Perilampus nitens Walker, 1834

Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan & Koutsoukos, Evangelos, 2023, Perilampus neglectus and other neglected species: new records of Palaearctic Perilampidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea), with a key to European species of Perilampus, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 96, pp. 57-99 : 57

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.96.83235

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scientific name

Perilampus nitens Walker, 1834
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Perilampus nitens Walker, 1834 View in CoL

Fig. 13 View Figure 13

Perilampus nitens Walker, 1834: 163.

Perilampus antennatus Walker, 1834: 163. Synonymy by Mayr (1905: 566).

Perilampus selectus Walker, 1874: 313. Synonymy by Kerrich (1958: 77).

Diagnosis.

Head and mesosoma blue, with slight green or bronze reflections; metasoma bluish-black; female flagellum brownish-black, partly lighter ventrally. Body size: 3-5 mm. Head shape in frontal view (Fig. 13A, B View Figure 13 ) much wider than high. Head in lateral view not unusually long, without distinct sulcus separating posterior eye margin from temple. Clypeal margin (Fig. 13A, B View Figure 13 ) emarginate. Supraclypeal area (Fig. 13A, B View Figure 13 ) slightly transverse (less than 1.5 × as wide as high), sides not defined; in males without oval lateral impressions. Malar sulcus versus anterior margin of malar depression about equal in female. Frontal keels (Fig. 13A, B View Figure 13 ) absent. Face between scrobes and eye (Fig. 13A, B View Figure 13 ) smooth. Face between clypeus and eye (Fig. 13A, B View Figure 13 ) smooth. Lateral ocellus small (OOL at least twice the largest ocellar diameter). Funicular segments in female (Fig. 13A View Figure 13 ): most segments quadrate to transverse. Male scape (Fig. 13B View Figure 13 ) slightly widened distally, ventral pores on more than half scape length. Mesosoma (Fig. 13C View Figure 13 ) not narrow (less than 1.4 × as long as wide). Mesoscutum sculpture (Fig. 13C View Figure 13 ) without smooth median tubercle; interspaces smaller than punctures, smooth. Scutellum hind margin (Fig. 13C View Figure 13 ) without a double carina, with small hardly bilobed protruding projection. Prepectus (Fig. 13D View Figure 13 ) wide, dorsal margin longer than pronotal collar; well defined anteriorly (i.e. suture with pronotum very distinct); all sides with punctures (anterior side sometimes with much smaller punctures or partly interrupted), leaving a large smooth central area.

Material examined.

France: 2♀, " Ventoux: Col de Perrache (4) 8. 8. 1988 ", "fts descr. of chlorinus Fö.”, "Perilampus Perilampus Wlk. ♀, Bouček det. 1989" (NHMUK) ; 1♂, " Mont Ventoux, Col de Perrache (2) 22. 7. 1978 ", "Perilampus Perilampus Wlk. ♂, Bouček det. 2001" (NHMUK). Romania : 1♀, 1♂, " Iași county, Bârnova forest, Poiana Ciobanului , 21.vi.2007, L. Fusu & O. Popovici leg." (MICO) ; 1♀, " Iași county, Bârnova forest, Poiana cu Schit Nat. Res. , 28.vi.2017, ent. net, Leg. M.-D. Mitroiu" (MICO) .

Hosts.

Associated with Lasiocampidae ( Lepidoptera ); hyperparasitoid of Braconidae ( Hymenoptera ).

Distribution.

Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, France, Germany, Hungary, North Macedonia, Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia.

Comments.

Perilampus nitens is part of the group of species without any frontal keels. It most closely resembles P. ruschkai (Fig. 17 View Figure 17 ) and can be separated from it mainly by the more strongly punctuate gena and frons between eye and scrobes (Fig. 13A, B View Figure 13 ), the supraclypeal area poorly defined (Fig. 13A, B View Figure 13 ), and the body entirely blue (Fig. 13 View Figure 13 ). According to Bouček (see Material examined), P. chlorinus Förster, 1859 could be the same as P. nitens ; however, these have not been formally synonymized, as the type of P. chlorinus is probably lost.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Perilampidae

Genus

Perilampus

Loc

Perilampus nitens Walker, 1834

Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan & Koutsoukos, Evangelos 2023
2023
Loc

Perilampus selectus

Walker 1874
1874
Loc

Perilampus nitens

Walker 1834
1834
Loc

Perilampus antennatus

Walker 1834
1834