Stephanocampta Mathot (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae): descriptions of two new species and the female of S. indica Anwar & Zeya from India and a key to world taxa
Author
Palanivel, S.
Author
Manickavasagam, S.
Author
Triapitsyn, S. V.
text
Zootaxa
2015
4012
3
479
492
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4012.3.4
96bbcc70-d93e-4841-93aa-6904690d0cb4
1175-5326
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Stephanocampta huberi
Manickavasagam & Palanivel
,
sp. nov.
(
Figs 9–14
)
Description. Female
(
holotype
). Body length 350. Body dark brown except eye silvery white, scape and legs yellow, and pedicel light brown; wings hyaline.
Head (
Fig. 9
) 0.8× as wide as mesosoma, with vertex transversely striate. Scape (
Fig. 10
a, b) 1.5× as long as pedicel; F1 1.75× as long as F2; F3 2.6× as long as wide; F4 and F5 subequal; F5 and F6 equal, F6 and F7 subequal; clava 1.8× as long as combined length of F5–F7, with 4 mps.
Mesosoma (
Fig. 13
) as long as gaster (
Fig. 14
), mesoscutum about 0.3× as long as wide, with convex, transversely striate sculpture, more arched medially, and with setae on midlobe short; axillar seta long; scutellum 0.6× as long as wide, with lateral longitudinal striations along length, medially the striations converge to meet. Fore wing (
Fig. 11
) 9.2× as long as wide; disc with 5 dorsal and 3 ventral rows of setae in apical half; longest marginal seta 3.8× maximum wing width.
Hind
wing (
Fig. 12
) 24.5× as long as wide; disc with 1 row of dorsal setae, longest marginal seta 9.0× maximum wing width.
FIGURES 6–8.
Stephanocampta andamanensis
sp. nov.
, ♀ holotype. 6, mesosoma; 7, petiole; 8, metasoma.
Metasoma. Petiole 0.42× as long as metacoxa and without a lateral spine (
Fig. 14
). Gaster slightly longer than wide (140:130); ovipositor exserted (
Fig. 14
), 1.26× gaster length and 1.36× length of metatibia.
Measurements of
holotype
(as length:width or length). Head, 125:142.5. Antenna: radicle, 10:10; scape, 45:17.5; pedicel, 30:22.5; F1, 17.5:7.5; F2, 10:7.5; F3, 20:7.5; F4, 25:7.5; F5, 22.5:10; F6, 22.5:10; F7, 2.5:12.5; clava, 122.5:20. Mesosoma, 140:130; mesoscutum, 35:120; scutellum, 57.5:90; gaster, 140:130. Fore wing, 415:45, longest marginal seta, 175; hind wing, 367.5:15, longest marginal seta, 135. Petiole, 22.5:20; ovipositor, 177.5:13.25; metacoxa, 53; metatibia, 130.
Male
. Unknown.
Material examined.
Holotype
:
EDAU
/ Mym12/2015,
1 female
dissected and mounted on two slides (one slide containing only one antenna and the other containing the other antenna, and the rest under four cover slips),
INDIA
: Manipur, Tamenglong,
27.ix.2014
, YPTs, forest ecosystem,
24o59’16.5624”N
93o29’43.0512’’E
, K. Sophis Singh.
Distribution.
India
: Manipur.
Etymology.
The species is named after the mymarid specialist, Dr. John T. Huber of the Canadian National Collections of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada
(CNC).