Anastatus Motschulsky, 1859

Binoy, C., Hiremath, Sangamesh R. & Prathapan, K. D., 2024, The Fergusson squathopper, Messena sinuata Atkinson (Hemiptera: Eurybrachidae) and its egg parasitoids from Southern India, Journal of Natural History 58 (29 - 32), pp. 1069-1087 : 1082-1084

Anastatus Motschulsky, 1859

Anastatus Motschulsky 1859, p. 116 . Type species: Anastatus mantoidae Motschulsky. By monotypy.

Gibson (1995, p. 101) may be consulted for a complete list of generic synonymy.

Anastatus sp.

( Figures 45–54 )

Material examined

7♂, All from India: Kerala, Kozhikode district collected by C . Binoy . Malabar Christian College Campus (11.263°N, 75.779°E, 27 m), November 2018 (see ‘Material and methods’ for deposition).

Diagnosis

Head and mesosoma with bright green-golden metallic lustre, slight blue-violet tinge on lower face, mesosoma, posterior mesoscutum, anterior scutellum, metacoxa and metasoma; eye setose; head, and mesosoma with moderately dense setosity; mandible tridentate.

Description (male)

Body length 0.96–1.03 mm; length of forewing 0.74–0.81 mm.

Colour. Body metallic green-gold with the following parts variably coloured: eye faintly red; ocelli silver; mandible red-brown; scape ivory ventrally, brown dorsally; pedicel and rest of antennomeres brown; all coxae brown (metacoxa with faint metallic violet lustre); propodeal spiracle concealed below white enclosing peritreme; metasoma brown with green-golden lustre; legs ivory with variable brown patch; forewing with veins pale brown.

Head. In anterior view 1.23× as long as wide; rugose reticulate with scattered setigerous pits, lanceolate, white setae arising from pits; clypeus slightly convex; mandible tridentate, apical one acute; eye distinctly setose; scrobal depression more or less bell shaped; scape curving ( Figure 46 ); eye height 1.86× as long as malar space; malar sulcus distinct, straight; gena distinctly reticulate ( Figure 47 ); in dorsal view 1.97× as long as wide; POL 3.9× OOL, 2.25× AOL and 2.46× OD; vertex coarsely rugose reticulate ( Figure 48 ).

Mesosoma. Pronotum subconical, narrow, surface reticulate; mesoscutum coarsely areolate, 1.47× as long as wide with well-marked notauli, distinctly setose; scutellum finely areolate medially, longitudinally reticulate on sides, setose ( Figure 49 ); metanotum rugose reticulate; propodeum smooth, shiny with median carina bifurcating at adpetiolar foramen ( Figure 50 ); lateral panel of pronotum and prepectus reticulate; mesopleuron and metapleuron smooth with faint reticulation, shiny; callus with 4–5 erect white setae ( Figure 53 ).

Wings. Forewing hyaline, with short and moderately dense discal ciliation, 2.15× as long as its maximum width; marginal fringe short; SMV with four semi-erect dorsal setae; SMV 1.69× as long as MV; MV 2.0× as long as STV, as long as PMV; hindwing with similar discal ciliation as of forewing ( Figure 51 ).

Legs. Metacoxa reticulate, 1.5× as long as wide; hind femur engraved reticulate with faint metallic green-gold tint; metatibia slightly expanded apically, tibial spur short, half as long as hind basitarsus ( Figure 52 ).

Metasoma. Sessile, ovate, collapsing on drying; all terga faintly reticulate, posterior margin of all terga straight ( Figure 54 ).

Distribution

India (Kerala).

Figures

Figure 45–54. Anastatus sp. ♂ 45, habitus, lateral view; 46, head, frontal view; 47, head, lateral view; 48, head, dorsal view; 49, mesosoma, dorsal view; 50, metanotum, propodeum and metasoma (in part), dorsal view; 51, wings; 52, hind leg; 53, mesososma, lateral view; 54, metasoma, lateral view.