Erythmelus (Erythmelus) tigres Guzmán-Larralde & Triapitsyn, 2015

Guzmán-Larralde, Adriana J., Triapitsyn, Serguei V., Huber, John T. & González-Hernández, Alejandro, 2015, Review of the Mexican species of Erythmelus (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae), with description of two new species, Zootaxa 3956 (1), pp. 121-130 : 129

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3956.1.7
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:53C658C9-F96E-495B-8E9E-DACD43E94D14
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3508299
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A8D605-8851-6101-A0D0-FDB54289F988
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scientific name	Erythmelus (Erythmelus) tigres Guzmán-Larralde & Triapitsyn
status	sp. nov.

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Erythmelus (Erythmelus) tigres Guzmán-Larralde & Triapitsyn , sp. n.

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Type material. Holotype female on slide [ UCRC]: MEXICO. Veracruz, 3 mi. N of Cardel by Río Actopan, 31.x.1982, A. González-Hernández, J. T. Huber, screen sweeping [ UCRC ENT 311401]. Paratype: Chiapas, 30 km SW of Ocozocoahutla, 30.vi.1981, J. LaSalle [1♀ on slide, CNC].

Description. FEMALE. Body length 554–800 µm. Body mostly light brown except posterior half of midlobe of mesoscutum, parts of pronotum, axilla, scutellum, and metanotum, and basal gastral terga yellow to light brown; legs and antenna light brown or dusky.

Scape slightly curved, about 6.6× as long as wide; pedicel much longer than F1; all funicular segments longer than wide, F2, F3 and F5 subequal in length, F4 and F6 slightly longer and subequal, F1–F5 without mps, F6 with 1 mps; clava about 4.8× as long as wide, apparently with 5 mps.

Wings. Fore wing 6.0× as long as wide; blade slightly infuscate behind venation but otherwise hyaline, more or less uniformly setose including behind venation (with two irregular rows of setae behind parastigma); longest marginal cilia 0.84× greatest wing width. Hind wing about 20× as long as wide; blade hyaline; longest marginal cilia 3.2× greatest wing width.

Metasoma. Petiole much wider than long. Gaster longer than mesosoma; ovipositor about 1/2 length of gaster, a little exserted beyond apical gastral tergum, and 1.25× length of metatibia.

Holotype measurements (in Μm). Body 800; mesosoma 270; gaster 326; ovipositor 228. Antenna:scape (including radicle) 141; pedicel 49; F1 25; F2 25; F3 25; F4 43; F5 25; F6 49; clava 111. Fore wing 540:86; longest marginal cilia 74. Hind wing 510:31; longest marginal cilia 105.

Variation (paratype in Μm). Body length 554; Fore wing 6.1× as long as wide. Ovipositor as long as metatibia.

MALE. Unknown.

Diagnosis. In Triapitsyn et al. (2007), this species keys to the same couplet as E. (Erythmelus) coviellai Triapitsyn. It differs from the female of E. coviellai in F3–F5 without mps, F4 and F6 larger than other funicular segments and equal in size. It differs from E. hirtipenis because F4 is smaller or equal than F5, and F6 is the only segment larger than the others.

Etymology. This species is a noun in apposition standing for the professional Mexican football (soccer) club, Club de Fútbol Tigres de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, commonly referred to as Tigres de la UANL, or simply Tigres .

Hosts. Unknown.