clava light brownish yellow; pedicel, A5– 7, F1 brown; A1–4, eye white; pronotum and scutum brownish orange; scutum with tranverse tear-drop shaped bands lateral to notauli; propodeum brown; mesosoma laterally brown; legs mostly brownish orange, metatibia off-white; GT1–6 brown dorsally, becoming brownish orange ventro-laterally; GT7, ovipositor sheath mostly white, apex of ovipositor light brown. Head: Subtriangular in frontal view, 2X as wide as high; eyes bare; occipital margin carinate, carina at lateral ocelli; head smooth; ocellocular: postocellar: mid-to-lateral ocellus distance: lateral ocellus diameter about 9.3:8:3.3:1; scrobe present only as indistinct, shallow, gently sloping depression; interantennal area carinate, carina not extending dorsally into scrobal depression; toruli separated by 1.2 torulus diameters; scape about 0.8X eye height; scape with strong ventral carina; scape laterally bowed outward; A1 about 2.5X as broad as long to A7 about 2X as long as broad; ratio of scape: pedicel: A1: A2: A3: A4: A5: A6: A7: F1 about 28:10:1:1:1:1:1:1.5:2:2.5; clypeus well delimited. Mesosoma: Dorsally mostly smooth, scutellum finely coriaceous; mostly bare, except for 2 posterior scutellar bristles; ratio of pronotum (partially obscured): scutum: scutellum: propodeum about 1.4:3:1:1.1; pronotum (visible portion) 4.5X wider than long; scutum 2.6X wider than long; notauli transverse anteriorly, turning posteriorly at anterior margin of tear-drop shaped black markings and proceeding parallel to posterior scutal margin; notaular grooves smooth; axilla absent; scutellum flat, emarginated medially by scutum, at same level as propodeum; posterior scutellar margin smooth; metanotum absent; propodeum coriaceous, raised medially for insertion of petiole with longitudinal carina delimiting lateral edge of raised area; plica strong, propodeum strongly depressed lateral to plica, with single bristle pair on lateral edge of depressed area; postspiracular area smooth, flat, facing postero-laterally; sulcus between postspiracular area and metapleuron vertical; spiracle not visible; callus absent; prepectus not visible; mesepimeron smooth, slightly depressed (mesepimeron = femoral depression), diamond-shaped, 5.3X as high as wide; metapleuron smooth, depressed medially; one metatibial spur, 1.5X width of metatibia at point of insertion; metabasitarsus about 2.3X as long as wide, about 0.3X length of remaining tarsi; metacoxa without transverse striae, bare; meso- and metatibia spinose; apterous, forewing and hindwing apparently absent. Metasoma: 5.7X length of mesosoma; petiole smooth, barely visible, about 6X as broad as long; propodeum mostly smooth but coriaceous antero-dorsally; propodeum with longitudinal invaginations just posterior to lateral margins of petiole insertion; ratio of GT1: GT2–6: GT7: ovipositor sheaths about 5.4:2.6:1.3:1; metasoma dorsally with sparse, fine, white setae; ovipositor smooth and pointed.

Male: Unknown.

Etymology: Named after the island of Fiji, on which the specimen was collected.

Distribution: Fiji.

Hosts: Unknown.

Figures

FIGURES 71–72. Lateral habitus views: 71, Pseudoceraphron fijensis; 72, P. burwelli.