Pulchrisolia maculata Szabo, 1959

Lahey, Zachary, van Noort, Simon, Polaszek, Andrew, Masner, Lubomir & Johnson, Norman F., 2019, Revision of the Afrotropical genus Pulchrisolia Szabo (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae, Sceliotrachelinae), Journal of Hymenoptera Research 73, pp. 39-71 : 39

Pulchrisolia maculata Szabo

Figures 28-31

Pulchrisolia maculata Szabó, 1959: 396 (original description); Vlug 1995: 73 (cataloged, type information).

Sceliotrachelus maculatus ( Szabó): Masner 1964: 11 (generic transfer); Kozlov 1972: 134 (keyed).

Description.

Female body length: 1.15-1.16 mm (n = 2). Coloration of head, female: concolorous with mesosoma. Shape of dorsal interantennal process: apically bilobed. Length of interantennal process: longer than radicle. Hyperoccipital carina: indicated as lateral tubercles; raised between lateral ocelli; sunken between lateral ocelli. Frontal ledge: present. Preocellar depressions: absent. Setation of pronotal cervical sulcus: absent. Setation of cervical pronotal area: present. Sculpture of pronotal shoulders: reticulate. Sculpture of anterior margin of pronotal shoulders: carinate. Posterolateral margin of pronotal shoulders: sharply angled. Posterior margin of pronotal shoulders: rounded. Antero-admedian line: absent. Anterior admedian depression or pit: absent. Parapsidial line: absent. Median mesoscutal line: absent. Notaulus: absent. Coloration of mesoscutum: concolorous with pronotum. Shape of mesoscutum in lateral view: flat to slightly convex. Scupture of mesoscutum: reticulate. Sculpture of mesoscutellum: absent. Setation of anterodorsal metapleuron: present. Length of setation of anterodorsal metapleuron: long. Setation of anteroventral metapleuron: present. Length of setation of anteroventral metapleuron: short. Foamy structures on anterior metapleuron: absent. Shape of fore wing: elliptical. Infuscate banding of fore wing: present. Costal margin of hind wing: darkly sclerotized posterior to hamuli. Marginal cilia of female fore wing: present.

Diagnosis.

Pulchrisolia maculata is identifiable by the absence of an antero-admedian depression, posterolateral corners of the pronotal shoulders that are remote from the tegula, and the anteroventral margin of the metapleuron that is glabrous or sparsely setose.

Link to distribution map.

[http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=12362]

Material examined.

Holotype, female: TANZANIA: Mara Reg., Shirati, V-1909, Katona, Hym. Typ. No. 9583 Mus. Budapest (deposited in HNHM). Other material: (6 females) KENYA: 3 females, OSUC 697903, 697951 (OSUC); USNMENT01448452 (USNM). TANZANIA: 3 females, HYM-P019793, P020252, P020261 (SAMC).

Comments.

The holotype female is in relatively good condition despite being covered in debris, a result of the method used by Szabó to mount and examine specimens. Additional material collected in Kenya and Tanzania were found to be conspecific with P. maculata .

Figures

Figures 28 - 31. Pulchrisolia maculata 28 female holotype (HNHM 152909), head, mesosoma, metasoma, dorsal view 29 female holotype (HNHM 152909), head, anterior view 30 female (SAM-HYM-P 020261), head, anterior view 31 female (SAM-HYM-P 020261), head, mesosoma, metasoma, dorsal view. Scale bars in millimeters.