Ficomila carolae Lotfalizadeh, 2024
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5401.1.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10524410 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FD6B5E-721C-6102-5486-B0F8FB1FFB1F |
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Plazi |
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Ficomila carolae Lotfalizadeh |
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Ficomila carolae Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus sp. n.
( Figs 21‒23 View FIGURE 21 View FIGURE 22 View FIGURE 23 )
Type material examined. Holotype ♀: Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, Lamto, 6.222197° -5.024070°, ex syconia of Ficus laurifolia ( =ovata ), 11.v.1995, Kerdelhué C. leg. Deposited in CBGP. Paratypes: same data as holotype, 12♀ & 5♂. United Republic of Tanzania, Mazumbai, ex syconia of Ficus chirindensis , 16.iii.1996, Rasplus J.-Y. & Kerdelhué C. leg., 12♀ & 4♂.
Etymology. The species is named in honor of our colleague Carole Kerdelhué who sampled the holotype.
Diagnosis. Female body dark brown ( Fig. 21A View FIGURE 21 ), clava entirely or at least two distal clavomeres yellowish-orange. POL short, less than 2× as long as OOL ( Fig. 21D View FIGURE 21 ). Flagellum with fu2–fu4 as long as broad, fu5 wider than long ( Fig. 21B View FIGURE 21 ). Mesoscutum coriaceous with sparse umbilicate punctures ( Fig. 22A View FIGURE 22 ). Gaster of female compressed laterally, dorsally angulate ( Fig. 22D View FIGURE 22 ).
Male body yellowish, robust, partly dark, clava dark or dark brown, femora enlarged ( Fig. 23A View FIGURE 23 ). Flagellum with fu2–fu5 elongate, longer than broad ( Fig. 23B View FIGURE 23 ). Propodeum with short median carina, with a U-shaped carina below basal carina ( Fig. 21C View FIGURE 21 ). Fore wing and mv extremely setose ( Fig. 23D View FIGURE 23 ).
Description of holotype ♀ ( Figs 21–22 View FIGURE 21 View FIGURE 22 ). Length 4.08 mm; generally dark ( Fig. 21A View FIGURE 21 ), except gaster, femora, funiculars brown and tibia, tarsomeres, femora distally, pronotum anterolaterally, scape and clava yellowish; fore wing with a dark brown spot below mv, lower margin of mv obscured by dark brown spot, dark brown spot reaching base of mv ( Fig. 22E View FIGURE 22 ); gaster uniformly coloured ( Fig. 22C View FIGURE 22 ); body setation whitish, setation of fore wing entirely dark.
Head 1.51× as broad as high [HW 234 & HH 155] ( Fig. 21C View FIGURE 21 ); in dorsal view transverse, 2.18× as broad as long [HW 234 & HL 108] ( Fig. 21D View FIGURE 21 ); face coriaceous with sparse punctures, vertex mostly coriaceous; malar space 0.38× length of eye [ms 50 & EH 130]; malar sulcus distinct, straight ( Fig. 21E View FIGURE 21 ); lower margin of gena sinuous, edged but not carinate; antennal toruli widely separated, interantennal space not raised, carinate laterally; scrobal depression slightly sculptured dorsally, reaching the median ocellus, not carinate on margin; POL 1.79× as long as OOL [POL 50 & OOL 28] ( Fig. 21D View FIGURE 21 ); temple margined, 0.38× the eye length (in dorsal view) [TL 55 & EL 147]; setation oriented downwards on face, outwards on the punctuate frons.
Antenna. Scape not reaching median ocellus, 4.36× as long as broad [SL 96 & SW 22]; fu1 1.41× as long as broad [fu1L 48 & fu1W 34], distinctly longer than pedicel, bulging dorsally; funicular (fu2–fu4) with two rows of mps and several whorls of adpressed short setae; fu2–fu4 not longer than broad; fu5 slightly wider than long ( Fig. 21B View FIGURE 21 ).
Mesosoma weakly arched dorsally, 1.55× as long as wide (170:110), with obliterate punctures ( Fig. 22A View FIGURE 22 ); pronotum with sparse umbilicate punctures; mesodiscrimen with a ring-like process, adjacent to mesocoxa; mesoscutum 0.6× as long as wide (65:110), 0.7× longer than length of pronotal collar (65:95), coriaceous, sparsely umbilicate; notauli conspicuous, slightly obliterated by mesoscutum sculpture; prepectus bare, with raised sculpture; mesoscutellum shallowly umbilicate laterally and coriaceous medially; mesepimeron transversally strigose; metepimeron subtriangular and areolate with long white hairs; propodeum ( Fig. 22B View FIGURE 22 ) with deep median depression, without 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 less than 0.5× width of nucha.
Fore wing with short marginal fringe; proximally subtruncate (pointed anteriorly); dark brown spot below mv; basal cell bare or nearly so; mv distinctly enlarged, normally broadened, in lower margin concave; stv curved up; pmv not distinct; costal cell ventrally and dorsally bare; speculum present; parastigmal bristles absent ( Figs 22E, F View FIGURE 22 ).
Legs. Fore coxa without depression on frontal surface, hind coxa bare basodorsally; fore (30:13) and hind femora (32:14); hind tibia dorsally with more than 10 setae, setae shorter than basal tibial width.
Metasoma. Petiole shorter than broad dorsally, ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present. Metasoma 1.65× as long as wide (175:110) ( Fig. 22C View FIGURE 22 ), longer than mesosoma, strongly compressed laterally, dorsally angulate ( Fig. 22D View FIGURE 22 ); ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present; petiole in dorsal view not longer than wide, shorter than half-length of hind coxa; tergites finely sculptured; Gt4 (in lateral view) slightly as long as Gt3, sinuous posteriorly; Gt5 mostly covering Gt6, sinuous posteriorly; Gt4 with few setae dorsally, Gt6 sparsely setose ventrally; ovipositor upturned ( Fig. 22C View FIGURE 22 ).
Male ( Fig. 23 View FIGURE 23 ). Length 3.77–4.92 mm. Similar to female with longer petiole ( Fig. 23A View FIGURE 23 ); exhibiting different colouration, mostly yellowish, clava dark brown, median tergites dark brown; antennal formula 11143 ( Fig. 23B View FIGURE 23 ); each funicular with 2 rows of mps and several whorls of relatively short adpressed setae; Propodeum with short median carina, with a U-shaped carina below basal carina ( Fig. 21C View FIGURE 21 ); fore wing more setose than in female, without speculum, with a second dark brown V-shaped spot at base ( Fig. 23D View FIGURE 23 ).
Variation. Length 3.60–4.91mm. Legs yellowish-brown.
Host plants. Ficus chirindensis and F. laurifolia .
Geographical distribution. Republic of Côte d’Ivoire and United Republic of Tanzania.
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