Janssoniella kawabatai Tselikh, 2020

Tselikh, E. V., Lee, J. & Ku, D. - S., 2023, New data on the chalcid wasps of the family Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from South Korea, Far Eastern Entomologist 482, pp. 10-21 : 15

Janssoniella kawabatai Tselikh, 2020

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MATERIAL EXAMINED. South Korea: GB, Juwangsan-myeon, Cheongsong-gun, Mt. Juwangsan , 12. V 2022, 1 ♀, 1 ♂, coll. J.H. Lee ( SMNE, ZISP) .

DESCRIPTION. Male (hitherto unknown). Body length 2.30 mm; fore wing length 1.90 mm. Head and mesosoma dark metallic green with diffuse coppery lustre. Antenna with scape and pedicel brown. All coxae brown; femur, tibia and tarsus yellowish-brown. Fore wing hyaline, venation yellowish-brown. Metasoma yellowish-brown.

Sculpture of head weakly reticulate, clypeus smooth and shining. Mesosoma with pronotum and propodeum weakly reticulate; mesoscutum and frenum reticulate; axillae and scutellum finely reticulate. Petiole and metasoma alutaceous.

Head in dorsal view 2.06 × as broad as long and 1.50 × as broad as mesoscutum; in frontal view 1.32 × broader than high. POL 1.36 × OOL. Eye height 1,27 × eye length and 2.75 × as long as malar space. Distance between antennal toruli and lower margin of clypeus 0.77 × distance between antennal toruli and median ocellus. Antenna with scape 0.60 × as long as eye height and 0.77 × as long as eye length; pedicel as long as broad and 0.30 × as long as F1; combined length of pedicel and flagellum 2.12 × breadth of head; flagellum almost filiform; all anelli transverse; F1 3.35 × as long as broad, with two of dense sensilla; F2–F6 longer than broad; clava 4.00 × as long as broad.

Mesosoma 2.40 × as long as broad. Scutellum 1.28 × as long as broad. Propodeum medially 0.63 × as long as scutellum; median carina complete and straight; nucha absent.

Fore wing 2.80 × as long as maximum width; basal cell pilose; speculum closed; costal cell with two complete rows of setae; PST 0.34 × as long as M, M 0.83 × as long as P and 2.52 × as long as S.

Metasoma lanceolate, 1.32 × as long as mesosoma and 1.04 × as long as mesosoma and head.

DISTRIBUTION. South Korea, Japan ( Tselikh, 2020b).

Figures

Figs 1–7. Janssoniella kawabatai Tselikh, 2020, male: 1 – body, lateral view; 2 – mesosoma and petiole, dorsal view; 3 – wing; 4 – head, frontal view; 5 – head, dorsal view; 6 – body, dorsal view; 7 – antenna.