Tetrastichus asilis, Hansson & Schmidt, 2020

Hansson, Christer & Schmidt, Stefan, 2020, A revision of European species of the genus Tetrastichus Haliday (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) using integrative taxonomy, Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 59177-59177 : 59177

Tetrastichus asilis sp. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/API_Public/specimen?ids=BC-ZSM-HYM-25459-G12; catalogNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-25459-G12 ; recordNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-25459-G12; recordedBy: D. Doczkal; individualID: BC-ZSM-HYM-25459-G12; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Tetrastichusasilis; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Eulophidae; genus: Tetrastichinae; taxonRemarks: Holotype deposited in ZSM; Location: country: Germany; decimalLatitude: 49.985; decimalLongitude: 9.769; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; institutionCode: ZSM; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Description

FEMALE holotype (Fig. 16). Body length 1.4 mm. Head. Width/length in dorsal view 2.1, width/length in frontal view 1.1, POL/OOL 2.4, widths head/mesosoma 1.2, mouth width/malar space 1.0, malar space/eye height 0.8. Antenna. Scape length/eye height 1.2, pedicel+flagellum length/mesosoma width 1.5, length/width F1, F2, F3 1.6, 1.9, 1.7, clava length/width 4.0, lengths pedicel/F1 0.9, lengths F1/F2 0.9, F1/F3 0.9, lengths F1, F2, F3/clava 0.3, 0.4, 0.4, widths F1/pedicel (dorsal view) 1.0, lengths antennal spicule/C3 0.2. Mesosoma. Length/width 1.7, mesoscutal mid-lobe length/width 1.1 (width measured in anterior part), mid-lobe with a weak median groove in posterior ⅓, with three adnotaular setae on each side, lengths of mesoscutum/scutellum (measured medially) 1.4, mesoscutellum length/width 1.0, length/width of enclosed space between submedian grooves 2.5, distance between SMG/distance between SMG and SLG 2.0, lengths dorsellum/propodeum 0.6, propodeum with very weak reticulation partly smooth, propodeal callus with two setae. Fore wing. Costal cell length/width 13.5, lengths costal cell/marginal vein 1.1, lengths marginal/stigmal veins 2.4. Gaster. Short ovate, length/width 1.5, lengths gaster/mesosoma 1.1, Gt7 length/width 0.3, length of longest cercal seta/next longest seta 1.5, longest cercal seta evenly curved, ovipositor sheaths not reaching apex of Gt7.

Colour. Body metallic bluish-green, scape yellowish-brown, pedicel and flagellum pale brown, tegulae dark brown with metallic tinges, wing venation yellowish-brown, coxae and femora concolorous with body, trochanters dark brown, tibiae and tarsi yellowish-brown, T4 pale brown.

MALE. Unknown.

Diagnosis

Tibiae yellowish-brown; female with malar space 0.9 × eye height, POL/OOL 2.4, F1 1.6 ×, F2 1.9 ×, F3 1.7 × as long as wide.

Distribution

Germany.

Biology

Host

Unknown.

Notes

Holotype deposited in ZSM.