Aegilips insularis Mata-Casanova & Pujade-Villar, 2022

Mata-Casanova, Noel, Selfa, Jesús & Pujade-Villar, Juli, 2022, Revision of the Eurasian species of Aegilips Haliday, 1835 (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Anacharitinae), European Journal of Taxonomy 819, pp. 108-139 : 118-120

Aegilips insularis Mata-Casanova & Pujade-Villar sp. nov.

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Diagnosis

Species easily distinguishable other Palaearctic species of Aegilips by having completely smooth scutellum with scutellar foveae absent or indistinct, never sharply delineated (scutellum from alutaceous to areolate in other species of Aegilips from the Palaearctic region, scutellar foveae always noticeable).

Etymology

The specific name comes from the island of Madeira, the only known location of the species.

Type material

Holotype PORTUGAL • ♂; “ Madeira, Queimadas, 11.VIII.1982 ” (white label); “ M.W.R. de V. Graham coll.” (white label); “ Anacharitinae , Aegilips sp. nr. nitidulus J. L. Nieves det” (white label); “Holotype of Aegilips insularis sp. nov., ♂ desig. Mata-Casanova, 2014” (red label); “ Aegilips insularis sp. nov., ♂, det. Mata-Casanova, 2014” (white label); NHMUK.

Paratypes (5 ♀♀, 15 ♂♂) PORTUGAL • 1 ♂; Madeira, Caramujo ; 1250 m a.s.l.; 9 Aug. 1954; Durham University Madeira Expedition leg.; NHMUK • 2 ♂♂; Madeira, Monte ; Nov. 1960; N.L.H. Kraus leg.; NHMUK • 2 ♂♂; Madeira, Ribeiro Frio ; Aug. 1962; N.L.H. Krauss leg.; USNM • 1 ♀; Madeira, Ribeiro Frio ; Sep. 1962; N.L.H. Krauss leg.; USNM • 2 ♂♂; Madeira, Curral dos Romeiros ; 11 May 1980; M.W.R. de V. Graham leg.; NHMUK • 1 ♂; Madeira, Curral dos Romeiros ; 13 May 1980; M.W.R. de V. Graham leg.; NHMUK • 1 ♂; Madeira, Queimadas ; 14 May 1980; M.W.R. de V. Graham leg.; NHMUK • 1 ♀; Madeira, Pousada dos Vinhaticos ; 18 May 1980; M.W.R. de V. Graham leg.; NHMUK • 1 ♂; Madeira, Curral dos Romeiros ; 20 Jul. 1982; M.W.R. de V. Graham leg.; NHMUK • 1 ♀, 1 ♂; Madeira, Curral dos Romeiros ; 23 Jul. 1982; M.W.R. de V. Graham leg.; NHMUK • 1 ♂; Madeira, 3 km E of Posio; 1 Aug. 1982; M.W.R. de V. Graham leg.; NHMUK • 1 ♀; Madeira, Montado dos Pecequietos ; 3 Jul. 1982; M.W.R. de V. Graham leg.; NHMUK • 1 ♂; Madeira, 3 km E of Posio ; 7 Aug. 1982; M.W.R. de V. Graham leg.; NHMUK • 1 ♂; Madeira, Calderas Verde ; 9 Aug. 1982; M.W.R. de V. Graham leg.; NHMUK • 1 ♀, 1 ♂; Madeira, Queimadas ; 11 Aug. 1982; M.W.R. de V. Graham leg.; NHMUK .

Type locality

Portugal, Madeira, Queimadas.

Description

MEASUREMENTS. Body: 2.2–2.4 mm; antennae: 1.8–2.1 mm (♀), 2.8–3.0 mm (♂); wings: 2.5–2.6 mm.

COLORATION. Head, mesosoma and metasoma black. Mandibles yellowish brown with darker teeth. Antennae dark brown. Leg.s yellowish brown with darker coxae, metacoxa black. Veins of wings dark brown.

HEAD. Triangle-shaped in anterior view, 1.1 times as broad as high, malar area not expanded. Face smooth and punctate, with short uniform pubescence. Malar area coriaceous, 0.7 times as long as compound eye. Clypeus smooth, glabrous, shortly projected; anterior tentorial pits small, indistinct. Transfacial distance 1.1 times as long as compound eye. Diameter of torulus larger than inter-toruli and torulus-eye distances. Frons, gena and occiput smooth and glabrous with few sparse setae; occipital and postocular carinae absents. In dorsal view 2 times as broad as long, broader than mesosoma. Compound eyes glabrous. POL: OOL: LOL is 5.0:4.5:2.0, diameter of lateral ocellus is 2.0.

ANTENNAE. In males, antenna 14-segmented; flagellomeres cylindrical and pubescent, same width in all flagellomeres, placodeal sensilla abundant in all flagellomeres; F1 not modified; antennal formula: 6.0(3.5), 3.0(2.5), 9.0(3.0), 9.0(3.0), 8.5(3.0), 8.5(3.0), 8.5(2.5), 8.5(2.5), 8.5(2.5), 8.0(2.5), 7.5(2.5), 7.0(2.5), 7.0(2.5), 8.0(2.5). In females, antenna 13-segmented; flagellomeres cylindrical and pubescent, same width in all flagellomeres, placodeal sensilla starting at F3 but not abundant until F5; antennal formula: 8.0(3.5), 3.5(3.0), 8.5(2.0), 7.0(2.0), 6.5(2.0), 6.0(2.0), 5.5(2.0), 5.0(2.0), 4.0(2.5), 4.0(2.5), 4.0(2.5), 4.0(2.0), 6.5(2.0).

MESOSOMA. Pronotal plate smooth. Pronotum smooth, with some irregular ventral carinae. Mesoscutum 1.1 times as broad as long in dorsal view. Mesoscutum smooth, shiny, almost glabrous except for some scarce short hyaline pubescence ( Fig. 2a–b ); posteriorly carinate in males ( Fig. 2b ). Notaulus complete, with horizontal carina; median mesoscutal furrow absent. Lateral mesoscutum smooth and glabrous; parapsidal signum and parascutal sulcus absents. Scutellum completely smooth, 0.7 times as long as mesoscutum; scutellar foveae rounded, large, slightly coarse, not posteriorly defined ( Fig. 2a–b ); presence of very tenuous and superficial narrow pit next to inner margin of scutellar foveae. Interfoveal line short, almost effaced ( Fig. 2a–b ). Circumscutellar carina complete but not projected to form tooth in lateral view. Anterior and ventral mesopleuron carinate, central and posterior mesopleuron smooth. Mesopleural triangle obliquely carinate. Metanotal troughs densely pubescent smooth except for some coarse sculpture in lower margin. Propodeum surface strongly alutaceous to coriaceous; central area defined from by two lateral ridges.

FORE WINGS. Pubescent, marginal pubescence denser at apical third. Radial cell closed, 2.3 times as long as wide. Vein 2rm absent.

METASOMA. Shorter than head + mesosoma. Petiole as long as wide, shorter than metacoxa, coarsely sculptured, shiny. Third metasomal tergum 2.5 times as long as fourth in dorsal view. Metasomal terga smooth and glabrous; T4 to T7 punctate.

Biology

Unknown.

Distribution

Palaearctic. Known only from Madeira ( Portugal).

Figures

Fig. 2. a. Aegilips insularis Mata-Casanova & Pujade-Villar sp. nov, 2014, ♂, mesosoma in dorsal view. b. A. insularis, ♀, mesosoma in dorsal view. c. A. romseyensis Fergusson, 1985, mesosoma in lateral view. d. A. nitidulus Dalman, 1823, mesosoma in lateral view. e. A. kozlovi Kovalev, 1974. f. A. romseyensis. g. A. nitidulus. h. A. zaitzevi Kovalev, 1974.