Anacharis belizini Mata-Casanova & Pujade-Villar, 2018

Mata-Casanova, Noel, Selfa, Jesús & Pujade-Villar, Juli, 2018, Three new species of Anacharis Dalman, 1823 (Hymenoptera: Figitidae), with revised taxonomy and distribution records of Palaearctic and Indomalayan species, European Journal of Taxonomy 414, pp. 1-25 : 14-16

Anacharis belizini Mata-Casanova & Pujade-Villar sp. nov.

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Fig. 3A–D

Diagnosis

Species similar to A. antennata , from which it can be distinguished by having parallel oblique ridges covering most of the pronotal surface (pronotum carinate sculpture reduced only to a few short ridges at the lower region in A. antennata ).

Etymology

The specific name was chosen to honor the Russian entomologist V.I. Belizin, whose work unveiled much of the current knowledge of the Asian Anacharitinae .

Material examined

Holotype

THAILAND: ♀, with the following labels: “ THAILAND, Doi Inthanon Nat. Park, MT , 6-12.VI.1990: B.V. Brown leg” (white label); “ Anacharis belizini Mata-Casanova & Pujade-Villar sp. nov., desig. Mata-Casanova 2014 ” (white label); “HOLOTYPE ♀, Anacharis belizini Mata-Casanova & Pujade- Villar sp. nov., design Mata-Casanova-2014” (red label) (CNC).

Type locality

THAILAND: Doi Inthanon Nat. Park, Chiang Mai Province.

Description

LENGTH. Body: 3 mm. Antennae: 2.3 mm (♀). Wings: 2.5 mm.

COLORATION. Head, mesosoma and metasoma black. Mandibles yellowish brown with darker teeth. Antennae brown with darker first segment. Legs yellowish brown with darker coxae, third coxa black. Veins of wings brownish.

HEAD. Triangular-shaped in anterior view. Face smooth, covered with abundant white setae ( Fig. 3A ). Width of head 1.3 times its height in front view and 1.8 times its length in dorsal view. Malar sulcus coriaceous, 0.8 times height of compound eye. Transfacial line length equal to compound eye height.

Diameter of the toruli larger than inter-toruli distance and torulus to compound eye distance. Clypeus shortly defined, convex, densely covered by pubescence. Occipital and postocular carinae absent. Compound eyes glabrous. In females, POL:OOL:LOL ratio = 7.5:5:3, being ocelli diameter 2.5 in females. Frons, gena and occiput smooth and densely pubescent.

ANTENNAE. Cylindrical flagellomeres covered with pubescence. Female antennal formula: 9(3), 2(3), 11(2), 9(2), 8(2), 8(2), 7(2), 7(2), 6.5(2), 6(2), 6(2), 5.5(2), 10(2). Placodeal sensilla starting at F1.

MESOSOMA. Pronotal plate coriaceous. Pronotum pubescent, alutaceous, most of surface covered with parallel oblique ridges ( Fig. 3B ). Mesoscutal width 1.2 times its length in dorsal view. Mesoscutum smooth, shiny, almost glabrous except for few short lateral setae; weak carinate sculpture at edges of notauli ( Fig. 3C ). Notauli complete with variable transverse carinate sculpture; median mesoscutal furrow short but distinct. Parapsidal signum absent; parascutal sulcus present, internally carinate. Scutellar length 0.8 times that of mesoscutum length in dorsal view. Scutellum smooth, shiny, not areolate ( Fig. 3D ). Scutellar foveae rounded, smooth, without any internal carinae, basally defined by a carina; lateral pits of scutellar foveae present. Interfoveal line present. Short median scutellar carinae present at scutellum apex. Circumscutellar carina complete, clearly defined, not dorsally projected at scutellar apex. Mesopleuron glabrous, shiny, with internally carinate transverse groove; presence of weak carinae in anterior mesopleuron. Mesopleural triangle smooth, glabrous. Metanotal troughs densely pubescent. Propodeum alutaceous, pubescent; central area with large superior cell symmetrically divided into two areas by a transverse carina, upper area being internally divided by median longitudinal carina while lower one not; rest of propodeum divided in few large cells ( Fig. 3D ).

WINGS. Pubescent. Radial cell of for ewing closed, 2.8 times as long as wide. Marginal pubescence of for ewing denser at the apical third.

METASOMA. Longer than head + mesosoma. Petiole about 2.0 times as long as metacoxa, smooth and shiny. Third metanotal tergum 1.5 times as long as fourth tergum in dorsal view. Fifth, sixth, seventh metanotal terga visible in dorsal view. Metanotal terga smooth and glabrous, punctate in anterior region of each tergum, more distinct from T4 to T7.

Biology

Unknown.

Distribution

Indomalayan. Known only from Thailand.

Figures

Fig. 3. Anacharis belizini sp. nov. A. Head in front view. B. Mesosoma in lateral view.C. Mesosoma in dorsal view. D. Propodeum.