Ficomila curtivena Bouček, 1981

Lotfalizadeh, Hossein, Delvare, Gérard, Cruaud, Astrid & Rasplus, Jean-Yves, 2024, Morphological phylogeny and revision of Sycophila and Ficomila (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea, Eurytomidae) associated with Afrotropical fig trees (Moraceae, Ficus), Zootaxa 5401 (1), pp. 1-190 : 30-33

Ficomila curtivena Bouček, 1981

( Figs 12–13 )

Ficomila curtivena Bouček, 1981: 212–213 . Holotype ♀, BMNH, not examined, Zimbabwe, Chishawasha nr. Harare (named Salisbury), 26.xi.1974, A. Watsham leg. ex F. burkei ( natalensis ) [nota: F. natalensis is not a synonym of F. burkei ].

Material examined. Paratype: Republic of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, Chishawasha nr Salisbury, ex F. burkei ( natalensis ), 26.xi.1974, A. Watsham leg., 1♀.

Diagnosis. Female body yellowish to dark brown ( Fig. 12A ). Flagellum with fu1 as long as pedicel, fu2–fu4 as long as broad ( Fig. 12B ). Mesosoma dorsally almost black, with dense umbilicate punctures and conspicuous white pubescence. Fore wing entirely hyaline, without dark brown spot, setation including marginal fringe, extremely short, inconspicuous ( Fig. 13E ). Gaster of female dorsally broad, Gt4 as long as Gt3 (about 2× as long as Gt3) ( Fig. 13D ).

Description of paratype ♀ ( Figs 12–13 ). Length 2.15 mm. Body brown and yellowish, mouth margin, antenna, pronotum anterolaterally and legs yellowish; fore wing without dark spot below mv; gaster uniformly coloured; body setation whitish, setation of fore wing entirely dark.

Head 1.30× as broad as high [HW 158 & HH 122]; in dorsal view stout, 1.63× as broad as long [HW 158 & HL 97]; face and vertex coriaceous with sparse punctures ( Fig. 12C ); malar space 0.51× length of eye [ms 37 & EH 72]; malar sulcus distinct, straight ( Fig. 12E ); genal margin regularly curved, edged but not carinate; antennal toruli narrowly separated, interantennal space not raised, not carinate laterally ( Fig. 12C ); scrobal depression slightly sculptured, reaching the median ocellus, not carinate on margin; POL 4.13× as long as OOL [POL 62 & OOL 15] ( Fig. 12D ); temple rounded, 0.34× the eye length (in dorsal view) [TL 30 & EL 88]; setation oriented downwards on face, outwards on the punctuate frons.

Antenna. Scape not reaching lower margin of median ocellus, 4.8× as long as broad [SL 120 & SW 25]; fu1 1.33× as long as broad [fu1L 40 & fu1W 30], not longer than pedicel, bulging dorsally; funicular (fu2–fu4) with one row of mps and 2 whorls of long adpressed setae; fu2–fu5 as long as broad ( Fig. 12B ).

Mesosoma weakly arched dorsally, 1.4× as long as wide (165:115), with deep sculpture ( Fig. 13A ); pronotum with coarse umbilicate punctures; mesodiscrimen with a ring-like process, adjacent to mesocoxa; mesoscutum 0.55× as long as wide (65:115), 0.7× longer than length of pronotal collar (65:90), densely umbilicate punctures; notauli conspicuous, slightly obliterated by mesoscutum sculpture; prepectus bare, smooth; mesoscutellum with distinct umbilicate punctures, laterally and densely coriaceous medially; mesepimeron transversally strigose, anteroventrally reticulate; metepimeron subtriangular and areolate with long white hairs; propodeum ( Fig. 13B ) with shallow median depression, without smooth band and median carina, lateral rows of areolae absent, inverted U-shaped basal carina, lateral branches slightly concave, width of basal carinae about 0.5× width of nucha.

Fore wing with short marginal fringe, distal margin round; slight dark brown spot only behind mv; basal cell bare or nearly so; mv slightly enlarged, normally broadened, in lower margin concave; stv curved up; pmv not distinct; ventral side of costal cell bare, dorsally bare; speculum present; parastigmal bristles absent ( Figs 13E, F ).

Legs. Fore coxa without depression on frontal surface, hind coxa bare basodorsally; fore (30:10) and hind femora (35:13); hind tibia dorsally with less than 10 setae, setae shorter than tibia width basally.

Metasoma. Petiole shorter than broad dorsally, ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present ( Figs 13C, D ). Metasoma 1.65× as long as wide (140:85), shorter than mesosoma, broad and not compressed laterally; ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present; petiole in dorsal view not longer than wide, shorter than half length of hind coxa; tergites smooth; Gt4 (in lateral view) much as long as Gt3, not sinuous posteriorly; Gt5 mostly covering Gt6, not sinuous posteriorly; Gt6 with few setae ventrally; ovipositor upturned ( Fig. 13C ).

Male. Unknown.

Variation. Length 1.7–2.5 mm. Sometimes pale brown extends on lower face, eye orbits and most of pronotum, with vague spots even on sides of mesoscutum and base of gaster.

Host plants. Ficus burkei , F. petersii and F. thonningii .

Geographical distribution. Namibia, Republic of Zimbabwe.

Figures

FIGURE 12. Ficomila curtivena (♀ paratype). A, body in lateral view. B, antenna. C, head in frontal view. D, head in dorsal view. E, head in lateral view. F, mesosoma in lateral view.

FIGURE 13. Ficomila curtivena (♀ paratype). A, mesosoma in dorsal view. B, propodeum. C, metasoma in lateral view. D, metasoma in dorsal view. E, fore wing, F, fore wing venation.