<documentid="63E8B4D63988CD567EEE488E5ADAB994"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="03B987C8FFD6FFB7FF1A732BFAB1518E"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="Metaphycus albidus Hayat, sp. nov."docType="treatment"docVersion="8"lastPageNumber="39"masterDocId="FF80FFB0FFF2FF91FF8D7568FFF9522A"masterDocTitle="Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia"masterLastPageNumber="59"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="37"updateTime="1732584415937"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
) Head white, except upper half of occiput dark brown. Mandible pale yellow, distal half reddish brown. Antenna (
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) with radicle white; scape white, with a dark brown patch in middle third; pedicel dark brown, apical half white; F1 dark brown, F2–F4 and ventral third of F5 brown; remainder of F5 and F6 white; clava with first segment dark brown, becoming brownish yellow on second segment and yellow on third segment. Mesosoma with pronotum with a large dark brown patch, collar and sides white, and a dark brown spot at each lateral corner of collar; mesoscutum except for the dark brown anterior margin hidden by the pronotal collar in the
, axilla and scutellum pale brownish yellow; sides of metanotum nearly black; tegula white with a small brown spot distally; mesopleuron and metapleuron white; propodeum middle third yellow, sides up to spiracles brown, distal to spiracles white. Wings hyaline. Legs, including coxae, white; bases of mid and hind tibiae each with a dark brown spot; all tibiae with two brown to dark brown complete or incomplete rings, those on fore tibia pale brown. Metasoma with petiole brown; gaster up to cercal plates dark brown, becoming pale brownish white distally; last tergite (TVII) white; third valvula white.
Head. Frontovertex narrow, 0.2× head width, and 2.7× as long as broad; ocellar triangle with apical angle acute; posterior ocellus close to eye margin, and slightly less than one ocellus diameter to occipital margin; frontovertex with raised, polygonal reticulate sculpture; facial region with fine, irregular polygonal sculpture, the cells slightly transversely elongate; malar space with elongate reticulate sculpture; setae hyaline; eye apparently bare. Mandible apically narrowed, with 3 acute teeth. Maxillary and labial palps both 3-segmented (
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). Antenna (
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) with scape 4× as long as broad, 1.24× as long as clava, and 2.66× as long as pedicel; pedicel slightly longer than F1–F3 combined; F1–F3 each about 1.3× as broad as long, and 0.8× of F4, the latter smaller (0.85×) than F5; F6 largest, 1.4× as long as and 1.28× as broad as, F5; clava subequal in length to funicle; only F6 and clava with longitudinal sensilla.
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). Ovipositor not exserted, its total length varies from 1.05× to 1.14× as long as mid tibia length; third valvula length varies from 0.77× to 0.85× mid tibial spur length.
, characterized by having the maxillary and the labial palps both 3-segmented. In the available keys to species (
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, mainly South African species;
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, Palaearctic species;
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, European species;
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, Costa Rican species;
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, Indian species), the new species either does not run to any described species or runs to a species to which it does not belong. The following combination of characters separates the new species from the described species: head largely, mesopleuron, metapleuron and venter of mesosoma, white; legs white, except for two dark brown, complete or incomplete bands on each tibia; frontovertex one-fifth head width; antennal scape 4× as long as broad; F6 large, and with longitudinal sensilla; ovipositor subequal in length to or slightly longer than, mid tibia length, and third valvula shorter than mid tibial spur.
