Tetrastichus calcarius, Hansson & Schmidt, 2020

Hansson, Christer & Schmidt, Stefan, 2020, A revision of European species of the genus Tetrastichus Haliday (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) using integrative taxonomy, Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 59177-59177 : 59177

Tetrastichus calcarius sp. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/API_Public/specimen?ids=BC-ZSM-HYM-22526-G03; catalogNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-22526-G03 ; recordNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-22526-G03; recordedBy: S. Schmidt; individualID: BC-ZSM-HYM-22526-G03; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Tetrastichuscalcarius; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Eulophidae; genus: Tetrastichinae; taxonRemarks: Holotype deposited in ZSM; Location: country: Sweden; decimalLatitude: 56.609; decimalLongitude: 16.508; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; institutionCode: ZSM; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/API_Public/specimen?ids=BC-ZSM-HYM-20721-B05; catalogNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-20721-B05 ; recordNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-20721-B05; recordedBy: C. Hansson; individualID: BC-ZSM-HYM-20721-B05; individualCount: 1; sex: F; lifeStage: Adult; associatedMedia: http://www.boldsystems.org/pics/BCHYM/BC-ZSM-HYM-20721-B05+1398631454.jpg; Taxon: scientificName: Tetrastichuscalcarius; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Eulophidae; genus: Tetrastichus; Location: country: Sweden; locality: Kalkstad ; decimalLatitude: 56.617; decimalLongitude: 16.533; Identification: identifiedBy: Christer Hansson; identificationRemarks: CH08560

Description

FEMALE holotype (Fig. 40). Body length 1.7 mm. Head. Width/length in dorsal view 2.3, width/length in frontal view 1.3, POL/OOL 1.5, widths head/mesosoma 1.1, mouth width/malar space 1.0, malar space/eye height 0.7. Antenna. Scape length/eye height 0.9, pedicel+flagellum length/mesosoma width 1.4, length/width F1, F2, F3 1.8, 1.6, 1.6, clava length/width 3.8, lengths pedicel/F1 0.8, lengths F1/F2 1.0, F1/F3 1.0, lengths F1, F2, F3/clava 0.4, 0.4, 0.4, widths F1/pedicel (dorsal view) 1.1, lengths antennal spicule/C3 0.2. Mesosoma. Length/width 1.4, mesoscutal mid-lobe length/width (width measured in anterior part) 1.0, mid-lobe with a complete median groove, with four adnotaular setae on each side, lengths mesoscutum/mesoscutellum (measured medially) 1.3, mesoscutellum length/width 0.9, length/width of enclosed space between submedian grooves 3.1, distance between SMG/distance between SMG and SLG 1.0, lengths dorsellum/propodeum 0.8, propodeum with strong reticulation, propodeal callus with three setae. Fore wing. Costal cell length/width 10.0, lengths costal cell/marginal vein 1.1, lengths marginal/stigmal veins 2.6. Gaster. Ovate, length/width 1.6, lengths gaster/head+mesosoma 0.9, Gt7 length/width 0.5, length of longest cercal seta/next longest seta 1.8, longest cercal seta almost straight, ovipositor sheaths not reaching apex of Gt7.

Colour. Body with weak metallic blue-green tinges, entire antenna dark brown, tegulae dark brown, wings hyaline with veins yellowish-white, coxae and trochanters dark brown, femora concolorous with body, fore tibia yellowish-brown, mid and hind tibiae dark brown, tarsi brownish.

MALE. Unknown.

Diagnosis

Body weakly metallic; scape, mid and hind tibiae dark brown.

Distribution

Sweden.

Ecology

Host

Unknown.

Notes

Holotype deposited in ZSM. A second specimen of the species from the same locality is severely damaged and, therefore, excluded as a paratype.