Aspicera elisendae Ros-Farré, 2013

ROS-FARRÉ, P. & PUJADE-VILLAR, J., 2013, <strong> Revision of the genus <em> Aspicera </ em> Dahlbom, 1842 (Hym.: Figitidae: Aspicerinae) </ strong>, Zootaxa 3606 (1), pp. 1-110 : 25

Aspicera elisendae Ros-Farré n. sp.

( Figs 14a & b )

Type material: ( 1♂). HOLOTYPE female ( CNCI) 4–14/VIII/1989, Ibaraki, Tsukuba , Niaes , JAPAN, M. Sharkey leg. (Fit and MT).

Diagnosis. A. elisendae can be easily recognized because the scutellum lacks longitudinal carinae and interfoveal carina, and the scutellar spine is very long (1.25 times length of scutellar disc). Moreover, A. elisendae lacks transverse carinae on occiput; all other species without transverse carinae on occiput have a very much sharp median scutellar carina.

Description

Length. Male 3.1 mm.; female unknown.

Coloration. Head and mesosoma black except tegula light brown. Scape and pedicellum black, flagellomeres dark brown. Leg medium brown. Metasoma dark brown. Wing veins light brown.

Head. Frons coriaceous, lateral frontal carinae complete, straight. Area between lateral frontal carinae and compound eye coriaceous. Lateral facial carina following same direction than frontal edges, lateral frontal carinae and lateral facial carina are continuous. Gena in lateral view rounded, not expanded, coriaceous, with very weak transverse carinae. Vertex not incised, coriaceous, rugose. Ocelli weakly prominent. Occiput coriaceous with incomplete and weak transverse carinae basally and rugose carinae dorsally.

Antenna. Filiform. Antennal formula: 6(5): 3.5(4.5): 11(4.5): 12(4.5): 12(4): 12.5(4): 12(4.5): 12(4): 11(4): 10(4): 10(4): 10(4): 10(4): 14(4)

Mesosoma. Lateral surface of pronotum coriaceous with sinuous transverse carinae. Subpronotal plate weakly projected on dorsal half, sharply projected on ventral half, dorsal margin with few scattered setae. Scutum coriaceous, with weak transverse carinae mostly between antero-admedian lines. Lateral line complete, very sharp, antero-admedian lines sharp, prominent, reaching 1/3 scutum length, parallel; median ridge prominent. Notauli and median mesoscutal furrow with small transverse carinae, weakly coriaceous. Area between notauli prominent in lateral view. Parascutal sulcus ending near anterior end of notauli, coriaceous, with few scattered setae. Mesopleuron weakly coriaceous on anterior 1/3, smooth posteriorly. Scutellum 1.19 times scutum length, not emarginate. Scutellar foveae transversely oval, deep, with some rugose sculpture, scutellar pits shallow. Interfoveal carina absent. Scutellar disc flat, coriaceous, with some rugose sculpture, slightly sloping downwards in lateral view. Scutellar spine wide, very long, 1.25 times length of scutellar disc, coriaceous, carinate on first 1/4 and with striae on distal 3/4, slightly directed downwards in lateral view.

Wing. Wing membrane hyaline. Radial cell 2.46 times longer than wide. Wing pubescence not reduced. Marginal pubescence long, dense, starting posterior to R2. R1 long. R2 slightly curved.

Derivatio nominis. Dedicated to Elisenda Ros i Farré, sister of the first author.

Biology. Unknown.

Distribution. Eastern Palaearctic: Japan.

Figures

FIGURE 14. Aspicera elisendae Ros-Farré n. sp.: (a) head and mesosoma in lateral view, (b) mesosoma in dorsal view.