Oodera arabica Gadallah & Soliman

Soliman, Ahmed M., Gadallah, Neveen S. & Al Dhafer, Hathal M., 2019, First record of the genus Oodera Westwood, 1874 (Hymenoptera, Pteromalidae, Cleonyminae, Ooderini) from the Arabian Peninsula, with the description of four new species, ZooKeys 874, pp. 47-68 : 47

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scientific name	Oodera arabica Gadallah & Soliman
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Oodera arabica Gadallah & Soliman sp. nov. Figs 2A View Figure 2 , 3A View Figure 3 , 4A View Figure 4 , 5 (A, E), 6A, 7A, 8A, 9(A, E), 10A View Figure 5

Material examined.

Holotype ♀: SAUDI ARABIA, Al-Baha (Al-Mikhwah, Shada Al-Ala Natural Reserve), 29.iii.2017, leg. D. Baiocchi, e.l. Acacia [KSMA]. Paratype 1♀: SAUDI ARABIA, Al-Baha (Al-Mikhwah, The Ain Village), 13.iv.2016, leg. D. Baiocchi, e.l. Acacia sp. [KSMA].

Diagnosis

(female) (N = 2). See Table 1 View Table .

Description.

Female (holotype): Body length 7.2 mm (excluding the ovipositor).

Colour. Head black with strong coppery and green luster on face and faint green tint on gena ( Figs 5A, E View Figure 5 , 6A View Figure 6 ); scape, pedicel and basal half of FI red, rest of antenna black ( Fig. 3A View Figure 3 ); maxillary and labial palpi dark brown to black ( Fig. 7A View Figure 7 ). Mesosomal dorsum black with extremely faint purple and blue-green luster on pronotum, anterior part of axilla, mesoscutellum and propodeum ( Figs 8A View Figure 8 , 9A, E View Figure 9 ); mesosomal venter and coxae blue, midcoxa blackish ( Fig. 4A View Figure 4 ); protrochanter and profemur black, the latter with slight blue-green tint on outer side ( Fig. 3A View Figure 3 ); meso- and metatrochanters, tibiae and tarsi red, tarsi lighter ( Figs 3A View Figure 3 , 4A View Figure 4 ). Metasoma black, Gt2−5 with patches of green and slight coppery luster laterally ( Figs 2A View Figure 2 , 3A View Figure 3 , 4A View Figure 4 ). Wings hyaline, veins yellow to light brown ( Fig. 10A View Figure 10 ).

Head. 1.6 × as wide as long, hea.w 4.5 × eye.d ( Fig. 5A View Figure 5 ); face setiferous foveate-reticulate, setae lanceolate, white and short ( Fig. 5A View Figure 5 ); msp.l 0.37 × head height ( Fig. 5E View Figure 5 ); corona 0.6 × as long as eye.h ( Fig. 5A View Figure 5 ); POL 1.37 × OOL ( Fig. 6A View Figure 6 ); scape 3.23 × as long as pedicel; clava 0.15 × as long as funicle; flagellum 1.2 × as long as hea.w; F1 0.6 × as long as F2; F2 1.12 × as long as F3.

Mesosoma. Pronotum pentagonal, 0.48 × as long as mesonotum ( Fig. 8A View Figure 8 ); mesonotum 1.38 × as long as mesoscutum ( Fig. 8A View Figure 8 ); mesoscutum 0.9 × as long as wide ( Fig. 8A View Figure 8 ); mesoscutellum 0.38 × as long as mesoscutum ( Fig. 8A View Figure 8 ); profemur 1.4 × as long as protibia.

Forewing ( Fig. 10A View Figure 10 ). Forewing 2.87 × as long as wide; costal cell 0.35 × as long as forewing; marginal vein 0.19 × as long as forewing; marginal vein 3.36 × as long as stigmal vein; postmarginal vein 3.86 × as long as stigmal vein.

Metasoma ( Fig. 2A View Figure 2 , 3A View Figure 3 , 4A View Figure 4 ). mts.l./mts.w = 1.92.

Male.

Unknown.

Host record.

Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) kneuckeri zabranskyi Bílý, 1995 ( Buprestidae ).

Distribution.

Saudi Arabia (Al-Baha region).

Remarks.

The new species resembles the Afrotropical species O. mkomaziensis Werner & Peters (Tanzania) and O. namibiensis Werner & Peters (Namibia) in having body medium-sized (7.0−7.2 mm in length), head and mesosoma uniformly black with tinges of dark green and coppery or purple, eye large (eye.h/hea.h 0.72−0.74), corona thick (cor.l/cor.w 3.08−3.60), with structure interrupted and propodeum medium (ppd.l/msc.l 0.15). It differs from O. mkomaziensis in the following: body robust, msn.l/msc.w 1.25−1.29 (in mkomaziensis slender, msn.l/msc.w 1.5); head rounded, 1.34−1.38 × as high as long (oval, 1.56 × as high as long in mkomaziensis ); pronotum pentagonal (oval in mkomaziensis ); mesoscutellum entirely lineate (in mkomaziensis lineate in anterior two-thirds, finely areolate in posterior third); metasoma short, 0.42−0.43 × as long as body (in mkomaziensis longer, 0.52 × as long as body). The new species also differs from O. namibiensis in the following: forewing hyaline (partly infumate in namibiensis ); antennal scape and pedicel and basal half of F1 are red, rest of antenna black (scape yellow, darkened apically, rest of antenna black in namibiensis ); metasoma short, 0.42−0.43 × as long as body length (in namibiensis medium to long, 0.49−0.55 × as long as body length).