Rohatina inermis Boucek , 1954

Haas, Michael, Baur, Hannes, Schweizer, Tanja, Monje, Juan Carlos, Moser, Marina, Bigalk, Sonia & Krogmann, Lars, 2021, Tiny wasps, huge diversity - A review of German Pteromalidae with new generic and species records (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 77092-77092 : 77092

Rohatina inermis Boucek, 1954

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BOLD Sample ID: SMNS_37345 ; recordedBy: L. Krogmann, T. Kothe; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry mounted; associatedSequences: GenBank: OL538068 ; Taxon: scientificName: Rohatina inermis Bouček, 1954; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Germany; countryCode: DE; stateProvince: Baden-Württemberg; locality: Strohgaeu , Markgroeningen , EVS-Grundstueck im Leudelsbachtal ; verbatimElevation: 270 m; decimalLatitude: 9.0864; decimalLongitude: 48.9147; Identification : identifiedBy: L. Krogmann; dateIdentified: 2014; Event : samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 5/ 6 - 19/6/2011; Record Level: datasetID: SMNS_Hym_Pte_000282; institutionCode: SMNS Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BOLD Sample ID: SMNS_37853 ; recordedBy: L. Krogmann, T. Kothe; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry mounted; associatedSequences: GenBank: OL538090 ; Taxon: scientificName: Rohatina inermis Bouček, 1954; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Germany; countryCode: DE; stateProvince: Baden-Württemberg; locality: Strohgaeu , Markgroeningen , EVS-Grundstueck im Leudelsbachtal ; verbatimElevation: 270 m; decimalLatitude: 9.0864; decimalLongitude: 48.9147; Identification : identifiedBy: H. Baur; dateIdentified: 2014; Event : samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 1/ 8 - 15/8/2011; Record Level: datasetID: SMNS_Hym_Pte_000790; institutionCode: SMNS

Description

Images

Fig. 4

Description of males

Colour: Head and mesosoma: mostly green, partly green-bluish to green bronze, with metallic lustre; setae on head and mesosoma: generally whitish, inconspicuous, some setae on top of head and lateral sides of anterior mesosoma fuscous to brown; tegula: yellow to testaceous; setae on callus of propodeum: whitish. Scape: uniformly yellow to slightly testaceous; pedicel: yellow to slightly testaceous; flagellum: fuscous. Forewing: hyaline; forewing venation: lightly testaceous; setae on forewing: fuscous; hind wing: hyaline. Procoxa and mesocoxa: infuscate, lighter on distal tip; metacoxa: brown with metallic tinge; trochanters: yellow; femora: uniformly yellow; tibiae: uniformly yellow; tarsae: uniformly yellow. Petiole: dark brown; gaster: gradient from brown to dark brown from anterior to posterior; gastral terga: without metallic tinge.

Sculpture: Head in frontal view: reticulate with moderately high septa; clypeus: striate; area between clypeus and malar sulcus: clypeal striation extending half distance, other half finely reticulate. Mesoscutum: finely reticulate, meshes moderately low, areoles slightly enlarged medially; mesoscutellum: finely engraved reticulation, finer mesh than on mesoscutum; frenum: finely engraved reticulation, mesh markedly larger than on mesoscutellum; axilla: finely engraved reticulation, about as strongly as on central part of mesoscutellum; prepectus upper triangular area: smooth; upper mesepimeron: smooth with hints of engraved reticulation; upper mesepisternum: reticulate, about as strongly as on mesoscutum; metapleuron: finely reticulate, less strongly than on mesepisternum. Procoxa: alutaceous; mesocoxa: alutaceous; metacoxa: alutaceous finely reticulate. Median area of propodeum: strongly, slightly irregularly reticulate, stronger than on mesoscutum, with few coarse longitudinal ridges; inner corner of anterior plica: with a large depression, flat surface smooth; nucha: strongly reticulate, equally in form and strength to median area of propodeum; callus of propodeum: coarsely irregularly reticulate; paraspiracular sulcus: fairly smooth directly around spiracle, posteriorly with irregular rugae. Petiole in dorsal view: smooth; gastral terga: smooth and shining, from second tergum posteriorly alutaceous.

Shape and structure: Head in frontal view: subtrapezoid with rounded vertex; gena in frontal view: rather straight; temple in dorsal view: obtuse; occipital carina: absent; torulus position with respect to lower ocular line: distinctly above; lower face in lateral view: rather rounded, with slight bulge on lower face below toruli; receding with respect to upper face: weakly; scrobe: narrow, moderately deep; malar sulcus: superficial, traceable only through change in sculpture; clypeus anterior margin: produced with straight anterior margin, slightly embedded in comparison to frontal pane of head, without a depression above emarginate edge; tentorial pit: indistinct; mouth extension: enlarged; mandibular formula: 3-not assessable. Antenna: Antennal formula: 11263; scape reaching: close to vertex; flagellum: filiform; first anellus: strongly transverse; second anellus: strongly transverse; first funicular segment: conical, quadrate, slightly tapering proximally; following funicular segements: conical, quadrate to slightly elongate, tapering less proximally than first segment;setae on flagellum: loosely clothed with forward-pointed erect setae, length of setae as long as breadth of flagellar segments; number of rows of longitudinal sensilla on first funicular segment: 1; on sixth: 1. Mesosoma in lateral view: moderately bent; propodeum in lateral view in same plane as mesoscutellum; pronotum breadth with respect to mesoscutum breadth: distinctly narrower; pronotum collar: slightly sloping upwards, well defined; its length with respect to mesoscutum length: slightly more than one sixth; its anterior margin: sharp carina throughout; pronotum posterior margin: shiny, finely reticulate towards lateral edges; notauli: superficial; reaching: two-thirds along mesoscutum; mesoscutellum in lateral view: almost flat, only slightly arched; mesoscutellum in posterior view: flat; mesoscutellum posterior margin projection: level of anterior margin of metascutellum; mesoscutellum posterior margin in posterior view: appearing ecarinate; frenal line: indicated through row of deeper areoles; prepectus upper triangular area: uniform, without separating carina; upper mesepimeron: almost parallel sides, only tapering at base of mesopleuron; propodeum anterior plica: strong, running along median area of propodeum; posterior plica: present, joining anterior plica; orientation of posterior plica: strongly converging in front of nucha, continuing almost parallel along its side; median carina of propodeum: present, but sometimes incomplete, may bifurcate from base of propodeum; nucha: large and convex, delimited from median area by shallow wide furrow; spiracle: oval, not nearly touching anterior margin of propodeum; size: moderate to small; callus pilosity: densely pilose; paraspiracular sulcus: hardly developed, indicated through smooth surface. Forewing: Forewing apex with respect to apex of gaster when folded back: exceeding close to 1/5th its length; basal cell number of setae: few up to 4 distally; basal setal line: patchy with 3-6 setae; cubital setal line: incomplete; with 5-7 setae; costal cell pilosity on dorsal side: bare; costal setal line: somewhat complete; speculum on dorsal side: bare, extending close to 1/3rd the length of the marginal vein, widely open below; wing disc: moderately pilose; marginal setae: present, from as long as the length of setae on wing disc on anterior wing margin to about double the length on posterior margin; stigma: oval to almost round, moderate size; uncus: short. Femora: moderately slender; metatibia: gradually widening towards apex; metacoxa pilosity dorsal: bare. Petiole in dorsal view: subconical, widening towards base of gaster; in ventral view: open; gaster in dorsal view: ovate, slightly acuminate; gastral terga: convex, sometimes weakly sunken; posterior margin of first gastral tergum: entire; first gastral tergum reaching: 1/3rd of gaster.

Measurements (n=2): Length and body ratios: Body length: 1.38-1.55 mm; mesoscutum breadth: 399-465 µm. Head breadth to head height: 1.40-1.41; head breadth to length: 2.07-2.19; head breadth to mesoscutum breadth: 1.21-1.29; upper face height to head height: 0.59; POL to OOL: 1.67-1.70; eye height to breadth: 1.37-1.39; eye distance to height: 1.30-1.36; temple length to eye height: 0.12-0.18; malar space to eye height: 0.32-0.37. Antenna length, including scape to head breadth: 1.43-1.48; scape length to eye height: 0.81-0.85; pedicel length to breadth: 1.68-1.85. Mesosoma length to mesoscutum breadth: 1.34-1.58; mesoscutum breadth to length: 1.85-2.03; mesoscutum length to mesoscutellum length: 1.02-1.03; propodeum length to mesoscutellum length: 0.74-0.90; plica distance to propodeum length: 1.21-1.45. Forewing length to breadth: 2.34-2.36; marginal vein to stigmal vein length: 2.01-2.05. Metafemur length to breadth: 4.73-4.75.

Molecular similarity to female in COI

mean p-distance to females: 0.00384, S.E.: 0.00232

Figures

Figure 4. Digital microscopic image of the male Rohatina inermis Boucek, 1954 (Pte _ 000282). A Habitus lateral B Habitus dorsal C Metanotum and propodeum dorsal D Head dorsal E Head frontal F Mesosoma dorsal. Scale bars: A - B 200 µm.