New species of cynipid inquilines of the genus Ufo Melika & Pujade-Villar, 2005 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini)
Author
Melika, George
Author
Tang, Chang-Ti
Author
Yang, Man-Miao
Author
Bihari, Péter
Author
Bozsó, Miklós
Author
Pénzes, Zsolt
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Zootaxa
2012
3478
143
163
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.215255
59996ab5-57e6-4b94-92fb-385ac9c5c882
1175-5326
215255
Ufo shirakashii
(Shinji)
and
U. shirokashicola
(Shinji)
Recently two
Andricus
Hartig
species were transferred to
Ufo
, and re-described as
Ufo shirakashii
(Shinji)
and
U. shirokashicola
(Shinji)
(
Wachi
et al
. 2011b
). However, these two species we erroneously put into the
Ufo
genus. Both species must be transferred to to the
undulatus
/
haimi
/
irani
clade of
Saphonecrus
Dalla Torre & Kieffer
(
Pénzes
et al
. 2009
, Ács
et al
. 2010).
Morphological characters, given for the two species by
Wachi
et al
. (2011)
resembles those of
Saphonecrus
and not
Ufo
(see diagnostic characters to both genera above in the first paragraph to Results). These two species belong to the
undulatus
/
haimi
/
irani
clade of
Saphonecrus
,
which is characterized by a strong lateral pronotal carina, the pronotum with sharp angles in dorsal view, however, the mesosoma anteriorly never has a strong rectangular aspect as in
Ufo
(
Pénzes
et al
. 2009
, Ács
et al
. 2010).
Saphonecrus shirakashii
(Shinji, 1940)
,
comb. nov.
(
Figs 53–68
) was collected by GM in
Japan
(Dazaifu city nr. Fukuoka, from undescribed leaf galls on
Q. glauca
; the same gall is given under figure C-059 in Yukawa & Masuda (1996); five females and two males), and by CT-T from different sites in
Taiwan
(Nantou Co., Lushan and from Huisun Forest Station, Renai Township; Taichung Co., Mt. Tungmau, Heping Township; Hsinchu Co., Jianshih Township), from undescribed leaf galls on
Q. glauca
and
Q. globosa
(dozens of females and males were reared from collected galls).
Saphonecrus shirokashicola
(Shinji, 1941)
,
comb. nov.
(
Figs 69–78
) was collected by GM in
Japan
(Honshu, Mt. Aburayama, Fukuoka, from undescribed leaf galls on
Q. glauca
; the same gall is given under figure C-057 in Yukawa & Masuda (1996);
4 females
and two males), and by CT-T in
Taiwan
(Nantou Co., Mt. Guandau, Renai Township), from undescribed leaf galls on
Q. longinux
(Figs)
(dozens of females and males were reared from collected galls).
Both species are characterized by an ovate or quadrangular head in anterior view; the frons is smooth, shiny or alutaceous, without or with very few delicate indistinct striae; F1 of the male antenna only 1.5´longer or only slightly longer than F2; the mesoscutum delicately alutaceous or punctate, without distinct short irregular transverse striae. In
S. shirakashii
the pedicel 2.2´longer than broad; F
1 in
the female antenna 1.2´longer than F2; F11 1.9´longer than F10; notauli are distinctly impressed, complete, reach the pronotum, while in
S
.
shirokashicola
the pedicel 1.6´longer than broad; F
1 in
the female antenna 1.7´longer than F2; F11 2.3´longer than F10; notauli are short, indistinctly impressed, visible only in the posterior 1/3–1/2 of the mesoscutum.