Pulchrisolia nephelae
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Platygastridae
Genus: Pulchrisolia
Name
Pulchrisolia nephelae Lahey sp. nov. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Description
Female body length: 0.73–1.14 mm (n = 10). Male body length: 0.73–1.07 mm (n = 10). Coloration of head, female: concolorous with mesosoma. Shape of dorsal interantennal process: simple; apically bilobed. Length of interantennal process: longer than radicle. Hyperoccipital carina: indicated as lateral tubercles; sunken between lateral ocelli. Frontal ledge: present; not traceable to ventral margin of compound eye. Preocellar depressions: present. Setation of pronotal cervical sulcus: absent. Setation of cervical pronotal area: absent. Sculpture of pronotal shoulders: reticulate. Sculpture of anterior margin of pronotal shoulders: carinate. Posterolateral margin of pronotal shoulders: evenly rounded. Posterior margin of pronotal shoulders: rounded. Antero-admedian line: absent. Anterior admedian depression or pit: present. Parapsidial line: absent. Median mesoscutal line: present; indicated posteriorly. Notaulus: absent. Coloration of mesoscutum: concolorous with pronotum. Shape of mesoscutum in lateral view: strongly convex. Scupture of mesoscutum: longitudinally striate. Sculpture of mesoscutellum: longitudinally striate. 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: present.
Diagnosis
Pulchrisolia nephelae closely resembles P. ankremos but can be separated from all other Pulchrisolia species due to the circular arrangement of black microtrichia in the disc of the fore wing.
Etymology
Named for the cloud nymphs of Greek mythology. The epithet is treated as a noun in the genitive case.
Link to distribution map
[http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=457303]
Material examined
Holotype, female: MALI: Koulikoro Reg., Mourdiah, 25.VIII–5.IX.1986, Malaise trap, M. Matthews, OSUC 666433 (deposited in CNCI). Paratypes: (29 females, 12 males) BENIN: 3 females, OSUC 666440–666441 (CNCI); OSUC 418469 (OSUC). BURKINA FASO: 4 females, 8 males, OSUC 666409–666416–666419, 666442–666443 (CNCI). GAMBIA: 2 females, OSUC 666438–666439 (CNCI). IVORY COAST: 18 females, 1 male, OSUC 666444–666462 (CNCI). MALI: 1 female, 3 males, OSUC 666432, 666434–666436 (CNCI). NIGERIA: 1 female, OSUC 666437 (CNCI).
Comments
The most abundant and widely distributed Pulchrisolia species currently known. Pulchrisolia nephelae is the species figured in the line drawings of Masner and Huggert (1989)[1].
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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Other References
- ↑ Masner L, Huggert L (1989) World review and keys to genera of the subfamily Inostemmatinae with reassignment of the taxa to the Platygastrinae and Sceliotrachelinae (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae).Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada147: 1–214. https://doi.org/10.4039/entm121147fv
