Pulchrisolia valerieae
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Platygastridae
Genus: Pulchrisolia
Name
Pulchrisolia valerieae Polaszek & Lahey sp. nov. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Description
Male body length: 1.18 mm (n = 1). Shape of dorsal interantennal process: apically bilobed. Length of interantennal process: longer than radicle. Hyperoccipital carina: raised between lateral ocelli. Frontal ledge: present. 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: sharply angled. Posterior margin of pronotal shoulders: rounded. Antero-admedian line: present. Anterior admedian depression or pit: present. Parapsidial line: absent. Median mesoscutal line: absent. Notaulus: absent. Coloration of mesoscutum: darker than pronotum. 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: absent. Foamy structures on anterior metapleuron: absent. Shape of fore wing: elliptical. Infuscate banding of fore wing: present. Costal margin of hind wing: darkly sclerotized posterior to hamuli. Marginal cilia of male fore wing: present.
Diagnosis
P. valerieae is unique among the species described due to the presence of antero-admedian lines and for its dark mesoscutum, mesoscutellum, legs, and metasoma.
Etymology
Named in honor of the late Valerie Coughlan, a friend of Andrew Polaszek. The epithet is treated as a noun in the genitive case.
Link to distribution map
[http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=457948]
Material examined
Holotype, male: ZAMBIA: Lukwakwa, open Dambo, 12°39"40"S; 24°26'13"E, 1147m, 4–8.ix.13, Yellow Pan, leg. Smith, Takano and Oram, NHMUK010823075, type number 9.1020 (deposited in NHMUK).
Comments
We describe P. valerieae from a single male based on our observations of interspecific, intraspecific, and intersexual variation within the genus. The coloration of all Pulchrisolia species known from males and females is virtually identical, with slight differences having been observed on the head (Figures 19, 21) and mesoscutum (Figures 5, 50) of certain species. Most species in the genus are light yellow, orange, or dark red in color; however, the male of P. valerieae has most of its mesosoma, and portions of its metasoma and legs, brownish-black (Figures 65–68, 70). The only other species that approximates the coloration of P. valerieae is P. teras, but this species has notauli and the antero-admedian depression is prominent and hemispherical in shape, even in smaller specimens. Based on what we have observed in other species of the genus, we expect both male and female P. valerieae to share similar coloration patterns and possess antero-admedian lines that flank a shallow antero-admedian depression of similar size, making it unlikely that the holotype male is conspecific with P. maculata or any of the newly described species of Pulchrisolia known only from females.
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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