Sycophila (Sycophila) annae Lotfalizadeh, 2024
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5401.1.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10524440 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FD6B5E-7264-617B-5486-B779FC9FFD5F |
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Plazi |
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Sycophila (Sycophila) annae Lotfalizadeh |
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Sycophila (Sycophila) annae Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus sp. n.
( Figs 53–55 View FIGURE 53 View FIGURE 54 View FIGURE 55 )
Type material examined. Holotype ♀: Republic of South Africa, Nelspruit , -25.470950° 30.978929°, 12.iv.1995, ex syconia of Ficus thonningii, Gibernau M. leg. Deposited in CBGP . Paratypes: same data as holotype, 6♀ .
Etymology. The species is dedicated to Jean-Yves’s wife for her patient devotion to his entomological activities.
Diagnosis. Female with funiculars distinctly elongate, 2× as long as wide ( Fig. 53A View FIGURE 53 ). Basal cell and costal cell bare ( Fig. 54E View FIGURE 54 ). Propodeum with smooth median band, reaching close to nucha, with a long row of areolae on sides, also reaching close to nucha ( Fig. 54B View FIGURE 54 ). Gaster smooth with petiole at most as long as broad dorsally, ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present ( Figs 54C, D View FIGURE 54 ).
Body of male yellowish, basal half of scape yellowish and distal-half dark brown, propodeum yellowish with T-shaped dark brown spot ( Fig. 55A View FIGURE 55 ). Flagellum with fu1–fu4 much longer than wide, clava short, not longer than the length of all funiculars ( Fig. 55B View FIGURE 55 ). Fore wing entirely setose, without speculum ( Fig. 55D View FIGURE 55 ).
Description of holotype ♀ ( Figs 53–54 View FIGURE 53 View FIGURE 54 ). Length 4.30 mm. Body yellowish ( Fig. 53A View FIGURE 53 ), except ocellar area, pronotum dorsomedially, mesosoma dorsally, propodeum medially and anteriorly, petiole and gaster dorsally, flagellum dorsally dark brown; fore wing with a dark brown spot below mv, reaching base of mv, lower margin of mv not obscured by dark brown spot ( Fig. 54E View FIGURE 54 ); gaster bicoloured with dorsal edge dark brown ( Fig. 54C View FIGURE 54 ); body setation whitish, setation of fore wing entirely dark.
Head 1.48× as broad as high [HW 180 & HH 122] ( Fig. 53C View FIGURE 53 ); in dorsal view stout, 1.84× as broad as long [HW 258 & HL 140] ( Fig. 53D View FIGURE 53 ); face mostly coriaceous, vertex coriaceous and sparsely punctulate; malar space 0.54× length of eye, [ms 42 & EH 82]; malar sulcus distinct, straight ( Fig. 53E View FIGURE 53 ); genal margin regularly curved, edged but not carinate; antennal toruli narrowly separated; interantennal space not raised, carinate laterally; scrobal depression smooth, reaching the median ocellus, not carinate on margin; POL 2.2× as long as OOL [POL 55 & OOL 25] ( Fig. 53D View FIGURE 53 ); temple rounded, 0.27× the eye length (in dorsal view) [TL 28 & EL 104]; setation of lower face oriented downwards, outwards on the punctuate frons.
Antenna. Scape reaching lower margin of median ocellus, 3.28× as long as broad [SL 105 & SW 32; fu1 1.43× as long as broad [fu1L 60 & fu1W 42], distinctly longer than pedicel, not bulging dorsally; funiculars (fu2–fu4) with 2–3 rows of mps and several whorls of adpressed setae; fu2–fu5 slightly longer than broad ( Fig. 53B View FIGURE 53 ).
Mesosoma weakly arched dorsally, with deep sculpture, 1.6× as long as wide (160:100); pronotum with coarse umbilicate punctures ( Fig. 54A View FIGURE 54 ); notauli conspicuous; mesodiscrimen raised, with piliferous sculpture on epicnemium closer to the anterior end of the discrimen; mesoscutum 0.5× as long as wide (55:105), 0.8× longer than length of pronotal collar (55:70), with umbilicate punctures anteriorly, strigose laterally; notauli impressed, conspicuous; axillar grooves facing notauli on transscutal line deeply and step-like impressed; prepectus bare, with raised sculpture; mesoscutellum and axillae with dense umbilicate punctures and coriaceous interspaces; mesepimeron transversally strigose; metepimeron subtriangular and areolate with long white hairs; propodeum ( Fig. 54B View FIGURE 54 ) with deep median depression, a smooth median band and two short submedian carinae; lateral rows of areolae absent; basal carina wedge-like, lateral branches relatively straight; width of basal carina about 0.5× width of nucha.
Fore wing obliquely subtruncate apically, with short marginal fringe, apically; relatively narrow dark brown spot along posterior margin of mv; basal cell bare or nearly so; mv distinctly enlarged, strongly rounded on posterior margin, not longer than pmv; stv not curved; pmv distinct, longer than stv; ventral side of costal cell sparsely setose, dorsally bare; speculum present; parastigmal bristles absent ( Figs 54E, F View FIGURE 54 ).
Legs. Fore coxa without depression on frontal surface, hind coxa bare basodorsally; fore (30:12) and hind femora (30:13); hind tibia dorsally with more than 15 setae, setae shorter than hind tibia width.
Metasoma. Petiole as long as broad dorsally, ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present. Metasoma longer than mesosoma, 1.7× as long as wide (170:100) ( Fig. 54C View FIGURE 54 ), strongly compressed laterally and dorsally angulate ( Fig. 54D View FIGURE 54 ); 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 (at least 1.5× longer), sinuous posteriorly; Gt5 partly covering Gt6, sinuous posteriorly; Gt3– Gt5 with few setae dorsally, Gt6 entirely but sparsely setose; ovipositor hardly upturned ( Fig. 54C View FIGURE 54 ).
Male ( Fig. 55 View FIGURE 55 ). Length 3.53 mm. Similar to female with longer petiole ( Fig. 55A View FIGURE 55 ) antennal formula 11143, with funiculars much longer, at least 2× as long as broad; each funicular with 3–4 rows of mps and 2 whorls of relatively short setae ( Fig. 55B View FIGURE 55 ); fore wing more setose than in female, costal cell with two rows of setae dorsally ( Fig. 55D View FIGURE 55 ).
Variation. Length 2.90–4.30 mm.
Host plant. Ficus thonningii .
Geographical distribution. Republic of South Africa.
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