Phanerotoma glabritemporalis, Achterberg, 2021
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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1014.60426 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E72A86AA-7787-5DF0-9DAF-2E3762D31CF6 |
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Phanerotoma glabritemporalis |
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sp. nov. |
Phanerotoma glabritemporalis sp. nov. Figs 109-111 View Figures 109–111 , 112-123 View Figures 112–123
Type material.
Holotype, ♀ (RMNH): " United Arab Emirates, al-Ajban (11858), light trap, 17.iv.-29.v.2006, 24°36'N, 55°01'E, A. v. Harten, RMNH’10”. Paratypes: 2♀: Idem; 4♀, 1♂: Idem, 27.v.-26.vi.2006; 1♀: Idem, 17.x.-9.xi.2005; 8♀: "United Arab Emirates, NARC near Sweihan (1245), light trap, 28.iii.-2.iv.2005, 24°24'N, 55°26'E, A. v. Harten, RMNH’06”; 14♀, 1♂: Idem, 2-9.iv.2005; 12♀: Idem, 9-20.iv.2005; 1♀: Idem, 14-28.iii.2005; 6♀: Idem, 1.ii.-14.iii.2005; 1♀: Idem, 20-30.iv.2005; 1♀: "United Arab Emirates, Fujairah (1587), hand coll., 2-13.v.2005, 25°08'N, 56°21'E, A. v. Harten, RMNH’05”; 2♀: " Yemen (3901), Al Kowd, light trap, vii.1999, A. van Harten & S. Al Haruri, RMNH’00”; 1♀: Idem, ix.1999; 1♀: Idem, v.-vi.2000; 2♀: Idem, viii.1999; 21♀, 1♂: Idem, 1-5.ix.2001; 1♀: Idem, vi.2002; 2♀: Idem, x.2000; 1♀, 1♂: Idem, xi.2000; 2♀: Idem, xii.2000; 1♀: Idem, 21-25.viii.2001; 10♀: Idem, 16-20.viii.2001; 2♀: Idem, 27-31.vii.2001; 3♀: Idem, 1-5.ix.2001; 1♀: Idem, vi.2002; 9♀, 2♂: Idem, ix.2003; 37♀, 1♂: Idem, vii.-ix.2001; 1♀: Idem, viii.2000, A. v. Harten & A.R. Al Yarimi; 1♀: "Yemen (7269), Seyun, light trap, 4-6.ix.2002, A. van Harten, RMNH’03”; 1♀: Idem, 12-14.viii.2002; 3♀: Idem, vi.2002; 3♀: "Yemen (5404), Haman 'Ali, from coffee berries (with Ceratitis capitata ?), 14.iii.2001, A. van Harten, RMNH’02”; 1♀: "Yemen (6158), Al Lahima, Mal[aise] trap, 17.ix.-14.xi.2001, A. van Harten, RMNH’02”; 2♀, 1♂: "Yemen: Ta’izz (4056), light trap, viii.1999, A. van Harten & A. Ahwad, RMNH’00”; 1♀: Idem, viii.2000, A. v. Harten & A.R. Al Yarimi; 1♀: Idem, ix.2000; 1♀, "Yemen (7189), Al Kadan, light trap, v.2002, A. van Harten & A.R. Al Yarimi, RMNH’02”; 1♀: Idem, i.2003, A. v. Harten & T. Abdul-Haq; 3♀: Idem, x.2001. Excluded from type series: 9♀: "Yemen: Al Kowd (6151), 1-5.ix.2001, light trap, A. v. Harten & S. Al Haruri, RMNH’02”; 2♀: Idem, 16-20.viii.2001; 1♂: "United Arab Emirates, NARC near Sweihan (1473), light trap, 20-30.iv.2005, 24°24'N, 55°26'E, A. v. Harten, RMNH’05”.
Diagnosis.
Ventral half of temple shiny, mostly smooth (at most punctulate) and convex (Fig. 121 View Figures 112–123 ), vein 1-R1 of fore wing 3.0-3.6 × distance between apex of marginal cell and apex of wing, POL ca. 0.5 × diameter of posterior ocellus and third tergite ca. 1.5 × as long as second tergite; antenna of ♀ slender, subapical segment distinctly longer than wide and eighth segment from apex ca. 1.5 × as long as wide, without subapical protuberances; scutellar sulcus narrow and indistinctly crenulate anteriorly vein 1-M of fore wing much or slightly paler than vein 1-CU1; parastigma yellow, but sometimes somewhat infuscate posteriorly; convexity of T3 in lateral view variable; face mostly smooth (rarely finely sculptured) and very shiny; temple parallel-sided in lateral view, smooth (but sometimes finely sculptured) and shiny; clypeus flattened and approx. as wide as face; median carina of frons absent or obsolescent; differs from all other species by the shiny head combined with slender apical antennal segments of ♀ and a medium-sized third tergite with curved lateral borders (Fig. 114 View Figures 112–123 ); males with strongly inflated hind femur (Fig. 110 View Figures 109–111 ). The smooth mesosternum and inflated hind femur is shared by the Central Asian P. minuta Kokujev, 1903, but females of P. glabritemporalis have slenderer apical segments of antenna (robust in P. minuta ), vein 1-R1 of fore wing 1.2-1.4 × as long as pterostigma (shorter than pterostigma), face mostly smooth (rugulose) and malar space 0.5 × as long as basal width of mandible (approx. equal). Excluded from the type series are specimens with the mesosternum less shiny as the ventral half of the temple and the latter is more or less coriaceous-rugulose; possibly it concerns a more sculptured variety of P. glabritemporalis .
Description.
Female, holotype, length of body (excluding ovipositor) 5.1 mm; antenna 4.1 mm; fore wing 3.7 mm; visible part of ovipositor sheath 0.6 mm (only apex setose).
Head. Width 1.4 × median length in anterior view and part of head above eye in lateral view 0.4 × height of eye (Fig. 121 View Figures 112–123 ); antenna with 23 segments and 1.1 × longer than fore wing, segments slender and gradually shortened, narrowed apically and apical segments non-moniliform and narrowed basally (Fig. 117 View Figures 112–123 ), third, fourth and penultimate segments 3.2, 3.0 and 1.8 × longer than wide in lateral view, respectively; area of stemmaticum rugulose-coriaceous; OOL: diameter of posterior ocellus: POL = 19: 10: 5; length of eye 2.4 × temple in dorsal view (Fig. 119 View Figures 112–123 ); frons medially mostly smooth and very shiny, without median carina and laterally coriaceous-rugulose; vertex superficially rugulose, but posteriorly mostly smooth, rather shiny; temple parallel-sided in lateral view, mostly smooth and shiny, convex; face medially and clypeus mostly smooth and shiny; face without distinct median ridge and laterally rugulose, but smooth near eye; clypeus with three obsolescent teeth medio-ventrally (Fig. 120 View Figures 112–123 ); eye large, strongly convex and in lateral view 1.9 × (measured medially) temple (Fig. 121 View Figures 112–123 ), in anterior view 0.9 × minimum width of face; upper condyle of mandible near lower level of eyes (Fig. 120 View Figures 112–123 ); malar space aciculate, shiny and 0.5 × as basal width of mandible; lower tooth of mandible 0.3 × as long as apical tooth (Fig. 118 View Figures 112–123 ).
Mesosoma (Figs 109 View Figures 109–111 , 113 View Figures 112–123 ). Length 1.5 × its width in lateral view; side of pronotum mainly rugose, but dorsally mostly smooth; mesosternum smooth and very shiny; mesoscutum coriaceous and rather dull, but notaulic courses and medio-posteriorly rugose and rather shiny, densely setose; notauli hardly indicated; scutellar sulcus wide and with ten carinae (Fig. 113 View Figures 112–123 ); scutellum triangular, largely punctate and rather shiny; metanotum with short median carina anteriorly and truncate posteriorly; propodeum coarsely reticulate-rugose, anteriorly with some longitudinal carinae, without distinct median and transverse carinae, latero-posteriorly not tuberculate. Wings. Fore wing 2.7 × longer than its maximum width; length of 1-R1 1.5 × as long as swollen pterostigma; 1-R1 3.1 × distance between apex of marginal cell and apex of wing; r issued far beyond middle of pterostigma and 0.5 × 3-SR; 2-SR curved and distally subparallel with posterior margin of pterostigma (Fig. 112 View Figures 112–123 ); SR1 nearly straight; 2-SR+M rather long because of distinctly postfurcal m-cu; parastigma large; 1-CU1 0.4 × as long as vein 2-CU1; r:3-SR:SR1 = 9:20:130; 2-SR:3-SR:r-m = 26:20:11; r-m reclivous; 2-M weakly curved and horizontal (Fig. 112 View Figures 112–123 ). Hind wing: M+CU:1-M:1r-m = 19:16:10. Legs. Hind femur 3.5 × as long as wide and widened subbasally; middle tibia with ivory blister; inner spur of middle tibia 0.6 × its basitarsus; hind coxa mostly smooth and shiny; hind tibia and basitarsus slender (Fig. 116 View Figures 112–123 ).
Metasoma (Figs 114 View Figures 112–123 , 115 View Figures 112–123 ). Oval in dorsal view, 1.7 × as long as wide and 1.4 × as long as mesosoma; first and second tergites finely and densely longitudinally rugose; third tergite 1.5 × longer than second tergite and laterally curved, in lateral view rather convex, densely rugulose and medio-posteriorly truncate (Fig. 114 View Figures 112–123 ), lateral lamella narrow, not protruding latero-apically and medio-apically truncate; ovipositor sheath medium-sized, its visible part 0.12 × as long as fore wing and 0.18 × metasomal carapace and setose part 0.03 × fore wing; hypopygium apically with short triangle, without apical spine and with rather short setae (Fig. 115 View Figures 112–123 ).
Colour. Brownish yellow; palpi, mandible (except dark brown teeth), clypeus, malar space, temple ventrally, pronotum, propleuron, legs (but hind femur and tibia brownish apically), first and second metasomal tergites pale yellow or ivory; apical third of antenna, ovipositor sheath and stemmaticum brown; pterostigma pale brownish yellow but basally pale yellowish (Fig. 112 View Figures 112–123 ); wing membrane subhyaline but below pterostigma slightly infuscate; parastigma, veins 1-M, 2-CU1 and m-cu of fore wing yellow and veins r, 1-CU1, cu-a, 2-SR, 3-SR and 2-M rather dark brown.
Male.
Similar to female but hind femur strongly inflated (Fig. 110 View Figures 109–111 ) and vein 1-R1 of fore wing 1.0-1.2 × as long as pterostigma.
Variations.
Length of fore wing of both sexes (2.1-)2.9-3.9 mm; apical antennal segments of ♀ usually non-moniliform, but especially in specimens from Yemen often submoniliform or rarely moniliform; third tergite 1.5-1.7 × longer than second tergite; medially frons very shiny and smooth but sometimes somewhat aciculate dorsally; vein 1-R1 of fore wing of ♀ 1.2-1.4 × as long as pterostigma; sometimes pterostigma darkened but anteriorly pale yellowish; stemmaticum brown or black; vein 1-M of fore wing varies from pale yellow (typical) to brown or dark brown; excluded specimens have face and temple finely sculptured.
Biology.
Unknown.
Distribution.
United Arabian Emirates, Yemen.
Etymology.
Named after the shiny and smooth temples (glabrus is Latin for smooth).
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