Acroclisoides nongae Tselikh, Lee & Ku, 2025

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 nongae Tselikh, Lee & Ku sp. nov.

Figs 105–112

Type material.

Holotype • female, Republic of Korea, “ S. Korea: [GN], Sancheong-gun, Chahwang-myeon, Silmae-ri , 35.49413N, 127.94170E, 22. VII. 2024, coll. E. Tselikh ” ( NIBR).

Description.

Female. Body length 1.45 mm; fore wing length 1.25 mm.

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

Sculpture. Head and mesosoma reticulate; clypeus striate-reticulate; scutellum reticulate, frenal area finely reticulate; propodeum reticulate, nucha alutaceous; petiole smooth; metasoma smooth and shiny.

Head. Head in dorsal view 2.21 × as broad as long and 1.36 × as broad as mesoscutum; in frontal view 1.48 × as broad as high. POL 0.95 × as long as OOL. Eye height 1.05 × eye length and 1.80 × malar space. Distance between antennal toruli and lower margin of clypeus 2.00 × distance between antennal toruli and median ocellus. Antenna with scape 0.95 × as long as eye height and as long as eye length; pedicel 1.68 × as long as broad; combined length of pedicel and flagellum 1.00 × breadth of head; F 1 – F 6 longer than broad, F 1 1.70 × as long as broad and with 2 rows of sensilla; clava 3.50 × 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.

Mesosoma. Mesosoma 1.29 × as long as broad. Scutellum moderately arched, 0.80 × as long as broad, frenal area differentiated by a change in sculpture. Propodeum 0.66 × as long as scutellum, without costula but with weak median carina, nucha small. Fore wing 2.01 × as long as its maximum width; basal cell partly setose, basal vein setose; speculum closed below; M 0.55 × as long as PM and 0.84 × as long as S, stigma large.

Metasoma. Metasoma 1.38 × as long as broad, 0.88 × as long as mesosoma, 0.71 × as long as mesosoma and head. Petiole 0.95 × as long as broad. Ovipositor sheaths projecting slightly beyond apex of metasoma.

Male. Unknown.

Etymology.

The species is named in honor of the virtuous woman Nongae, an outstanding historical figure in Korea (noun in apposition).

Biology.

Unknown.

Distribution.

Republic of Korea.

Comments.

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

Figures

Figures 105–112. Acroclisoides nongae Tselikh, Lee & Ku, sp. nov., female, holotype. 105. Habitus, lateral view; 106. Mesosoma and propodeum, dorsal view; 107. Antenna; 108. Head, frontal view; 109. Fore wing; 110. Head, lateral view; 111. Habitus, dorsal view; 112. Head and pronotum, dorsal view.