A new genus of Eucharitidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), with notes on life history and immature stages Author Torréns, Javier Author Heraty, John M. text Zootaxa 2013 3630 2 347 358 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3630.2.9 75ca79ef-f55b-4ff1-8afb-4ff704c6c893 1175-5326 222183 0866151D-6BC8-4676-AEC2-A77882DF3EE6 Neolirata furcula n. sp. (Figs 15, 17, 19, 21) Diagnosis . Distinguished from other species by the following combination of characters: face smooth (Fig. 21); scutellar spines stout and bowed medially (Fig. 19); gastral terga bare. Female. Length: 5.2–6.0 mm. Head, mesosoma, coxae and petiole black; flagellum dark brown; femora and scape yellowish-brown, with antennal flagellum beyond basal flagellomere slightly darker and last antennal flagellomeres sometimes light brown (Figs 15, 17). Wings hyaline, venation yellowish to light brown. 14 – 21 . Neolirata spp. 14, Neolirata alta , habitus (female); 15, N. furcula sp. nov. , habitus and labels (female, holotype ); 16, N. alta , antenna and head (female, sublateral); 17, N. furcula , antenna (female, lateral); 18, N. alta , mesosoma (female, dorsal); 19, N. furcula , mesosoma (female, dorsal); 20, N. alta , head (female, frontal); 21, N. furcula , head (female, frontal). cah, callus hairs. FIGURES 22 – 25. Biology and immature stages of Neolirata alta : 22, habitat; 23, Pseudabutilon virgatum ; 24, underside of leaf of P. v i rg a t u m with eggs (magnified area with eggs); 25, planidium. Head 1.5–1.7× as broad as high. Face smooth; occipital margin carinate. Eyes separated by 2.2–2.5× their height (Fig. 21); malar space 0.7–0.8× eye height. Labrum with 6 or 7 digits (Fig. 21). Clypeus slightly swollen; supraclypeal area slightly swollen, smooth, and demarcated laterally by shallow sulcus. Maxillary palp 2- segmented, labial palp reduced to a button-like segment. Antenna with 12 segments, scape long, smooth, laterally compressed, 3.0–4.0× as long as broad and 0.3–0.4× head height; length of flagellum 1.5–1.7× head height, basal flagellomere 0.8–0.9× length of scape, 3.6–5.0× as long as basal width and 1.6–1.8× as long as next flagellomere; flagellomeres blunt serrate, clava rounded (Fig. 17). Mesosoma . Mesoscutum broadly rounded, elevated, and rugose-areolate; mid lobe areolate with irregular transverse striae, side lobes almost smooth with few incomplete striae; mesosoma with scattered erect setae; notauli present only as a weak impression dorsomedially (Fig. 15). Axillae strongly impressed laterally, broadly rounded dorsally; scutellar spines thickened, cylindrical, strongly arched in dorsal view (Fig. 19), 1.0–1.1× as long as mesosoma, with carinae reaching to apex and scattered erect setae; inferior surface of frenum smooth with some carinae directed medially. Propodeal disc slightly swollen, with areolate carinae; callus swollen, irregular carinated, and with a few setae (Fig. 15). Mesepisternum smooth except for weak transverse carinae; upper mesepimeron smooth except for strong carinae. Coxae with scattered setae; metacoxa semiglobose, 1.3–1.4× as long as broad. Metafemur with scattered erect setae. Fore wing 2.5–2.6× as long as broad, stigmal vein 1.0–1.6× as long as broad; postmarginal vein slightly longer than stigmal vein; wing disc with dense short setae. Metasoma. Petiole 1.9–2.4× as long as broad and 1.5–1.7× as long as metacoxa; petiole subcylindrical, flattened dorsally, and with strong or weak longitudinal carinae. Gastral terga bare. Hypopygium with cluster of long hairs apically. Male. Unknown. Etymology . From Latin noun furcula which means “fork”, referring to the disposition of the scutellar spines. Material examined. Holotype female: BRAZIL , São Paulo : Ipiranga, [ 23°35'33"S 46°36'30"W ], 26.xi.2006 , S. M. Torres, UCR_ENT 0 0 0 36243 (MZSP). Paratypes : S ã o Paulo : Ipiranga, [ 23°35'33"S 46°36'30"W ], 14.i.1907 , H. Luederwaldt, UCR_ENT 0 0 0 36254 (1 Ƥ, MZSP); same location, ii.2005 , UCR_ENT 0 0 0 36244 (1 Ƥ, MZSP); Campinas, [ 22°54'17.90"S 47° 3'43.38"W ], ii.1924 , F.X. Williams, UCRC_ENT 00309442–449 (8 Ƥ, BMNH). MAP 1. Distribution of the three species of Neolirata gen. nov.