<documentid="258C3CD7F4776AC2048FE307FDC3360C"ID-CLB-Dataset="36865"ID-DOI="10.11646/zootaxa.3793.1.1"ID-GBIF-Dataset="b326943e-eae9-4877-9afd-eeacbc85c43f"ID-ISSN="1175-5326"ID-Zenodo-Dep="285931"ID-ZooBank="4539037A-4B05-4E37-8B65-2DF0FE753BAE"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="felipe"checkinTime="1460412393269"checkinUser="plazi"docAuthor="Hayat, Mohammad, Ahmad, Zubair & Khan, Farmanur Rehman"docDate="2014"docId="03B987C8FFC6FFA7FF1A726DFBF151C6"docLanguage="en"docName="zt03793p059.pdf"docOrigin="Zootaxa 3793 (1)"docStyle="DocumentStyle:647186512141C8FC8976D5BCC54AEB7D.9:Zootaxa.2013-.journal_article"docStyleId="647186512141C8FC8976D5BCC54AEB7D"docStyleName="Zootaxa.2013-.journal_article"docStyleVersion="9"docTitle="Zaomma astera Hayat, sp. nov."docType="treatment"docVersion="8"lastPageNumber="55"masterDocId="FF80FFB0FFF2FF91FF8D7568FFF9522A"masterDocTitle="Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia"masterLastPageNumber="59"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="53"updateTime="1732584415937"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
[Colour and relative measurements were not noted from carded specimen. Hence, the description of colour and relative measurements are from slide-mounted specimen.] Head dark brown. Antenna (
) with radicle and scape, except white apical third, dark brown; pedicel dark brown with apex white; F1–F6 appear white, but could have been yellow; clava yellow, basal segment dark brown becoming yellow distally. Mesosoma dark brown. Wings hyaline. Fore leg, including coxa, white; femur with a pale brown sub-apical patch; tibia with a pale brown sub-basal band. Mid leg, including coxa, white; femur with a sub-apical dark brown band; tibia with a sub-basal dark brown band.
leg with coxa and largely femur dark brown; tibia dark brown, white in basal fifth or so, and in apical third; tarsus white. Metasoma dark brown, apex of TVII white; third valvula dark brown.
), in frontal view, 1.4× as broad as high; frontovertex width 0.3× head width; ocelli in about a right angle; posterior ocellus nearly touching margin of eye; scrobes inverted U-shaped with margins rounded; eye height 1.5× malar space; vertex with raised reticulate sculpture; frons with fine, reticulate sculpture, the cells transversely elongate; space between scrobe and eye margin on face with obliquely elongate cells; malar space with lineolate reticulate sculpture; setae on head silvery white; eye apparently bare. Mandible with two teeth and a truncation (
) with scape 3.66× as long as broad, and longer than frontovertex width (14:11); pedicel slightly longer than F1–F3 combined; F1–F4 each transverse, 1.23× (F1), 1.5× (F2), 1.4× (F3), and 1.48× (F4), as broad as long; F5 longer than F4, and 1.17× as broad as long; F6 1.15× as long as broad; clava broader than F6, and longer than funicle.
). Mesoscutum largely with lineolate reticulate sculpture, posterior fourth with slightly elongate to irregular polygonal reticulate sculpture; scutellum with lineolate reticulate sculpture, polygonally reticulate along base; mesoscutum with silvery white setae, except a line of six (6) long brown setae along posterior margin; scutellum with all setae (6 + 6, in middle third) detached, but possibly brown in colour; propodeum distal to spiracle with long, silvery white setae. Fore wing 2.6× as long as broad; marginal vein 2.14× as long as postmarginal vein, and 1.3× as long as stigmal vein (
Metasoma (on slide) about 1.5× as long as mesosoma; TI and TV with characteristic glandular areas; ovipositor, as seen through the derm, extends from base of TII of gaster, and exserted to 0.14× gaster length.
The absence of a brush of setae on apical third of the scutellum, and the presence of a dark brown, sub-basal band or ring on mid tibia, exclude this new species from the species included in the keys given by
<bibRefCitationid="EF814B2FFFC4FFA7FAD874B4FE805032"author="Gordh"pageId="54"pageNumber="55"refString="Gordh, G. & Trjapitzin, V. A. (1979) Notes on the genus Zaomma Ashmead, with a key to species (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 55, 34 - 40."type="journal article"year="1979">Gordh & Trjapitzin (1979)</bibRefCitation>
and
<bibRefCitationid="EF814B2FFFC4FFA7FE3A7497FD855032"author="Trjapitzin"box="[439,636,511,536]"pageId="54"pageNumber="55"refString="Trjapitzin, V. A. (1989) Parasitic Hymenoptera of the fam. Encyrtidae of Palaearctics. Opredeleteli po Faune SSSR, Izdavavaemiye Zoologicheskim Institutom Akademii Nauk SSSR, 158, 1 - 489. [in Russian]"type="journal article"year="1989">Trjapitzin (1989)</bibRefCitation>
. In the key to the Afrotropical species by
<bibRefCitationid="EF814B2FFFC4FFA7FBE27497FAC85032"author="Prinsloo"box="[1135,1329,511,536]"pageId="54"pageNumber="55"refString="Prinsloo, G. L. (1979 b) On the species of Zaomma Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) from the Ethiopian region. Journal of the Entomological Society of southern Africa, 42, 65 - 75."type="journal article"year="1979"yearSuffix="b">Prinsloo (1979b)</bibRefCitation>
, but differs as follows: antenna with F1–F4 subequal in length, F5 larger and longer than F4; F5 and F6 with longitudinal sensilla present; head, in frontal view, almost rectangular in outline; scutellum with lineolate reticulate sculpture, but anteriorly with polygonal reticulate sculpture (as in
antenna with F1–F5 subequal in length; only F6 with longitudinal sensilla present; head, in frontal view, almost circular in outline; scutellum completely with lineolate reticulate sculpture; ovipositor stylets about 1.5× as long as mid tibia length. The new species is also similar to
in having F5 larger than F4, and in the sculpture of the scutellum, but differs as follows: mandible with a large dorsal truncation; presence of a distinct dark brown patch on mid femur; ovipositor extending from TII of gaster; ovipositor stylets 1.67× as long as mid tibia, and third valvula slightly shorter than mid tibial spur. In
mandible with a large pointed tooth, and two blunt teeth (
<bibRefCitationid="EF814B2FFFC4FFA7FCE576E4FB97518E"author="Prinsloo"box="[872,1134,908,933]"pageId="54"pageNumber="55"refString="Prinsloo, G. L. (1979 b) On the species of Zaomma Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) from the Ethiopian region. Journal of the Entomological Society of southern Africa, 42, 65 - 75."type="journal article"year="1979"yearSuffix="b">Prinsloo 1979b: fig. 17</bibRefCitation>
); mid femur usually with a small dark brown to pale brown spot distally; ovipositor extending almost from base of gaster; ovipositor stylets 1.8–2.0× as long as mid tibia; and third valvula 1.3× as long as mid tibial spur.
