Pleurotroppopsis javana ( Bouček, 1976 )

Cao, Huan-Xi, Dale-Skey, Natalie, Burwell, Chris J. & Zhu, Chao-Dong, 2022, Review of the genus Pleurotroppopsis Girault (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) with interspecific phylogenetic relationships based on morphological characters, Zootaxa 5190 (4), pp. 451-484 : 467

Pleurotroppopsis javana ( Bouček, 1976)

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Cotterellia javana Bouček, 1976: 679 . Holotype ♀, NHMUK (B.M. TYPE HYM. 5.2398, examined).

Pleurotroppopsis javana ( Bouček, 1976) , Bouček, 1988: 711.

Diagnosis. FEMALE. Antenna with base of scape white, otherwise brown. Fore wing infuscate except apex hyaline, with speculum reduced ( Fig. 9a ). Frontovertex with a median groove extending from anterior ocellus to frontal carina. Face between frontal carina and toruli hardly depressed; upper margin of scrobes weakly incised in the middle, and frontal carina slightly sinuate and raised. Ocelli in a right-angled triangle. MLM with engraved reticulation and without a median groove. Scutellum with sublateral and posterior grooves formed by narrow punctures; with a row of punctures outside sublateral grooves, resulting in a narrow carina between this row of punctures and sublateral grooves ( Fig. 9b ). Axilla with one seta in anterior metallic part and setose in posterior dull part ( Fig. 9b ). Dorsellum with deep foveae and a longitudinal median carina ( Fig. 9b ). Propodeum with submedian areas with fine reticulation and some irregular transverse carinae; spiracular areas setose posteriorly and with irregular sculpture ( Fig. 9b ). Metafemur with indistinct teeth along ventral margin.

MALE. Unknown.

Material examined. Type material. Holotype ♀, Java, Buitenzorg , II.1932, coll. T. H C Taylor, ex. Hispine “E” in bamboo, with an identification label “ HOLOTYPE ♀, Cotterellia javana sp. N., det. Z. Bouček, 1975” ( NHMUK, B.M. TYPE HYM. 5.2398); paratype ♀, same data as holotype ( NHMUK).

Other material examined. 1♀, India: Tamil N. Jawad Pills, 14.XII.1978, JAP-IND Co TR ( HUMJ) .

Biology. The type specimens were reared from an unidentified hispine leaf-miner ( Coleoptera : Chrysomelidae : Hispinae ) on bamboo ( Bouček 1976).

Distribution. India (new distribution record); Indonesia: Java.

Remarks. See remarks under P. dactylispae .

Figures

FIGURE 9. Pleurotroppopsis javana (Bouček), holotype female: a, habitus in dorsal view; b, mesosoma in dorsal view; c, labels. Scale bar: 0.5 mm. ©The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London, and made available under Creative Commons License 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)