Macroteleia rufa Szelenyi

Chen, Hua-yan, Johnson, Norman F., Masner, Lubomir & Xu, Zai-fu, 2013, The genus Macroteleia Westwood (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae s. l., Scelioninae) from China, ZooKeys 300, pp. 1-98 : 61-64

Macroteleia rufa Szelenyi Plates 5152

Macroteleia rufa Szelényi 1938: 91, 92 (original description); Kozlov and Kononova 1987: 94, 95 (keyed); Kozlov and Kononova 1990: 189, 190, 197 (description, keyed); Petrov 1994: 96 (comparison with Macroteleia angelovi Petrov); Kononova 1995: 70, 72 (keyed); Kononova and Petrov 2003: 605 (keyed); Kononova and Kozlov 2008: 231, 235 (description, keyed, synonym).

Macroteleia eremicola Priesner 1951: 137 (original description); Masner and Muesebeck 1968: 39 (type information); Kononova and Kozlov 2008: 235 (junior synonym of Macroteleia rufa Szelényi).

Description.

Female. Body length 4.55-6.62 mm (n=10).

Color. Head and mesosoma yellowish brown; metasoma with T1 and T6 variably dark brown to black, otherwise yellow; mandible dark brown; palpi yellow; legs yellow throughout; A1 yellow, A2-A5 dark brown, remainder of antenna black; fore wing hyaline.

Head. Transverse in dorsal view, 1.30 –1.44× as wide as long, slightly wider than mesosoma; lateral ocellus contiguous with inner orbit of compound eye; POL 1.36 –1.46× LOL; occipital carina continuous medially, irregularly punctate; central keel weakly developed above interantennal process (Plate 52A); medial frons punctate rugulose ventrally, irregularly smooth dorsally; ventrolateral frons punctate rugose; frons below median ocellus densely punctate; vertex densely punctate, interspaces in part with microsculpture; gena punctate rugose; length of A3 1.09 –1.19× length of A2.

Mesosoma. Cervical pronotal area densely punctate; dorsal pronotal area areolate rugose; lateral pronotal area longitudinally striate dorsally, punctate rugulose ventrally; netrion punctate rugulose; notaulus narrow, irregularly foveolate; middle lobe of mesoscutum densely punctate, becoming denser anteriorly and at posterior end; lateral lobe of mesoscutum densely punctate, interspaces in part with microsculpture; mesoscutellum densely punctate throughout; metascutellum triangular (Plate 52B), posterior margin strongly produced medially, extending into space between propodeal lobes; propodeum narrowly divided into two subtriangular lobes (Plate 52B), each side with several irregular longitudinal carinae medially, otherwise punctate rugulose, covered by dense, recumbent, white setae; upper mesepisternum with a row of strong longitudinal carinae below subalar pit; lower mesepisternum longitudinally punctate rugulose; mesopleural depression smooth (Plate 52C); metapleuron longitudinally striate dorsoventrally, punctate rugulose medially.

Legs. Slender; hind femur weakly swollen, 4.10 –4.37× as long as its maximum width; hind tibia without spines over outer surface; hind basitarsus 10.14 –11.33× as long as its maximum width.

Wings. Apex of fore wing extending from as far as anterior third to mid-length of T4; R 1.38 –2.08× as long as r-rs, R1 1.67 –2.08× length of R.

Metasoma. Posterior margin of transverse sulcus on T2 strongly convex (Plate 52D); sublateral tergal carinae developed on T1-T3; T1 densely longitudinally striate medially, with scattered punctures in interstices anteriorly, rugulose laterally; T2-T3 densely longitudinally striate medially, with delicate punctures in interstices, punctate rugulose laterally; T4-T5 densely finely longitudinally striate throughout, with delicate punctures in interstices; T6 finely punctate dorsally, densely longitudinally striate laterally, with scattered small punctures in interstices; length of T3 0.82 –0.94× length of T6; T5 distinctly longer than wide; S2-S4 longitudinally striate, with finely punctate rugulose interstices; S5-S6 longitudinally striate, with finely punctate interstices; prominent longitudinal median carinae present on S2-S5.

Male. No specimens were available for this study.

Distribution.

China (Guangdong, Hainan); Thailand. This species is also recorded in Egypt, Ukraine, Russia, Georgia and Tajikistan. Link to distribution map [http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=4863].

Material examined.

The holotye is deposited in Hungarian Nature History Museum, Budapest.

Other material. CHINA: 1 ♀, Guangdong, Zijin County, Linjiang Town, 23°39'N, 114°41'E, 1.VIII.2003, Jingxian Liu, SCAU 000044 (SCAU); 2 ♀, Guangdong, Xinfeng, Mt. Yunji, 24°04'N, 114°10'E, 19.VII.2003, Yanxia Song, SCAU 000045, 000046 (SCAU); 1 ♀, Guangdong, Mt. Nankun, 23°37.941'N, 113°50.182'E, 2.VII.2005, Zaifu Xu, SCAU 000047 (SCAU); 4 ♀, Guangdong, Guangzhou, Tianlu Lake, 23°13'N, 113°25'E, 6.X.2002, Zaifu Xu, SCAU 000048-000051 (SCAU); 1 ♀, Hainan, Mt. Yinggeling, 18°49'N, 109°11'E, 17-20.VII.2010, Huayan Chen, SCAU 000052 (SCAU). THAILAND: 1 ♀, Chiang Mai, Maerim, 10-12.III.2003, MT, R. A. Beaver, No. 26778 (RABC).

Comments.

The identification of this species is based on pictures of holotype of Macroteleia rufa (deposited in Hungarian Nature History Museum, Budapest) kindly provided by Dr. Ovidiu A. Popovici (University 'Al. I. Cuza’ Iaşi) and his personal communication.