Habroteleia persimilis (Kozlov & Kononova)

Chen, Hua-yan, Talamas, Elijah J., Masner, Lubomir & Johnson, Norman F., 2018, Revision of the world species of the genus Habroteleia Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae, Scelioninae), ZooKeys 730, pp. 85-120 : 91-94

Habroteleia persimilis (Kozlov & Kononova) Figures 53-58, 59-64, 89-90

Triteleia persimilis Kozlov & Kononova, 1985: 15, 17 (original description. Keyed); Kozlov and Kononova 1990: 174, 178 (description, keyed); Johnson 1992: 509 (cataloged, type information); Kononova 1995: 69 (keyed); Kononova and Petrov 2000: 28 (keyed).

Habroteleia persimilis (Kozlov & Kononova): Kononova and Kozlov 2008: 255 (description, generic transfer).

Triteleia dagavia Kozlov & Lê, 1995: 441, 445 (original description, keyed); Kozlov and Lê 1996: 9, 14 (described as new, keyed); Lê 2000: 76, 341 (description, keyed, type information), syn. n.

http://zoobank.org/451262B6-B23F-487F-A870-AAB91CB1E35A

http://bioguid.osu.edu/xbiod_concepts/28154

Habroteleia dagavia (Kozlov & Lê): Talamas and Pham 2017: 227 (type information, generic transfer).

Description.

Body length of female: 4.75-5.18 mm (n=20). Body length of male: 4.25-4.74 mm (n=20). Length of A3 in male: longer than A2. Punctation of frons above antennal scrobe: dense. Sculpture of antennal scrobe: punctate rugose to smooth. Central keel: present. Sculpture of ventrolateral frons: punctate rugose. Occipital carina: complete. Sculpture of posterior vertex: punctate rugose. Sculpture of gena: punctate rugose. Sculpture of occiput: densely finely punctate.

Color of mesosoma: black. Sculpture of dorsal pronotal area: punctate rugose. Sculpture of lateral pronotal area: smooth anteriorly, foveate posteriorly. Sculpture of netrion: coarsely striate. Setae of netrion: sparse throughout. Sculpture of notaulus: contiguously punctate. Sculpture of mesoscutal midlobe: largely densely punctate, with a medial furrow and smooth areas laterally. Sculpture of lateral lobe of mesoscutum: sparsely punctate. Sculpture of lateral propodeal area: rugose. Setation of mesoscutellum: dense. Sculpture of mesoscutellum: coarsely punctate rugose. Median propodeal projection: long. Mesopleural carina: distinct. Sculpture of mesepisternum anteroventral to mesopleural depression: punctate rugose. Sculpture of dorsal metapleural area: smooth. Sculpture of ventral metapleural area: rugose. Setation of ventral metapleural area: dense. Color of legs: orange-yellow. Sculpture of hind coxa: densely punctate.

Color of metasoma: black. T1 horn in female: present. Sculpture of posterior margin of T1 in female: largely longitudinally striate with horn punctate rugose. Transverse sulcus on T2: present. Sculpture of T2-T5: densely longitudinally striate, with fine punctures in interstices. Sculpture of T6 in female: densely punctate. Length of T6 in female: distinctly longer than wide. Apex of T6 in female: round. Sculpture of S2: densely longitudinally striate, punctate in interstices. Sculpture of T1 in male: densely longitudinally striate, punctate rugulose in interstices. Male T8 apical spine: absent.

Diagnosis.

This species is most similar to H. flavipes but can be distinguished by its long median propodeal projection and densely punctate T6 in female.

Link to distribution map.

[http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=243852]

Material examined.

Holotype, female, T. persimilis : JAPAN: Aichi Pref., Honshu Isl., Inuyama City, 6.X.1981, E. Sugonyaev, ZIN 0014 (deposited in ZIN). Holotype of Triteleia dagavia Kozlov & Lê, female: VIETNAM: Quang Nam Prov., Lang Stream, forest, Dak Pring, 31.X.1979, X. H. Lê, IEBR 0143 (deposited in IEBR). Other material: (48 females, 43 males) CHINA: 6 females, 10 males, SCAU 2010100315-2010100317, 2010100319-2010100320, 2010100322, 2010100330, 2010100335, 2010100337-2010100340, 2010100347, 2010100349, 2010100352-2010100353 (SCAU). JAPAN: 40 females, 29 males, OSUC 687863, 687865-687909, 687914-687936 (CNCI). SOUTH KOREA: 2 females, 4 males, OSUC 687937-687938, 687940-687943 (CNCI).

Comments.

Habroteleia persimilis , like H. flavipes , has a distribution that spans a large latitudinal range, extending from central Vietnam into the Palearctic region in Japan and South Korea.