Apsilocera bradburyi Tselikh, Lee & Ku, 2024

Tselikh, Ekaterina V., Lee, Jaehyeon, Haas, Michael, Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan & Ku, Deok-Seo, 2024, Review of the Palaearctic species of Apsilocera Bouček, 1956 (Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae), with descriptions of the eight new species, ZooKeys 1215, pp. 259-288 : 259-288

Apsilocera bradburyi Tselikh, Lee & Ku sp. nov.

Figs 8–15

Type material.

Holotype • female, Republic of Korea: “ Gyeongsangbuk-do, Andong-si, Bukhu-myeon, Dahyeon-ri , Malaise trap, coll. Kwon Gi-myon ” ( NIBR) . Paratypes • 3 females, “ Jeju-do, Jeju-si, Geumak-ri, Hanllim-eup , 16.VI–14.VII.2021, 16.VII–13.X.2021, Malaise trap, coll. Y. H. Park, M. H. Kim, D. H. Park, J. Y. Kim (1 female in ZISP, 2 females in SMNE) • 1 female, “ Jeju-do, Jeju-si, Jocheon-eup, Gyorae Natual Recreate , 33°26'28"N, 126°39'53"E, 13.VII.2023, coll. E. Tselikh ” ( ZISP).

Description.

Female. Body length 1.50–1.70 mm; fore wing length 1.40–1.50 mm.

Coloration. Head black; antenna with scape, pedicel, and anelli yellow, F 1 – F 6 yellowish brown, clava brown. Mesosoma black, but propodeum dorsally dark blue with metallic diffuse luster; fore coxa basally brown, apically yellowish brown, mid and hind coxae yellowish brown, all femora yellowish brown, tibiae and tarsi yellow. Fore wing hyaline, venation yellowish brown. Metasoma dorsally brown, laterally and ventrally yellowish brown; ovipositor sheaths brown.

Sculpture. Head reticulate; clypeus radially striate. Mesosoma reticulate; propodeum smooth. Metasoma weakly alutaceous and shiny.

Head. Head in dorsal view 2.50–2.53 × as broad as long and 1.31–1.36 × as broad as mesoscutum; in frontal view 1.42–1.45 × as broad as high. Vertex with regular sculpture. POL 1.13–1.25 × as long as OOL. Eye height 1.29–1.33 × eye length and 2.00–2.10 × as long as malar space. Distance between antennal toruli and lower margin of clypeus 2.90–3.15 × distance between antennal toruli and median ocellus. Antenna with scape 0.90–0.95 × as long as eye height and 1.09–1.16 × as long as eye length; pedicel 1.57–1.66 × as long as broad; combined length of pedicel and flagellum 1.04–1.10 × breadth of head; F 1 – F 6 longer than broad, with 1 row of sensilla; clava 2.88–3.16 × as long as broad, with small micropilose area on each C 3 and C 4. Clypeal margin with two small teeth. Mandible formula 3: 4.

Mesosoma. Mesosoma 1.22–1.31 × as long as broad. Scutellum moderately arched, 0.82 × as long as broad, frenal area indistinct. Propodeum 0.37–0.41 × as long as scutellum; nucha short. Fore wing 2.13–2.22 × as long as its maximum width; basal cell with several hairs near basal vein; basal vein pilose; speculum partly closed below; M 0.85–0.87 × as long as PM and 2.17–2.20 × as long as S; stigma small.

Metasoma. Metasoma 1.73–2.03 × as long as broad, 1.50–1.55 × as long as mesosoma. Petiole strongly transverse. Ovipositor sheath projecting slightly beyond apex of metasoma.

Male. Unknown.

Etymology.

The species is named in honor of the famous writer Ray Douglas Bradbury.

Distribution.

Korean Peninsula.

Comments.

Apsilocera bradburyi sp. nov. belongs to a group of species that have a vertex with regular sculpture. This species is very similar to A. dupla ; the differences between these species are given in the key.

Figures

Figures 8–15. Apsilocera bradburyi sp. nov., female, holotype 8 habitus, lateral view 9 mesosoma, dorsal view 10 head, pronotum and mesoscutum, dorsal view 11 head, mandible, frontal view 12 antenna 13 clypeus 14 fore wing 15 metasoma, dorsal view.