Apsilocera totoroi Tselikh, Haas & 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 totoroi Tselikh, Haas & Ku sp. nov.

Figs 73–80

Type material.

Holotype • female, Japan: “ Honshu, Fukushima Pref., HinoemataVill ., 16–18.VIII.1999, coll. S. Belokobylskij ” ( ZISP) . Paratypes • 1 female ( SMNS_Hym_T 00799 ), “ Sweden, Mörbylånga, Kalkstad NR (# 136 / 2014), mixed deciduous forest, 31.VII–27.VIII.2014, Malaise trap, 56.609569N, 16.503726E, coll. M. Jaschhof, C. Jaschhof ”, Sample ID: SMNS_47998 ( SMNS) • 2 females ( SMNS_Hym_T 00800 & SMNS_Hym_T 00801 ), “ Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Lkr. Rems-Murr-Kreis, Aspach bei Backnang , Forest, 15.VII–8.VIII.2013, Malaise trap, 48.998972N, 9.419746E, leg. L. Krogmann, J. Holstein, T. Kothe ”, Sample ID: SMNS_50181 & SMNS_50214 ( SMNS) .

Description.

Female. Body length 1.50–1.99 mm; fore wing length 1.36–1.76 mm.

Coloration. Head black; antenna with scape, pedicel, and anelli yellowish brown, F 1 – F 6 and clava brown. Mesosoma black, but propodeum dorsally dark blue with metallic diffuse luster. Fore coxae black or dark brown, mid and hind coxae yellowish brown; all femora and tibiae yellowish brown, all tarsi yellow. Fore wing hyaline, venation yellowish brown. Metasoma dorsally dark brown, but Mt 2 dorsally dark metallic blue-green; laterally and ventrally brown; ovipositor sheaths brown.

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

Head. Head in dorsal view 2.33–2.53 × as broad as long and 1.23–1.37 × as broad as mesoscutum; in frontal view 1.40–1.67 × as broad as high. Vertex with regular sculpture. POL 1.13–1.29 × as long as OOL. Eye height 1.24–1.38 × eye length and 1.80–1.95 × as long as malar space. Distance between antennal toruli and lower margin of clypeus 1.92–2.10 × distance between antennal toruli and median ocellus. Antenna with scape 0.96–1.07 × as long as eye height and 1.30–1.38 × as long as eye length; pedicel 1.50–1.67 × as long as broad; combined length of pedicel and flagellum 0.91–1.10 × breadth of head; F 1 – F 6 longer than broad, with a row of sensilla; clava 3.00–3.40 × as long as broad, with small micropilose area on each C 3 and C 4. Clypeal margin with two small teeth. Mandible formula 4: 4.

Mesosoma. Mesosoma 1.29–1.48 × as long as broad. Scutellum moderately depressed, 0.92 × as long as broad, frenal area indistinct. Propodeum 0.44–0.53 × as long as scutellum. Fore wing 1.96–2.12 × as long as its maximum width; basal cell bare; basal cell with 0–4 hairs; basal vein pilose; speculum partly closed below; M 0.96–1.00 × as long as PM and 2.27–2.33 × as long as S, stigma small.

Metasoma. Metasoma 1.45–1.82 × as long as broad and 0.85–1.28 × 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 “ My Neighbor Totoro ” character – “ Totoro ” of Hayao Miyazaki.

Distribution.

Germany, Japan, Sweden.

Comments.

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

Figures

Figures 73–80. Apsilocera totoroi sp. nov., female, holotype 73 habitus, lateral view 74 scutellum and propodeum, dorsal view 75 clypeus 76 head, dorsal view 77 antenna 78 head, frontal view 79 fore wing 80 metasoma, dorsal view.