Review of the Mexican species of Erythmelus (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae), with description of two new species
Author
Guzmán-Larralde, Adriana J.
Author
Triapitsyn, Serguei V.
Author
Huber, John T.
Author
González-Hernández, Alejandro
text
Zootaxa
2015
3956
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121
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3956.1.7
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Erythmelus
(
Erythmelus
)
tigres
Guzmán-Larralde & Triapitsyn
,
sp. n.
(
Figs 2
,
18, 19
)
Type
material.
Holotype
female on slide [
UCRC
]:
MEXICO
.
Veracruz,
3 mi
. N of Cardel by Río Actopan,
31.x.1982
, A. González-Hernández, J. T. Huber, screen sweeping [
UCRC
ENT
311401].
Paratype
:
Chiapas
,
30 km
SW of Ocozocoahutla,
30.vi.1981
, J. LaSalle [1♀ on slide,
CNC
].
Description.
FEMALE. Body length 554–800 µm. Body mostly light brown except posterior half of midlobe of mesoscutum, parts of pronotum, axilla, scutellum, and metanotum, and basal gastral terga yellow to light brown; legs and antenna light brown or dusky.
Scape slightly curved, about 6.6× as long as wide; pedicel much longer than F1; all funicular segments longer than wide, F2, F3 and F5 subequal in length, F4 and F6 slightly longer and subequal, F1–F5 without mps, F6 with 1 mps; clava about 4.8× as long as wide, apparently with 5 mps.
Wings. Fore wing 6.0× as long as wide; blade slightly infuscate behind venation but otherwise hyaline, more or less uniformly setose including behind venation (with two irregular rows of setae behind parastigma); longest marginal cilia 0.84× greatest wing width.
Hind
wing about 20× as long as wide; blade hyaline; longest marginal cilia 3.2× greatest wing width.
Metasoma. Petiole much wider than long. Gaster longer than mesosoma; ovipositor about 1/2 length of gaster, a little exserted beyond apical gastral tergum, and 1.25× length of metatibia.
Holotype
measurements (in Μm). Body 800; mesosoma 270; gaster 326; ovipositor 228. Antenna:scape (including radicle) 141; pedicel 49; F1 25; F2 25; F3 25; F4 43; F5 25; F6 49; clava 111. Fore wing 540:86; longest marginal cilia 74.
Hind
wing 510:31; longest marginal cilia 105.
Variation (
paratype
in Μm). Body length 554; Fore wing 6.1× as long as wide. Ovipositor as long as metatibia.
MALE. Unknown.
Diagnosis.
In
Triapitsyn
et al.
(2007)
, this species keys to the same couplet as
E.
(
Erythmelus
)
coviellai
Triapitsyn. It
differs from the female of
E. coviellai
in F3–F5 without mps, F4 and F6 larger than other funicular segments and equal in size. It differs from
E. hirtipenis
because F4 is smaller or equal than F5, and F6 is the only segment larger than the others.
Etymology.
This species is a noun in apposition standing for the professional Mexican football (soccer) club, Club de Fútbol
Tigres
de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, commonly referred to as
Tigres
de la UANL, or simply
Tigres
.
Hosts.
Unknown.