Cyphacolus lucianae Valerio, Masner & Austin

Valerio, Alejandro A., Masner, Lubomir & Austin, Andrew D., 2010, Systematics of Cyphacolus Priesner (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae s. l.), an Old World genus of spider egg parasitoid, Zootaxa 2645, pp. 1-48 : 29-30

Cyphacolus lucianae Valerio, Masner & Austin , new species

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:9BDE9B2B-9FF1-47D0-A119-94 F67929 DBB6 urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts: 240838

Figures 5, 66–71, 106–107; Morphbank45

Description. Female. Body length: 1.43–2.24 mm (n=19).

Antenna color: antennal A1 light yellow, remainder of antenna honey yellow. Body color: mostly honey yellow except posterior 1/5 of mesoscutum, mesopleuron, lower 1/3 of metapleuron and metasoma dark brown, anterior 2/3 of metasomal horn on T1 whitish. Coxae color: honey yellow. Leg color (excluding the coxae): light yellow. Fore wing color: basal 1/3 and area at 2/5 hyaline, area below stigma infuscate as well as area beyond basal 1/3.

Head shape in lateral view: broad, short. Sculpture of antennal scrobe: with weak sinuate transverse costae. Shape of torular triangle: not bulging, flat. Development of central keel on frons: completely absent. Sculpture of frons: largely smooth, coriaceous near compound eye. Sculpture of malar space: mainly smooth, coriaceous near margin of compound eye. Medial surface of vertex: flat to weakly convex (normal). Size of lateral ocellus: minute (as in C. lucianae ). Distance between lateral ocellus and occipital carina:> 1.5x maximum ocellar width. Length of OOL: ≤1/3 width of ocellus. Sculpture of vertex: largely smooth, with sparse, setigerous punctulae. Surface of occiput: evenly concave (normal). Sculpture of occipital carina: largely simple, at most with few, weak crenulae medially. Proximity of occipital carina to orbital carina: well separated by distance at least 2x width of occipital carina. Shape of occipital carina: simply arcuate medially. Sculpture of occiput: with sparse, weak, oblique carinae dorsolaterally.

Sculpture of pronotal cervical area: foveate, foveae generally rounded to weakly ovoid. Sculpture of pronotal lateral area: weakly punctate. Netrion: absent, obscured by longitudinal sculpture on lateral pronotum. Notauli: absent. Sculpture of mesoscutum: completely cover by broad, parallel, longitudinal costae, which do not converge anteriorly. Sculpture of mesoscutellum: mainly smooth except for 2rows of punctures at lateral margin and granulate sculpture. Mesoscutellum shape: strongly convex, wider than long. Sculpture of lateral propodeum: densely, transversely costate. Shape of propodeal anterior spines: elongate, narrow, apex conspicuously broadened. Sculpture of propodeum between anterior spines: transversely costate. Sculpture of ventral mesepisternum: with longitudinally costae. Density of longitudinal costae on dorsal mesepisternum: sparse. Thickness of longitudinal costae on dorsal mesepisternum: broad. Length of longitudinal costae on dorsal mesepisternum: reaching to meso-metapleural suture. Sculpture of mesopleural femoral depression: smooth. Sculpture of metapleuron: dorsal half smooth, anterior 2/3 of ventral region with weak, setigerous punctulae, posterior 1/3 of ventral region longitudinally costate.

Shape of wings: very convex in lateral view, with a conspicuous constriction at 2/5 of its length.

Shape of horn on T1 (in posterior view): narrow and short. Lateral carinae on posterior part of horn: present, cristate, not fused posteriorly. Sculpture of upper portion of T1 horn: smooth. Sculpture of posterior portion of T1 horn: smooth. Lateral carinae on T2: present and conspicuously. Sculpture of T2: largely smooth, anterior 1/4 with weak, granulate sculpture mixed with costae of uniform length. Sculpture of T3: largely weakly coriaceous, posterior margin smooth or sculpture strongly effaced. Sculpture of S3–S6: weakly coriaceous, with sparse setigerous punctulae.

Male. Similar to females except for: body color darker, lower face dark band wider and less defined; body length 1.98 mm; mesoscutum longitudinal costate sculpture denser, finer and shorter; mesoscutellum not as globose.

Diagnosis. This species can be easily identified by the presence of a double row of punctures at the lateral areas of the mesoscutellum, the mainly yellow body color, the mesoscutum having longitudinal costate sculpture not emerging from one spot anteriorly, and the globose mesoscutellum.

Etymology. This species is named after our colleague and close friend Luciana Musetti at Ohio State University for bringing a taste of Brazil to the Platy PBI.

45. http://www.morphbank.net/?id=514206 Link to distribution map. 46

Material examined. Holotype female: ZIMBABWE: Harare (Salisbury), XI-1981, A. Watsham, OSUC 237834 (deposited in CNCI). Paratypes: (18 females, 6 males) IVORY COAST: 1 male, OSUC 237847 ( CNCI). MADAGASCAR: 1 male, OSUC 237846 ( CNCI). SOUTH AFRICA: 4 females, 2 males, OSUC 237828, 237838–237840, 237845, 237848 ( CNCI). SWAZILAND: 1 female, OSUC 237819 ( CNCI). ZIMBABWE: 13 females, 2 males, OSUC 237820–237826, 237829–237830, 237832–237833, 237836– 237837, 237843–237844 ( CNCI).

FIGURES 66–71. Cyphacolus lucianae n. sp., holotype female ( OSUC 237836). 66, Dorsal habitus; 67, Lateral habitus; 69, Mesosoma , lateral view. Cyphacolus lucianae n. sp., paratype female ( OSUC 237832). 68, Mesosoma , dorsal view; 70, Head, anterior view; 71, Metasoma, dorsal view. Morphbank47

46. http://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/HymOnline/map-large.html?id= 240838