Synaldis navarroae Peris

Peris, Francisco Javier, Papp, Jeno, Belokobylskij, Sergey A. & Jiménez, Ricardo, 2014, Seven new Spanish species of the genus Synaldis (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae) with mesoscutal pit, Zootaxa 3764 (1), pp. 39-60 : 57-60

Synaldis navarroae Peris –Felipo, sp. nov.

( Figs 73–84 )

Etymology. Named in honor Dr Blanca Peris Navarro for her valuable help to the first author.

Type material. Holotype: female, Spain, Alicante Province, Torrevieja, Natural Park of Lagunas de La Mata – Torrevieja, 0 2.02.2005 (F.J. Peris–Felipo leg.) ( ENV). Paratype: 1 male, same label as in holotype, but 18.03.2005 ( ENV).

Description. Female.

Head entirely smooth; in dorsal view, 1.8 times as wide as median length, 1.45 times as wide as mesoscutum, with rounded temples behind eye. Eye in lateral view 1.75 times as high as wide and 0.75 times as wide as temple medially. POL 1.75 times OD; OOL 2.8 times OD. Face 1.55 times as wide as high; inner margins of eyes subparallel. Clypeus slightly curved ventrally, 2.75 times as wide as high. Paraclypeal fovea reaching middle distance between clypeus and eye. Mandible widened towards apex, 0.9 times as long as its maximum width. Upper tooth of mandible shorter than middle tooth; middle tooth wide basally and narrowed towards apex, rounded apically; lower tooth longer than upper tooth, rounded apically. Antennae thick, 18–segmented. Scape 2.5 times as long as pedicel. First flagellar segment 2.1 times as long as its apical width, 1.25 times as long as second segment; second segment 1.3 times as long as its maximum width. Third to seventh flagellar segments 1.00–1.05 times, eighth to eleventh segments 1.25–1.35 times, twelfth to fourteenth segments 1.5 times, and fifteenth segment twice as long as their maximum width. Sixteenth flagellar segment 2.25 times as long as its maximum width.

Mesosoma 1.1 times as long as high (lateral view). Mesoscutum 1.05 times as long as maximum width. Notauli mainly absent. Mesoscutal pit present, elongate. Prescutellar depression smooth, with two lateral carinae. Precoxal suture present, not reaching anterior and posterior margins of mesopleuron. Posterior mesopleural furrow smooth below. Propodeum sculptured, with median longitudinal carina from anterior to posterior margins, without transverse carinae. Propodeal spiracles small, 0.15 times as long as distance between spiracle and apical margin of propodeum.

Wings. Length of fore wing 2.45 times its maximum width. Radial cell reaching apex of wing, 3.85 times as long as its maximum width. Nervulus weakly postfurcal. Brachial cell closed, short, widened apically, 2.55 times as long as its maximum width. Hind wing 4.0 times as long as its maximum width.

Legs. Hind femur 4.0 times as long as its maximum width. Hind tibia weakly widened towards apex, about 8.0 times as long as its maximum subapical width, 0.95 times as long as hind tarsus. First segment of hind tarsus 1.75 times as long as second segment.

Metasoma distinctly compressed. First tergite completely smooth, weakly widened towards apex, 1.75 times as long as its apical width. Ovipositor 1.15 times as long as first tergite, shorter than metasoma, 1.7 times as long as hind femur.

Colour. Body and legs brown to dark brown. Wings hyaline. Pterostigma brown.

Body length 2.2 mm; fore wing length 2.4 mm.

Male. Body length 1.65 mm; fore wing length 2.1 mm. Antenna more than 18–segmented (apical segments missing). First flagellar segment 2.65 times and second segment 2.15 times as long as their maximum width. Hind femur 4.6 times as long as its maximum width.

Diagnosis. According to the key by Fischer (2003), new species is similar to S. tenerifense Fischer, 2003 and S. laquintensis Fischer, 2003 . S. navarroae sp. nov. differs from S. tenerifense in having the mandible 0.9 times as long as wide (1.4 times in S. tenerifense ), and the first flagellar segment 2.1 times as long as its width (2.5 times in S. tenerifense ). New species differs from S. laquintensis in having the mandible 0.9 times as long as wide (1.5 times in S. laquintensis ), and the first flagellar segment 2.1 times as long as its width (3.0 times in S. laquintensis ).

According to the key by Belokobylskij (2004a), new species also resembles S. bokhaica Belokobylskij, 2004 , but differs in having the mandible 0.9 times as long as wide (1.7 times in S. bokhaica ), and the first flagellar segment 2.1 times as long as its width (4.2 times in S. bokhaica ).

The differences between S. navarroae and S. falcoi and between S. navarroae and S. martinezae are showed after descriptions of the latter species.

Figures

FIGURES 73 – 78. Synaldis navarroae sp. nov. (female). 73. Habitus, lateral view. 74. Head, lateral view. 75. Mandible. 76. Antenna. 77. Basal segments of antenna. 78. Head, dorsal view.

FIGURES 79 – 84. Synaldis navarroae sp. nov. (female). 79. Mesosoma, lateral view. 80. Mesonotum. 81. Propodeum. 8.2 First metasomal tergite. 83. Hind leg, metasoma, ovipositor, lateral view. 84. Fore and hind wings.