Paranastatus pilosus Scallion

Scallion, Melanie L., Gibson, Gary A. P. & Sharanowski, Barbara J., 2016, Revision of Paranastatus Masi (Eupelmidae, Eupelminae) with descriptions of four new species, ZooKeys 559, pp. 59-79 : 69-72

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Eupelmidae

Paranastatus pilosus Scallion sp. n. Figs 7, 9, 11, 22

Material examined.

Holotype female, dry pinned, deposited in BMNH (Hym Type 5.4814, barcode NHMUK010198567). Label data: "INDONESIA: Seram, Solea VIII.1987, MT M. Day, forest."

Paratype females (8), dry pinned, deposited in BMNH and CNC.

(4, includes JBWM Photo 2015-05). INDONESIA. Seram, Solea. IX.1987, M. Day.

(4). INDONESIA. Seram, Solea. VIII.1987, M. Day, forest.

Diagnosis.

Females of Paranastatus pilosus are differentiated by the following combination of features: vertex granulate between ocelli, reticulate posterior to ocelli (Fig. 11); temple reticulate (Fig. 11); antenna mostly white except scape brown basally and club lightly darkened apically (Fig. 22); mandible tridentate; mesoscutum blue-purple medially, brown laterally, and reticulate (Fig. 9).

Description.

Female. Length: 2.6 mm.

Colour. Head with vertex dull black-brown, sometimes purple-brown posterior to ocelli; temple dark blue-purple; gena blue-purple (Fig. 7); lower face mostly blue-purple but brown centrally below toruli; scrobes and interantennal area green or coppery-green; frontovertex dull black-brown or with blue centrally. Antenna white, except basal half of scape brown and very tip of club slightly darkened, and sometimes club completely white (Fig. 22). Pronotum metallic purple-blue, sometimes purple-brown laterally; mesoscutum blue-purple medially, brown laterally; scutellar-axillar complex dull black; mesopleuron purple. Legs with profemur white; mesofemur white with darkened posterior apical edge; metafemur white becoming yellow-brown apically; rest of legs white. Fore wing lightly infuscate in apical half, hyaline in basal half with small infuscate patch at base; hind wing hyaline. Gastral tergites 1-2 white, rest dark brown; gastral sternites 1-4 white, remainder purplish-brown. Colour of setae on various body regions discussed in appropriate sections below.

Head. Vertex granulate between ocelli, reticulate posterior to ocelli (Fig. 11); temple reticulate (Fig. 11); gena and face reticulate; occipital margin concave in dorsal view; frontovertex with blunt teeth projecting posteriorly towards vertex or sometimes granulate. Mandible tridentate. Head with white setae except scrobes bare; eyes with dense, short white setae.

Mesosoma. Pronotum coriaceous (Figs 9, 11); mesoscutum reticulate, distinctly concave posteromedially (Fig. 9); scutellar-axillar complex reticulate (Fig. 9); mesopleuron coriaceous. Pronotum with white setae, setae longer along posterior edge; mesoscutum with dense white setae; scutellar-axillar complex with few long white setae; mesopleuron with few white setae anteriorly, remainder bare. Fore wing with dense, short brown setae; hind wing with relatively fewer short, light brown setae.

Metasoma. Entirely coriaceous with white setae evenly distributed ventrally, setae sparser and shorter dorsally, and longer at apex of gaster.

Male. Unknown.

Etymology.

From Latin pilosus-hairy, in reference to the females having noticeably more setae than the other species. This is an adjective in the nominative case.

Distribution.

Seram Island, Indonesia.

Biology.

Unknown.