Revision of Netomocera Bouček (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae), excluding the Oriental species Author Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan text European Journal of Taxonomy 2019 2019-10-18 568 1 87 journal article 25156 10.5852/ejt.2019.568 0338721f-219b-4d7b-a594-428411e71a4b 3517435 D49AB26D-7276-48A5-BE5A-958E30B81F17 Netomocera setifera Bouček, 1954 Figs 178–190 Netomocera setifera Bouček, 1954: 50 ( holotype ( ♀ ) in NMPC, examined). Diagnosis Both sexes Clypeal margin slightly produced ( Fig. 181 ). Occiput margin blunt ( Fig. 180 ). Upper face and vertex with eight large setae. Pronotal collar long, 0.55–0.60× as long as mesoscutum and wide, 0.85–0.95 × as wide as mesoscutum ( Figs 183–184 ). Mesepimeral sulcus inconspicuous ( Fig. 183 ). Visible part of petiole very short, distinctly transverse, with more or less obliterate sculpture ( Fig. 185 ). Female Head usually with green or bronze metallic reflections ( Figs 179–180 ). Macropterous, submacropterous ( Fig. 178 ) or brachypterous ( Fig. 187 ); fore wing in macropterous form with two more or less distinct brownish spots, a large one behind marginal vein and a smaller one a short distance beyond stigma vein towards apical margin ( Fig. 186 ). Propodeum ( Fig. 185 ) with a well-defined, densely sculptured V-shaped area basally surrounded by shallowly sculptured areas. Male Head and mesosoma both black, without metallic reflections ( Fig. 189 ); or head distinctly greenish and mesosoma brownish, the latter without metallic reflections. MV 3.0–3.2 × SV. Material examined Holotype CZECH REPUBLIC • ♀ ; “ Netomocera setifera Bčk. ♀ Det. Z. Bouček 1954 ”; “ Holotypus ”; “Mus. Nat. Paragae Inv. 3001”; “Mor. mer.: Pouzdřany step, 3.VI.41 . Hoffer.”; NMPC . Other material BULGARIA • 1 ♂ ; “ Varvara , BULGARIA , Kocourek. 8.70”; “ ♂ Netomocera setifera Bčk., Z. Bouček det. 1973”; BMNH • 1 ♂ ; “ BULGARIA : Kavarna , slope by sea border, 24-25.viii.2012 , 43°25′09″ N , 28°21′22″ E , YPT , Leg. Fusu L. & Ploscaru B.”; MICO • 1 ♂ ; same collection data as for preceding, “ 22-27.viii.2012 , 2 Malaise tr.”; MICO . CROATIA • 1 ♂ ; “YUGOSL., Dalm. Isl. Mljet N.P., 7.IX.1980 Bouček”; “ ♂ Netomocera setifera Bčk. , det. Z. Bouček 1970”; BMNH • 1 ♂ ; “YUGOSL: CR. GORA : Durmitor : Vrdo , 25.6.87 Bouček”; “ ♂ setifera”; BMNH . CZECH REPUBLIC • 1 ♀ ; “ Moravia centr., Mohelno , 10/7/63 . Hoffer”; “ Netomocera setifera Bčk. ♀ ”; “ BMNH (E) 199 5-489”; BMNH • 1 ♂ ; “ČSR., Mohelno , 7.7.1963 , A. Hoffer ”; “ ♂ Netom. setifera”; BMNH • 1 ♂ ; “ Hlavence u Brandýsa / L. Bohemia , vi.1959 . Martínek”; “ ♂ Netomocera setifera Bčk. , det. Z. Bouček 1970”; BMNH . FRANCE • 1 ♂ ; “ FRANCE , Var : St. Tropez , 16. VI .80 Bouček ”; “ ♂ Netomocera setifera Bčk. , det. Z. Bouček 1980”; BMNH • 1 ♂ ; “SE. France , Château-Arnoux , 10.8.72 . Bouček ”; “ ♂ Netomocera setifera Bčk. , det. Z. Bouček 1980”; BMNH • 1 ♂ ; “ France , Aveyron : La Pezade , 27.7.78 , M. de V. Graham ”; “ ♂ Netomocera setifera Bčk. , det. Z. Bouček 1980”; BMNH • 2 ♂♂ ; “ La Blaqueresie , (2) 3/8/78 ”; “ BMNH (E) 199 5-489”; “ ♂ Netomocera setifera Bčk. ”; BMNH • 2 ♂♂ ; “ France , M.J. Gijswijt ”; “ Dentelles de Montmirail , 29 IV 1987 ”; “ ♂ Netomocera setifera Bouček, M.J. Gijswijt det. 2001”; RMNH • 1 ♂ ; “ FRANCE , Dépt Aveyron, M.J. Gijswijt ”; “ La Pezade ( Causse ), 16 VI 1982 ”; “ ♂ Netomocera setifera Bčk., Gijswijt det. 1999”; RMNH • 2 ♂♂ ; “ FRANCE , Dept. Drôme, M.J. Gijswijt ”; “ Veau , 4 VIII 1973 ”; “Remounted 1989, M.J. Gijswijt ”; “ ♂ Netomocera setifera Bck., Gijswijt det. 1999”; RMNH • 1 ♂ ; “ FRANCE , Drôme, M.J. Gijswijt ”; “ Condorcet , 7 km NE Nyons , 11 IX 1987 ”; “ ♂ Netomocera setifera Bčk. , det. Z. Bouček , 1990”; RMNH . GREECE • 7 ♂♂ ; “ GREECE , Korfu : Nissaki , 6.9.87 JS Noyes”; “ ♂ Netom. setifera Bčk. , det. Z. Bouček 1997”; BMNH • 1 ♂ ; “ HELLAS , Makedonia , J.P. Duffels ”; “ 18 km SE of KÓZANI, 3-VII-1975 ”; “ ♂ Netomocera setifera Bčk. , det. Z. Bouček , 1990”; RMNH . ITALY • 2 ♂♂ ; “ ITALIA - Abr. Prov. l’Aquila, M.J. Gijswijt ”; “Gran Sasso d’Italia, S.E. slope, 1400 m , 17.vi.1993 ”; “ ♂ Netomocera setifera Bck., Gijswijt det. 1999”; RMNH . MOLDAVIA • 2 ♂♂ ; “MOLDAV. SSR, KOTOVSKOJE, 12.VII.1961 , Bouček & Talitzki”; “ ♂ Netomocera setifera Bčk. , det. Z. Bouček 1970”; BMNH . ROMANIA • 1 ♀ , 4 ♂♂ ; “RO: MH , Gura Văii, Valea Oglănicului, xeroph. veg. on dry slope, 17-18. VII.09 , OP & LF, sweep, 232 m / 44°39′22.8″ N , 22°34′18.8″ E ”; MICO • 1 ♂ ; “RN Valea lui David (IS), vegetatie de stepa, 14.V.1999 , Leg. IP”; “ Netomocera setifera Bčk. ♂ , Det. M. Mitroiu ”; MICO • 2 ♂♂ ; same data as for preceding; “ 9.V.1999 ”; “ Netomocera setifera Bčk. ♂ , Det. M. Mitroiu ”; MICO • 1 ♂ ; same data as for preceding; “ 28.V.1999 , Leg. LF”; “ Netomocera setifera Bčk. ♂ , Det. M. Mitroiu ”; MICO • 3 ♂♂ ; same data as for preceding; “ 2.V.2005 ”; “ Netomocera setifera Bčk. ♂ , Det. M. Mitroiu ”; MICO . SLOVAKIA • 1 ♂ ; “ Slovakia or. Král. Chlumec, 20.5.58 Bouček”; “ ♂ Netomocera setifera Bčk. , det. Z. Bouček 1970”; BMNH • 1 ♂ ; “ Slovakia or.: Baba u Ladmovcu , 23.6.52 Kocourek”; “ ♂ Netomocera setifera Bčk. , det. Z. Bouček 1970”; BMNH • 1 ♂ ; “ Královský Chimec ”; “ Slokakia mer., 20.V.58 , Bouček”; “ Netomocera setifera Bčk ♂ , Zd. Bouček det. 1965”; “ EX COLL . J.C. ROSKAM, Museum Leiden 2004”; RMNH . Description Female (habitus: Figs 178 , 187 ) COLOUR. Head( Figs179–180 ) usually with more or less distinct dark green to bronze reflections.Mandibles reddish-yellow, teeth darker. Antenna ( Fig. 182 ) with scape pale yellow to reddish-brown; pedicel pale yellow to brown; funicle uniformly brown or basally paler; clava, especially ventrally, slightly paler than funicle. Mesosoma ( Fig. 183–185 ) reddish-yellow to reddish-brown. Legs reddish-yellow, except for brownish tips, or hind coxa lighter. Fore wing ( Fig. 186 ) of macropterous and submacropterous forms usually with two large brownish spots, a larger one in middle of wing below marginal vein and a smaller one in apical quarter, the latter sometimes appearing divided into two smaller spots; setation brown. Metasoma with petiole as mesosoma ( Fig. 185 ); gaster ( Figs 178 , 187 ) reddish-yellow to reddish-brown in basal half and light brown to dark brown in apical half; gt1 usually with two darker spots anterolaterally. Body setation pale except for several large, symmetrically arranged, dark brown setae. BODY LENGTH. 1.6–2.1 mm . HEAD. Clypeus virtually smooth; apical margin slightly produced ( Fig. 181 ). Lower face below toruli striate-reticulate, piliferous punctures mostly indistinct. Upper face including vertex densely but finely reticulate, piliferous punctures slightly visible ( Fig. 180 ). Scrobes deep, reticulate; parascrobal region mostly without elongate cells ( Fig. 179 ). Occiput coriaceous-alutaceous; margin blunt ( Fig. 180 ). Toruli with lower margins below lower margins of eyes ( Fig. 179 ). Antenna moderately clavate, with clava conspicuously asymmetric ( Fig. 182 ). Upper face and vertex with eight large setae. Head width about 2.2× length in dorsal view and 1.15–1.30 × height in frontal view. POL 2.2–2.3× OOL. Eye height 1.3– 1.4× length, 2.2–2.3 × malar space and 1.0–1.2× scape length. Head width 1.0–1.1 × length of pedicel plus flagellum. Fu1 length 1.3–1.8 × width; fu7 width 1.1–1.5 × length; clava length 1.8–2.0 × width. Figs 178–182. Netomocera setifera Bouček, 1954 , ♀, Romania. 178 . Habitus, lateral view. 179 . Head, frontal view. 180 . Head, dorsal view. 181 . Lower face. 182 . Antenna. Scale bars: 0.2 mm. MESOSOMA. Moderately setose dorsally ( Fig. 184 ). Pronotal collar virtually as wide as or slightly narrower than mesoscutum, with six large setae ( Fig. 184 ). Mesoscutum and axillae with extremely fine reticulation, appearing almost smooth ( Fig. 184 ). Scutellar disc with sculpture as mesoscutum and longitudinally striate-reticulate on frenal area ( Figs 184–185 ). Mesepisternum mainly weakly reticulate, almost smooth dorsally ( Fig. 183 ). Mesepimeron smooth; mesepimeral sulcus indistinct ( Fig. 183 ). Propodeum mainly smooth, with intricate pattern of carinae defining a central V-shaped area, interspaces smooth to slightly wrinkled ( Fig. 185 ). Macropterous, submacropterous ( Fig. 178 ) or brachypterous ( Fig. 187 ). Macropterous and submacropterous forms with fore wing uniformly and densely setose except for moderately large, elongate bare region some distance behind parastigma and basal half of marginal vein ( Fig. 186 ). Brachypterous form with fore and hind wings reduced and represented by stumps, venation vestigial; fore wing with rounded apex not reaching posterior margin of propodeum; setation absent except in apical third ( Fig. 188 ). Mesosoma length 1.3–1.5 × width and 1.4–1.7 × height. Pronotal collar 0.55–0.60 × as long as mesoscutum and 0.85–0.95 × as wide as mesoscutum. Mesoscutum width 2.6–3.0 × length. Scutellum length about 0.9 × width. Propodeum length about 0.7 × scutellum length. Fore wing length of macropterous form about 2.5 × width; MV 3.0–3.2 × SV and 2.7–3.0× PV. Fore wing length of brachypterous form 3.75 × width. Figs 183–188. Netomocera setifera Bouček, 1954 . 183 . ♀, Romania, mesosoma, lateral view. 184 . ♀, Romania, mesosoma, dorsal view. 185 . ♀, Romania, propodeum, dorsal view. 186 . ♀, Romania, fore and hind wings. 187 . ♀, Czech Republic, habitus, lateral view. 188 . ♀, Czech Republic, fore wing. Scale bars: 0.2 mm. METASOMA. Petiole barely visible, transverse, smooth except for a few superficial longitudinal striae ( Fig. 185 ). Gaster ovate, length 1.7–1.8× width ( Figs 178 , 187 ); gt1 longest, length 0.80–1.15 × width, with hind margin straight to slightly emarginate; gt2–6 short; syntergum acutely pointed. Ovipositor sheaths distinctly protruding beyond apex of gaster. Cercal setae not surpassing apex of gaster. Male (habitus: Fig. 189 ) Differs from female mainly as follows. Body length: 1.0– 1.8 mm . Head sometimes without distinct metallic reflections ( Fig. 189 ). Flagellum uniformly dark brown to black ( Fig. 190 ). Mesosoma usually dark brown to black ( Fig. 189 ), occasionally with reddish pronotal collar, propodeum and pleura. Gaster dark brown to black ( Fig. 189 ) or with basal half lighter, light brown to reddish-brown. Propodeum more uniformly sculptured, mostly without a well-defined V-shaped area. Fu1 length 1.7–2.0 × width, other funicular segments subequal in length to fu1; combined length of pedicel plus flagellum 2.0–2.5× head width. Gaster (inflated) shorter than mesosoma, length 1.5–1.6 × width. Distribution China , Croatia , Czech Republic , Moldavia , Montenegro , Romania , Serbia , Slovakia ( Noyes 2018 ); Bulgaria , France , Greece , Italy (new records). Figs 189–190. Netomocera setifera Bouček, 1988 , ♂, Romania. 189 . Habitus, lateral view. 190 . Antenna. Scale bars: 0.2 mm. Remarks Females of Netomocera setifera are distinct from those of all other species with a reduced petiole in having a well defined V-shaped area on the propodeum ( Fig. 185 ). Together with males, they display mesosomal colour variation, which can range from yellowish to brown. Except for N. rufa , both sexes are also unique in having a long and wide pronotal collar ( Figs 183–184 ).