Pseudotiphia (Pseudotiphia) inopinata, Boni, 2011

Boni, M., 2011, Hymenoptera Tiphiidae from Arabian peninsula, Linzer biologische Beiträge 43 (1), pp. 337-361 : 348-350

Pseudotiphia (Pseudotiphia) inopinata nov.sp.

Holotype: Yemen = / Yemen (5960) 12 km NW Manakhah 3.VII-21.VII.2001 Mal. tr. A. v. Harten RMNH02 /, RMNH.

Paratype: Yemen = (2) / Yemen (7585) 12 km NW Manakhah 15.V-23.VI.2003 Mal. tr. A. v. Harten RMNH02 /, (1) RMNH, (1) MZUF; (1) / Yemen (8100) 12 km NW Manakhah 15.IX- 22.X.2003 Mal. tr. A. v. Harten RMNH03 /, RMNH .

Paratype: Yemen = (27) / Yemen (5960) 12 km NW Manakhah 3.VII-21.VII.2001 Mal. tr. A. v. Harten RMNH02 /, RMNH: (25), MZUF: (2); (1) / Yemen Lahj Mal.tr. N.5588/89/90 A. v. Harten & A. SAllam, RMNH’01/, RMNH; (2) / Yemen (7895) 12 km NW Manakhah 24.VI- 4.VIII.2003 Mal. tr. A. v. Harten RMNH03 /, RMNH .

Female. Holotype. Figs 53-56 . Measurements: body length = 10.5 mm; forewing length = 6.5 mm.

Black. Brown are: upper side of flagellum, pterostigma and veins, most of legs but coxae. Reddish brown are lamella of clypeus, scape, pedicel and 1 st flagellomerus, shadows on legs, apical half of 6 th tergum. Ventral side of flagellum is light brown. Forewing shaded.

Clypeal surface covered by dense small p bearing very weak bristles. Largely spaced p, with iS larger than their diameter, on the remainder of head, with a stripe of small p on vertex along cOc. The same p on N 1 disk with no carina along its foreborder; lateral N 1 with transversal weak wrinkles progressively strengthening toward posteroventral corner; dark apical border. Fore Sc 1 without any gradulus. Sc 2 looks like in T. villosa, but presence of omaulus expressed only medially wearing out upperly and ventrally. es 1 bipunctate by small p among scattered larger ones. es 2 with p like head and with stripe of small p along the median suture; omaulus well expressed only on the upper side. em 3 largely smooth and shining. es 3 weakly shagreened with scattered small p. Sensorial areas of hind tibia surrounded by shining pitless belt; sensorial area of mid tibia strongly transversal; both of them are flushed with surrounding surface. No groove on hind basal tarsomerus. Lateral ridges of areola well produced and broadly sinuous, the mid one is irregular and weaker. Posterior surface concave and without any trace of ridge. Lateral P with about 30 transversal wrinkles.

1 st tergum with very scattered p and strong gradulus along the border between vertical and horizontal surfaces. Weak buttressing ridges along colpus of 2 nd tergum. 2 nd to 5 th terga with irregularly spaced p. Apical third of 6 th tergum (pygidium) with only very weak traces of longitudinal rugulae. 1 st sternal surface with regularly spaced snmall p throughout. p of 2 nd sternum like terga. 3 rd to 6 th sterna covered by well detectable at x25 mR, with scattered small p progressively becoming denser toward 6 th element.

Male. Figs 51 , 57-63 .Measurements: body length = 6.5 mm; forewing length = 4.5 mm.

Black. Brown: tip of mandible, lateral clypeus, pterostigma, upper fore femur, most of mid and hind femur, tip of tegulae, upper hind tibia and most of hind tarsus, tip of 6 th sternum, apex of trochanters; the semitransparent veins and tip of LaSt 2. Light brown: most of mandible, ventral surface of scape, upper flagellum, central clypeus and lamella, fore trochanter, outer fore tibia, fore and mid tarsi, ventral femurs. Ventral flagellum is lighter brown-yellow.

Clypeus and lower frons like in T. villosa; p progressively more scattered from lower frons to vertex, where there are pit less areas around ocelli and iS larger than their diameter; stripe of small p along cOc. Progena irregularly shagreened; no additional denticle on mandible. Near genal bridge areas the cOc shows a ventral lamellar projection. Palpi far longer than FoO.

Sparse p on mid N 1 disk, denser p on its fore surface with small p among them; lateral N 1 shagreened without any groove; laminated carina along ist fore border. Omaulus well produced. es 1 with few large p anteriorly, posterior and inner surface shagreened with few small p; Lateral es 2 bipunctate till signum. Ventral forecoxa bipunctate, mid coax covered by small p, hindcoxa densely p at its base then sparser apically. P: well produced lateral ridges of areola; mid ridge of areola less prominent and worn out at its middle; horizontal area irregularly shagreened; posterior surface concave without ridge; about 20 strong complete wrinkles, alternated to about 10 incomplete. em 3 mostly smooth with p along the border with es 2; es 3 weakly and irregularly shagreened with strong buttressing ridges along its border with em 3. Sensorial area of hind tibia as narrow as in other taxa of the genus, surrounded by shining belt; sensorial area of mid tibia not well distinct, detectable by smooth and shining surface; both of them flushed with surrounding surface. The CM on the fore wings of the males just a bit more extended apically than 2 nd CSM.

Distal border of metameri black ( Fig. 51 ) (not at all semitransparent like in other taxa of the genus) with a narrow distinct groove worn out on their middle portion and becoming progressively delimited to the lateral corner in the last ones. Strong gradulus dividing horizontal from vertical surfaces of 1 st tergum, with sparse p throughout and a stripe of small p on the middle of latter; well prominent buttressing ridges of colpus on 2 nd tergum. p progressively denser from 2 nd to 7 th terga. 1 st sternum with strong lateral grooves joining to the subapical transversal groove, which has strong buttressing ridges. 2 nd sternum with sparse p. 3 rd to 5 th sterna with few small p but an aical stripe of greater p and covered throughout by well detectable at x20 mR. Short and stout medially prominent tuberculum on 5 th sternum. Basal 6 th sternum with mR and densely p.

Note. Well known taxon from other taxa of the genus by the lack of groove on hind basitarsus in females, the ventral extension of cOc, apically more extended CM and particular distal border of metameri in males compared to villosa ( Fig.52 , by a male from Italy: / Dint Genova V 1940 Franciscolo /). to whose group they belong. Therefore its position in the key of taxa of the genus ( BONI BARTALUCCI 2010) could be at the items 4 and 16 for the females and males respectively.

E c o l o g y. Unknown.

D e r i v a t i o n o m i n i s. Inopinata = unexpected.

Figures

Figs 53-63: Pseudotiphia inopinata Holotype: (53) labrum, frontal aspect; (54) fore wing, apical half; (55) apex of mid tibia, inner aspect; (56) apex of hind tibia, inner aspect. Paratype: (57) head, frontal aspect; (58) head, PoG area, antero ventral aspect; (59) labrum, frontal aspect; (60) fore wing, apical half; (61) 5th sternum, lateroventral aspect; (62) gonosquama; (63) aedeagus, lateral aspect.

Figs 46-52: Tiphia eremopolites Holotype: (46) head, frontal aspect; (47) labrum, frontal aspect; (48) fore half of mesosoma, dorsal aspect; (49) forewing, apical half; (50) hind tibia, inner (back) aspect. Pseudotiphia inopinata Holotype: (51) lateral terga. Pseudotiphia villosa: (52) lateral terga.