Review of the world species of Spaniopus Walker, 1833 (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), with description of a new species from the Russian Far East
Author
Tselikh, Ekaterina
text
Zootaxa
2015
4058
1
41
65
journal article
39271
10.11646/zootaxa.4058.1.2
c03b8685-e7b1-423d-8db3-8a8c99ee2202
1175-5326
239870
B316C84C-7415-449F-9ABF-5DD600556844
Spaniopus hedqvisti
Huggert, 1976
(
Figs 25–31
)
Spaniopus hedqvisti
Huggert, 1976
: 62
–64;
holotype
♂ (NHRS, not examined).
Type
locality: [
Sweden
] “Hällnäs”.
Description.
Female
. Body length
1.6–2.2 mm
; fore wing length
0.9–1.5 mm
. Colour: head, mesosoma dark metallic green or dark metallic blue to blush-green or blush-purple often with diffuse coppery lustre; metasoma dark metallic green; scape basally yellowish-brown, apically brown, pedicel and flagellum brown; legs yellowishbrown, last segment of tarsi brown; fore wing with light brownish tint; ovipositor sheath dark brown.
Head in dorsal view 2.1–2.2× as broad as long and 1.2–1.3× as broad as mesoscutum; in frontal view 1.2–1.3× broader than high. POL 1.3–1.5× OOL. Eye height 1.5× eye length and 1.5× as long as malar space. Frons 1.3× broader than eye height. Distance between antennal toruli and lower margin of clypeus 0.8× as long as distance between antennal toruli and median ocellus. Clypeus radially striate, its lower margin weakly emarginate. Antenna with scape 0.9× as long as eye height and 1.3× as long as eye length; pedicel 1.9–2.0× as long as broad and 1.5– 1.6× as long as F1; combined length of pedicel and flagellum 0.9× breadth of head; second anellus of antenna transverse and 1.5–1.6× as long as first one; flagellum slightly clavate; F1 1.3–1.5× as long as broad, hardly constricted basally; F2, F3 subquadrate, F4–F6 subtransverse; each funicular segment with one row of dense sensilla; clava 1.7× as long as broad.
Mesosoma 1.50–1.55× as long as broad. Pronotal collar medially 0.27× as long as mesoscutum. Scutellum finely reticulate, about as long as broad, with noticeable but shallow frenal line. Propodeum medially 0.66× as long as scutellum; with median carina complete and irregular, costula absent; nucha subglobose and strongly reticulate, occupying 0.5–0.6× length of propodeum. Fore wing 2.4–2.6× as long as maximum width; basal cell hairy; speculum open, cubital vein with several hairs; M 1.3–1.4× as long as P and 1.3–1.4× as long as S; P as long as S.
Metasoma ovate-acuminate, 1.4–1.6× as long as broad and 1.4× as long as mesosoma. Ovipositor sheath projecting slightly beyond apex of metasoma.
Male
. Body length
1.2–1.5 mm
. Colour: head, mesosoma and metasoma metallic green with diffuse coppery lustre; scape, F1, F2, F5 and F6 yellow, pedicel, F3, F4 and clava brown. Head in dorsal view 1.4–1.5× as broad as mesoscutum. POL 1.50–1.55× OOL. Eye height 1.4× eye length and 2.3× as long as malar space. Combined length of pedicel and flagellum 1.1× breadth of head; clava 2.7× as long as broad. Mesosoma 1.75× as long as broad. Nucha occupying at most 0.3× length of propodeum. Inner margin of mid tibia with two flattened and brownish lobe. Otherwise similar to female.
Material examined.
SWEDEN
:
1 ♀ (
paratype
), “Vb., Umeå, 15·9 1968, Lars Huggert”, “
Paratypus
Spaniopus hedqvisti
n.sp ♀ L. Huggert – 75”, “Ex. coll. Lars Huggert
1942–2003
. Donation
NHRS
2006 via Sylvia Viitalähde”, “NHRS-HEVA 000003613”; 1 ♀ (
paratype
), “Ly·lpm., Hemavan,
3/7 1972
, L. Huggert”, “
Paratypus
Spaniopus hedqvisti
n.sp ♀ L. Huggert – 75”, “Ex. coll. Lars Huggert
1942–2003
. Donation
NHRS
2006 via Sylvia Viitalähde”, “NHRS-HEVA 000003614” (all from
NHRS
); 1 ♀ (
paratype
), “Vb. Hällnäs,
11/8 1974
, L. Huggert”, “
Paratypus
Spaniopus hedqvisti
n.sp ♂ L. Huggert – 75”, “
Paratype
”, “
BMNH
(E) #953707” (
BMNH
).
Distribution.
Sweden
(
Huggert 1976
;
Noyes 2015
).
Biology.
Unknown.
Comparative diagnosis
.
Spaniopus hedqvisti
is very similar to
S. varicornis
; the differences between these species are shown in the respective keys to the sexes.
Comments.
Females of
S. hedqvisti
vary in wing-size (
Fig. 26
), and one studied specimen has three anelli and five funicle segments (
Fig. 26
). Sexual dimorphism of this species includes colour of the antennae (
Fig. 29
) as well as colour and shape of the mid tibiae (
Fig. 30
).