Pulchrisolia ellieae
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Platygastridae
Genus: Pulchrisolia
Name
Pulchrisolia ellieae Lahey sp. nov. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Description
Female body length: 0.97–1.41 mm (n = 2). Coloration of head, female: concolorous with pronotum. Shape of dorsal interantennal process: apically rounded. Length of interantennal process: longer than radicle. Hyperoccipital carina: raised between lateral ocelli. Frontal ledge: present. Preocellar depressions: present. Setation of pronotal cervical sulcus: present. Setation of cervical pronotal area: present. Sculpture of pronotal shoulders: reticulate. Sculpture of anterior margin of pronotal shoulders: carinate. Posterolateral margin of pronotal shoulders: sharply angled. Posterior margin of pronotal shoulders: rounded. Antero-admedian line: absent. Anterior admedian depression or pit: present. Parapsidial line: present. Median mesoscutal line: present; indicated posteriorly. Notaulus: absent. Coloration of mesoscutum: darker anteromedially and posterolaterally. Shape of mesoscutum in lateral view: flat to slightly convex. Scupture of mesoscutum: reticulate. Sculpture of mesoscutellum: absent. Setation of anterodorsal metapleuron: present. Length of setation of anterodorsal metapleuron: long. Setation of anteroventral metapleuron: present. Length of setation of anteroventral metapleuron: long. Foamy structures on anterior metapleuron: absent. Shape of fore wing: elliptical. Infuscate banding of fore wing: absent. Costal margin of hind wing: fuscous posterior to hamuli. Marginal cilia of female fore wing: absent. Marginal cilia of male fore wing: absent.
Diagnosis
Pulchrisolia ellieae is identifiable by the apically rounded interantennal process and absence of notauli.
Etymology
This species is named to honor Ellie, the first author’s beloved Coton de Tuléar, the royal dog of Madagascar. The epithet is treated as a noun in the genitive case.
Link to distribution map
[http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=457304]
Material examined
Holotype, female: MADAGASCAR: Toliara Auto. Prov., 60km NE Morondava, Beroboka Avaratra, 18.V–23.V.1983, J. S. Noyes & M. C. Day, OSUC 666430 (deposited in NHMUK). Paratype: MADAGASCAR: 1 female, OSUC 666429 (CNCI).
Original Description
- Lahey, Z; van Noort, S; Polaszek, A; Masner, L; Johnson, N; 2019: Revision of the Afrotropical genus Pulchrisolia Szabó (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae, Sceliotrachelinae) Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 73: 39-71. doi
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