A revision of European species of the genus Tetrastichus Haliday (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) using integrative taxonomy
Author
Hansson, Christer
The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom & Biological Museum (Entomology), Lund University, Lund, Sweden
christerdennis@gmail.com
Author
Schmidt, Stefan
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5751-8706
SNSB-Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen, Munich, Germany
schmidt.s@snsb.de
text
Biodiversity Data Journal
2020
2020-12-16
8
59177
59177
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e59177
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e59177
1314-2828-8-e59177
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Tetrastichus setifer Thomson, 1878
Tetrastichus setifer
Thomson 1878
:283. Lectotype ♀ in MZLU, designated by
Graham 1961
:39, examined (Fig.
88
). Transferred to
Aprostocetus
by
Graham 1961
:39 and back to
Tetrastichus
by
Domenichini 1966
:91.
Description
Female see
Graham (1991)
.
MALE. Body length 1.9 mm.
Head
. Width/length in dorsal view 2.6, width/length in frontal view 1.3, eye height/malar space 1.2, mouth width/malar space 1.6, widths head/mesosoma 1.0.
Antenna
. F1-F4 with basal whorls of setae, reaching to but not beyond apex of corresponding flagellomere, scape length/eye height 1.1, scape length/width 3.0, ventral plaque placed in central part of scape, lengths ventral plaque/scape 0.8, pedicel+flagellum length/mesosoma width 1.4, length/width F1, F2, F3, F4 1.5, 1.7, 1.8,1.6, clava length/width 4.5, lengths pedicel/F1 0.9, lengths F1/F2 0.9, F1/F3 0.9, F1/F4 1.0, lengths F1, F2, F3, F4/clava 0.4, 0.4, 0.4, 0.4.
Colour. Body with metallic blue tinges, entire antenna dark brown, tegulae dark brown, wing venation pale brown, coxae concolorous with body, trochanters and femora dark brown, tibiae yellowish-brown, tarsi yellowish-brown with T4 brown.
Diagnosis
Ovipositor retracted and does not reach apex of Gt7; cerci placed laterally; colour dull compared to other species in this group; spine of antennal claval long, 0.5
x
C3; mouth opening 1.3-1.4
x
malar space.
Distribution
(Former) Czechoslovakia, France, (former) Yugoslavia (
Graham 1991
) and Sweden (
Thomson 1878
).
Ecology
Host
Lilioceris lilii
(Scopoli) (
Gold et al. 2001
) and
L. tibialis
(Villa) (
Kenis et al. 2002
) (
Coleoptera
:
Chrysomelidae
).
Material examined
Type material: lectotype ♀ of
T. setifer
(MZLU, type no. 4868:1). Additional material (27♀ 5♂): France 2♀ (GD); Sweden 25♀ 5♂ ex
Lilioceris lilii
(MZLU, NHM).