Review of Tumidiclava Girault (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) from Xingjiang, China, with description of two new species and taxonomic notes on other Holarctic taxa
Author
Aishan, Zhulidezi
Author
Triapitsyn, Serguei V.
Author
Hu, Hong-Ying
text
Zootaxa
2015
3949
3
393
407
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3949.3.5
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1175-5326
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Tumidiclava tamariska
Hu & Aishan
,
sp. nov.
(
Figs 10–14
)
Type
material.
Holotype
♀ [
ICXU
] (on slide,
Fig. 10
).
CHINA
.
XINJIANG: Beitun, Xiganqu,
46°16.15´N
,
86°41.56´E
,
26.vii. 2012
, H.-y. Hu group.
FIGURES 10–14.
Tumidiclava tamariska
. Figs 10–12, holotype ♀: 10, holotype slide; 11, antenna; 12, fore wing. Figs 13 and 14, paratype ♂: 13, antenna; 14, genitalia.
Paratypes
(on slides).
CHINA
.
XINJIANG: Bachu,
39°50.68´N
,
78°32.41´E
,
21.vi. 2008
, H.-y. Hu group [1♀,
ICXU
]. Beitun, Xiganqu,
46°16.15´N
,
86°41.56´E
,
26.vii. 2012
, H.-y. Hu group [23♀,
15♂
,
ICXU
]. Bole,
44°30.08´N
,
83°19.49´E
,
25.vii. 2006
, H.-y. Hu group [6♀,
2♂
,
ICXU
]. Shihezi,
44°59´N
,
86°06´E
,
19.vii. 2005
, H.-y. Hu group [2♀,
6♂
,
ICXU
].
ISRAEL
.
Negev Desert, Sde Boker Kibbutz,
2-22.x.1988
, F. Brouwer [1♀ on slide,
UCRC
].
Description.
FEMALE (specimens from
China
and
Israel
). Body yellowish-brown except eyes red, legs yellow. Body length
0.55–0.63 mm
(n = 7).
Head brown, subcircular in frontal view; eye 0.68× height of head (0.57–0.80). Maxillary palp short, 1- segmented. Antenna (
Fig. 11
) rather long, with scape long, 4.28× as long as wide (4.00–4.43×); pedicel pyriform, 2.50× as long as wide (2.00–2.50×); scape length/pedicel length = 1.50 (1.47–1.55); second anellus small and appressed to club; club 3-segmented, 3.58× as long as wide (2.92–4.00×), first segment the shortest, apical segment the longest and with 3–4 PLS, terminal process as long as second claval segment, its length/ club length = 0.14 (6/ 42).
Mesoscutum with reticulate sculpture; midlobe with 4 setae. Fore wing (
Fig. 12
) 2.00× as long as wide (1.9– 2.1×), hyaline; venation short, extending 0.30× FWL, disc sparsely setae, with setae irregularly arranged. Fringe setae short, FWFS/FWW = 0.20 (0.14–0.20).
Hind
wing with 1 complete linear setal track. First tarsal segments of all legs short, second and third segments equal in length.
Metasoma longer than mesosoma; ovipositor short and slightly exerted, arising from fourth gastral sternite, ovipositor/hind tibia length = 1.15 (1.17–1.25).
Measurements (µm) of the
holotype
. Body 610; mesosoma 180; gaster 300; ovipositor 37.5. Antenna: scape 70; pedicel 50; clava 110. Fore wing 390: 200; longest marginal seta 40.
Hind
wing 370; 30; longest marginal seta 60.
MALE (specimens from
China
). Body length
0.60–0.62 mm
; body color and morphological features similar to female. Antenna (
Fig. 13
) slightly thick, scape length/pedicel length = 1.36 (1.15–1.44), scape 3.65× as long as wide (3.14–4.00×); pedicel 1.98× as long as wide; second anellus larger than first; club 5-segmented, 3.06× as long as wide (2.83–3.50×), with 2 PLS, one on the third club segment, another on the fourth to fifth club segment. Genitalia (
Fig. 14
) cylindrical, aedeagus and apodemes equal in length.
Diagnosis.
Tumidiclava tamariska
is most similar to
T. longiclavata
. Females of this new species are easily distinguished by the unique combination of the club having long segments, particularly the second and third segments (
Fig. 11
), and the fore wings having sparse, short, inconspicuous discal setae (
Fig. 12
).
Etymology.
The species name is a noun in apposition which is derived from the common name of
Tamarix
, tamarisk.
Distribution.
China
(Xinjiang) and
Israel
.
Hosts.
Unknown.
Comments.
Most of the specimens of this species were collected in Beitun, Xiganqu saline desert. Vegetation at this locality is predominated by
Tamaricaceae
, plant hosts of various leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) and also the leaf beetle
Diorhabda elongata
Brullé
(
Coleoptera
:
Chrysomelidae
). At least one of these two might be the potential host of
T. tamariska
, numerous specimens of which were collected on
Tamarix chinensis
.