Revision of the Eurasian species of Aegilips Haliday, 1835 (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Anacharitinae)
Author
Mata-Casanova, Noel
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Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Biologia, Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals. Avda. Diagonal 645, 08028 - Barcelona, Spain.
feofitotu@gmail.com
Author
Selfa, Jesús
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Universitat de València, Facultat de Ciències Biològiques, Departament de Zoologia. Campus de Burjassot-Paterna, Dr. Moliner 50, E- 46100 Burjassot (València), Spain.
jesus.selfa@uv.es
Author
Pujade-Villar, Juli
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Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Biologia, Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals. Avda. Diagonal 645, 08028 - Barcelona, Spain.
jpujade@ub.edu
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2022
2022-05-16
819
108
139
http://zoobank.org/e4555fef-00d2-40da-8ce5-459c6181b68c
journal article
55467
10.5852/ejt.2022.819.1781
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Aegilips insularis
Mata-Casanova & Pujade-Villar
sp. nov.
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:
FC778329-0813-473B-A625-CD98883E0514
Fig. 2a–b
Diagnosis
Species easily distinguishable other Palaearctic species of
Aegilips
by having completely smooth scutellum with scutellar foveae absent or indistinct, never sharply delineated (scutellum from alutaceous to areolate in other species of
Aegilips
from the Palaearctic region, scutellar foveae always noticeable).
Etymology
The specific name comes from the island of
Madeira
, the only known location of the species.
Type material
Holotype
PORTUGAL
•
♂
; “
Madeira
,
Queimadas
,
11.VIII.1982
” (white label); “
M.W.R. de V. Graham
coll.” (white label); “
Anacharitinae
,
Aegilips
sp.
nr.
nitidulus
J. L. Nieves det” (white label); “Holotype of
Aegilips insularis
sp. nov.
, ♂ desig. Mata-Casanova, 2014” (red label); “
Aegilips insularis
sp. nov.
, ♂, det. Mata-Casanova, 2014” (white label);
NHMUK
.
Paratypes
(5 ♀♀, 15 ♂♂)
PORTUGAL
•
1 ♂
;
Madeira
,
Caramujo
;
1250 m
a.s.l.
;
9 Aug. 1954
;
Durham University Madeira Expedition
leg.;
NHMUK
•
2 ♂♂
;
Madeira
,
Monte
;
Nov. 1960
;
N.L.H. Kraus
leg.;
NHMUK
•
2 ♂♂
;
Madeira
,
Ribeiro Frio
;
Aug. 1962
;
N.L.H. Krauss
leg.;
USNM
•
1 ♀
;
Madeira
,
Ribeiro Frio
;
Sep. 1962
;
N.L.H. Krauss
leg.;
USNM
•
2 ♂♂
;
Madeira
,
Curral dos Romeiros
;
11 May 1980
;
M.W.R. de V. Graham
leg.;
NHMUK
•
1 ♂
;
Madeira
,
Curral dos Romeiros
;
13 May 1980
;
M.W.R. de V. Graham
leg.;
NHMUK
•
1 ♂
;
Madeira
,
Queimadas
;
14 May 1980
;
M.W.R. de V. Graham
leg.;
NHMUK
•
1 ♀
;
Madeira
,
Pousada dos Vinhaticos
;
18 May 1980
;
M.W.R. de V. Graham
leg.;
NHMUK
•
1 ♂
;
Madeira
,
Curral dos Romeiros
;
20 Jul. 1982
;
M.W.R. de V. Graham
leg.;
NHMUK
•
1 ♀
,
1 ♂
;
Madeira
,
Curral dos Romeiros
;
23 Jul. 1982
;
M.W.R. de V. Graham
leg.;
NHMUK
•
1 ♂
;
Madeira
,
3 km
E of Posio
;
1 Aug. 1982
;
M.W.R. de V. Graham
leg.;
NHMUK
•
1 ♀
;
Madeira
,
Montado dos Pecequietos
;
3 Jul. 1982
;
M.W.R. de V. Graham
leg.;
NHMUK
•
1 ♂
;
Madeira
,
3 km
E of Posio
;
7 Aug. 1982
;
M.W.R. de V. Graham
leg.;
NHMUK
•
1 ♂
;
Madeira
,
Calderas Verde
;
9 Aug. 1982
;
M.W.R. de V. Graham
leg.;
NHMUK
•
1 ♀
,
1 ♂
;
Madeira
,
Queimadas
;
11 Aug. 1982
;
M.W.R. de V. Graham
leg.;
NHMUK
.
Type locality
Portugal
,
Madeira
, Queimadas.
Description
MEASUREMENTS. Body:
2.2–2.4 mm
; antennae:
1.8–2.1 mm
(
♀
), 2.8–3.0 mm (
♂
); wings:
2.5–2.6 mm
.
COLORATION. Head, mesosoma and metasoma black. Mandibles yellowish brown with darker teeth. Antennae dark brown. Leg.s yellowish brown with darker coxae, metacoxa black. Veins of wings dark brown.
HEAD. Triangle-shaped in anterior view, 1.1 times as broad as high, malar area not expanded. Face smooth and punctate, with short uniform pubescence. Malar area coriaceous, 0.7 times as long as compound eye. Clypeus smooth, glabrous, shortly projected; anterior tentorial pits small, indistinct. Transfacial distance 1.1 times as long as compound eye. Diameter of torulus larger than inter-toruli and torulus-eye distances. Frons, gena and occiput smooth and glabrous with few sparse setae; occipital and postocular carinae absents. In dorsal view 2 times as broad as long, broader than mesosoma. Compound eyes glabrous. POL: OOL: LOL is 5.0:4.5:2.0, diameter of lateral ocellus is 2.0.
ANTENNAE. In males, antenna 14-segmented; flagellomeres cylindrical and pubescent, same width in all flagellomeres, placodeal sensilla abundant in all flagellomeres; F1 not modified; antennal formula: 6.0(3.5), 3.0(2.5), 9.0(3.0), 9.0(3.0), 8.5(3.0), 8.5(3.0), 8.5(2.5), 8.5(2.5), 8.5(2.5), 8.0(2.5), 7.5(2.5), 7.0(2.5), 7.0(2.5), 8.0(2.5). In females, antenna 13-segmented; flagellomeres cylindrical and pubescent, same width in all flagellomeres, placodeal sensilla starting at F3 but not abundant until F5; antennal formula: 8.0(3.5), 3.5(3.0), 8.5(2.0), 7.0(2.0), 6.5(2.0), 6.0(2.0), 5.5(2.0), 5.0(2.0), 4.0(2.5), 4.0(2.5), 4.0(2.5), 4.0(2.0), 6.5(2.0).
MESOSOMA. Pronotal plate smooth. Pronotum smooth, with some irregular ventral carinae. Mesoscutum 1.1 times as broad as long in dorsal view. Mesoscutum smooth, shiny, almost glabrous except for some scarce short hyaline pubescence (
Fig. 2a–b
); posteriorly carinate in males (
Fig. 2b
). Notaulus complete, with horizontal carina; median mesoscutal furrow absent. Lateral mesoscutum smooth and glabrous; parapsidal signum and parascutal sulcus absents. Scutellum completely smooth, 0.7 times as long as mesoscutum; scutellar foveae rounded, large, slightly coarse, not posteriorly defined (
Fig. 2a–b
); presence of very tenuous and superficial narrow pit next to inner margin of scutellar foveae. Interfoveal line short, almost effaced (
Fig. 2a–b
). Circumscutellar carina complete but not projected to form tooth in lateral view. Anterior and ventral mesopleuron carinate, central and posterior mesopleuron smooth. Mesopleural triangle obliquely carinate. Metanotal troughs densely pubescent smooth except for some coarse sculpture in lower margin. Propodeum surface strongly alutaceous to coriaceous; central area defined from by two lateral ridges.
FORE WINGS. Pubescent, marginal pubescence denser at apical third. Radial cell closed, 2.3 times as long as wide. Vein 2rm absent.
METASOMA. Shorter than head + mesosoma. Petiole as long as wide, shorter than metacoxa, coarsely sculptured, shiny. Third metasomal tergum 2.5 times as long as fourth in dorsal view. Metasomal terga smooth and glabrous; T4 to T7 punctate.
Biology
Unknown.
Distribution
Palaearctic. Known only from
Madeira
(
Portugal
).