<documentid="79BB869240DDBF1BC5777DE79B240C7D"ID-CLB-Dataset="282361"ID-DOI="10.11646/zootaxa.5389.1.6"ID-GBIF-Dataset="8ca0e346-76a4-4292-82c0-e9c62df926e2"ID-ISSN="1175-5326"ID-Zenodo-Dep="10404623"ID-ZooBank="5D707367-7028-4D84-97E6-75AAC1F8EB30"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="karina"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="karina"IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="felipe"IM.treatments_approvedBy="karina"checkinTime="1702977087778"checkinUser="plazi"docAuthor="Simutnik, Serguei A., Pankowski, Madeline V. & Perkovsky, Evgeny E."docDate="2023"docId="930187E5FFAA2555FF4CFD19964C7B90"docLanguage="en"docName="zootaxa.5389.1.6.pdf"docOrigin="Zootaxa 5389 (1)"docSource="https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5389.1.6/52489"docStyle="DocumentStyle:647186512141C8FC8976D5BCC54AEB7D.9:Zootaxa.2013-.journal_article"docStyleId="647186512141C8FC8976D5BCC54AEB7D"docStyleName="Zootaxa.2013-.journal_article"docStyleVersion="9"docTitle="Electrocerus Simutnik 2023, gen. nov."docType="treatment"docUuid="F217BC42-BB75-4790-99A9-C95933A76A1A"docUuidSource="ZooBank"docVersion="5"lastPageNumber="121"masterDocId="6F38FF9DFFA82557FFDBFFAB93397E4F"masterDocTitle="A new genus and species of Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) with a four-segmented funicle from late Eocene Baltic amber"masterLastPageNumber="127"masterPageNumber="119"pageNumber="121"updateTime="1732028988597"updateUser="karina"zenodo-license-document="CLOSED">
<mods:titleid="C265EBB591770D48811629CA5CBDF393">A new genus and species of Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) with a four-segmented funicle from late Eocene Baltic amber</mods:title>
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consists of only four segments but otherwise may be a “teratoid,” or the seasonal form of a species, with a normal, six-segmented funicle. The genus name is a masculine noun.
Body slightly elongated, not flattened; antenna clavate; scape much more than 3× as long as broad; funicle four-segmented; F1 broader than long; antennal toruli located close to mouth margin (
<figureCitationid="83932A76FFAA2555FA9DFB9296B47A1C"box="[1350,1421,1081,1107]"captionStart="FIGURE 2"captionStartId="3.[151,250,1871,1895]"captionTargetBox="[192,1395,237,1848]"captionTargetId="figure-49@3.[192,1395,237,1848]"captionTargetPageId="3"captionText="FIGURE 2. Electrocerus brevifuniculatus gen. et sp. nov., holotype female. A body, anteroventrolateral view (cers—cercal seta, hyp—hypopygium). Scale bar: 0.2 mm."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10404627"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/10404627/files/figure.png"pageId="2"pageNumber="121">Fig. 2</figureCitation>
); notauli very short, subtle, located anteriorly (
<figureCitationid="83932A76FFAA2555FD7FFBF690397A38"box="[676,768,1117,1143]"captionStart="FIGURE 3"captionStartId="5.[151,250,1896,1920]"captionTargetBox="[151,1436,181,1872]"captionTargetId="figure-21@5.[151,1436,181,1872]"captionTargetPageId="5"captionText="FIGURE 3. Electrocerus brevifuniculatus gen. et sp. nov., holotype female. A body, dorsolateral view; B head, antennae, mandible, mesosoma, lateral view (not—notaulus). Scale bars: 0.5 mm (A); 0.2 mm (B)."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10404629"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/10404629/files/figure.png"pageId="2"pageNumber="121">Fig. 3B</figureCitation>
: arrow); forewing slightly infuscated, with small, slightly darkened areas below marginal vein and parastigma; filum spinosum and row of covering setae on basal margin of linea calva well developed; postmarginal vein shorter than marginal vein; cerci located in apical third of metasoma; apex of hypopygium not reaching apex of last gastral tergum.
is supported by the presence of a filum spinosum on the linea calva (
<figureCitationid="83932A76FFAA2555FEC4FA9E925A7B00"box="[287,355,1333,1359]"captionStart="FIGURE 4"captionStartId="6.[151,250,1896,1920]"captionTargetBox="[151,1436,181,1872]"captionTargetId="figure-29@6.[151,1436,181,1872]"captionTargetPageId="6"captionText="FIGURE 4. Electrocerus brevifuniculatus gen. et sp. nov., holotype female.Wings A right forewing in focus (pst—parastigma); B all wings in focus; C left forewing and hind wing in focus (fs—filum spinosum). Scale bars: 0.2 mm."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10404631"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/10404631/files/figure.png"pageId="2"pageNumber="121">Fig. 4</figureCitation>
), and the apex of the hypopygium not reaching the gastral apex (
<figureCitationid="83932A76FFAA2555FBE0FA9E97457B00"box="[1083,1148,1333,1359]"captionStart="FIGURE 1"captionStartId="1.[151,250,1607,1631]"captionTargetBox="[235,1352,381,1584]"captionTargetId="figure-121@1.[235,1352,381,1584]"captionTargetPageId="1"captionText="FIGURE 1. Electrocerus brevifuniculatus gen. et sp. nov., holotype female, lateral view (fs—filum spinosum, hyp— hypopygium). Scale bar: 0.5 mm."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10404625"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/10404625/files/figure.png"pageId="2"pageNumber="121">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
With its very long stigmal vein, the new taxon is distinctly different from known extant genera that possess a four-segmented funicle in the tribes Arrhenophagini Ashmead, 1900 and Habrolepidini Hoffer, 1955 (see
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, the new taxon differs, in particular, by its long marginal vein, the presence of a malar sulcus, and the hypopygium not reaching the apex of the gaster (see
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