The genus Sakencyrtus Hayat (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Encyrtidae) from India with description of a new species
Author
Usman, Syeda Uzma
Author
Zeya, Shahid Bin
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-12-06
4527
3
357
371
journal article
27846
10.11646/zootaxa.4527.3.5
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Sakencyrtus bialbifuniculus
Usman & Zeya
,
sp. nov.
(
Figs 26–33
)
Female.
Holotype
.
Length (
Fig. 26
)
1.16 mm
. Head honey yellow. Antenna dark brown except radicle and scape yellow, pedicel brown, F5, F6 and clava white. Mesosoma largely yellow; pronotum yellow with dark brown streak medially; sides of mesoscutum pale white; axillae honey yellow; scutellum pale yellow with sides and anterior margin honey yellow; metanotum honey yellow; propodeum with area between submedial carinae honey yellow. Legs, including coxae, yellow. Brachypterous form, forewing shortened, hyaline, with venation slightly brownish basally. Metasoma in basal one-third pale yellow to white with side margin dark brown, rest of the metasoma dark brown, ventral side largely pale yellow to white.
Head
(
Fig. 27
), in frontal view, 1.02× as broad as high; frontovertex width 0.47× head width, frontovertex with polygonal reticulate sculpture; eye height 3.44× as long as malar space. Maxillary palp 3-segmented; labial palp 2- segmented. Mandible tridentate. Antenna (
Fig. 28
) with scape long and slender, broadend in basal half, 5.8× as long as broad; pedicel 2× as long as broad, distinctly longer than all funicular segments individually; F1 and F2 slightly longer than broad; F3–F6 subquadrate, slightly broader than long; F2–F6 each with one longitudinal sensillum; clava 3-segmented, 2.5× as long as broad, subequal in length to preceding four funicular segments combined.
Relative measurements
(from card, at 60×): head frontal height (width), 37 (38); frontovertex width, 18; (from slide, at 100×): POL, 4.5; OOL, 3; OCL, 2.5; AOL, 3; (from slide, at 100×): eye height, 31; malar space, 9; mouth fossa width, 15; torulus length (diameter), 5 (3); torulus-mouth margin distance, 0; inter-torular distance, 7; antennal segments length (width): scape, 23 (4); pedicel, 6 (3); F1, 4 (4); F2), 5 (4.5); F3, 4 (5); F4, 4 (5); F5, 4 (5); F6, 4 (5); clava, 15 (6).
FIGURES 1–2.
Sakencyrtus mirus
Hayat.
Female: 1, habitus (brachypterous); 2, habitus (macropterous).
FIGURES 3–9.
Sakencyrtus mirus
Hayat.
Female: 3, head, frontal view; 4, frontovertex; 5, antenna; 6, clava; 7, forewing (macropterous); 8, forewing distal venation; 9; forewing (brachypterous).
FIGURES 10–14.
Sakencyrtus mirus
Hayat.
Female: 10, hindwing (macropterous); 11; hindwing (brachypterous); 12, mesosoma and metasoma; 13, mesoscutum; 14, scutellum with axillae.
FIGURES 15–17.
Sakencyrtus mirus
Hayat.
Male: 15, habitus (brachypterous); 16, antenna; 17, T VII with male genitalia.
FIGURES 18–21.
Sakencyrtus albiclavus
Hayat.
Female: 18, head, frontal view; 19, antenna; 20, forewing; 21, hindwing.
FIGURES 22–25.
Sakencyrtus
albiclavus
Hayat.
Female: 22, mesosoma; 23, mesoscutum; 24, scutellum with axillae; 25, ovipositor.
FIGURES 26–28.
Sakencyrtus bialbifuniculus
sp. nov.
Holotype female: 26, habitus; 27, head, frontal view; 28, antenna.
FIGURES 29–33.
Sakencyrtus bialbifuniculus
sp. nov.
Holotype female: 29, forewing; 30, hindwing; 31, mesosoma and metasoma; 32, mesoscutum; 33, scutellum with axillae.
Mesosoma
(
Fig. 31
). Mesoscutum 1.5× as broad as long, sides with white setae, scaly polygonal reticulate sculpture (
Fig. 32
); notaular lines incomplete and straight in anterior half; axillae with same sculpture as on mesoscutum; scutellum (
Fig. 33
) with elongate reticulate sculpture; propodeum 0.72× scutellum length. Forewing (
Fig. 29
) hyaline, 4.3× as long as broad with apex rounded, venation reaching the anterior wing margin. Hindwing (
Fig. 30
) 1.67× as long as broad; disc invariably broad distally with round apex. Mid tibia 7.8× as long as mid basitarsus, mid tibial spur subequal in length to mid basitarsus.
Relative measurements
(from slide, at 100×): mesosoma length, 60; pronotum length (width), 9 (26); mesoscutum length (width), 17 (26); scutellum length (width), 18 (15); propodeum median length, 13; forewing length (width), 35 (8); mid tibia length, 39; mid basitarsus length, 5; mid tibial spur length, 5.
Metasoma
(
Fig. 31
). Gaster oval, distinctly longer than mesosoma; ovipositor 0.69× mid tibia length.
Relative measurements
(from slide, at 100×): metasoma length, 67; TVII length, 19; TVII width (between cercal plates), (16); ovipositor length, 27.
Male.
Unknown.
Type material examined.
Holotype
,
♀
(on slide under 4 coverslips, slide
No. EH
.2245),
INDIA
:
KARNATAKA
;
Bengaluru
,
Hessaraghatta
,
Fisheries
division,
26.iii.2014
(
YPT
),
Coll. K. Veenakumari.
(
NBAIR
,
Registration No.
ICAR/
NBAIR
/
EN 204
).
Paratypes
.
4 ♀
.
1 female
same data as for holotype (
NBAIR
,
Registration No.
ICAR/
NBAIR
/
EN 205
)
;
2 ♀
, KARNATAKA: Bengaluru, Hessaraghatta, Fisheries division,
18.iii.2014
(
YPT
) (
ZDAMU
)
,
1 ♀
,
27.iii.2014
(
YPT
),
Coll. K. Veenakumari
(
ZDAMU
, registration
No.
HYM.
CH
.778)
.
Host.
Unknown.
Distribution.
India
:
Karnataka
.
Etymology.
The species name derived from the colour of funicular segments, F5 and F6 are white, therefore named as
bi
= two,
albi
= white,
funiculus
= funicle.
Comments.
Sakencyrtus bialbifuniculus
sp. nov.
comes close to
S. albiclavus
Hayat
in having similar funicular configuration and body sculpture but differs from that mainly in having following characters: scape 5.8× as long as broad, F5 white, clava 2.5× as long as broad; forewing 4.3× as long as broad, gradually narrowing beyond venation and with apex rounded; venation complex reaching the anterior wing margin; hindwing apically broadened and bulb-like; mid tibia 7.8× as long mid basitarsus; ovipositor 0.69× mid tibia. In
S. albiclavus
: scape 5.25× as long as broad, F5 dark brown, clava 3× as long as broad; forewing 3.8× as long as broad, narrowing distally and with apex pointed; venation complex does not reaching the anterior wing margin; hindwing wedgelike; mid tibia 6.6× as long as mid basitarsus; ovipositor 0.90× mid tibia.