Systematic revision and phylogeny of the endemic southeastern Asian Pristaulacus comptipennis species group (Hymenoptera: Aulacidae) 2959
Author
Turrisi, Giuseppe Fabrizio
Author
Smith, David R.
text
Zootaxa
2011
2011-07-08
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2959.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.2959.1.1
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Pristaulacus dilleri
Turrisi & Smith
,
sp. nov.
(
Figs 37–45
)
Type material
.
LAOS
:
holotype
♀
, “Laos C, 7–16.V.04,
Bolikhamsai
pr.,
Ban Nape
env,
350 m
,
18°20'N
,
105°08'E
, Jendek & Šauša lg./
Pristaulacus dilleri
Turrisi & Smith
sp. n.
♀
, 2009,
Holotypus
” (
OLML
)
.
Paratypes
.
1♀
, “
Laos
south, Bay Houaykong,
18–30.IV.1999
,
O. Šauša
lgt./
Pristaulacus dilleri
Turrisi & Smith
sp. n.
♀
, 2009,
Paratypus
” (
OLML
)
;
1♂
same data of the previous
paratype
(
OLML
)
;
1♂
, “Laos CE,
1–18.v.2001
,
Boli Kham Xai
,
18°21'N
,
105°08'E
, Ban Nape (
8 km
NE),
600 m
,
Vit Kuban
leg./
Pristaulacus dilleri
Turrisi & Smith
sp. n.
♂
, 2009,
Paratypus
” (
OLML
)
.
Etymology
.
Named after Erich Diller (Zoologische Staatssammlung Munich,
Germany
), specialist in
Ichneumonidae
.
FIGURES 37–41.
Pristaulacus dilleri
sp. nov.
, holotype ♀. 37. Head, dorsal view. 38. Head, frontal view. 39. Head, lateral view. 40.
Mesosoma
, dorsal view. 41. Pronotum, lateral view.
Description
.
FEMALE (
holotype
). Length:
12.8 mm
; fore wing length: 9.0 mm; ovipositor length: about 9.0 mm (apex missing).
Colour
black, except: clypeus with apical margin dark reddish; basal half of mandible reddish orange; maxillolabial complex dark brown; antenna dark brown; fore and mid tibiae reddish orange, hind tibia dark brown and tarsi white yellowish; fore wing hyaline, with two small and irregular brown spots on cell B and between cells SB and SD1, one large dark brown spot below stigma (slightly narrower than stigma extended posteriorly to Cu1a) and apex infuscate; hind wing hyaline; metasoma dark brown; valvula 3 of ovipositor dark brown. Setae: whitish.
Head
, from above, 1.2 × wider than long, shiny; occipital margin strongly concave, with a narrow and weak medial groove; temple, from above, well developed, straight, about as eye length; occipital carina moderately wide, 0.4–0.5 × diameter of an ocellus, narrower along medial occipital groove; POL:OOL= 1.1; ocellar area 1.9 × wider than long; vertex and temple with fine, deep and scattered punctures (distance between punctures 3.0–5.0 × puncture diameters); frons with fine, deep and dense punctures (distance between punctures 2.0 × puncture diameters); clypeus with fine to coarse, deep and dense punctures; malar area finely and densely punctate; occipital area with fine, superficial and dense punctures; antenna 0.7 × as long as fore wing length; A3 4.8 × longer than wide; A4 8.2 × longer than wide, and 1.7 × longer than A3; A5 7.8 × longer than wide, and 1.5 × longer than A3. Setae: erect, short and scattered on vertex; semi erect to erect, short and scattered to dense on temple (length of setae 0.5–0.6 × diameter of an ocellus); erect, short and dense on upper frons; recumbent, short and dense on lower frons; recumbent, long and dense on clypeus; recumbent, short and dense on malar area.
FIGURES 42–45.
Pristaulacus dilleri
sp. nov.
, holotype ♀. 42. Wings. 43.
Mesosoma
, lateral view. 44. Mid and hind coxae, ventral view. 45. Metasoma, lateral view.
Mesosoma
coarsely sculptured; pronotum densely and coarsely areolate-rugose with one long and acute anterior tooth-like process on each lateroventral margin; propleuron polished and shiny with fine, deep and dense punctures on dorsal surface, fine, deep and scattered to dense on ventral surface (distance between punctures 2.0–3.0 × puncture diameters); prescutum triangular, wide, long, not concave to weakly concave toward apex, transverse carinate; mesoscutum mostly transverse-carinate, partly areolate-rugose posterior to notauli; anterior margin very slightly prominent and angulate (lateral view); notauli deep and wide; scutellum areolate-rugose on base, transverse-carinate medially, longitudinally carinate laterally; mesopleuron areolate-rugose, foveolate-rugulose on subalar area; metanotum longitudinally carinate; propodeum areolate-rugose, except anterior margin longitudinally carinate; venter of mesosoma transverse-carinate; fore wing with vein
2-rs+m
short; coxa I polished and shiny, with very fine to fine, superficial to deep and dense punctures, deeper and denser basally; coxa II transverse-carinulate, with fine, deep and dense punctures medially on ventral surface; coxa III transverse-carinate on dorsal surface, transverse-carinulate-punctate on ventral surface (punctures coarse, deep and dense, distance between punctures about 2.0–3.0 × puncture diameters); inner spur of mid and hind tibia longer than outer spur; hind basitarsus 9.5 × longer than wide, and 1.2 × as tarsomeres 2–5; tarsal claw with four tooth-like processes. Setae: erect to semi erect, very short and dense on dorsal surface; mostly recumbent to semi erect, long and dense on sides and venter of mesosoma; erect to semi erect, long and dense on hind surface of propodeum; erect, long and dense on propleuron (setae length at most 0.6 × pretarsus length).
Metasoma
pyriform (lateral view), strongly compressed laterally; petiole very elongate, slender, 7.0 × longer than wide; segments 1 and 2 polished and shiny, impunctate; remaining tergites with fine, superficial and dense punctures; remaining sternites shiny, impunctate, with only a very fine microsculpture; S7 polished and punctate to longitudinally carinulate (distal half) with coarse, deep and very dense punctures; T8 very finely microreticulate, with fine, deep and scattered (on basal third) to dense punctures; ovipositor length equal to fore wing length. Setae: segments 1–2 and S3 glabrous, except a few very short and scattered setae on distal margin of T2; recumbent, short and dense on remaining tergites, especially on last two; semi erect, very short and scattered on medial part of S4– S6; erect, short and dense on S7.
MALE (
paratype
). Length:
11.2 mm
; fore wing length:
7.9 mm
. Colour, structure, and setae like
♀
, except: S1, metasomal segment 2 extensively reddish orange; wings without brown markings on cell B and obsolescent markings between cells SB and SD1; antenna length 0.7 × fore wing length; A3 3.5 × longer than wide; A4 6.0 × longer than wide, and 1.7 × longer than A3; A5 as long and wide as A4; A13 subcylindrical, with apex slightly acute, 4.7 × longer than wide; hind basitarsus 10.4 × longer than wide.
Variation
.
Examined
2♀
,
2♂
. Length:
9.2–12.8 mm
(
♀
); 9.7–11.2 (
♂
); fore wing length: 7.6–9.0 mm (
♀
);
7.4– 7.9 mm
(
♂
); ovipositor 1.0–1.1 × fore wing length. The irregular brown spots on cells B, SB, SD1 are obsolescent to absent in the males
paratypes
; the metasoma is lighter in the female
paratype
and especially in the
two males
paratypes
, with irregular reddish-orange markings on S1, and partly on segments 2–4.
Distribution
.
Laos
(
Bolikhamsai
and
Attapeu
provinces) (
Fig. 186
).
Biology
.
Unknown.