Conidarnes sumatranae Farache & Rasplus

Farache, Fernando Henrique Antoniolli & Rasplus, Jean-Yves, 2015, Conidarnes, a new oriental genus of Sycophaginae (Hymenoptera, Agaonidae) associated with Ficus section Conosycea (Moraceae), ZooKeys 539, pp. 119-145 : 134-135

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Agaonidae

Conidarnes sumatranae Farache & Rasplus sp. n. Figs 14, 15

Holotype.

♀: INDONESIA: Sulawesi: Pattunuang, -5.059° 119.718°, 180m, 27.VIII.2007, Rasplus J.Y., ex Ficus sumatrana , n° JRAS02085_0202 (CBGP).

Paratypes. 1♂: same locality and information as holotype, n°JRAS02085_0201 (CBGP).

Diagnosis.

Antennae inserted near the middle line of compound eyes. Funicular segments mostly as long as wide or slightly longer than wide. Mesoscutum and mesoscutellum sculpture reticulate. Propodeum with a reticulate median line, slightly striate, and thicker near anterior margin. Length of the ovipositor sheaths 0.4 × body length.

Description.

Female. Size and colour. Body length 1.9 mm. Length of the ovipositor sheaths 0.8 mm. Antennae yellow. Head and mesosoma black, with green and blue metallic lustre. Legs mostly yellow, forecoxae concolorous with body. Hindcoxae proximally concolorous with body. Metasoma dark brown.

Head. Scape 3.5 × as long as wide. Antenna with two anelli. Proximal anellus longer than distal anellus. Funicular segments mostly as long as wide or slightly longer than wide. Terminal antennomere inconspicuous. Antennae inserted near the middle line of compound eyes. Supraclypeal area higher than clypeus and narrow. Face sculpture reticulate. Scrobe without a median longitudinal sulcus.

Mesosoma. Pronotum sculpture reticulate. Pronotum elongated, nearly twice as long as high in lateral view. Mesoscutum and mesoscutellum sculpture reticulate. Notauli complete. Frenal sulcus crenulated. Metascutellum long, rectangular to trapezoidal. Anterior margin of propodeum crenulated. Propodeum sculpture reticulate. Propodeum with a reticulate median line, slightly striate, and thicker near anterior margin.

Metasoma. Length of the ovipositor sheaths 0.4 × body length.

Male. Similar to female, but slightly smaller.

Etymology.

The specific name refers to the host species.

Biology.

Reared from syconia of Ficus sumatrana Miq.

Comments.

Conidarnes sumatranae was included in several phylogenetic analyses ( Cruaud et al. 2011a; Cruaud et al. 2011b; Farache et al. 2013) and was referred as Conidarnes sp. ex Ficus sumatrana 2085_02w01a or as Undescribed genus sp. ex. Ficus sumatrana (2085_02w01a). The following molecular markers are available in GenBank for this species: COI (HM770620.1), CytB (HM770576.1), EF1a (HM770522.1), and rRNA 28S (HM770682.1), they were sequenced from the male paratype that has been subsequently dried and mounted on card.