Pulchrisolia asantesana van Noort & Lahey, 2019

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 asantesana van Noort & Lahey sp. nov.

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Description.

Female body length: 0.88-0.96 mm (n = 10). Male body length: 0.74-0.88 mm (n = 10). Coloration of head, female: concolorous with mesosoma. Shape of dorsal interantennal process: apically bilobed. Length of interantennal process: longer than radicle. Coloration of clavomeres: darker than funicle. Hyperoccipital carina: 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: present. Parapsidial line: absent. Median mesoscutal line: absent. Notaulus: absent. Color 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: absent. Foamy structures on anterior metapleuron: absent. Shape of fore wing: oblong. Infuscate banding of fore wing: present. Costal margin of hind wing: darkly sclerotized posterior to hamuli. Marginal cilia of female fore wing: absent.

Diagnosis.

The straight frontal ledge and short fore wings with dense microtrichia readily separate this species from other Pulchrisolia .

Etymology.

Named after the game reserve where the holotype was collected. Asante Sana is Swahili for "thank you very much". The epithet is treated as a noun in apposition.

Link to distribution map.

[http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=467907]

Material examined.

Holotype, female: SOUTH AFRICA: Eastern Cape Prov., Zuurkloof, Camdeboo Escarpment Thicket / tall grass stands / scattered oubos / shrubs, T2S3d, 1621m, 32°16.011'S, 25°00.244'E, Asante Sana Game Reserve, 23.X.2010, pitfall trap, J. Midgley, SAM-HYM-P046628a (deposited in SAMC). Paratypes: SOUTH AFRICA: 16 females, 23 males, SAM-HYM-P037363, P038988, P046626, P046627, P046628b-d; P046629, P046630, P046631, P046632, P046633, P046634, P046635, P046636, P046637, P046638, P046639, P046640, P046641, P046642 (SAMC).

Figures

Figures 12 - 16. Pulchrisolia asantesana, female holotype (SAM-HYM-P 046628) 12 head, mesosoma, T 1, T 2, dorsal view 13 head, mesosoma, S 1, lateral view 14 head, anterior view 15 male paratype (SAM-HYM-P 046628), head, mesosoma, metasoma, dorsal view 16 head, anterior view. Scale bars in millimeters.