Acroclisoides suryai Tselikh, 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 suryai Tselikh sp. nov.

Figs 168–175

Type material.

Holotype • female, India, “ INDIA: T. Nadu 3 km. E. Manjaler Dam ”, “ 15–18. X. 1979 J. S. Noyes B. M. ”, “ NHMUK 013455909 ” ( NHMUK).

Description.

Female. Body length 2.00 mm; fore wing length 1.90 mm.

Coloration. Head and mesosoma dorsally dark blue, head frontally blue green with diffuse metallic coppery luster; antenna with scape and pedicel yellowish brown, anelli, F 1 – F 4 brown, F 5 – F 6 yellow, clava with C 1 – C 2 brown, C 3 – C 4 yellow. All coxa, femora, tibiae and tarsi yellow. Fore wing hyaline, venation brown. Metasoma dorsally brown with metallic violet and blue luster; ovipositor sheaths brown.

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

Head. Head in dorsal view 2.37 × as broad as long and 1.50 × as broad as mesoscutum; in frontal view 1.68 × as broad as high. POL 0.55 × as long as OOL. Eye height 1.22 × eye length and 1.83 × malar space. Distance between antennal toruli and lower margin of clypeus 3.46 × distance between antennal toruli and median ocellus. Antenna with scape 0.90 × as long as eye height and 1.11 × as long as eye length; pedicel 1.50 × as long as broad; combined length of pedicel and flagellum 0.68 × breadth of head; F 1 – F 6 longer than broad, F 1 2.20 × as long as broad and with 3–4 rows of sensilla; clava 3.17 × as long as broad, with small microsetose area on C 3 and C 4. Lower posterior corner of gena rounded. Lower margin of clypeus weakly concave bilaterally, in middle straight.

Mesosoma. Mesosoma 1.22 × as long as broad. Scutellum moderately arched, 0.73 × as long as broad, frenal area differentiated by a change in sculpture. Propodeum 0.65 × as long as scutellum, without costula but with median carina, nucha small. Fore wing 2.03 × as long as its maximum width; basal cell partly setose, basal vein setose; speculum closed below; M 0.78 × as long as PM and 1.14 × as long as S, stigma large.

Metasoma. Metasoma 1.18 × as long as broad, 0.82 × as long as mesosoma, 0.59 × as long as mesosoma and head. Petiole 0.83 × as long as broad. Ovipositor sheaths projecting slightly beyond apex of metasoma.

Male. Unknown.

Etymology.

The species is named in honour of Surya, the solar deity in Hinduism (noun in genitive case).

Biology.

Unknown.

Distribution.

India.

Comments.

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

Figures

Figures 168–175. Acroclisoides suryai Tselikh, sp. nov., female, holotype. 168. Habitus, lateral view; 169. Mesosoma and propodeum, dorsal view; 170. Antenna; 171. Head, frontal view; 172. Fore wing; 173. Clypeus; 174. Habitus, dorsal view; 175. Head and pronotum, dorsal view.