Three new species of the genus Sycophila (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Eurytomidae) from China
Author
Xiao, Hui
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
xiaoh@ioz.ac.cn
Author
Zhang, Rui
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China & Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
Author
Gao, Mengqing
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China & Provincial Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Important Biological Resource in Anhui, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, 241000, China
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1029.60911
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Sycophila curta Chen, 1999
Figs 19-22
Sycophila curta
Chen, 1999, in
Chen et al. 1999
: 45.
Material examined.
3♀
,
China
:
Hainan
:
Danzhou
,
VI.2006
, leg.
Haoyuan Hu.
5♀
,
China
:
Hainan
:
Danzhou
,
VIII.2006
, leg.
Haoyuan Hu.
4♀
,
China
:
Hainan
:
Lingshui
,
IV.2005
, leg.
Yanzhou Zhang
,
Tongxin Zhang.
♀
,
China
:
Guangxi
:
Wuzhou
,
X.2005
, leg.
Yanzhou Zhang
,
Wei Li.
Diagnosis.
Body (Figs
19
,
20
) length 1.38-1.8 mm. Body yellow-brown, eyes reddish, antennal yellow, wings venation yellow-brown except marginal vein enlarged and with dark brown maculae. Head in frontal view 1.4
x
as wide as high, eyes separated by 1.5
x
their height; malar space 0.6
x
eyes height. Lower margin of clypeus emarginated and with a small tooth on both sides, mandible three teethed. Head in dorsal view 2.14
x
as broad as long, POL 3.33
x
OOL, OOL 3
x
ocellus diameter. Antennal insertion on lower ocular line; scape 4.5
x
as long as broad, not reaching anterior ocellus (Fig.
21
); scape length shorter than eyes height; pedicel as long as Fu1; length of pedicel and flagellum combined shorter than head width (0.83
x
); Fu1 1.33
x
as long as broad. Pronotum and mesosoma with sparsely umbilicate puncturation, scutellum sub-rectangular, without umbilicate puncturation. Fore wing (Fig.
22
) with maculae around marginal, postmarginal and stigmal vein, and expending backward to disc. Marginal vein broaden, stigma elongate; marginal vein 1.5
x
as long as postmarginal vein, 3.0
x
as long as stigmal vein. Legs covered with soft small setae. Gaster blob-shape. Ovipositor unexposed.
Figures 19-22.
Sycophila curta
Chen, female
19
body in dorsal view
20
body in lateral view
21
head in lateral view
22
fore wing in dorsal view.
Male.
No male species was found in this study. According to
Chen et al. (1999)
, body length 1.14-1.62 mm. Body yellowish, eyes dark red, 2 brown black spots at the end of gaster. Body covered with small umbilicate puncturation. Head as wide as high. Antennal formula 11143. Petiole shorter than gaster.
Host.
Ficus microcarpa
L.
Distribution.
China (Guangxi, Hainan, Taiwan).