Sycophila (Tineomyza) punctum Bouček, 1981

Lotfalizadeh, Hossein, Delvare, Gérard, Cruaud, Astrid & Rasplus, Jean-Yves, 2024, Morphological phylogeny and revision of Sycophila and Ficomila (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea, Eurytomidae) associated with Afrotropical fig trees (Moraceae, Ficus), Zootaxa 5401 (1), pp. 1-190 : 175-178

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Sycophila (Tineomyza) punctum Bouček, 1981 View in CoL

( Figs 127–129 View FIGURE 127 View FIGURE 128 View FIGURE 129 )

Sycophila punctum Bouček et al., 1981: 216-218 View in CoL . Holotype ♀, BMNH, not examined. Type data: Zimbabwe, Makumbi Mission nr. Harare (named Salisbury), iv.1975, A. Watsham leg. ex F. burkei .

Sycophila punctum View in CoL ; Berg & Wiebes, 1992: 191.

Sycophila punctum View in CoL ; van Noort, 2004: 227.

Sycophila punctum View in CoL ; van Noort et al., 2013: 391 (parasitoid of Odontofroggatia galili View in CoL on introduced F. microcarpa )

Material examined. Paratype. Republic of Zimbabwe, Rhodesia , Salisbury, ex syconia of F. thonningii , v.1975; Watsham A. leg., 1♀ ( BMNH) .

Guinea, Lola, ex syconia of F. thonningii , 2.v.1993, Rasplus J.-Y. leg., 8♀. Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, Lamto, 6.222197° & -5.024070°, ex syconia of Ficus thonningii , 30.iv.1994, Kerdelhué C. leg., 1♀. United Republic of Tanzania, USA River, -3.36869° & 36.862022°, ex syconia of Ficus natalensis , 6.iv.1996, Rasplus J.-Y. & Kerdelhué C. leg., 5♀ & 2♂. Mialo, 20-21.ii.1995, ex syconia of F. natalensis , Rasplus J.-Y. & Kerdelhué C. leg., 1♀. Mgwashi, -4.767051° & 38.487671°, ex syconia of Ficus natalensis , 20.iii.1996, Rasplus J.-Y. & Kerdelhué C. leg., 1♀. Mazumbai, Mt Usambara West, ex syconia of Ficus thonningii , 23.ii.1996, Rasplus J.-Y. & Kerdelhué C. leg., 1♀. Kenya, Kakamega Forest, Kisere, ex syconia of Ficus thonningii , 3.ii.2006, Hiller Y. leg., 2♀.

Diagnosis. Female body mostly dark ( Fig. 127A View FIGURE 127 ). Prepectus pilose, propodeum with median longitudinal carina basally ( Fig. 127F View FIGURE 127 ). Dark brown spot of fore wing small and round, not reaching base of mv ( Fig. 128F View FIGURE 128 ). Gt3 not covered Gt4, Gt4 straight posteriorly ( Fig. 128D View FIGURE 128 ). Lateral ocelli near to eyes, about ocellus diameter ( Fig. 127D View FIGURE 127 ).

Male antenna with only fu1 longer than wide, fu2–fu4 wider than long, pedicel + funicle shorter than head width ( Fig. 129B View FIGURE 129 ). Dark brown spot of fore wing wider than long, basal cell setose medially ( Fig. 129D View FIGURE 129 ).

Description of paratype ♀ ( Figs 127–128 View FIGURE 127 View FIGURE 128 ). Length 1.78–3.1 mm. Body generally dark brown ( Fig. 127A View FIGURE 127 ), except pronotum anterolaterally, antenna, frons in lower part, clypeus, legs yellowish; antennal colour not darkened, mostly yellowish-brown; pronotum anterolaterally testaceous; fore wing with a dark brown spot below mv, not reaching base of mv, lower margin of mv not obscured by dark brown spot ( Fig. 128E View FIGURE 128 ); gaster uniformly coloured ( Fig. 128C View FIGURE 128 ); body setation whitish, setation of fore wing entirely dark.

Head 1.12× as broad as high [HW 145 & HH 122] ( Fig. 127C View FIGURE 127 ); in dorsal view stout, 1.65× as broad as long [HW 168 & HL 102] ( Fig. 127D View FIGURE 127 ); face and vertex mostly coriaceous; malar space 0.31× length of eye [ms 22 & EH 71]; malar sulcus distinct, sinuous ( Fig. 127E View FIGURE 127 ); genal margin regularly curved, edged but not carinate; antennal toruli widely separated; interantennal space not raised, not carinate laterally; scrobal depression smooth, reaching the median ocellus, not carinate on margin; POL 2.41× as long as OOL [POL 41 & OOL 17] ( Fig. 127D View FIGURE 127 ); temple rounded, 0.32× the eye length (in dorsal view) [TL 24 & EL 75]; setation oriented downwards on face, outwards on the punctuate frons.

. Scape not reaching median ocellus, 5× as long as broad [SL 70 & SW 14]; fu1 1.38× as long as broad [fu1L 22 & fu1W 16], not longer than pedicel, not bulging dorsally; funiculars (fu2–fu4) with one row of mps and 2 whorls of adpressed short setae; fu2–fu5 slightly longer than broad ( Fig. 127B View FIGURE 127 ).

Mesosoma weakly arched dorsally, 1.6× as long as wide (180:110), with obliterate punctures ( Fig. 128A View FIGURE 128 ); pronotum with coarse umbilicate punctures; mesepisternum flattened, without any process or raised sculpture on epicnemium; mesoscutum 0.6× as long as wide (65:110), 0.8× longer than length of pronotal collar (65:80), with dense umbilicate punctures, transversely strigose anteriorly; notauli visible, slightly obliterated by mesoscutum sculpture; prepectus setose, slightly sculptured; mesoscutum 0.6× as long as wide (65:110), 0.8× longer than length of pronotal collar (65:80), umbilicate laterally and coriaceous sculpture on mesoscutellar disc; mesepimeron transversally strigose; metepimeron subtriangular and areolate with long white hairs; propodeum ( Fig. 128B View FIGURE 128 ) with shallow median depression, without smooth median band, and a distinct median carina; lateral rows of areolae absent; basal carina inverted V, truncate mesally, lateral branches slightly concave; distance between lateral carinae less than 0.5× width of nucha.

Fore wing with short marginal fringe, apically subtruncate (pointed anteriorly); dark brown spot below mv; basal cell bare or nearly so; mv slightly enlarged, triangularly broadened, in lower margin straight, longer than pmv; stv not curved; pmv distinct, longer than stv; ventral side of costal cell sparsely setose, dorsally bare; speculum present; parastigmal bristles absent ( Figs 128E, F View FIGURE 128 ).

Legs. Fore coxa without depression on frontal surface, hind coxa bare basodorsally; fore (30:10) and hind femora (30:14); hind tibia dorsally with less than 10 setae, setae shorter than basal tibial width.

Metasoma. Petiole as long as broad dorsally, ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present. Metasoma 1.8× as long as wide (170:95) ( Fig. 128C View FIGURE 128 ), longer than mesosoma, slightly compressed laterally ( Fig. 128D View FIGURE 128 ); ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present; petiole in dorsal view longer than wide, shorter than half-length of hind coxa; tergites finely sculptured; Gt4 (in lateral view) slightly as long as Gt3, sinuous posteriorly; Gt5 partly covering Gt6, sinuous posteriorly; Gt4–Gt5 with few setae dorsally, Gt6 sparsely setose ventrally; ovipositor oriented dorsad but not distinctly upturned ( Fig. 128C View FIGURE 128 ).

Male ( Fig. 129 View FIGURE 129 ). See Bouček et al. (1981).

Variation. Length 1.78–2.67 mm. Sometimes head yellowish, mainly ventrally, rarely also most of pronotum, legs and even parts of ventral mesosoma and gaster anteriorly pale ( Bouček et al., 1981).

Host plants. Ficus burkei ( Bouček et al. 1981) , F. natalensis and F. thonningii .

Geographical distribution. Guinea, Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, United Republic of Tanzania and Republic of Zimbabwe ( Bouček et al. 1981).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Eurytomidae
Genus	Sycophila