Pulchrisolia diehoekensis 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 diehoekensis van Noort & Lahey sp. nov.

Figures 17-21

Description.

Female body length: 1.04 mm (n = 1). Male body length: 0.80-1.18 mm (n = 4). Coloration of head, female: darker than mesosoma. Shape of dorsal interantennal process: apically bilobed. Length of interantennal process: longer than radicle. Coloration of clavomeres: concolorous with funicle. Hyperoccipital carina: raised 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. Color of mesoscutum: concolorous with pronotum. Shape of mesoscutum in lateral view: flat to slightly convex. Scupture of mesoscutum: mostly smooth. 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.

Separated from other species by the absence of an antero-admedian depression, posterolateral corners of the pronotal shoulders that are nearly articulate with the tegula, deep scutoscutellar sulcus, and coloration of the female.

Etymology.

Named after the farm where the type series was collected. Die Hoek is Afrikaans for "the corner". The epithet is treated as a noun in apposition.

Link to distribution map.

[http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=467906]

Material examined.

Holotype, female: SOUTH AFRICA: Eastern Cape Prov., Winterberg, Amathole Mistbelt Grassland, WTB09-GRA1-Y04, 1879m, 32°21.260'S, 26°23.001'E, The Hoek Farm, 9.IV-26.VII.2010, yellow pan trap, S. van Noort, SAM-HYM-P038987 (deposited in SAMC). Paratypes: SOUTH AFRICA: 4 males, SAM-HYM-P038989, P038990 (SAMC).

Figures

Figures 17 - 21. Pulchrisolia diehoekensis, female holotype (SAM-HYM-P 038987) 17 head, mesosoma, T 1, T 2, dorsal view 18 head, mesosoma, S 1, lateral view 19 head, anterior view 20 male paratype (SAM-HYM-P 038989), head, mesosoma, metasoma, dorsal view 21 head, anterior view. Scale bars in millimeters.