Acroclisoides sativus Kumar & Khan, 2012

Tselikh, Ekaterina V., Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan, Lee, Jaehyeon, Dale-Skey, Natalie & Ku, Deok-Seo, 2025, Revision of Acroclisoides Girault & Dodd, 1915 (Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae, Metasteninae), ZooKeys 1257, pp. 153-214 : 153-214

Acroclisoides sativus Kumar & Khan, 2012

Figs 120–127

Acroclisoides sativa Kumar & Khan, 2012: 2–4. Holotype female ( BUAT, not examined).

Material examined.

India • 8 females, 1 males, “ INDIA: Srinagar ex eggs on apple 12. 8. 1968 M. Hayat ”, “ 251 M ”, “ NHMUK 013455954 ”, “ NHMUK 013455955 ”, “ NHMUK 013455957 ”, “ NHMUK 013455960 ” “ NHMUK 013455963 ” ( NHMUK) .

Description.

Female. Body length 2.10–2.40 mm; fore wing length 2.10–2.20 mm.

Coloration. Head and mesosoma metallic green blue with diffuse coppery and violet luster; antenna with scape, pedicel and anelli yellowish brown, F 1 – F 6 and clava brown. Fore and hind coxa dark green with diffuse metallic coppery luster, mid coxae yellowish brown, all femora yellowish brown, all tibiae and tarsi yellow. Fore wing hyaline, venation brown. Metasoma dorsally dark brown with metallic violet, green and coppery luster; ovipositor sheaths brown.

Sculpture. Head, clypeus and mesosoma reticulate; scutellum strongly reticulate, frenal area alutaceous and in middle part shiny, propodeum reticulate, nucha smooth and shiny; petiole smooth; metasoma smooth and shiny.

Head. Head in dorsal view 2.50–2.60 × as broad as long and 1.35–1.36 × as broad as mesoscutum; in frontal view 1.72–1.73 × as broad as high. POL 0.84–0.86 × as long as OOL. Eye height 1.11–1.18 × eye length and 1.54–1.60 × malar space. Distance between antennal toruli and lower margin of clypeus 1.83–2.15 × distance between antennal toruli and median ocellus. Antenna with scape 0.80–1.11 × as long as eye height and 0.83–0.94 × as long as eye length; pedicel 1.00–1.13 × as long as broad; combined length of pedicel and flagellum 0.91 × breadth of head; F 1 – F 6 longer than broad, F 1 1.65–1.83 × as long as broad and with 2 rows of sensilla; clava 2.80–3.80 × as long as broad, with small microsetose area on C 3 and C 4. Lower posterior corner of gena rounded. Lower margin of clypeus concave bilaterally, in middle part weakly emarginate, near straight.

Mesosoma. Mesosoma 1.19–1.22 × as long as broad. Scutellum moderately arched, 0.95–1.05 × as long as broad, frenal area differentiated by a change in sculpture. Propodeum 0.67–0.68 × as long as scutellum, without costula but with median carina, nucha not small. Fore wing 2.05–2.06 × as long as its maximum width; basal cell and basal vein setose; speculum closed below; M 0.76–0.82 × as long as PM and 1.05–1.12 × as long as S, stigma large.

Metasoma. Metasoma 2.13–2.26 × as long as broad, 1.08–1.20 × as long as mesosoma, 0.87–0.88 × as long as mesosoma and head. Petiole 0.83–1.00 × as long as broad. Ovipositor sheaths projecting slightly beyond apex of metasoma.

Male. Body length 2.00 mm; fore wing length 1.95 mm. Fore wing with M 1.20 × as long as S. Metasoma 2.77 × as long as broad, 1.33 × as long as mesosoma, 1.10 × as long as mesosoma and head. Otherwise, similar to female.

Biology.

Unknown.

Distribution.

India ( Kumar and Khan 2012).

Comments.

Acroclisoides sativus Kumar & Khan belongs to a group of species that have a hyaline fore wing in both sexes. This species is similar to A. luzonensis Gahan , A. major Girault & Dodd and A. nongae Tselikh, Lee & Ku , sp. nov.; the differences between these species are given in the key.

Figures

Figures 120–127. Acroclisoides sativus Kumar & Khan, 2012, female, not type. 120. Habitus, lateral view; 121. Mesosoma and propodeum, dorsal view; 122. Antenna; 123. Head, frontal view; 124. Fore wing; 125. Head, lateral view; 126. Habitus, dorsal view; 127. Head and pronotum, dorsal view.