Tetramesa, Walker, 1848

Lotfalizadeh, Hossein, Karimpour, Younes, Delvare, Gérard & Rasplus, Jean-Yves, 2020, Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) obtained from common reed, Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. (Poaceae) in Iran with new records and descriptions of two new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 710, pp. 1-35 : 16

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.710

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E3A0F9FD-53DA-4716-8218-9EE898C6CBFF

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4332937

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BF4C30-FFDE-762B-62A8-FEC414EA2E34

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Valdenar

scientific name

Tetramesa
status

 

Tetramesa View in CoL View at ENA sp.

Fig. 10 View Fig

Material examined

IRAN – West-Azarbaijan Province • 4 ♀♀, 1 ♂; Urmia, Häshtïan ; 37º47′ N, 44º39′ E; 1680 m a.s.l.; Apr. 2017; Y. Karimpour leg.; ex Phragmites australis ; HMIM GoogleMaps 3 ♀♀; Urmia, Hesar-e Türkmän ; 37º26′ N, 45º13′ E; 1293 m a.s.l.; Apr. 2017; Y. Karimpour leg.; ex Phragmites australis ; HMIM GoogleMaps .

Remarks

Only T. phragmitis has previously been reported from Phragmites spp. ( Noyes 2020). Based on the key of Claridge (1961), our specimens are closely related to Tetramesa cornuta (Walker, 1832) in the couplet 17, sharing with this species the following characters: funicular segments short with F5 quadrate; pronotum transverse ( Fig. 10D View Fig ), about 2× as wide as long; mid tibial spur relatively long, longer than half length of basitarsus; longer GT3 non-emarginate posteriorly. However, the female appears to be larger than is reported for T. cornuta ; marginal vein at most as long as stigmal vein (vs marginal vein twice as long as stigmal vein in T. cornuta ); metasoma longer than the combined length of head plus mesosoma (75:65) (vs metasoma shorter than combined length of head and mesosoma in T. cornuta ). In the male, the funicular segments are slightly longer than in the female ( Fig. 10C View Fig ) but a more distinct sexual dimorphism was observed in T. cornuta ( Claridge 1961: figs 97–98). This species clearly is different from T. cornuta and may be new. However, further specimens are required and we also need to examine several type specimens belonging to the genus Tetramesa to ascertain its novelty.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Eurytomidae

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