Aphanogmus feltiellophagus Lotfalizadeh, 2025
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https://doi.org/10.61186/jibs.11.3.693 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4C0E4216-949B-438E-893D-E5EA35CEF8CF |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CD87B0-FFD5-FF9A-A53F-FC11FF6BFB18 |
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Felipe |
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Aphanogmus feltiellophagus Lotfalizadeh |
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sp. nov. |
Aphanogmus feltiellophagus Lotfalizadeh , sp. nov. ( Fig. 1A–F View Figure 1 )
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Material examined. Holotype ♀: Iran, Khorasan Razavi province, Azghad ( 36.2005°N, 59.3362°E), July- August 2018, ex Feltiella acarisuga on Urtica dioica, M. Mollaei leg., deposited in HMIM. Paratypes: 6♀♀ & 1♂, same data as holotype, deposited in HMIM.
Type materials conditions. All type materials were card-mounted ( 3 females on rectangular cards and the rest on card points). All of these specimens are in good condition except two females that miss flagemomeres, one female misses the head and one of the females is mounted with dissected head, mesosoma and metasoma.
Etymology. The species is named after the host generic name, Feltiella acarisuga ( Diptera : Cecidomyiidae ).
Diagnosis. Morphologically, A. feltiellophagus Lotfalizadeh , sp. nov. falls into the tenuicornis species group based on the absence of a median mesoscutal sulcus, and the presence of a metasomal basal carina. However, among members of this group, the new species can be distinguished by the key to species provided below in combination with the following characters: scape 0.6 times as long as height of head; pedicel 1.7 times as long as fl 1; fl 7 1.9 times as wide as fl 1; club of antenna 1 segmented; fore wing hyaline; stv 0.75 times as long as mv; relative length of POL:OD 2; relative length of OOL:OD 1.6. According to a key to the Palaearctic species of Aphanogmus ( Szelényi, 1940) , the new species runs to A. gracilicornis Förster based on the following characters: Frons transverse; antenna clavate, club 1 segmented; stv present and at least as long as the mv. However, the new species could be distinguished from A. gracilicornis with clavate antenna while A. feltiellophagus Lotfalizadeh , sp. nov. has non-clavate antenna with cylindrical funiculars.
Description. Female ( Fig. 1A View Figure 1 ). Body length 0.82 (0.76–0.84, n = 7) mm. Head dark brown. Scape yellow; pedicel and all flagellomeres yellowish brown. Mesosoma dark brown. Fore wing hyaline. All coxae dark brown basally and yellow in apical half; all femora yellow-brown; all tibiae yellow; tarsi pale yellow. Metasoma brown.
Head. Head superficially reticulated, in frontal view ( Fig. 1C View Figure 1 ) 1.1 times as wide as high, in dorsal view ( Fig. 1F View Figure 1 ) 1.7 times as wide as long, 1.1 times as wide as mesosoma; interocular distance 0.6 times as long as head width; malar space 0.6 times as long as eye height; lateral margin of torulus distinctly raised; intertorular carina distinct; frontal depression smooth; ocellar foveae absent; preocellar pit absent; facial pit absent; preoccipital furrow present and extends from anterior ocellus to occipital foramen; preoccipital carina absent; preoccipital lunula absent; occipital carina present; occipital depression absent; occiput smooth; POL 2 times as long as OD, OOL 1.6 times as long as OD, LOL shorter than OD (0.8 as long as OD). Antenna ( Fig. 1D View Figure 1 ) with 10 antenomeres; scape 0.6 times as long as height of head, 0.9 times as long as distance between inner orbits; pedicel 1.7 times as long as fl 1; the following segments gradually widened; fl 1 1.7, fl 2 1.1, fl 3 1.1, fl 4 0.9, fl 5 0.7, fl 6 1.1, fl 7 1.0 and fl 8 2.0 times as long as wide; fl 7 about as long as fl 1.
Mesosoma. Mesosoma 1.4 times as long as wide; about as long as high; mesoscutum reticulate, sparsely setose ( Fig. 1F View Figure 1 ); setal base slightly pustulate; median mesoscutal sulcus absent; notaulus absent; parapsidal line absent; interaxillar sulcus present; scutoscutellar sulcus angled medially, foveolate, continuous with interaxillar sulcus; dorsal axillar area and mesoscutellum sculptured as mesoscutum; mesoscutellum 1.1 times as long as wide; anterior mesopleural sulcus distinct; anterior mesopleural area finely reticulate with several setae; dorsal mesometapleural carina straight; anterior mesopleural sulcus perpendicularly intersecting dorsal mesometapleural carina; metapleural carina distinct, extends near dorsal mesometapleural carina. Metacoxa bare dorsally; longitudinal metacoxal carina present at base. Fore wing ( Fig. 1F View Figure 1 ) 2.6 times as long as wide, hyaline; stv 0.75 times as long as mv.
Metasoma. Syntergum with distinct transverse carina anteriorly, as long as wide, smooth, occupying 0.5 times total length of metasoma; syntergum with short longitudinal striae.
MALE ( Fig. 1B View Figure 1 ). Differs from female as follows: Body length 0.72 mm; Antenna ( Fig. 1E View Figure 1 ) with 11 antennomeres; flagellomeres pale yellow, longer than wide (at least 2 times as long as wide), flagellar setae long, 2.0 times width of flagellomeres; legs mainly brownish.
Distribution. Northeastern Iran.
Host. Feltiella acarisuga (Vallot) ( Diptera : Cecidomyiidae ). From each host cocoon, one adult parasitoid emerged.
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