Anacharis parapsidalis Belizin, 1951

Mata-Casanova, Noel, Selfa, Jesús & Pujade-Villar, Juli, 2018, Three new species of Anacharis Dalman, 1823 (Hymenoptera: Figitidae), with revised taxonomy and distribution records of Palaearctic and Indomalayan species, European Journal of Taxonomy 414, pp. 1-25 : 12-14

Anacharis parapsidalis Belizin, 1951

Fig. 1C–D

Diagnosis

Species easily distinguishable from other Palaearctic Anacharis species by the strongly areolate scutellum and coarsely sculptured pronotum (pronotum smooth with some weak basal carinae and scutellum smooth to alutaceous, sometimes presenting weak carinae at the margins but never strongly areolate in A. antennata , A. eucharoides and A. immunis ).

Type material

RUSSIA: Holotype, ♀, with the following labels: “Khabarovskij krai: Nikhno-Tambovskoye, r. Kul’ku, 28.VII.1911, V. Sovlatov j” (white label, handwritten, in Cyrillic); “ Holotype Anacharis parapsidalis ♂, V. Belizin det” (red label, handwritten) ( ZIN).

Type locality

RUSSIA: Nikhno-Tambovskoye, Khabarovsk krai.

Material examined

(5 ♀♀ & 4 ♂♂: 3 ♀♀ & 2 ♂♂ deposited in CNC; 2 ♀♀ & 2 ♂♂ deposited in UB).

ROMANIA: 1 ♀, Transylvania , Mt. Gymes , Középlak, Sötét-patak, 1300 m a.s.l., 19 Jul. 1990, Cs. Thuróczy leg. ( CNC).

JAPAN: 1 ♂, Mt Hiko, Fukukoa , 700 m a.s.l., 28 Apr.–10 May 1989, M.J. Sharkey leg. ( CNC) ; 1 ♀, Horoha , Hokkaido, 800 m a.s.l., 5 Jul. 1989, M.J. Sharkey leg. ( CNC) ; 1 ♀, 1 ♂, Jozankei, Sapporo , Hokkaido, 350 m a.s.l., 20–31 Jul. 1989, K. Maeto and M. Sharkey leg. ( UB); 1 ♂, Mt Hiko, MT , 18–25 Sep. 1989, Takeno and M.J. Sharkey leg. ( UB) ; 2 ♀♀, Jozankei, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 350 m a.s.l., MT , 21–29 Sep. 1989, K. Maeto and M. Sharkey leg. ( CNC); 1 ♂, Mt below Pyoton , Hidaka, Hokkaido, 500 m a.s.l., 14 Jul. 1996, L. Masner leg. ( CNC).

Redescription

LENGTH. Body: 3.8 mm. Antennae: 3.2 mm (♀), 3.3 mm (♂). Wings: 3.2 mm.

COLORATION. Head, mesosoma and metasoma black. Mandibles yellowish brown with darker teeth. Antennae yellowish brown with darker first segment. Legs yellowish brown, coxae dark brown. Veins of wings dark yellow.

HEAD. Triangular-shaped in anterior view. Face smooth, covered with abundant white setae. Width of head 1.3 times its height in front view and 2.3 times its length in dorsal view. Malar sulcus coriaceous, 0.7 times height of compound eye. Transfacial line 1.1 times of height compound eye. Diameter of toruli equal to inter-toruli distance and bigger than torulus to compound eye distance. Clypeus shortly defined, smooth, glabrous, shortly convex. Occipital and postocular carinae absent. Compound eyes glabrous. In both sexes, POL:OOL:LOL ratio 8:6:4, ocelli diameter being 3. Frons alutaceous, gena and occiput smooth and shiny with sparse setae.

ANTENNAE. Cylindrical flagellomeres covered with pubescence. Female antennal formula: 9(3.5), 4.5(3), 13.5(3), 12.5(3), 10(3), 10(3), 10(3), 9(3), 9(3), 8.5(3), 8(3), 7(3), 11(3). Male antennal formula: 9(4), 4(3.5), 14(3.5), 13(3.5), 12.5(3.5), 12(3.5), 11(3), 11(3), 10(3), 10(3), 10(3), 10(3), 9(3), 13(3). Placodeal sensilla starting at F 1 in both sexes.

MESOSOMA. Pronotal plate alutaceous. Pronotum strongly alutaceous, pubescent, carinate in all its surface: ventrally obliquely carinate, dorsally irregularly carinate ( Fig. 1D ). Mesoscutal width 1.1 times length in dorsal view. Mesoscutum alutaceous, some weak carinae between notauli, specially in anterior mesoscutum and base of notauli ( Fig. 1C ). Notauli complete with transverse carinate sculpture; median mesoscutal furrow short, almost entirely effaced. Parapsidal signum very short, forming elongated sulcus; parascutal sulcus slightly excavated, internally carinate, more defined at anterior region of mesoscutum. Scutellar length 0.6 times that of mesoscutum length in dorsal view. Scutellum alutaceous, divided into cells by strong carinae ( Fig. 1C ). Scutellar foveae triangular, smooth, basally defined by a carina; lateral pits of scutellar foveae absent. Interfoveal line present but short. Circumscutellar carina complete, clearly defined, raised tooth dorsally projected at scutellar apex. Mesopleuron glabrous and shiny, anteriorly coriaceous; with internally carinate transverse groove, some carinae surpassing groove and reaching anterior margin of mesopleuron ( Fig. 1C ); mesopleural triangle smooth, densely pubescent. Metanotal troughs present dense pubescence. Propodeum slightly alutaceous, heavily pubescent, divided into large cells; central area divided into two halves separated by a median carina and asymmetrically divided by some weak transverse carinae.

WINGS. Pubescent. Radial cell of forewing closed, 2.4 times as long as wide. Marginal pubescence of forewing denser at the apical third.

METASOMA. Longer than head + mesosoma. Petiole about 2.0 times as long as metacoxa, smooth and shiny. Third metasomal tergum 1.8 times as long as fourth tergum in dorsal view. Fifth, sixth, seventh metasomal terga visible in dorsal view. Metasomal terga smooth and glabrous, not punctate.

Biology

Unknown.

Distribution

Palaearctic. Known from Russia ( Belizin 1951); first citation for Romania and Japan.

Comments

According to our sources, the type material of A. antennata was deposited in the Zoological Institute of St. Petersburg (ZIN), but is now lost. The specimens of our study were determined with the help of Belizin’s original descriptions.

Figures

Fig. 1. A–B. Anacharis antennata Belizin, 1951, mesosoma. A. Dorsal view. B. Lateral view. – C–D. A. parapsidalis Belizin, 1951, mesosoma. C. Dorsal view. D. Lateral view.