New species and new records of Platygastrinae and Sceliotrachelinae from Togo (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) Author Buhl, Peter Neerup text African Invertebrates 2014 2014-03-30 55 1 68 68 http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.5733/afin.055.0106 journal article 10.5733/afin.055.0106 2305-2562 7649696 Fidiobia semirufa sp. n. Figs 13, 14 Etymology: From Latin semi and rufa , meaning “half-red”; in reference to the probably characteristic colour of this species. Diagnosis: Antennae of male clavate, 9-segmented, with short A3 and A7–A8 distinctly transverse; mesoscutum reticulate-coriaceous, without notauli; body brightly coloured. Description: Male. Body length 0.55 mm . Body light reddish brown with vertex, mesoscutum except anteriorly, and a large mid part of T2 darkened, blackish; A1–A5 and legs including coxae pale yellowish, A6–A9 slightly more brownish. Head from above ( Fig. 13 ) 2.3× as wide as long, as wide as mesosoma, dull, finely and uniformly reticulate­coriaceous. OOL hardly half as long as LOL, about equal to longer diameter of lateral ocellus. Head in frontal view 1.2× as wide as high. Antenna ( Fig. 14 ) with A1 0.7× as long as height of head, as long as distance between inner orbits; A3 distinctly widened. Mesosoma 1.15× as long as wide, 1.4× as wide as high, finely reticulate­coriaceous, strongest on mesoscutum, this (and scutellum) being evenly covered by sparse, white setae, without notauli. Scutellum much more finely sculptured than mesoscutum, 3.0× as wide as long, 0.35× as long as mesoscutum. Metapleuron with a white, foamy structure along margins (except the anterior one), dorsal areas of propodeum also covered by white, foamy structures. Fore wing almost clear, about as long as entire body, 2.65× as long as wide, with fine and dense microtrichia; submarginal vein pale, 0.18× as long as wing; marginal cilia 0.1× width of wing. Hind wing with marginal cilia 0.4× width of wing. Metasoma 0.9× as long as mesosoma, narrower than the latter (11:14), smooth. T2 1.1× as wide as long, with two whitish transverse basal foveae to about 0.15 of length. Figs 11–14. Fidiobia spp. : F. filicornis sp. n. , male, (11) head in dorsal view, (12) antenna; F. semirufa sp. n. , male, (13) head in dorsal view, (14) antenna. Comparison: A characteristic Afrotropical species on account of shape of antennae in combination with colouration and lack of notauli. Most similar to F. citri (Nixon, 1969) from Jamaica , but that species has distinctly more slender flagellar segments. Holotype : ♂ TOGO : Région des Plateaux , Zogbégan , village part Zogbégan­Carriére ( SE of Badou ), at creek Elèbè , V-shaped valley near cocoa plantation downstream of village ( 07°34'50"N 00°40'03"E ), 20–25. iv. 2008 , 650 m, remains of secondary rainforest, swept, M. von Tschirnhaus.