Platyplectrus pulcher, Zhu & Huang, 2004

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 : 2204-2205

P. pulcher sp. nov.

( figures 61, 62)

Diagnosis. Head with antennal scrobe concolorous with other parts of face, yellow; occiput sharply margined; post-occipital carina absent. Pedicel yellow. Clava about 1.2 times as long as broad, obtuse. Pronotum rounded into neck. Mid lobe of mesoscutum and scutellum completely yellow. Axillae sculptured. Reticulations transverse on scutellum. Hind legs completely yellow.

Description. Head mostly yellow with occiput and area around ocelli black; occipital carina present, developed into translucent lamina; post-occipital carina absent. Antennal scrobe concolorous with other parts of face, yellow. Scape and pedicel yellow. Flagellum concolorous. Funicular segments all longer than broad, not becoming shorter and broadened towards clava simultaneously, with F4 samely separated from F3 and clava, and distinctly four-segmented; F1 1.7 times as long as broad. Clava medially same breadth as funicle, obtuse, around 1.2 times as long as broad.

Dark parts on mesosoma black. Pronotum with yellow, narrow, transverse marking posteriorly, which part appears to be translucent, rounded into neck, without distinct transverse carina anteriorly. Mid lobe of mesoscutum completely yellow, with engraved reticulations, covered with setae all over the dorsum, without longitudinal median carina. Axillae completely yellow, reticulate and bare. Axillula completely yellow. Scutellum completely yellow, without longitudinal median carina or transverse carinae originating from median carina to grooves, reticulate. Scutellum with sublateral grooves broad, crenulate, extending beyond posterior pair of setae, united at middle point posteriorly. Reticulations on scutellum completely distinct, transverse and engraved all over the dorsum. The area lateral to the sublateral grooves smooth. Dorsellum completely dark including lateral area, smooth, without tooth-like structure directing posteriorly. Propodeum completely dark and smooth. Propodeal median carina at least translucent along margins, thus appearing yellow, raised into a cup-shape but not too much as a translucent, elongate and tongue-shaped protuberance. Petiole transverse, smooth.

Hind legs completely yellow. One hind tibial 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. Holotype ”, Hubei, Xuan’en , 5 August 1989, 1000 m (Huang Da-Wei) ( IZCAS).

Distribution. China: Hubei.