Ficomila flava Lotfalizadeh, 2024

Lotfalizadeh, Hossein, Delvare, Gérard, Cruaud, Astrid & Rasplus, Jean-Yves, 2024, Morphological phylogeny and revision of Sycophila and Ficomila (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea, Eurytomidae) associated with Afrotropical fig trees (Moraceae, Ficus), Zootaxa 5401 (1), pp. 1-190 : 49-51

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5401.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10524416
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scientific name	Ficomila flava Lotfalizadeh
status	sp. n.

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Ficomila flava Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus sp. n.

( Figs 27–29 View FIGURE 27 View FIGURE 28 View FIGURE 29 )

Type material examined. Holotype ♀: Gabon, La Lopé, -0.527451° 11.540916°, ex syconia of Ficus recurvata , 5.ii.2008, Cruaud A. & Zahab R. leg. Deposited in CBGP. Paratypes: same data as holotype, 2♂. Guinea, Monts Nimba, Mifergui, ex syconia of Ficus artocarpoides , 6.v.1993, Rasplus J.-Y. leg., 3♀. Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, Lamto, 6.222197° -5.024070°, ex syconia of Ficus scott-elliottii , 11.iv.1994, Kerdelhué C. leg., 25♀ & 11♂. United Republic of Tanzania, Amani, Mt Usambara East, ex syconia of F. ottoniifolia subsp. ulugurensis , 10.iii.1996, Rasplus J.-Y. & Kerdelhué C. leg., 5♀.

Etymology. The specific name refers to its yellowish body colouration.

Diagnosis. Female body yellowish, with mesosoma dorsally almost brown or with a dark brown band ( Fig. 27A View FIGURE 27 ), sometimes yellowish. Flagellum with fu2–fu5 longer than broad ( Fig. 27B View FIGURE 27 ). Mesosoma densely coriaceous with sparse umbilicate punctures ( Fig. 28A View FIGURE 28 ). Gaster of female compressed laterally, dorsally angulate ( Fig. 28E View FIGURE 28 ).

Male body slender, yellowish and partly dark ( Fig. 29A View FIGURE 29 ). Antennal formula 11143, fu2–fu4 long, longer than broad, clava 3-segmented ( Fig. 29B View FIGURE 29 ). Propodeum with 2 rows of areolae medially ( Fig. 29C View FIGURE 29 ). Fore wing partly bare, not densely setose ( Fig. 29D View FIGURE 29 ).

Description of holotype ♀ ( Figs 27–28 View FIGURE 27 View FIGURE 28 ). Length 3.60 mm. Body yellowish ( Fig. 27A View FIGURE 27 ), except head in occipital region, ocellar area, mesosoma dorsomedially, propodeum medially, gaster medially black and antennal flagellum blackish-yellowish; pronotum yellowish and black dorsomedially; fore wing with a dark brown spot below mv, lower margin of mv not obscured by dark brown spot, dark brown spot reaching base of mv ( Fig. 28C View FIGURE 28 ); gaster bicoloured ( Fig. 28D View FIGURE 28 ); body setation whitish, setation of fore wing entirely dark.

Head 1.26× as broad as high [HW 158 & HH 125] ( Fig. 27C View FIGURE 27 ); in dorsal view stout, 1.77× as broad as long [HW 158 & HL 89] ( Fig. 27D View FIGURE 27 ); face coriaceous with sparse punctures, vertex mostly coriaceous; malar space 0.65× length of eye [ms 45 & EH 69]; malar sulcus distinct, straight ( Fig. 27E View FIGURE 27 ); lower margin of gena sinuous, edged but not carinate; antennal toruli widely separated, interantennal space not raised, carinate laterally; scrobal depression smooth, reaching the median ocellus, carinate on margin (at least dorsally); POL 2.57× as long as OOL [POL 54 & OOL 21] ( Fig. 27D View FIGURE 27 ); temple margined, 0.41× the eye length (in dorsal view) [TL 35 & EL 85]; setation oriented downwards on face, outwards on the punctuate frons.

Antenna. Scape not reaching median ocellus, 3.16× as long as broad [SL 60 & SW 19]; fu1 2× as long as broad [fu1L 30 & fu1W 15], distinctly longer than pedicel, bulging dorsally; funiculars (fu2–fu4) with two rows of mps and several whorls of adpressed setae, fu2–fu5 slightly longer than broad ( Fig. 27B View FIGURE 27 ).

Mesosoma weakly arched dorsally, 1.5× as long as wide (150:100), with obliterate punctures ( Fig. 28A View FIGURE 28 ); pronotum with sparse umbilicate punctures, mesodiscrimen with a ring-like process, adjacent to mesocoxa; mesoscutum 0.65× as long as wide (65:100), 0.75× longer than length of pronotal collar (65:85), sparsely umbilicate, transversely strigose anteriorly; notauli impressed; prepectus bare, with raised sculpture; mesoscutellum sparsely umbilicate laterally; mesepimeron transversally strigose; metepimeron subtriangular and areolate with long white hairs; propodeum ( Fig. 28B View FIGURE 28 ) with deep median depression, with a smooth median band, with two short submedian carinae; lateral rows of areolae long and extending at least over posterior half of propodeum; inverted U-shaped basal carina, lateral branches relatively straight, width of basal carinae about 0.5× width of nucha.

Fore wing with short marginal fringe, apically subtruncate (pointed anteriorly); dark brown spot below mv; basal cell bare or nearly so, mv distinctly enlarged, triangularly broadened, in lower margin concave; stv curved up; pmv not distinct; costal cell ventrally and dorsally bare; speculum present; parastigmal bristles absent ( Fig. 28C View FIGURE 28 ).

Legs. Fore coxa without depression on frontal surface, hind coxa bare basodorsally; fore (32:12) and hind femora (32:14); hind tibia dorsally with about 10 setae, setae shorter than tibia width basally.

Metasoma. Petiole shorter than broad dorsally, ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present. Metasoma 1.65× as long as wide (165:100) ( Fig. 28D View FIGURE 28 ), longer than mesosoma, slightly compressed laterally ( Fig. 28E View FIGURE 28 ); ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present; petiole in dorsal view not longer than wide, shorter than half length of hind coxa; tergites smooth; Gt4 (in lateral view) slightly as long as Gt3, sinuous posteriorly; Gt5 partly covering Gt6, sinuous posteriorly; Gt6 with few setae ventrally; ovipositor oriented dorsad but not distinctly upturned ( Fig. 28D View FIGURE 28 ).

Male ( Fig. 29 View FIGURE 29 ). Length 2.06–2.38 mm. Similar to female with longer petiole ( Fig. 29A View FIGURE 29 ); exhibiting same colouration; antennal formula 11143; each funicular with 2 rows of mps and several whorls of relatively long erected setae ( Fig. 29B View FIGURE 29 ); fore wing more setose than in female, without speculum ( Fig. 29D View FIGURE 29 ).

Variation. Length 2.20–3.65 mm. Sometimes gaster uniformly yellowish. Antennal flagellum yellowish-brown.

Host plants. Ficus artocarpoides , F. scott-elliottii , F. ottoniifolia and F. recurvata .

Geographical distribution. Gabon, Guinea, Republic of Côte d’Ivoire and United Republic of Tanzania.