Bocchus pratti, Guglielmino & Olmi & Capradossi & Speranza, 2020

Guglielmino, Adalgisa, Olmi, Massimo, Capradossi, Leonardo & Speranza, Stefano, 2020, Discovery of a new Nearctic species of Bocchus (Hymenoptera: Dryinidae), Zootaxa 4763 (3), pp. 435-438 : 436

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4763.3.8

publication LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4211AFC4-D473-48E2-879F-852FEDA278CF

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3805297

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D4151E71-857A-BD2F-FF0B-20901BF7FC47

treatment provided by

Carolina

scientific name

Bocchus pratti
status

sp. nov.

Bocchus pratti sp. nov.

( Figs 1–5 View FIGURES 1–4 View FIGURE 5 )

Type material. Holotype: ♂: USA: California, Inyo Co., China Lake , Naval Weapons Center , Mt Spring Canyon, 35°56.91’N 117°33.40’W, 1220 m, 23.VII–17.IX.2014, Malaise trap near creek with Salix, M.E. Irwin & G. Pratt leg. ( INHS). GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. Male of Bocchus with incomplete notauli ( Fig. 1 View FIGURES 1–4 ); forewing hyaline, without dark transverse bands ( Fig. 1 View FIGURES 1–4 ); propodeal declivity without longitudinal keels ( Fig. 1 View FIGURES 1–4 ).

Description of male holotype. Fully winged ( Figs 1, 2 View FIGURES 1–4 ); length 2.4 mm. Head black, except mandible testaceous with apex darkened; antenna testaceous; mesosoma black; metasoma ( Fig. 4 View FIGURES 1–4 ) dark brown; legs testaceous-brown, except tarsi and articulations testaceous. Antenna filiform; antennomeres in following proportions: 11:5:7:7:6:6:6:6:5:6. Head ( Fig. 3 View FIGURES 1–4 ) convex, dull, granulate, except some irregular keels and areolae on vertex, on sides and behind lateral ocelli; frontal line complete; occipital carina complete; POL = 5; OL = 3; OOL = 6; OPL = 3; TL = 5. Mesoscutum ( Fig. 1 View FIGURES 1–4 ) shiny, punctate, unsculptured among punctures. Notauli incomplete, reaching about 0.5 × length of mesoscutum. Mesoscutellum shiny, unsculptured. Metanotum rugose. Metapectal-propodeal complex dull, reticulate rugose; propodeal declivity reticulate rugose, without longitudinal keels ( Fig. 1 View FIGURES 1–4 ). Forewing hyaline, without dark transverse bands; 2r-rs&Rs vein with distal part shorter than proximal part (2:5). Genitalia with volsella much shorter than paramere ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 ). Tibial spurs 1/1/2.

Female. Unknown.

Hosts. Unknown.

Etymology. The new species is named after one of the two collectors, Dr. Gordon F. Pratt.

INHS

Illinois Natural History Survey

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Dryinidae

Genus

Bocchus

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