Aegilips kozlovi Kovalev, 1974

Mata-Casanova, Noel, Selfa, Jesús & Pujade-Villar, Juli, 2022, Revision of the Eurasian species of Aegilips Haliday, 1835 (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Anacharitinae), European Journal of Taxonomy 819, pp. 108-139 : 120-121

Aegilips kozlovi Kovalev, 1974

Fig. 2e

Aegilips kozlovi Kovalev, 1974: 283 (♂).

Diagnosis

Species with strongly horizontal carinae in mesoscutum and notauli. Morphologically similar to A. romseyensis , from which it can be distinguished by having horizontal carinate sculpture in the mesoscutum and areolate scutellum (mesoscutum and scutellum smooth in A. romseyensis ).

Type material

Holotype MONGOLIA • ♂; “Mongolia, Dzab. , 30 km SSE Somona Tes, step, rastitelnost po sajru, 3-4.VII.1968: M. Ke. ” (white label); “Holotype ♂ Aegilips kozlovi O. Kovalev det” (red label); ZIN.

Material examined (6 ♀♀, 11 ♂♂)

HUNGARY • 1 ♀, 1 ♂; Lilafüred ; 2 Sep. 1962; Bajári leg.; UB • 1 ♂; Vas, Örség, Rikkagahaza Kétvölgy ; 22 Jun. 1994; Narolsky leg.; UB • 1 ♀, 1 ♂; Vas, Szakonyfalú ; 24 Jun. 1994; Kotenko leg.; UB • 1 ♂; Vas, Szalafö Felsözer ; 1 Aug. 1994; Kotenko leg.; UB • 1 ♂; Vas, Szalafö Felsözer ; 2 Aug. 1994; Kotenko leg.; UB • 1 ♂; Vas, Cák ; 4 Aug.1994: Melika leg.; UB • 1 ♀, 7 ♂♂; Vas, Celdörmölk ; 5 Aug. 1994; Melika leg.; UB • 1 ♀, 3 ♂♂; Vas, Cák; 8 Aug. 1994; Kotenko leg.; UB • 1 ♀; Veszprém Co., Kolontár ; 10 Aug. 1999; Z. Ács leg.; UB • 1 ♀, 3 ♂♂; Veszprém Co., Zomlóvásárhely ; 14 Aug. 1999; Z. Ács leg.; UB • 1 ♂; Veszprém Co., Máriahalom ; 1 Sep. 1999; Z. Ács leg.; UB • 2 ♂♂; Veszprém Co., Bakonygyepes ; 2 Aug. 2000; Zoltán Ács leg.; UB .

ROMANIA • 2 ♂♂; Hargita Co., Kiruly Valley ; 10 Aug. 2000; Zoltán Ács leg.; UB .

Type locality

Mongolia, Uvs aimag, Tes sum.

Redescription

MEASUREMENTS. Body: 2.5–2.9 mm; antennae: 2.4 mm (♀), 2.5 mm (♂); wings: 2.3–2.4 mm.

COLORATION. Head, mesosoma and metasoma black. Mandibles yellowish brown with darker teeth. Leg yellowish brown with darker coxae. Veins of wings dark brown.

HEAD. Head square-shaped in anterior view, 2.0 times as broad as high, malar area expanded. Face smooth and punctate, with short uniform pubescence. Malar area coriaceous, 0.8 times as long as compound eye. Clypeus smooth, glabrous and shortly projected; anterior tentorial pits small, indistinct. Transfacial distance 1.1 times as long as compound eye. Diameter of torulus as long as inter-toruli distance but larger than torulus-eye distance. Frons, gena and occiput smooth and glabrous with few sparse setae; occipital and postocular carinae absents. In dorsal view 2 times as broad as long, broader than mesosoma. Compound eyes glabrous. POL: OOL: LOL is 7.0:4.0:3.0, diameter of lateral ocellus is 2.0.

ANTENNAE. In males, antenna 14-segmented; flagellomeres cylindrical and pubescent, same width in all flagellomeres, placodeal sensilla abundant in all flagellomeres; F1 not modified; antennal formula: 10.0(3.0), 3.0(3.0), 9.0(3.0), 8.0(3.0), 8.0(3.0), 7.0(3.0), 7.0(3.0), 7.0(3.0), 7.0(3.0), 7.0(3.0), 7.0(3.0), 6.0(3.0), 5.0(3.0), 7.0(3.0). In females, antenna 13-segmented; flagellomeres cylindrical and pubescent, same width in all flagellomeres, placodeal sensilla starting at F2, abundant from F3 onwards; antennal formula: 11.0(3.0), 3.5(4.0), 8.0(2.5), 6.0(2.5), 6.0(2.5), 6.0(3.0), 5.0(3.0), 5.0(3.0), 5.0(3.0), 5.0(3.0), 4.0(3.0), 5.0(3.0), 7.0(3.0).

MESOSOMA. Pronotal plate smooth. Pronotum covered by strongly coarse sculpture and obliquely carinated in its entire surface. Mesoscutum 1.2 times as broad as long in dorsal view. Mesoscutum shiny, slightly alutaceous, region between notauli strongly carinate ( Fig. 2e ). Notaulus complete with horizontal carinae; median mesoscutal furrow present but not strong. Lateral mesoscutum smooth, punctate, with short hyaline pubescence; parapsidal signum present, parascutal sulcus deeply excavated and carinate. Scutellum areolate ( Fig. 2e ), 0.7 times as long as mesoscutum; scutellar foveae rounded, small, smooth, posteriorly defined by carina; presence of large and elongated pit next to inner margin of scutellar foveae. Interfoveal line complete. Circumscutellar carina complete but not projected to form tooth in lateral view. Anterior and ventral mesopleuron carinate with rugose microsculpture, central and posterior mesopleuron smooth. Mesopleural triangle densely pubescent. Metanotal troughs glabrous, almost smooth except for some weak coarse sculpture. Propodeum coriaceous, densely pubescent, divided in large cells; central area defined by two strong lateral carinae, median longitudinal carina unconspicuous.

FORE WINGS. Pubescent, marginal pubescence denser at apical third. Radial cell closed, 2.4 times as long as wide. Vein 2rm absent.

METASOMA. Shorter than head + mesosoma. Petiole as long as wide, shorter than metacoxa, coarsely sculptured, shiny. Third metasomal tergum 2.2 times longer than fourth in dorsal view. Metasomal terga smooth and glabrous; T4 to T7 punctate.

Biology

Unknown.

Distribution

Palaearctic. Mongolia ( Kovalev 1974); first record for Hungary and Romania.

Figures

Fig. 2. a. Aegilips insularis Mata-Casanova & Pujade-Villar sp. nov, 2014, ♂, mesosoma in dorsal view. b. A. insularis, ♀, mesosoma in dorsal view. c. A. romseyensis Fergusson, 1985, mesosoma in lateral view. d. A. nitidulus Dalman, 1823, mesosoma in lateral view. e. A. kozlovi Kovalev, 1974. f. A. romseyensis. g. A. nitidulus. h. A. zaitzevi Kovalev, 1974.