Sycophila (Tineomyza) ruandensis ( Risbec, 1957 )
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Sycophila (Tineomyza) ruandensis ( Risbec, 1957) View in CoL
( Figs 112–114 View FIGURE 112 View FIGURE 113 View FIGURE 114 )
Decatoma ruandensis Risbec, 1957: 198–201 View in CoL . Lectotype ♀, MNHN, examined.Type data: Rwanda, Kayove , 2000 m, 14.xi.1953, P. Basilewsky leg. ex F. burkei .
Sycophila ruandensis View in CoL ; Bouček et al., 1981: 213.
Material examined. United Republic of Tanzania, Mialo , 19.iii.1996, ex syconia of F. natalensis , Rasplus J.-Y. & Kerdelhué C. leg., 9♂ & 3♀ .
Diagnosis. Female body generally with relatively long, white setae ( Fig. 112A View FIGURE 112 ). All funiculars longer than broad, fu1 as long as pedicel ( Fig. 112B View FIGURE 112 ). Mesoscutum smooth, anteriorly ( Fig. 113A View FIGURE 113 ). Dark brown spot of fore wing reaching base of mv, costal cell without row of setae ( Fig. 113D View FIGURE 113 ). Petiole longer than broad, as long as hind coxa ( Fig. 113F View FIGURE 113 ). Gaster smooth, Gt4 as long as Gt3 ( Fig. 113F View FIGURE 113 ).
Male body yellowish, dorsally dark or dark brown ( Fig. 114A View FIGURE 114 ). Flagellum with fu1 longer than wide, fu2–fu4 at most as long as wide ( Fig. 114D View FIGURE 114 ). Mesosoma flattened; pronotum and mesoscutum at the same level. Fore wing not entirely setose, with distinct speculum, basal cell bare at least medially ( Fig. 114C View FIGURE 114 ).
Description of lectotype ♀ ( Figs 112–113 View FIGURE 112 View FIGURE 113 ). Length 1.60–2.45 mm. Body generally dark brown ( Fig. 112A View FIGURE 112 ), except orbital margin, pronotum dorsolaterally, mesopleuron ventrally, tegula, axillae, all of legs (no mid and hind tibia), gaster ventrally yellowish; antenna mostly dark brown; pronotum anterolaterally testaceous; fore wing with a dark brown spot below mv, reaching base of mv, lower margin of mv not obscured by dark brown spot ( Fig. 113D View FIGURE 113 ); gaster uniformly coloured ( Fig. 113E View FIGURE 113 ); body setation whitish, setation of fore wing entirely dark.
Head 1.15× as broad as high [HW 156 & HH 135] ( Fig. 112C View FIGURE 112 ); in dorsal view stout, 1.74× as broad as long [HW 235 & HL 135] ( Fig. 112D View FIGURE 112 ); face and vertex coriaceous with sparse punctures; malar space 0.54× length of eye [ms 43 & EH 80], malar sulcus distinct, sinuous ( Fig. 112E View FIGURE 112 ); 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, carinate on margin (at least dorsally); POL 2.9× as long as OOL [POL 58 & OOL 20] ( Fig. 112D View FIGURE 112 ); temple rounded, 0.32× the eye length (in dorsal view) [TL 32 & EL 100]; setation oriented downwards on face, outwards on the punctuate frons.
Antenna. Scape reaching above the lower margin of median ocellus, 4.67× as long as broad [SL 140 & SW 30]; fu1 1.61× as long as broad [fu1L 45 & fu1W 28], not longer than pedicel, not bulging dorsally; funiculars (fu2–fu4) with one row of mps and 2–3 whorls of adpressed setae; fu2–fu5 slightly longer than broad ( Fig. 112B View FIGURE 112 ).
Mesosoma weakly arched dorsally, 1.55× as long as wide (155:100), with obliterate punctures ( Fig. 113A View FIGURE 113 ); pronotum with coarse umbilicate punctures; mesepisternum flattened, without any process or raised sculpture on epicnemium; mesoscutum 0.55× as long as wide (55:100), 0.65× longer than length of pronotal collar (55:85), with dense umbilicate punctures, smooth anteriorly; notauli conspicuous, slightly obliterated by mesoscutum sculpture; prepectus bare, slightly sculptured; mesoscutellum superficially umbilicate laterally and coriaceous sculpture on mesoscutellar disc; mesepimeron transversally strigose; metepimeron subtriangular and areolate with long white hairs; propodeum ( Fig. 113B View FIGURE 113 ) with shallow median depression, without smooth median band, without any median carina; lateral rows of areolae absent; basal carina inverted V, truncate mesally, lateral branches relatively straight; 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 more setose; mv slightly enlarged, triangularly broadened, in lower margin straight, 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 113D, F View FIGURE 113 ).
Legs. Fore coxa without depression on frontal surface, hind coxa bare basodorsally; fore (30:10) and hind femora (40:13); hind tibia dorsally with about 10 setae, setae shorter than basal tibial width.
Metasoma. Petiole as long as broad dorsally, ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present. Metasoma 1.4× as long as wide (155:110) ( Fig. 113E View FIGURE 113 ), longer than mesosoma, slightly compressed laterally ( Fig. 113F View FIGURE 113 ); ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 absent; petiole in dorsal view 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), not sinuous posteriorly; Gt5 mostly covering Gt6, not sinuous posteriorly; Gt4–Gt5 with few setae dorsally, Gt6 sparsely setose ventrally; ovipositor upturned ( Fig. 113E View FIGURE 113 ).
Male. ( Fig. 114 View FIGURE 114 ). Not described by Risbec (1957) but length about 1.70 mm. Colouration of the body mostly yellowish, dorsally brown, all legs yellowish ( Fig. 114A View FIGURE 114 ); with longer petiole; antennal formula 11143, fu2–fu4 as long as broad; each funicular with one row of mps and 2–3 whorls of erected setae ( Fig. 114C View FIGURE 114 ).
Variation. Length 1.60–2.45 mm.
Host plant. F. natalensis .
Geographical distribution. Republic of Rwanda, United Republic of Tanzania.
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.
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Sycophila (Tineomyza) ruandensis ( Risbec, 1957 )
| Lotfalizadeh, Hossein, Delvare, Gérard, Cruaud, Astrid & Rasplus, Jean-Yves 2024 |
Sycophila ruandensis
| Boucek, Z. & Watsham, A. & Wiebes, J. T. 1981: 213 |
Decatoma ruandensis
| Risbec, J. 1957: 201 |