Tetrastichus tartus, Hansson & Schmidt, 2020

Hansson, Christer & Schmidt, Stefan, 2020, A revision of European species of the genus Tetrastichus Haliday (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) using integrative taxonomy, Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 59177-59177 : 59177

Tetrastichus tartus sp. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/API_Public/specimen?ids=BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-C04; catalogNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-C04 ; recordNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-C04; recordedBy: J.S. Noyes; individualID: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-C04; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Tetrastichustartus; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Eulophidae; genus: Tetrastichinae; taxonRemarks: Holotype deposited in NHM; Location: country: Romania; decimalLatitude: 47.011; decimalLongitude: 27.603; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; institutionCode: NHM; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Description

FEMALE holotype (Fig. 14). Body length 1.8 mm. Head. Width/length (dorsal view) 2.4, width/length (frontal view) 1.2, POL/OOL 1.9, widths head/mesosoma 1.1, mouth width/malar space 1.1, malar space/eye height 0.7. Antenna. Scape length/eye height 0.9, pedicel+flagellum length/mesosoma width 1.2, length/width F1, F2, F3 2.0, 2.3, 1.8, clava length/width 3.3, lengths pedicel/F1 0.8, lengths F1/F2 0.9, F1/F3 1.1, lengths F1, F2, F3/clava 0.5, 0.6, 0.4, widths F1/pedicel (dorsal view) 1.1, lengths antennal spicule/C3 0.4. Mesosoma. Length/width 1.5, mesoscutal mid-lobe length/width (width measured in anterior part) 0.9, mid-lobe with median groove in posterior ⅔, with four adnotaular setae on each side, lengths mesoscutum/mesoscutellum (measured medially) 1.3, mesoscutellum length/width 0.9, length/width of enclosed space between submedian grooves 2.1, distance between SMG/distance between SMG and SLG 2.0, lengths dorsellum/propodeum (measured medially) 0.5, propodeum with weak reticulation, propodeal callus with four setae. Fore wing. Costal cell length/width 12.0, lengths costal cell/marginal vein 1.0, lengths marginal/stigmal veins 3.3. Gaster. Subcircular to ovate, length/width 1.5, lengths gaster/mesosoma 1.1, Gt7 length/width 0.5, length of longest cercal seta/next longest seta 1.8, longest seta kinked in apical ⅓, ovipositor sheaths not reaching apex of Gt7.

Colour. Body with weak metallic green and coppery tinges, scape yellowish-brown with dorsal edge brown, pedicel and flagellum dark brown, tegulae blackish, wings hyaline with veins yellowish-brown, coxae and femora concolorous with body, trochanters dark brown, tibiae yellowish-brown, tarsi yellowish-brown with T4 brown.

MALE. Unknown.

Diagnosis

Distance between submedian grooves 2.0 × distance between submedian and sublateral grooves; antennal clava (incl. spicule) long, 3.3 × as long as wide; ovipositor sheaths not protruding beyond apex of Gt7.

Distribution

Romania.

Ecology

Host

Unknown.

Notes

Holotype deposited in NHM.