Fusicornia bambeyi Risbec, 1950

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 : 13-17

publication ID

1175­5334

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BC8F67-1D30-AE6E-FF5A-F8A5FE79FE0A

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Fusicornia bambeyi Risbec
status

 

Fusicornia bambeyi Risbec View in CoL

Original concept: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:AEEDF4ED-FEF3-4850-809E-6C43CFAA2CFA

Current concept: urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:8577

Figures 25–36; Morphbank 29

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Fusicornia bambeyi Risbec, 1950: 606 View in CoL (original description); Risbec, 1956: 264 (description).

Description. Female body length: 2.31–2.81 mm (n=20). Male body length: 2.39–2.74 mm (n=20).

Head: Vertex between posterior ocelli: rounded. Female OOL: less than or equal one ocellar diameter, or more than one ocellar diameter. Frontal sculpture: entirely and evenly sculptured. Sculpture of central frons: reticulate 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: moderately setose. Antenna: Radicle color: yellow to orange brown. Color of female A1: yellow to orange-brown, dark brown to black. Color of female funicle (A3–A6): dark brown. Claval formula: 1-2-2-2-2-1. Claval color: dark brown to black.

Mesosoma: Pronotal cervical sulcus: absent. Mesoscutum sculpture: reticulate with superimposed punctures. Longitudinal sculpture in posterior half of mesoscutum: absent. Admedian line: present or absent. Mesoscutal humeral sulcus: foveolate. Notauli: absent. Mesoscutellum shape: rounded. Sculpture of mesoscutellum: almost entirely smooth, with broad smooth area medially, reticulate punctate laterally. 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: moderately elongate, length distinctly greater than width. Sculpture of propodeal nucha: smooth to weakly sculptured. Sculpture of suprahumeral area of pronotum: puncticulate. Sculpture in lower pronotum: longitudinally striate. Netrion setation: sparsely setose to glabrous. Mesopleural carina: complete, present dorsally, interrupted or absent ventrally. Mesepimeral sulcus: abbreviated, complete or briefly interrupted, foveate above, appearing as fold ventrally. Area 2 on metapleuron: polygonal, setose, or linear, setose. Setation of area 4 of metapleuron: setose ventrally, 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 brown to black, all coxae yellow, fore coxa brown, mid and hind coxa yellow.

Wings: Female fore wing maculation: hyaline or with slight infuscation below marginal vein, with distinct infuscation at level of marginal vein.

Metasoma: Length of T1: less than or equal to one times width. Horn on T1 of female: well developed, sculpture on horn very weak or absent, present as low elevation, sculpture on horn variable. Lateral setation of T1: sparsely to moderately setose (6–15/side). Medial sculpture on T3: smooth and shiny.

Diagnosis. Fusicornia bambeyi is most similar to F. paradisa and may be distinguished from it on the basis of the sculpture of scutellum and shape of the metanotal spines. The scutellum of F.bambeyi has a broad smooth area medially, and is reticulate punctate laterally; the lateral metanotal spine is moderately elongate, its length distinctly greater than its width and it is confluent with the medial spine ( Figs. 9, 27, 30, 33).

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Material Examined. Fusicornia bambeyi , holotype female: SENEGAL: M’Bambey (deposited in MNHN) . Other material: BENIN: 1 female, OSUC 148978 View Materials ( CNCI) . BOTSWANA: 4 females, OSUC 162177–162179 View Materials ( OSUC); OSUC 148980 View Materials ( CNCI) . BURKINA FASO: 31 males, 26 females, OSUC 148958–148959 View Materials , 148971–148972 View Materials , 148990 View Materials , 164009–164010 View Materials , 164018–164020 View Materials , 206134–206138 View Materials , 206292–206321 View Materials , 208104 View Materials , 208108 View Materials , 208110 View Materials , 208112–208120 View Materials ( CNCI) . CAMEROON: 2 males, 4 females, OSUC 148975 View Materials , 208030 View Materials , 208101 View Materials , 208144 View Materials ( CNCI); OSUC 211152 View Materials , 211153 View Materials ( BMNH) . CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC:

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11 males, 2 females, OSUC 211070 View Materials , 253756 View Materials ( OSUC); OSUC 180738–180740 View Materials , 180935 View Materials , 211044 View Materials , 211050–211052 View Materials , 211069 View Materials , 248294 View Materials ( SAMC); OSUC 208105 View Materials ( CNCI). GABON : 23 males, 2 females, OSUC 148974 View Materials , 149015 View Materials , 206183–206186 View Materials , 206188–206205 View Materials , 208031 View Materials ( CNCI). GAMBIA : 1 female, OSUC 206187 View Materials ( CNCI). GHANA : 1 male, OSUC 211064 View Materials ( OSUC). GUINEA-BISSAU : 1 male, OSUC 148977 View Materials ( CNCI). IVORY COAST : 1 female, OSUC 148976 View Materials ( CNCI). KENYA : 1 male, 5 females, OSUC 148973 View Materials , 206272 View Materials ,

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211154–211156, 211160 ( CNCI). MADAGASCAR : 7 males, 35 females, CASENT 2043727–2043736, 2043813–2043821, 2043966, 2132526, 2132746–2132755, 2134112–2134115, 2134119–2134125 ( CASC); OSUC 207691 View Materials ( OSUC) . MOZAMBIQUE: 1 male, 1 female, OSUC 206276 View Materials , 206279 View Materials ( CNCI) . SOMALIA: 3 males, OSUC 148979 View Materials , 208102 View Materials , 208103 View Materials ( CNCI) . SOUTH AFRICA: 1 male, 2 females, OSUC 148993 View Materials ( CNCI) ;

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OSUC 211048–211049 View Materials ( SAMC). TANZANIA: 1 male , OSUC 248226 View Materials ( SAMC). YEMEN: 5 males , OSUC 206250–206251 View Materials , 206255 View Materials , 206257 View Materials , 206260 View Materials ( CNCI). ZIMBABWE 2 females : OSUC 148981 View Materials , 208107 View Materials ( CNCI) .

Comments. Some specimens show variability in coxal color, in which the fore coxae are dark, and the mid and hind coxae yellow: OSUC 148980, 148981, 162177, 162179, 206137, 208107. Because of the uniformity of the principal characters, the sculpture of scutellum, the configuration of the median and lateral metanotal spines, and the setation of areas 2 and 4 of metapleuron, these specimens are hypothesized to be conspecific with F. bambeyi .

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

CNCI

Canadian National Collection Insects

OSUC

Oregon State University

SAMC

Iziko Museums of Cape Town

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Scelionidae

Genus

Fusicornia

Loc

Fusicornia bambeyi Risbec

Taekul, Charuwat, Johnson, Norman F., Masner, Lubomír & Shu-Pei, Chen 2008
2008
Loc

Fusicornia bambeyi

Risbec, J. 1950: 606
1950
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