Sycophila (Tineomyza) setulosa Zerova, 2009

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Sycophila (Tineomyza) setulosa Zerova, 2009

( Figs 93–94 )

Material examined. United Republic of Tanzania, Soni , Mt Usambara West, 18.ii.1995, ex syconia of Ficus sur , Rasplus J.-Y. & Kerdelhué C. leg., 3♀ .

Diagnosis. Body of female entirely yellowish ( Fig. 93A ). All funiculars longer than wide, fu1 shorter than pedicel ( Fig. 93B ). Pronotum and mesoscutum with coarse umbilicate punctures ( Fig. 94A ). Propodeum with Vshaped basal carina ( Fig. 94B ). Fore wing with two dark brown spots, parastigmal bristles present ( Fig. 94E ).

Female ( Figs 93–94 ). Length 2.01–2.25 mm. Body entirely yellowish ( Fig. 93A ); fore wing with two dark brown spots below parastigma and mv; lower margin of mv not obscured by dark brown spot, reaching base of mv ( Fig. 94E ); gaster uniformly coloured ( Fig. 94C ); body setation whitish, setation of fore wing entirely dark.

Head 1.15× as broad as high [HW 155 & HH 135] ( Fig. 93C ); in dorsal view stout, 1.55× as broad as long [HW 217 & HL 140] ( Fig. 93D ); face and vertex densely punctulate; malar space 0.44× length of eye [ms 37 & EH 84]; malar sulcus distinct, straight ( Fig. 93E ); genal margin regularly curved, edged but not carinate; antennal toruli narrowly separated; interantennal space raised and seen in lateral view, carinate laterally; scrobal depression smooth, reaching the median ocellus, carinate on margin (at least dorsally); POL 2.94× as long as OOL [POL 50 & OOL 17] ( Fig. 93D ); temple rounded, 0.14× the eye length (in dorsal view) [TL 15 & EL 110]; setation oriented downwards on face, outwards on the punctuate frons.

Antenna. Scape not reaching median ocellus, 5.67× as long as broad [SL 85 & SW 15]; fu1 1.47× as long as broad [fu1L 22 & fu1W 15], not longer than pedicel, not bulging dorsally; funiculars (fu2–fu4) with one row of mps and 2–3 whorls of erected relatively long setae; fu2–fu4 slightly longer than broad; fu5 distinctly longer than broad ( Fig. 93B ).

Mesosoma weakly arched dorsally, 1.7× as long as wide (180:105), with deep sculpture ( Fig. 94A ); pronotum with coarse umbilicate punctures; mesepisternum flattened, without any process or raised sculpture on epicnemium; mesoscutum 0.6× as long as wide (60:105), 0.65× longer than length of pronotal collar (60:90), densely umbilicate punctures; notauli conspicuous, slightly obliterated by mesoscutum sculpture; prepectus bare, smooth medially; mesoscutellum entirely umbilicate; mesepimeron transversally strigose; metepimeron subtriangular and areolate with long white hairs; propodeum ( Fig. 94B ) with shallow median depression, without smooth median band, without any median carina; lateral rows of areolae absent; basal carina inverted V, truncate mesally -shaped; lateral branches of basal carina 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, triangularly broadened, in lower margin straight, longer than pmv; stv not curved; pmv not distinct, not longer than stv; ventral side of costal cell sparsely setose, dorsally bare; speculum present; parastigmal bristles present; setation of fore wing entirely dark ( Fig. 94E ).

Legs. Fore coxa without depression on frontal surface, hind coxa bare basodorsally; fore (25:7) and hind femora (30:10); hind tibia dorsally with about 6 setae, setae as long as hind tibia width basally.

Metasoma. Petiole longer than broad dorsally, ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 absent. Metasoma 1.8× as long as wide (145:80) ( Fig. 94C ), shorter than mesosoma, broad and not compressed laterally ( Fig. 94D ); ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 absent; petiole in dorsal view longer than wide, as long as or longer 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. 94C ).

Male. Unknown.

Variation. Length 2.00– 2.25 mm. In some darker specimens, gaster dark brown.

Host plant. Ficus sur .

Geographical distribution. Yemen ( Zerova and van Harten 2009) and United Republic of Tanzania.

Figures

FIGURE 93. S. (Tineomyza) setulosa (♀). A, female 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 94. S. (Tineomyza) setulosa (♀). A, mesosoma in dorsal view. B, propodeum. C, metasoma in lateral view. D, metasoma in dorsal view. E, fore wing.