Tetrastichus enodis, Hansson & Schmidt, 2020

Hansson, Christer & Schmidt, Stefan, 2020, A revision of European species of the genus Tetrastichus Haliday (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) using integrative taxonomy, Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 59177-59177 : 59177

Tetrastichus enodis sp. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/API_Public/specimen?ids=BC-ZSM-HYM-29813-F03; catalogNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-29813-F03 ; recordNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-29813-F03; recordedBy: G.Delvare; individualID: BC-ZSM-HYM-29813-F03; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Tetrastichusenodis; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Eulophidae; genus: Tetrastichinae; taxonRemarks: Holotype deposited in NHM; Location: country: France; decimalLatitude: 43.5912; decimalLongitude: 3.25836; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; institutionCode: NHM; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Description

FEMALE holotype (Fig. 63). Body length 1.5 mm. Head. Width/length (dorsal view) 2.1, width/length (frontal view) 1.2, POL/OOL 1.8, widths head/mesosoma 1.2, mouth width/malar space 1.1, malar space/eye height 0.7. Antenna. Scape length/eye height 0.9, pedicel+flagellum length/mesosoma width 1.4, length/width F1, F2, F3 1.8, 1.6, 1.3, clava length/width 3.0, lengths pedicel/F1 0.8, lengths F1/F2 1.0, F1/F3 1.1, lengths F1, F2, F3/clava 0.4, 0.4, 0.4, widths F1/pedicel (dorsal view) 1.0, lengths antennal spicule/C3 0.2. Mesosoma. Length/width 1.5, mesoscutal mid-lobe length/width (width measured in anterior part) 1.0, mid-lobe with a median groove that is missing in very furthest anterior part, with four adnotaular setae on each side, lengths mesoscutum/mesoscutellum (measured medially) 1.5, mesoscutellum length/width 0.7, length/width of enclosed space between submedian grooves 2.0, distance between SMG/distance between SMG and SLG 1.8, lengths dorsellum/propodeum (measured medially) 0.9, propodeum smooth, propodeal callus with four setae. Fore wing. Costal cell length/width 11.8, lengths costal cell/marginal vein 1.0, lengths marginal/stigmal veins 3.1. Gaster. Ovate, length/width 2.4, lengths gaster/head+mesosoma 1.6, Gt7 length/width 0.7, length of longest cercal seta/next longest seta 1.3, longest seta weakly curved almost straight, ovipositor sheaths projecting beyond apex of Gt7.

Colour. Body dark brown to black with weak metallic tinges, antenna pale brown, tegulae dark brown, wings hyaline with veins pale yellowish-brown, coxae black with weak metallic tinges, femora and trochanters dark brown, fore tibia and tarsus infuscate, mid and hind tibiae pale yellowish-brown, mid and and hind tarsi white with T4 pale brown.

MALE. Unknown.

Diagnosis

Frons with interscrobal area as a wide carina reaching almost to median ocellus; propodeum smooth and shiny.

Distribution

France.

Ecology

Host

Unknown.

Remarks

The left femora, tibia and tarsus of mid and hind leg are detached and glued to a separate card.

Notes

Holotype deposited in NHM.