Conidarnes sulcata
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Agaonidae
Genus: Conidarnes
Name
Conidarnes sulcata Farache & Rasplus sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Holotype
♀: CHINA: Yunnan: Luxi county, Mang Hai town, 24.53° 102.54°, 1750m, 28.IV.2006, Rasplus J.Y.; Peng Y.Q. & Yang D.R., ex Ficus altissima, n° JRAS01616_04 (CBGP).
Paratypes. 7♂: CHINA: Yunnan: Cheng Zhi village, 21.92° 101.24°, 540m, 6♂, 9.IV.2002, Gu H.Y. & Rasplus J.Y., ex Ficus altissima, n° JRAS0875 (5 ♂ CBGP; 1♂ SAMC); Yunnan: Luxi county, Mang Hai town 24.53° 102.54°, 1750m, 1♂, 28.IV.2006, Rasplus J.Y.; Peng Y.Q. & Yang D.R., ex Ficus altissima, n° JRAS01616_04 (CBGP).
Diagnosis
Scrobe with a median longitudinal sulcus, extending from median ocellus to interantennal area. Mesoscutum and mesoscutellum sculpture mostly smooth. Lateral area of the mesoscutum mostly engraved reticulate. Propodeum sculpture smooth, slightly engraved alutaceous near spiracles. Propodeum without a median line. Length of the ovipositor sheaths 1× body length.
Description
Female. Size and colour. Body length 2.7 mm. Length of the ovipositor sheaths 2.6 mm. Antennae yellow. Head with metallic lustre, mostly green, slightly orange and blue. Mesosoma mostly brown, with faint metallic lustre, green and blue. Legs mostly brown, tarsal segments and foretibia yellow. Metasoma dark brown.
Head. Scape 4.6× as long as wide. Antenna with two anelli. Proximal anellus nearly as long as distal anellus. Funicular segments mostly transverse. Terminal antennomere conspicuous. Antennae inserted at the lower line of compound eyes. Supraclypeal area inconspicuous. Face sculpture mostly reticulate, smooth near scrobe. Scrobe with a median longitudinal sulcus, extending from median ocellus to interantennal area.
Mesosoma. Pronotum sculpture alutaceous, engraved. Pronotum elongated, nearly twice as long as high in lateral view. Prosternal posterior margin medially acute. Mesoscutum and mesoscutellum sculpture mostly smooth. Lateral area of the mesoscutum mostly engraved reticulate. Notauli complete. Frenal sulcus smooth. Metascutellum as long as frenum, smooth, and not well delimited laterally. Anterior margin of propodeum smooth. Propodeum sculpture smooth, slightly engraved alutaceous near spiracles. Propodeum without a median line.
Metasoma. Length of the ovipositor sheaths 1× body length.
Male. Similar to female except the following characters: Mesosoma and metasoma mostly yellow. Axillulae, metanotum, and propodeum mostly brown. Some metasomal segments slightly brown dorsally. Scape and pedicel shorter, funicular segments more transverse. Antenna more setose.
Etymology
The specific name refers to the longitudinal sulcus separating the scrobal cavity in this species.
Biology
Reared from syconia of Ficus altissima Blume.
Comments
Conidarnes sulcata was included in the phylogenetic analyses by Cruaud et al. (2011b)[1]. It was referred to as Conidarnes ex Ficus altissima (China) 1616_04w01x. The following markers are available in GenBank for this species: COI (JN001522.1), CytB (JN001596.1), EF1a (JN001659.1), and rRNA 28S (JN001493.1).
Original Description
- Farache, F; Rasplus, J; 2015: Conidarnes, a new oriental genus of Sycophaginae (Hymenoptera, Agaonidae) associated with Ficus section Conosycea (Moraceae) ZooKeys, (539): 119-145. doi
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Other References
- ↑ Cruaud A, Jabbour-Zahab R, Genson G, Kjellberg F, Kobmoo N, van Noort S, Yang D, Peng Y, Ubaidillah R, Hanson P, Santos-Mattos O, Farache F, Pereira R, Kerdelhue C, Rasplus J (2011b) Phylogeny and evolution of life-history strategies in the Sycophaginae non-pollinating fig wasps (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea). BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 178. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-178
