Netomocera gloriosa, Mitroiu, 2019

Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan, 2019, Revision of Netomocera Bouček (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae), excluding the Oriental species, European Journal of Taxonomy 568, pp. 1-87 : 39-42

Netomocera gloriosa sp. nov.

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Figs 76–86

Diagnosis

Both sexes

Head black ( Figs 77–78, 85). Macropterous; fore wing subhyaline ( Figs 84–85). Clypeal margin slightly produced ( Fig. 79). Scrobes deep and smooth ( Fig. 77). Upper face and vertex with eight large setae ( Fig. 78). Occiput margin blunt ( Fig. 78). Pronotal collar wide but not long ( Fig. 82). Mesepimeral sulcus shallow. Propodeum ( Fig. 83) without a well-defined V-shaped area basally. Visible part of petiole very short, distinctly transverse, with more or less obliterate sculpture ( Fig. 83).

Female

Toruli distinctly below lower margins of eyes ( Fig. 77). Face with conspicuous piliferous punctures. Antenna with funicle gradually becoming brown towards clava; flagellum strongly clavate; clava conspicuously asymmetric; fu1 and fu7 strongly transverse ( Fig. 80). Mesoscutum width about 2.6× length. Fore wing with basal third extensively bare, except for several setae across basal cell ( Fig. 84).

Male

Body length 1.2–1.5 mm. Mesosoma dorsally with reticulation not dense, alveolae shallow (cf. Fig. 82). Funicular segments slender and long, fu1 not wider than pedicel, length 2.0–2.1 × width ( Fig. 86).

Etymology

The name of the species (adjective) indicates the locality where the type material was collected (Mount Glorious).

Material examined

Holotype

AUSTRALIA • ♀; “ AUST.: Qld. 630m. Mt. Glorious S.F., Feb. 28-March 9, 84, L. Masner, MT ”; “Dry sclerophyl Eucalyptus for.”; “ Netomocera, det. R. A. Burks ”; left flagellum missing, left fore wing glued aside, on triangular card; CNC.

Allotype

AUSTRALIA • ♂; “ AUST.: Qld. 630m. Mt. Glorious S.F., Feb. 28-March 9, 84, L. Masner, MT ”; CNC.

Additional paratype

AUSTRALIA • 1 ♂; same data as for allotype; CNC .

Description

Female (habitus: Fig. 76)

COLOUR. Head ( Figs 77–78) black. Mandibles reddish, teeth reddish-brown. Antenna ( Fig. 80) with scape and pedicel light yellowish-brown; flagellum yellowish-brown basally, gradually becoming dark brown towards clava; clava yellowish ventrally. Mesosoma ( Figs 81–83) reddish-brown. Legs reddishyellow. Wings ( Fig. 84) subhyaline, venation and setation brown. Metasoma ( Fig. 76) with petiole and gaster reddish-brown. Body setation pale except for several large, symetrically arranged dark brown setae.

BODY LENGTH. 1.5 mm.

HEAD. Clypeus virtually smooth; apical margin slightly produced ( Fig. 79). Lower face reticulate, piliferous punctures distinct. Upper face, including vertex, with shallow reticulation ( Fig. 78); scrobes deep, smooth and shiny; parascrobal region extensively striate-reticulate ( Fig. 77). Occiput coriaceousalutaceous; margin blunt ( Fig. 78). Toruli with lower margins distinctly below lower margins of eyes ( Fig. 77). Antenna with flagellum strongly widening towards clava; clava conspicuously asymmetric ( Fig. 80). Upper face and vertex with eight large setae. Head in dorsal view with width about twice length (76:38) and in frontal view about 1.2× height (76:64). POL about 3.8× OOL (23:6). Eye height about 1.4 × length (45:32), about 3.2× malar space (45:14) and about 1.5× scape length (45:30). Head width about 1.2× length of pedicel plus flagellum (76:62). Fu1 length about 0.7× width (3.5:5.0); fu7 width about 1.6× length (10.5:6.5); clava length about 1.9× width (21:11).

MESOSOMA. Pronotal collar slightly narrower than mesoscutum, with eight large setae ( Fig. 82). Mesonotum moderately setose dorsally ( Fig. 82). Mesoscutum and axillae with extremely fine reticulation, appearing almost smooth ( Fig. 82). Scutellar disc as mesoscutum, but longitudinally striate on frenal area ( Figs 82–83). Mesepisternum mainly reticulate, less conspicuously so dorsally ( Fig. 81). Mesepimeron smooth; mesepimeral sulcus shallow. Propodeum mainly smooth, with intricate pattern of carinae, interspaces smooth to finely wrinkled ( Fig. 83). Macropterous; fore wing extensively bare on basal third, except for several setae across basal cell ( Fig. 84). Mesosoma length about 1.2 × width (75:62) and about 1.3× height (62:48). Pronotal collar 0.45 × as long as mesoscutum (11:24) and about 0.9× as wide as mesoscutum (55:62). Mesoscutum width about 2.6× length (62:24). Scutellum length 0.85 × width (30:35). Propodeum length about half scutellum length (15:30). Fore wing length 2.25 × width (135:60); MV 4× SV (40:10) and about 3.6× SV (40:11).

METASOMA. Petiole barely visible, transverse, smooth except for a few superficial longitudinal striae ( Fig. 83). Gaster ovate, length about 1.4× width (82:60) ( Fig. 76); gt1 long, length about 0.9× width (55:60), with hind margin straight to slightly produced; gt2–6 short; syntergum acutely pointed. Ovipositor sheaths slightly protruding beyond apex of gaster. Cercal setae surpassing apex of gaster.

Male (habitus: Fig. 85)

Differs from female mainly as follows. Body length: 1.2–1.5 mm. Flagellum uniformly dark brown or fu1 sometimes paler ( Fig. 86). Mesosoma dorsally yellowish to dark brown but in the latter case pronotal collar, metanotum and propodeum lighter; gaster dorsally yellowish, with darker margins to uniformly brown. Fu1 length 2.0–2.1× width, remaining funicular segments subequal in length to fu1; combined length of pedicel plus flagellum 2.4–2.6 × head width. Fore wing more setose on basal third, with small to medium bare region. Gaster (inflated) as long as or shorter than mesosoma, length 1.5–1.7 × width.

Distribution

Australia.

Remarks

Both sexes are similar to those of N. sedlaceki . This could be the macropterous form of the latter species, but differences in body setation, and the shape and colour of the antenna indicate it is a different species.