Sycophila (Sycophila) bidentata Lotfalizadeh, 2024
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5401.1.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10524444 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FD6B5E-7260-6176-5486-B3FCFB26FE03 |
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Plazi |
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Sycophila (Sycophila) bidentata Lotfalizadeh |
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Sycophila (Sycophila) bidentata Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus sp. n.
( Figs 56–57 View FIGURE 56 View FIGURE 57 )
Type material examined. Holotype ♀: Cameroon, Route Bafang-Baha , 4.946767° 10.740467°, 17.v.2007 , ex syconia of Ficus thonningii, Kjellberg F. & Djeto-Lordon C. Deposited in CBGP. Paratypes: same data as holotype , 2♀. Republic of South Africa, Pretoria, Wonderboom Rese , ex syconia of Ficus abutilifolia , 18.iv.1995, Gibernau M. leg. , 1♀. Guinea, Lola , F. thonningii , 2.v.1993 , Rasplus J.-Y. leg., 1♀. Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, Lamto , 6.222197° & -5.024070°, ex syconia of Ficus lutea , 26.vi.1989 , Rasplus J.-Y. leg., 1♀. Kenya, Kakamega Forest, Kisere , ex syconia of Ficus thonningii , 3.ii.2006, Hiller Y. leg. , 1♀.
Etymology. The specific name refers to the presence of two dentiform processes on pronotum.
Diagnosis. Funiculars distinctly elongate, 1.5× as long as wide ( Fig. 56A View FIGURE 56 ). Pronotum carinate anteriorly and laterally, with two with two slight teeth on shoulders ( Figs 56E, 56G View FIGURE 56 , 57A View FIGURE 57 ). Propodeum with a sinuous, wedge-like basal carina and a median longitudinal one ( Fig. 57B View FIGURE 57 ). Petiole longer than broad dorsally, without ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1. Gt4 much as long as Gt3 ( Fig. 57C View FIGURE 57 ).
Description of holotype ♀ ( Figs 56–57 View FIGURE 56 View FIGURE 57 ). Length 2.22 mm. Body mostly brown ( Fig. 56A View FIGURE 56 ), except head in frontal view, orbital margin, scape, pronotum anterolaterally, tegula, legs, Gt5–Gt6 yellowish-brown; pronotum anterolaterally testaceous; fore wing with a dark brown spot below mv, reaching base of mv; lower margin of mv not obscured that spot ( Fig. 57D View FIGURE 57 ); gaster brownish, dorsal edge darker ( Fig. 57C View FIGURE 57 ); body setation whitish, setation of fore wing entirely dark.
Head 1.23× as broad as high [HW 175 & HH 142] ( Fig. 56B View FIGURE 56 ); in dorsal view stout, 1.89× as broad as long [HW 175 & HL 93] ( Fig. 56C View FIGURE 56 ); face and vertex coriaceous with sparse punctures; malar space 0.54× length of eye [ms 44 & EH 82]; malar sulcus clearly visible, straight ( Fig. 56D View FIGURE 56 ); genal margin regularly curved, edged but not carinate; antennal toruli narrowly separated; interantennal space not raised, not carinate laterally; scrobal depression smooth, reaching the median ocellus, not carinate on margin; POL 1.89× as long as OOL [POL 53 & OOL 28] ( Fig. 56C View FIGURE 56 ); temple rounded, 0.2× the eye length (in dorsal view) [TL 18 & EL 88]; setation of lower face oriented downwards, outwards on the punctuate frons.
Antenna. Scape reaching lower margin of median ocellus, 3.67× as long as broad [SL 55 & SW 15]; fu1 2× as long as broad [fu1L 40 & fu1W 20], distinctly longer than pedicel, not bulging dorsally; funiculars (fu2–fu4) with one row of mps and 2–3 whorls of adpressed long setae; fu2–fu5 slightly longer than broad ( Fig. 56F View FIGURE 56 ).
Mesosoma weakly arched dorsally, 1.7× as long as wide (170:110), with deep sculpture ( Fig. 57A View FIGURE 57 ); pronotum with coarse umbilicate punctures, carinate on anterior margin with two submedian teeth; mesepisternum with a raised sculpture on epicnemium, being closer to anteroventral margin of mesepisternum than to mesocoxa; mesoscutum 0.5× as long as wide (60:105), 0.75× longer than length of pronotal collar (60:80), transversely strigose anteriorly, otherwise densely umbilicate punctured; notauli conspicuous, slightly obliterated by mesoscutum sculpture; prepectus bare, smooth medially; mesoscutellum and axillae with dense umbilicate punctures; mesepimeron transversally strigose; metepimeron subtriangular and areolate with long white hairs; propodeum ( Fig. 57B View FIGURE 57 ) with deep median depression, without smooth median band, and distinct median carina; lateral rows of areolae short (extending at most to half-length of propodeum); basal carina sinuous, not angulate medially, with lateral branches relatively straight; width of basal carina about 0.5× width of nucha.
Fore wing with long marginal fringe, rounded apically; dark brown spot only behind mv; basal cell bare or nearly so; mv distinctly enlarged, rounded, lower margin convex, longer than pmv; stv not curved; pmv distinct, longer than stv; ventral side of costal cell sparsely setose, dorsally bare; speculum present; parastigmal bristles absent ( Fig. 57D View FIGURE 57 ).
Legs. Fore coxa without depression on frontal surface, hind coxa bare basodorsally; fore (45:12) and hind femora (50:20); hind tibia dorsally with more than 5 setae, setae as long as hind tibia width.
Metasoma. Petiole longer than broad dorsally, ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present. Metasoma 1.4× as long as wide (155:110) ( Fig. 57C View FIGURE 57 ), shorter than mesosoma, strongly compressed laterally and dorsally angulate; ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 absent; petiole in dorsal view longer than wide, shorter than half length of hind coxa; tergites smooth; Gt4 (in lateral view) much as long as Gt3 (at least 1.5× longer), not sinuous posteriorly; Gt5 partly covering Gt6, not sinuous posteriorly; ovipositor oriented dorsad but not distinctly upturned ( Fig. 57C View FIGURE 57 ).
Male. Unknown.
Variation. Length 1.9–2.22 mm. In some specimens, body yellowish-brown.
Host plants. Ficus thonningi and F. lutea .
Geographical distribution. Cameroon, Guinea, Republic of Côte d’Ivoire and Kenya.
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