<documentid="BA3B60435443607BBB6705190759BA00"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="03B987C8FFFFFF9EFF1A7679FE885407"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="Cerchysiella arabia Hayat, sp. nov."docType="treatment"docVersion="8"lastPageNumber="16"masterDocId="FF80FFB0FFF2FF91FF8D7568FFF9522A"masterDocTitle="Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia"masterLastPageNumber="59"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="14"updateTime="1732584415937"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
). Head black with bronzy and dull bluish shine. Antenna dark brown; scape with dull greenish shine. Mesosoma black, indistinctly shiny, but in some lights appears dark violet; margins and apex of scutellum bluish. Wings hyaline; discal setae pale brown. Legs, including coxae, dark brown; apices of all femora and bases of all tibiae, narrowly yellow (
<figureCitationid="132B2A5BFFFFFF9CFBAF768FFB8E562A"box="[1058,1143,999,1024]"captionStart="FIGURES 23 – 30"captionStartId="14.[151,264,1922,1945]"captionTargetBox="[266,1304,220,1870]"captionTargetId="figure@14.[234,1349,193,1905]"captionTargetPageId="14"captionText="FIGURES 23 – 30. Cerchysiella arabia Hayat, sp. nov. (23 – 27, female): 23, antenna; 24, head, frontal view; 25, mandible; 26, part of fore wing; 27, part of gaster with legs. (28 – 30, male): 28, head frontal view; 29, antenna; 30, genitalia, with apex of phallobase enlarged."httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/285938/files/figure.png"pageId="13"pageNumber="14">Fig. 27</figureCitation>
); fore tarsal segments 1–4 brownish yellow, fifth brown; mid and hind tarsal segments 1–3 brownish yellow, segments 4 and 5 brown. Gaster dark brown; TI across base or only on sides with bluish shine; otherwise tergites with bronzy violet shine; exserted part of ovipositor sheaths dark brown.
Head. Frontovertex width 0.42× head width; ocellar triangle with apical angle a right angle; posterior ocellus very near margin of eye; OOL, OCL, POL ratios–1:1.5:10 (In two
these ratios are: 0.75:3:10 and 1.5:2.5:10.5); head, in frontal view (
<figureCitationid="132B2A5BFFFFFF9CFDA771D7FD8556F2"box="[554,636,1215,1240]"captionStart="FIGURES 23 – 30"captionStartId="14.[151,264,1922,1945]"captionTargetBox="[266,1304,220,1870]"captionTargetId="figure@14.[234,1349,193,1905]"captionTargetPageId="14"captionText="FIGURES 23 – 30. Cerchysiella arabia Hayat, sp. nov. (23 – 27, female): 23, antenna; 24, head, frontal view; 25, mandible; 26, part of fore wing; 27, part of gaster with legs. (28 – 30, male): 28, head frontal view; 29, antenna; 30, genitalia, with apex of phallobase enlarged."httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/285938/files/figure.png"pageId="13"pageNumber="14">Fig. 24</figureCitation>
), 1.18× as broad as high; antennal torulus separated from mouth margin by a distance less than torulus height; mouth fossa 1.5× as broad as frontovertex width; eye height 2.33× malar space; vertex with raised polygonal reticulate sculpture, and with sparse setigerous punctures; the sculpture becomes fine and slightly transversely elongate on frons and face; malar space with elongate reticulate sculpture; setae on head brown; eye appear bare, but at higher magnification, short hyaline setae can be seen. Mandible (
<figureCitationid="132B2A5BFFFFFF9CFAE27027FF4D57A7"captionStart="FIGURES 23 – 30"captionStartId="14.[151,264,1922,1945]"captionTargetBox="[266,1304,220,1870]"captionTargetId="figure@14.[234,1349,193,1905]"captionTargetPageId="14"captionText="FIGURES 23 – 30. Cerchysiella arabia Hayat, sp. nov. (23 – 27, female): 23, antenna; 24, head, frontal view; 25, mandible; 26, part of fore wing; 27, part of gaster with legs. (28 – 30, male): 28, head frontal view; 29, antenna; 30, genitalia, with apex of phallobase enlarged."httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/285938/files/figure.png"pageId="13"pageNumber="14">Fig. 25</figureCitation>
) elongate, apically narrowed and with 3 pointed teeth, dorsal tooth receding; length of mandible subequal to frontovertex width. Antenna (
<figureCitationid="132B2A5BFFFFFF9CFE6570FFFDC3579A"box="[488,570,1431,1456]"captionStart="FIGURES 23 – 30"captionStartId="14.[151,264,1922,1945]"captionTargetBox="[266,1304,220,1870]"captionTargetId="figure@14.[234,1349,193,1905]"captionTargetPageId="14"captionText="FIGURES 23 – 30. Cerchysiella arabia Hayat, sp. nov. (23 – 27, female): 23, antenna; 24, head, frontal view; 25, mandible; 26, part of fore wing; 27, part of gaster with legs. (28 – 30, male): 28, head frontal view; 29, antenna; 30, genitalia, with apex of phallobase enlarged."httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/285938/files/figure.png"pageId="13"pageNumber="14">Fig. 23</figureCitation>
) with scape cylindrical, at least 6× as long as broad, and 0.93× frontovertex width (In
, scape 1.09–1.17× as long as frontovertex width); pedicel about one-third the length of scape and 2× as long as broad, and longer (about 1.4×) than F1; funicle segments subequal in length, but gradually increasing in width; F1 1.46×, F4 1.21× as long as broad, F5 and F6 quadrate; clava shorter than F4–F6 combined.
Mesosoma. Pronotum with slightly raised, polygonal reticulate sculpture, the cells transversely elongate; mesoscutum with fine, hardly raised, transversely elongate cellular reticulate sculpture; scutellum nearly smooth, but very fine reticulate sculpture can be seen in about anterior third at higher magnification; lateral groove distinct and long; propodeum with a median ridge, and at most 2 incomplete ridges on sides of the median ridge; setae on thoracic dorsum brown; sides of propodeum distal to spiracles with silvery white setae. Fore wing (
<figureCitationid="132B2A5BFFFFFF9CFB667397FAC55532"box="[1259,1340,1791,1816]"captionStart="FIGURES 23 – 30"captionStartId="14.[151,264,1922,1945]"captionTargetBox="[266,1304,220,1870]"captionTargetId="figure@14.[234,1349,193,1905]"captionTargetPageId="14"captionText="FIGURES 23 – 30. Cerchysiella arabia Hayat, sp. nov. (23 – 27, female): 23, antenna; 24, head, frontal view; 25, mandible; 26, part of fore wing; 27, part of gaster with legs. (28 – 30, male): 28, head frontal view; 29, antenna; 30, genitalia, with apex of phallobase enlarged."httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/285938/files/figure.png"pageId="13"pageNumber="14">Fig. 26</figureCitation>
) 2.3× as long as broad; postmarginal vein about half the length of marginal vein, both combined as long as or slightly shorter than stigmal vein; linea calva proximally bordered by a single line of 7–9 long setae, and a line of 6–7 setae below proximal end of parastigma.
(23–27, female): 23, antenna; 24, head, frontal view; 25, mandible; 26, part of fore wing; 27, part of gaster with legs. (28–30, male): 28, head frontal view; 29, antenna; 30, genitalia, with apex of phallobase enlarged.
Metasoma. Relative lengths of gaster and mesosoma and the exserted part of ovipositor sheaths (= third valvulae; gonostyli) vary depending on the way the gastral tergites retract when the specimens are killed; gaster varies from 1.09× to 1.28× (
Similar to female in body colour, leg colour and sculpture, but differs as noted below.
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<paragraphid="8BAF36DEFFFDFF9EFF4A74FCFD0653FA"blockId="15.[151,1437,151,1581]"pageId="15"pageNumber="16">Head and mesothoracic dorsum with bluish shine. Antenna with radical, scape and pedicel black; flagellum dark brown, but ventral margin of F1 brownish yellow.</paragraph>
<figureCitationid="132B2A5BFFFDFF9EFE9974B4FE9153DE"box="[276,360,476,501]"captionStart="FIGURES 23 – 30"captionStartId="14.[151,264,1922,1945]"captionTargetBox="[266,1304,220,1870]"captionTargetId="figure@14.[234,1349,193,1905]"captionTargetPageId="14"captionText="FIGURES 23 – 30. Cerchysiella arabia Hayat, sp. nov. (23 – 27, female): 23, antenna; 24, head, frontal view; 25, mandible; 26, part of fore wing; 27, part of gaster with legs. (28 – 30, male): 28, head frontal view; 29, antenna; 30, genitalia, with apex of phallobase enlarged."httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/285938/files/figure.png"pageId="15"pageNumber="16">Fig. 28</figureCitation>
) with frontovertex width 0.48× head width; head, in frontal view, slightly broader than high; antennal torulus with upper margin in line with or slightly below, lower margin of eye, and removed from mouth margin by a distance 1.6× torulus height. Antenna (
<figureCitationid="132B2A5BFFFDFF9EFD60774CFCB85016"box="[749,833,548,573]"captionStart="FIGURES 23 – 30"captionStartId="14.[151,264,1922,1945]"captionTargetBox="[266,1304,220,1870]"captionTargetId="figure@14.[234,1349,193,1905]"captionTargetPageId="14"captionText="FIGURES 23 – 30. Cerchysiella arabia Hayat, sp. nov. (23 – 27, female): 23, antenna; 24, head, frontal view; 25, mandible; 26, part of fore wing; 27, part of gaster with legs. (28 – 30, male): 28, head frontal view; 29, antenna; 30, genitalia, with apex of phallobase enlarged."httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/285938/files/figure.png"pageId="15"pageNumber="16">Fig. 29</figureCitation>
) with scape short, 3.45× as long as broad, and only slightly longer than F1 (19:17.5); pedicel triangular, as long as broad, and 0.28× length of F1; F1 1.84× as long as broad; F1–F4 slightly flattened; clava 2-segmented, shorter than F5 and F6 combined; flagellum 6.7× as long as scape, and 2× as long as head width.
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, also
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, also
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: figs 13D-F): antennal scape just over 5× as long as broad and F3 onwards quadrate to broader than long. In
: antennal pedicel about 1.5× as long as broad and subequal in length to F1; F1 slightly longer than broad; F2–F6 each quadrate or distal segments slightly broader than long; posterior ocellus separated from both margin of eye and occipital margin by less than half the diameter of the ocellus; ovipositor, in Indian specimen, with third valvula 0.37× second valvifer; legs blackish with bases and apices of all tibiae yellowish brown. In
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;
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,
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) the fore and mid tibiae yellowish brown apically; frontovertex and mesoscutum bluish green; flagellum of male antenna at least about 5× as long as scape and at least about 1.6× as long as head width. In
antenna with each funicle segment dark brown in about basal half and yellowish brown to brown in about apical half; discal setae of fore wing completely hyaline; male flagellum 4× as long as scape, and about 1.36× as long as head width.
