Platecrizotes jedii, Tselikh & Lee & Ku, 2024

Tselikh, Ekaterina V., Lee, Jaehyeon & Ku, Deok-Seo, 2024, A taxonomic study of four rare pteromalid genera: Amblyharma Huang & Tong, Fusta Xiao & Ye, Nazgulia Hedqvist and Platecrizotes Ferriere from the Eastern Palaearctic (Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae, Pachyneurinae), ZooKeys 1189, pp. 349-363 : 349

Platecrizotes jedii sp. nov.

Figs 20-27

Type material.

Holotype: female, South Korea: "Gyeonggi-do, Pocheon-si, Soheul-eup, 37°45'29.2"N, 127°10'0.4"E, 15.VI.2015, Park, Choi, Nam, Shin, Kim" (NIBR). Paratype: female, "Jeollabuk-do, Gunsan-si, Okdo-myeon, Sinsido-ri, malaise trap, 04-18.VIII.2017, H.G. Lee" (ZISP).

Description.

Female. Body length 1.10-1.30 mm; fore wing length 0.80-1.05 mm.

Coloration. Head and mesosoma black. Antenna with scape black, pedicel and flagellum brown. All coxae black, all femora and tibiae brown, tarsi yellowish-brown. Fore wing hyaline, venation yellowish-brown. Metasoma dark brown partially with metallic coppery-violet lustre; ovipositor sheaths brown.

Sculpture. Head reticulate; clypeus alutaceous. Mesosoma with pronotum and mesoscutum reticulate; axillae weakly reticulate; scutellum alutaceous or weakly alutaceous and shiny; propodeum reticulate, nucha alutaceous; petiole weakly reticulate. Metasoma weakly alutaceous and shiny.

Head. Head in dorsal view 2.20-2.29 times as broad as long and 1.22-1.24 times as broad as mesoscutum; in frontal view 1.16-1.20 times as broad as high. POL 1.13-1.21 times as long as OOL. Eye height 1.52-1.54 times eye length and 1.80-2.00 times as long as malar space. Distance between antennal toruli and lower margin of clypeus 0.35-0.41 times distance between antennal toruli and median ocellus. Antenna with scape 1.00-1.05 times as long as eye height and 1.52-1.61 times as long as eye length; pedicel 1.14-1.21 times as long as broad and 1.30-1.40 times as long as F1; combined length of pedicel and flagellum 0.77-0.81 times breadth of head; F1-F5 transverse, all with 1 row of sensilla; clava 1.89-2.05 times as long as broad, with small micropilosity area on C3 and C4.

Mesosoma. Mesosoma 1.76-1.80 times as long as broad. Pronotum 0.75-0.85 times as long as mesoscutum. Scutellum 0.85-0.90 times as long as broad. Propodeum medially as long as scutellum; nucha 0.20-0.25 times length of propodeum. Fore wing 2.20-2.23 times as long as maximum width; basal cell, cubital vein and basal vein pilose; speculum closed below; M 2.00-2.16 times as long as PM and 1.78-1.93 times as long as S.

Metasoma. Metasoma 1.77-1.84 times as long as broad, 0.90-1.05 times as long as mesosoma and 0.78-0.86 times as long as mesosoma and head. Petiole 1.70-1.80 times as long as broad. Mt2 0.40-0.43 times median length of metasoma; Mt8 1.10-1.20 times longer than maximum width. Ovipositor sheath projecting slightly beyond apex of metasoma.

Male. Unknown.

Etymology.

The species is named in honour of the "Star Wars" character - “Jedi” of George Lucas.

Distribution.

Korean Peninsula.

Remarks.

This species is similar to P. europaeus Bouček, 1964 (Figs 18 , 19 ) in having black coloration of the head and mesosoma; S of the fore wing with a relatively small stigma; lower margin of the clypeus strongly protruding. However, Platecrizotes jedii sp. nov. has the fore wing with PM shorter than S (vs PM longer than S), M 5.65-6.06 times as long as broad and the proximally widened part occupying 0.50 of the vein length (vs M 3.80-4.90 times as long as broad and proximally widened part occupying 0.80 of vein length), speculum closed below (vs open); petiole 1.70-1.90 times as long as broad (vs 0.50-0.60); and all tibiae brown (vs yellowish-brown).

Figures

Figures 20 - 27. 20 - 27 Platecrizotes jedii sp. nov., female, holotype 20 habitus, lateral view 21 head and pronotum, dorsal view 22 head, frontal view 23 metasoma, dorsal view 24 head and mesosoma, lateral view 25 head, lateral view and antenna 26 fore wing 27 propodeum and petiole, dorsal view.

Figures 14 - 19. 14 - 17 Nazgulia petiolata Hedqvist, 1973, female, non-type 14 habitus, lateral view 15 fore wing 16 habitus, dorsal view 17 head, frontal view 18, 19 Platecrizotes europaeus Boucek, 1964, female, holotype 18 habitus, lateral view 19 fore wing.