Fusicornia episcopus Taekul & Johnson, 2008

Taekul, Charuwat, Johnson, Norman F., Masner, Lubomír & Shu-Pei, Chen, 2008, Revision of the world species of the genus Fusicornia Risbec (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae, Scelioninae), Zootaxa 1966, pp. 1-52 : 24-26

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Description. Female body length: 1.35 mm (n=1). Male body length: unknown.

Head: Vertex between posterior ocelli: rounded. Female OOL: more than one ocellar diameter. Frontal sculpture: entirely and evenly sculptured. Sculpture of central frons: punctate. Setation of central frons: moderately setose throughout. Inner orbit in frontal view: more or less parallel. Upper gena in dorsal view of female: expanded, convex, therefore in lateral view compound eye separated from posterior margin by gena. Sculpture of gena behind lower half of eye: with reticulate to coriaceous microsculpture. Setation of gena: sparsely setose. Antenna: Radicle color: yellow to orange brown. Color of female A1: yellow to orangebrown. Color of female funicle (A3–A6): dark brown. Claval formula: 1-2-2-2-2-1. Claval color: dark brown to black.

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Mesosoma: Pronotal cervical sulcus: absent. Mesoscutum sculpture: reticulate. Longitudinal sculpture in posterior half of mesoscutum: absent. Admedian line: absent. Mesoscutal humeral sulcus: foveolate. Notauli: absent. Mesoscutellum shape: rounded. Sculpture of mesoscutellum: almost entirely smooth. Length of medial metascutellar spine: medial spine short to moderately long, distinctly shorter than distance between medial and lateral spines. Length of lateral metascutellar spine: short, only slightly longer than wide. Sculp-

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ture of propodeal nucha: strongly foveolate to longitudinally striate. Sculpture of suprahumeral area of pronotum: puncticulate. Sculpture in lower pronotum: reticulate to weakly rugulose. Netrion setation: sparsely setose to glabrous. Mesopleural carina: absent. Mesepimeral sulcus: complete, foveate throughout. Area 2 on metapleuron: linear, setose. Setation of area 4 of metapleuron: glabrous. Setation in anteroventral metapleural triangle: absent. Setation of propodeum anterior to spiracle: sparsely setose (less than 10) or absent. Legs: Coxae color: all coxae yellow.

Wings: Female fore wing maculation: hyaline or with slight infuscation below marginal vein.

Metasoma: Length of T1: less than or equal to one times width. Horn on T1 of female: absent, T1 longitudinally furrowed throughout length. Lateral setation of T1: sparsely to moderately setose (6–15/side). Medial sculpture on T3: shallowly longitudinal rugulose and reticulate.

Diagnosis. Fusicornia episcopus is most similar to F. paradisa and may be distinguished from it by the completeness of mesepimeral sulcus and the strongly foveolate to longitudinally striate sculpture of the propodeal nucha ( Figs. 64, 66).

Etymology. The epithet episcopus, Latin for bishop, refers to the depository of the holotype of this species.

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Material Examined. Holotype female: THAILAND: Trang Prov, Khao Phap Pha Mountain, 200–400 m, Khao Chong Mt. , 3.I.1964, G.A., Samuelson , OSUC 179113 (deposited in BPBM).