Sycophila (Sycophila) fusca 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.10524455 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FD6B5E-726A-614F-5486-B36CFCE6F874 |
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Plazi |
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Sycophila (Sycophila) fusca Lotfalizadeh |
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Sycophila (Sycophila) fusca Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus sp. n.
( Figs 64–65 View FIGURE 64 View FIGURE 65 )
Type material examined. Holotype ♀: United Republic of Tanzania, Marangu, -3.280994° 37.520889°, ex syconia of Ficus lutea , 3.iv.1996, Rasplus J.-Y. & Kerdelhué C. leg. Deposited in CBGP. Paratypes: same data as holotype, 3♀; Mazumbai, ex syconia of Ficus chirindensis , 16.iii.1996, Rasplus J.-Y. leg., 7♀; Mialo, 20-21.ii.1995, ex syconia of F. natalensis , Rasplus J.-Y. & Kerdelhué C. leg., 3♀.
Etymology. The specific name refers to the pale colouration of the body.
Diagnosis. Flagellum with fu1 distinctly longer than pedicel, clava long (more than 3× as long as wide) ( Fig. 64B View FIGURE 64 ). POL more than 2× OOL ( Fig. 64D View FIGURE 64 ). Costal cell densely setose ventrally ( Fig. 65E View FIGURE 65 ). Basal carina of propodeum as an inverted V, truncate mesally, with a round sooth area basomedially, surrounded by small areolae, posteriorly irregularly sculptured ( Fig. 65B View FIGURE 65 ). Petiole short (at most as long as wide), with ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 ( Figs 65C, D View FIGURE 65 ).
Description of holotype ♀ ( Figs 64–65 View FIGURE 64 View FIGURE 65 ). Length 3.75 mm. Body brownish ( Fig. 64A View FIGURE 64 ), with head dorsally, scrobe, scape distally, pedicel and flagellum, mesosoma along notauli and axillae, pronotum anterolaterally, propodeum and gaster basally brown darker; fore wing with dark brown spot below mv not reaching base of mv; lower margin of mv obscured by dark brown spot ( Fig. 64E View FIGURE 64 ); gaster bicoloured ( Fig. 65C View FIGURE 65 ); body setation whitish, setation of fore wing entirely dark.
Head 1.33× as broad as high [HW 178 & HH 134] ( Fig. 64C View FIGURE 64 ); in dorsal view transverse, 2.0× as broad as long [HW 240 & HL 122] ( Fig. 64D View FIGURE 64 ); face and vertex mostly coriaceous; malar space 0.49× as long as eye [ms 42 & EH 85]; malar sulcus distinct, sinuous ( Fig. 64E View FIGURE 64 ); genal margin regularly curved, edged but not carinate; antennal toruli widely separated; interantennal space not raised, carinate laterally; scrobal depression smooth, reaching the median ocellus, not carinate on margin; POL 2.7× as long as OOL [POL 54 & OOL 20] ( Fig. 64D View FIGURE 64 ); temple rounded, 0.27× the eye length (in dorsal view) [TL 25 & EL 94]; setation oriented downwards on face, outwards on the punctuate frons.
Antenna. Scape reaching above the lower margin of median ocellus, 5.26× as long as broad [SL 100 & SW 19]; fu1 2.14× as long as broad [fu1L 45 & fu1W 21], distinctly longer than pedicel, not bulging dorsally; funicular (fu2– fu4) with two rows of mps and 2–3 whorls of adpressed setae; fu2–fu5 distinctly longer than broad ( Fig. 64B View FIGURE 64 ).
Mesosoma weakly arched dorsally, 1.6× as long as wide (160:100) ( Fig. 65A View FIGURE 65 ), with deep sculpture; pronotum with coarse umbilicate punctures; mesepisternum raised medially, with piliferous sculpture on epicnemium; mesepisternum flattened, without ring-like process or raised umbilicate sculpture; mesoscutum with dense umbilicate punctures, transversely strigose anteriorly; notauli conspicuous, slightly obliterated by mesoscutum sculpture; prepectus bare, slightly sculptured; mesoscutum 0.6× as long as wide (60:100), 0.75× longer than length of pronotal collar (60:85), with dense umbilicate punctures laterally and on mesoscutellar disc; mesepimeron transversally strigose; metepimeron subtriangular and areolate with long white hairs; propodeum ( Fig. 65B View FIGURE 65 ) with deep median depression, with a smooth median band, without any median carina; lateral rows of areolae short (extending at most to half-length of propodeum); basal carina inverted V, truncate mesally, lateral branches slightly convex; distance between lateral carinae less than 0.5× width of nucha.
Fore wing with long marginal fringe, distal margin round; dark brown spot below mv; basal cell bare or nearly so; mv distinctly enlarged, normally broadened, in lower margin concave, longer than pmv; Stv not curved; pmv distinct, not longer than stv; ventral side of costal cell densely setose, dorsally bare; speculum present; parastigmal bristles absent ( Figs 65E, F View FIGURE 65 ).
Legs. Fore coxa without depression on frontal surface, hind coxa bare basodorsally; fore (32:10) and hind femora (40:14); hind tibia dorsally with more than 10 setae, setae shorter than tibia width.
Metasoma. Petiole shorter than broad dorsally, ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present. Metasoma 1.7× as long as wide (165:95) ( Fig. 65C View FIGURE 65 ), longer than mesosoma, strongly compressed laterally and dorsally angulate ( Fig. 65D View FIGURE 65 ); ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present; petiole in dorsal view not longer than wide, shorter than half-length of hind coxa; tergites finely sculptured; Gt4 (in lateral view) slightly as long as Gt3, sinuous posteriorly; Gt5 not covered Gt6, sinuous posteriorly; Gt4–Gt5 with a row of setae with few setae dorsally, Gt6 sparsely setose ventrally; ovipositor oriented dorsad but not distinctly upturned ( Fig. 65C View FIGURE 65 ).
Male. Unknown.
Variation. Length 2.45–4.00 mm. In some specimens body entirely yellowish-brown or gaster yellowish with dark brown bands.
Host plants. Ficus chirindensis , F. lutea and F. natalensis .
Geographical distribution. United Republic of Tanzania.
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