Platyplectrus orthocraspedae, Ferriere, 1941

Zhu, C. D. & Huang, D. W., 2004, A study of Platyplectrus Ferrière (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) in mainland China, Journal of Natural History 38 (17), pp. 2183-2209 : 2201-2202

P. orthocraspedae Ferrière, 1941

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Platyplectrus orthocraspedae Ferrière, 1941: 21 . Lectotype ”, Indonesia, Java (BMNH, not examined).

Diagnosis. Head completely yellow; occiput rounded off; post-occipital carina present ( figure 14). Funicular segments all longer than broad; F1 1.7–4 times as long as broad ( figures 16, 17). Mesosoma and hind legs completely yellow. Pronotum with distinct transverse carina anteriorly. Mid lobe of mesoscutum with longitudinal median carina, without setae at least medially or anteriorly and posteriorly, with engraved reticulations ( figure 20). Scutellum with sublateral grooves broad, curved inwards posteriorly to meet with each other medially ( figures 20, 21). Petiole less than 1.5 times as long as wide ( figure 24).

Variation. As this species is completely yellow, the sculpture of the scutellum is very vague to completely smooth. Studied males have more elongate funicular segments ( figure 17) than females do ( figure 16). On about upper half, the male has the sensory organs at inner margin of scape ( figure 18).

Description. Head completely yellow; occiput rounded off; post-occipital carina present. Scape and pedicel yellow. Flagellum concolorous. Funicle with all segments longer than broad, with F4 samely separated from F3 and clava, and distinctly four-segmented, with segments not becoming shorter and broadened towards clava simultaneously; F1 1.7–4 times as long as broad. Clava medially same broad as funicle, acute, 1.9–3 times as long as broad.

Mesosoma completely yellow. Pronotum with distinct transverse carina anteriorly, without longitudinal, parallel, short carinae attaching to transverse carinae. Mid lobe of mesoscutum with engraved reticulations, without setae at least medially or anteriorly and posteriorly, with at least some additional, weaker setae besides strong ones, with longitudinal median carina. Axillae smooth and bare. Scutellum without longitudinal median carina, smooth, reticulate, with broad sublateral grooves united at middle point posteriorly. Reticulations on scutellum vague and engraved all over the dorsum, regularly rounded. Area lateral to sublateral grooves smooth. Dorsellum smooth, without tooth-like structure directing posteriorly. Propodeum completely smooth, with median carina raised into a cupshape, not raised too much anteriorly into a translucent, elongate and tongue-shaped protuberance, without short carinae attached. Petiole transverse, smooth.

Hind legs completely yellow, with one spur more than 1.5 times length of the first tarsomere. Hind tarsi with the first segment at least as long as the second.

Material examined. Paralectotype deposited in BMNH: 1”, Java: October 1936, det. Z. Bouček. 3””, Maldives: Maandhoo Is., 13 March 1997 (sp. no. 97/ 2), emg. larvae of lep. (97/1) on coconut palm, IIE 23603, det. J. LaSalle. Chinese material deposited in IZCAS: 1”, Beijing, Bada Ling, 16 May 1984 (Huang Da-Wei); 1”, Beijing, Xiangshan, 3 October 1978 (Mao Jin-long); 1”, Beijing, Shidu, August 1983 (Liao Ding-xi); 3„„, 1”, Hainan, Qiongshan, 5 July 1998 (Zhu Chao-dong); 1”, Guangxi, Napo, Baidou, Baiwai, 540 m, 10 April 1998 (Zhu Chao-dong); 1„, Guangxi , Napo. Baihe, 9 April 1998 (Zhu Chao-dong); 4””, Hainan , Ya , 8 September 1981 (Yao Ruo-qian); 1„, 2””, Vietnam: Ha Tay , Bavi, Tan Linh, 22 December 2000 (Zhu Chao-dong) .

Distribution. * China: Beijing, Hainan, Guangxi; * South Africa; * Maldives; *Tanganyika; * Vietnam; Indonesia.