Phylogenetics and classification of the world genera of Diparinae (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)
Author
Desjardins, Christopher A.
text
Zootaxa
2007
2007-11-28
1647
1
1
88
https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1647.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.1647.1.1
11755334
5103860
9CDBECB7-17F1-4B0B-B577-CE29B34AA89A
Conophorisca grisselli
Desjardins
,
New Species
(
Figs. 5–15
,
63
)
Type information:
Holotype
female (
SAM
) “
South Africa
, W
Cape
,
Koeberg Nature Reserve
,
33°37.62’S
18°24.26’E
,
16 May–13 June 1997
,
S. van Noort
, K097-Y08,
Yellow Pan trap
(cup), Station 8,
West Coast Strandveld
dominated by
Euphorbia
and
Rhus
spp.
SAM-HYM-P020912.”
Paratypes
: (
SAM
)
2 females
and
1 male
,
same data as holotype
,
1 male
,
same data as holotype except “
3–31 Oct 1997
, Station 3, KO97-Y93 SAM-HYM-P020931,”
1 male
,
same data as holotype except “
3–31 Oct 1997
, Station 4, KO97-Y94, SAM- HYM-P020932,”
1 female
,
same data as holotype except “
31 Oct–28 Nov 1997
, Station 3, KO97-Y111, SAM-HYM-P020936,”
2 females
,
same data as holotype except “
20 Mar–17 Apr 1998
, Station 3, KO97- Y201, SAM-HYM-P020937,”
1 male
,
same data as holotype except “
27 Dec–23 Jan 1998
, Station 4 KO97- Y148, SAM-HYM-020938,”
1 male
,
same data as holotype except “
27 Dec–23 Jan 1998
, Station 7, KO97- Y151, SAM-HYM-P020939,”
1 female
and
1 male
,
same data as holotype except “
31 Oct–28 Nov 1997
, Station 4, KO97-Y112, SAM-HYM-P020941,”
1 female
and
1 male
,
same data as holotype except “
28 Nov–27 Dec 1997
, Station 2, KO97-Y137, SAM-HYM-P020942,”
1 female
,
same data as holotype except “
20 Feb–20 Mar 1998
, Station 4, KO97-Y184, SAM-HYM-P020943,”
1 female
and
1 male
,
same data as holotype except “
23 Jan–20 Feb 1998
, Station 3, KO97-Y165, SAM-HYM-P020944,”
1 female
and
1 male
,
same data as holotype except “
27 Dec–23 Jan 1998
, KO97-Y147, SAM-HYM-P020961;” (
USNM
)
1 female
,
same data as holotype except “
28 Nov–27 Dec 1997
, Station 4, KO97-Y130, SAM-HYM-P020947,”
1 male
,
same data as holotype except “
27 Dec 1997
–
23 Jan 1998
, Station 4, KO97-Y148, SAM-HYM-P020938.”
Description:
Female.
1.8 mm
.
Color:
Brownish orange with the following exceptions: Vertex dark brown to metallic blue, upper face and gena brow, lower face orangish brown, pro- and metacoxa orangish white, legs orangish yellow, petiole light brown, remaining metasoma brown.
Head:
Subtriangular-ovate in frontal view, slightly wider than high (1.1:1); eyes bare, 1.4X as high as wide; vertex smooth, remaining head finely coriaceous; ocellocular: postocellar: mid-to-lateral ocellus distance: lateral ocellus diameter about 2.3:5.7:3.3:1; scrobe high, narrow, deep, reaching from torulus to ventral margin of mid-ocellus; scrobal basin transversely striate, scrobal walls coriaceous-striate; interantennal carina strong, reaching 0.4X height of scrobe; toruli separated by about 1 torulus diameter; scape length about equal to eye height; anellus reduced and partially fused to F1, 2–3X as broad as long; ratio of scape: pedicel: anellus+F1: F2: F3 about 5.3:1.3:1:1:1, F4–7 each about 2X as long as wide; clava 1-segmented, all segments fused; malar sulcus absent; clypeus strongly delimited laterally, finely delimited dorsally; clypeal margin symmetrically sinuate.
Mesosoma:
Dorsally smooth to coriaceous; ratio of pronotum: scutum: scutellum: propodeum about 3.4:1:1:3.1; pronotum about as wide as long; scutum 2.7X as wide as long; posterior scutellar margin smooth; metanotum smooth, polished band; propodeum coriaceous anteriorly to smooth posteriorly; plica absent; postspiracular sulcus wide, shallow, and smooth; spiracle about 3.4X its own diameter from metanotum; spiracle facing postero-laterally; prepectus triangular, in same plane as pronotum; acropleuron mostly smooth, slightly coriaceous, mesepisternum coriaceous, mesepimeron smooth to rough-coriaceous; femoral depression distinct, coriaceous-alveolate; metapleuron coriaceous anteriorly to smooth posteriorly; metapleuron not fused to propodeum, although sulcus weaker anterior to spiracle; meso- and metatibia ventro-distally spinose; one metatibial spur, 0.9X width of metatibia at point of insertion; metabasitarsus about 4.8X as long as wide, about 0.6X length of remaining tarsi; posterior margin of metacoxa faintly transversely striate; metacoxa without setae; apterous, forewing reduced to small membranous area, hindwing apparently absent.
Metasoma:
1.2X length of mesosoma; petiole about 1.7X as long as broad, roughly sculptured; ratio of GT1: GT2–6: GT7: ovipositor sheaths about 15:4.7:1:2.3; GT1 dorsally covered with sparse, white setae (separated by 2–3X setal length), GT2–6 latero-ventrally with rows of white setae, GT7, ovipositor sheaths covered in white setae; ovipositor tip smooth and pointed.
Male:
Same as female.
Etymology:
Named for my Ph.D. co-advisor, E. Eric Grissell, whose guidance was invaluable in the completion of the morphological component of my dissertation.
Distribution:
South Africa
:
Western Cape Province
.
Hosts:
Unknown.