Adelurola florimela (Haliday, 1838)

Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier, Yari, Zahra, van Achterberg, Cornelis, Ehsan Rakhshani, & Belokobylskij, Sergey A., 2016, Review of species of the genus Adelurola Strand, 1928, with a key to species (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae), ZooKeys 566, pp. 13-30 : 17-18

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Braconidae

Adelurola florimela (Haliday, 1838) Fig. 4

Alysia florimela Haliday 1838: 239; 1839: 25.

Adelura florimela : Foerster 1863: 267; Marshall 1894: 420; Dalla Torre 1901: 38; Lyle 1933: 74; Morley 1933: 183; Stelfox 1941: 2.

Alysia (Adelura) florimela : Thomson 1895: 2287.

Dapsilarthra florimela : Kloet and Hincks 1945: 239; Königsmann 1959: 589; Fischer 1970: 13; Shenefelt 1974: 988; van Achterberg 1997: 40; Wharton et al. 2006: 325.

Adelurola florimela : van Achterberg 1983: 5; Gurasashvili 1983: 784; Tobias 1986: 236; Belokobylskij 1998: 284; 2003: 356; Yu et al. 2012; Broad et al. 2012: 7; Riedel and Hansen 2014: 148.

Phaenocarpa multiarticulata Marshall 1898: 245.

Dapsilarthra multiarticulata : Shenefelt 1974: 989.

Dapsilarthra pentapleuroides Fischer 1971: 85 (as synonym of Adelurola multiarticulata ).

Material examined.

Germany: 1 female, " Adelura florimela Hal. ♀", "Schmiedeknecht dt."; 2 males, without geographical labels, from Schmiedeknecht Collection. Latvia: 1 female, Valmier Region, Draudziba, ex larva of Pegomyia hyoscyami (Panzer) on beet, 6.vii.1962, V. Ozolinsh coll. (ZISP); 1 female, same label, but 14.07.1962 (ZISP); 1 female, same label, but 21.viii.1962 (ZISP). Russia: 1 female, 2 males, Leningrad Province, Kingisepp, 20 and 22.v.1904, Vinogradov-Nikitin coll. (ZISP); 1 female, Yaroslavl’ Province, Bykovo, 25.v.1891, N. Kokuev coll. (ZISP); 1 female, Yamalo-Nenetsk Autonomous Region, Krasnosel’kup, Taz River, terrace, 15-17.viii.1992, D. Kasparyan coll. (ZISP); 1 male, PrimorskiyTerritory, 12 km S Khorol’, forest, 4.vi.1979, S. Belokobylskij coll. (ZISP); 1 male, Primorskiy Territory, 8 km from Brovnichi, Serebryanoe, 9.vi.1978, A. Kupyanskaya coll. (ZISP); 1 male, Primorskiy Territory, Vladivostok, Sedanka, 3.vi.1978, S. Belokobylskij coll. (ZISP); 1 female, Primorskiy Territory, 30 km SE Ussuriysk, Ussuriysk Nature Reserve forest, 10-11.vi.1993, S. Belokobylskij coll. (ZISP); 1 female, Sakhalin Island, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk environs, Chekhov Mountain, 900 m, 28.vii.1988, A. Kotenko coll. (ZISP). Georgia: 1 female, Kazbegi, 2300 m, meadow, 16.viii.1982, M. Gurasashvili coll. (ZISP); for material in RMNH from the Netherlands, Germany and Bulgaria, see van Achterberg (1983).

Description.

Female.

Head entirely smooth; in dorsal view 2.0 times as wide as median length, 1.5 times as wide as mesoscutum, with not convex rounded temples behind eye. Eye in lateral view 1.3 times as high as wide and 1.15 times as wide as temple medially. POL about as long as OD; OOL 3.0 times OD. Face rugulose medially, with scattered setae, with distinct and complete middle prominence, 2.0 times as wide as high; inner margins of eyes subparallel. Clypeus slightly curved ventrally, 3.0 times as wide as high. Mandible broadened towards subapex, 1.2 times as long as its maximum width, rugose. Upper tooth of mandible broadened sideward, distinctly longer than lower tooth; middle tooth wide basally and narrowed towards apex, pointed apically; lower tooth rounded apically. Antenna rather slender, 45-segmented. Scape 1.25 times as long as pedicel. First flagellar segment 3.3 times as long as its apical width; second segment 3.8 times as long as its maximum width, 1.1 times as long as first segment. Third flagellar segment 3.5 times as long as its maximum width. Penultimate segment about 2.0 times and apical segment 3.3 times as long as their maximum widths, respectively.

Mesosoma 1.4 times as long as high (lateral view). Mesoscutum entirely smooth, with dense setae along notauli and scattered setae laterally, as long as its maximum width. Notauli present in anterior half and absent in posterior half, crenulate. Mesoscutal pit present, short, elongate. Scutellar sulcus finely and sparsely rugulose, with distinct median carina but without lateral carinae. Sides of pronotum mainly smooth. Precoxal suture rather wide and rugulose, reaching anterior margin of mesopleuron, but absent posteriorly. Posterior mesopleural furrow completely crenulate. Propodeum completely rugose-reticulate. Propodeal spiracle small.

Wings. Length of fore wing 2.6 times its maximum width. Pterostigma cuneate. Marginal cell just not reaching apex of wing, 3.2 times as long as its maximum width. Vein 3-SR 1.3 times as long as vein 2-SR. Vein SR1 2.2 times as long as veins 3-SR. Second submarginal cell 3.6 times as long as its maximum width. Vein cu-a distinctly postfurcal. Subdiscal cell closed, 2.5 times as long as its maximum width. Hind wing 4.3 times as long as its maximum width.

Legs. Hind femur about 5.0 times as long as its maximum width. Hind tibia slightly widened towards apex, about 10.0 times as long as its maximum subapical width, 0.9 times as long as hind tarsus. First segment of hind tarsus 2.0 times as long as second segment.

Metasoma depressed dorso-ventrally. First tergite completely rugose-reticulate with median carina, hardly widened towards apex (subparallel), 1.6 times as long as its apical width. Second metasomal tergite smooth. Ovipositor sheath 0.3 times as long as first tergite, 0.2 times as long as hind femur.

Colour. Body brown to dark reddish brown. Second metasomal tergite reddish brown, paler than first and apical tergites. Legs yellowish brown, hind tibia apically and most part of hind tarsus distinctly infuscate. Wings almost hyaline. Pterostigma brown.

Body length 3.4 mm; fore wing length 3.9 mm.

Variation. Body length 3.1-4.2 mm; fore wing length 3.5-4.3 mm. Antenna 43-49-segmented. First flagellar segment 3.0-3.4 times as long as its apical width; second segment 3.7-4.2 times as long as its maximum width, 1.10-1.15 times as long as first segment. Third flagellar segment 3.5-4.0 times as long as its maximum width. Marginal cell of fore wing 2.8-3.1 times as long as its maximum width. Vein 3-SR 1.1-1.3 times as long as vein 2-SR. Vein SR1 2.2-2.6 times as long as vein 3-SR. Second submarginal cell 3.0-3.5 times as long as its maximum width. Subdiscal cell 2.1-3.0 times as long as its maximum width. Hind femur 4.7-5.0 times as long as its maximum width. First tergite 1.3-1.6 times as long as its apical width. Ovipositor sheath 0.3-0.6 times as long as first tergite, 0.2-0.4 times as long as hind femur.

Male. Body length 3.2-4.0 mm; fore wing length 3.6-4.6 mm. Mandible often brown to dark brown. Veins of fore wing more or less widened; pterostigma distinctly thickened and completely black or dark brown. Hind femur 5.0 times as long as its maximum width. First metasomal tergite narrow, 1.6-1.9 times as long as its apical width.

Diagnosis.

Adelurola florimela (Haliday, 1838) differs from Adelurola amplidens (Fischer, 1966), Adelurola asiatica Telenga, 1935 and Adelurola kamtshatica Belokobylskij, 1998 by the features listed in the diagnoses of each of these species, as listed above.

Hosts.

Acidia cognata (Wiedemann, 1817) ( Tephritidae ), Pegomya hyoscyami (Panzer, 1809), Pegomya nigritarsis (Zetterstedt, 1838) and Pegomya solennis (Meigen, 1826) ( Anthomyiidae ) ( van Achterberg 1983; Belokobylskij 1998; Yu et al. 2012).

Distribution.

Austria, former Czechoslovakia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, former Yugoslavia.