First description of the male and additional data on the female morphology of Aprostocetus rubi Graham (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eulophidae)
Author
Jałoszyński, Paweł
text
Zootaxa
2016
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567
574
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4132.4.8
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Aprostocetus
(
Aprostocetus
)
rubi
Graham
Figs 1–24
Aprostocetus
(
Aprostocetus
)
rubi
Graham, 1987
: 319
, fig. 433.
Material studied.
3 ♀,
Poland
, Włocławek, reared from nearly 20 galls of
Lasioptera rubi
on
Rubus idaeus
collected in a pine forest on
08.III.2015
, adults obtained a month later; 1 ♀, 1 Ƌ, same collecting site but five galls taken on
19.II.2016
and adult wasps obtained a month later; all collected and reared by P. Jałoszyński (PJ personal collection).
Description of the male.
Body (
Figs 2
,
3–14
) pigmented as for dark forms of females described by
Graham (1987)
, except distal portion of first gastral tergite and nearly entire basal half of gaster ventrally pale yellowish; antenna with long brownish setae, otherwise yellowish with scape infuscate dorsally and ventrally, pedicel infuscate dorsally, and flagellum infuscate ventrally. Body length
1.75 mm
, smaller than all studied females.
Structures of head (
Fig. 9
) similar to those previously described for the female (
Graham 1987
); measurements: length
0.20 mm
, width
0.50 mm
, height
0.40 mm
, malar space
0.12 mm
, longest diameter of compound eye
0.22 mm
, POL
0.12 mm
, OOL
0.05 mm
. Malar sulcus (
Fig. 9
) slightly curved. Antenna (
Figs 3–5
,
10, 11
) nearly filiform, length
1.06 mm
(distinctly longer in relation to body than for females); scape 0.8× shorter than longest diameter of compound eye, ventrally swollen and with conspicuous but short plaque (
Figs 10, 11
) located in distal half; pedicel distinctly broadening distally; F1–4 subequal in width, nearly cylindrical, each with whorl of very long setae; clava long with first clavomere narrowing distally so clava distinctly constricted, second and third clavomeres confluent, and first clavomere with whorl of long setae. Relative lengths of scape: pedicel: F1: F2: F3: F4: clava (with pedicel as 1) = 2: 1: 1.14: 1.42: 1.42: 1.57: 3.57.
Structures of mesosoma (
Figs 6
,
12
) similar to those of female; measurements: length
0.72 mm
, maximum width
0.50 mm
; length of pronotum (measured in lateral view)
0.25 mm
, length of mesoscutum
0.37 mm
, length of scutellum
0.22 mm
, length of dorsellum
0.05 mm
, length of propodeum (at midline)
0.07 mm
. Median area of mesoscutum with faint but discernible median longitudinal line.
Wings (
Fig. 7
) hyaline and not different from those of females, fore wing length
1.62 mm
, width
0.72 mm
; hind wing length
1.25 mm
, width
0.25 mm
.
Middle leg with tibial spur appearing about as long as basitarsus in studied dry-mounted specimens, but 1.2× as long as basitarsus in SEM images (Figs 13,14), and covered with spines.
FIGURES 1, 2.
Aprostocetus rubi
Graham
, living female (1) and male (2).
FIGURES 3–7.
Aprostocetus rubi
Graham
, male, photographed in ethanol (3, 7) and as dry-mounted specimen (4–6). Habitus in lateroventral (3), lateral (4) and ventrolateral (5) views; close-up of head, mesosoma and basal portion of gaster (6); left wings in ventral view (7).
FIGURES 8–14.
Aprostocetus rubi
Graham
, male (SEM). Habitus in lateral view (8); head in lateral view (9); right antenna in mesal view (10); plaque of scape of right antenna in inner view (11); mesosoma in lateral view (12); apical portion of right mesotibia and basitarsus (13); mesotibial spur (14).
Gaster (
Figs 3–5
,
8
) only about as long as mesosoma (i.e. shorter in relation to mesosoma than for females) and more slender than for females, in dorsal view suboval; measurements: length
0.82 mm
, width
0.32 mm
, ratio length/width 2.53.