Boccacciomymar (Prosto) maria S. Triapitsyn

TRIAPITSYN, SERGUEI V. & BEREZOVSKIY, VLADIMIR V., 2007, Review of the Oriental and Australasian species of Acmopolynema, with taxonomic notes on Palaeoneura and Xenopolynema stat. rev. and description of a new genus (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae), Zootaxa 1455 (1), pp. 1-68 : 55-56

Boccacciomymar (Prosto) maria S. Triapitsyn & Berezovskiy, sp. n.

( Figs 104–106 )

Type material

Holotype female (on slide, QMBA): AUSTRALIA, New South Wales, Kosciuszko National Park, road to Tantangara Reservoir (1.6 km N of Hwy 18), 35°54.9'S, 148°37.3'E, 26–28.XI.2002, J. George, J. Munro, A. Owen, J. Pinto, G. Platner, yellow pan traps (UCR PEET #02-0306).

Paratypes: AUSTRALIA, New South Wales, Kosciuszko National Park, road to Tantangara Reservoir : 1.6 km N of Hwy 18, 35°54.9'S, 148°37.3'E, 26–28.XI.2002, J. George, J. Munro, A. Owen, J. Pinto, G. Platner, yellow pan traps [2 females and 3 males on slides, UCRC; 15 females and 25 males on points: 1 female, 1 male each in ANIC, CNCI, QMBA, USNM, remaining in UCRC]; ca. 18 km N of Hwy 18, 35°52.4'S, 148°37.5'E, 26–28.XI.2002, J. George, J. Munro, A. Owen, J. Pinto, G. Platner, yellow pan traps, bog [1 female on slide and 1 female, 1 male on points, UCRC] .

Description

FEMALE (holotype and paratypes). Length 660–760. Head and mesosoma dark brown; metasoma, F2– F6 and clava brown; scape, pedicel and F1 light brown; legs light brown to brown.

Vertex reticulate, with short, weak setae. Face with fine sculpture. Antenna ( Fig. 104 ) a little shorter than body. Scape with weak cross-ridges, about 3 x as long as wide; pedicel as long as F1; F2 the longest funicle segment; F3 shorter than F2, F4 shorter than F3 or F5, F6 slightly shorter than F5; F5 and F6 each with 1 longitudinal sensillum, slightly wider than preceding funicle segments, clava slightly longer than combined length of F5 and F6, with 8 longitudinal sensilla.

Pronotum and mesoscutum with reticulate sculpture; axilla, scutellum and metanotum with finer but conspicuous, longitudinal sculpture (cells long). Pronotal collar with 2 rows of short setae on each lobe. Mesoscutum much wider than long, a little shorter than scutellum. Axillar seta not too strong. Scutellum with row of frenal foveae. Propodeum with submedial carinae short.

Forewing ( Fig. 105 ) 4.1–4.5 x as long as wide, with 2 or 3 rows of setae behind venation; longest marginal cilia 3/5–7/10 forewing width; blade slightly infumate. Hind wing 26–28 x as long as wide.

Metasoma longer than mesosoma. Petiole about 2 x as long as wide. Ovipositor 4/5–9/10 length of gaster ( Fig. 106 ), slightly exserted beyond apex of gaster (by 1/13 of its total length in the holotype); ovipositor length: metatibia length 1.5–1.6:1.

Measurements (holotype): Mesosoma: 291; mesoscutum: 94; scutellum: 100; petiole: 60; gaster: 433; ovipositor: 402. Antenna: scape (excluding radicle): 91; pedicel: 50; F1: 50; F2: 76; F3: 67; F4: 56; F5: 63; F6: 61; clava: 133. Forewing: 781/192; longest marginal cilia: 118. Hind wing: 580/21. Legs (given as coxa, femur, tibia, tarsus): fore: 67, 163, 158, 212; middle: 64, 166, 236, 227; hind: 69, 182, 255, 249.

MALE (paratypes). Length 620–760. Similar to female except for normal sexually dimorphic features, such as antenna and genitalia. Appendages darker than in female: antenna brown, legs brown to dark brown.

Diagnosis

This new species differs from B. (P.) victoria , to which it is most similar, in having a shorter F1 of the female antenna, which is about as long as pedicel (notably longer than pedicel in B. (P.) victoria ). From the two newly described New Zealand species of Boccacciomymar (Prosto) , B. (P.) pobeda and B. (P.) tak , B. (P.) maria differs by having a narrower petiole in dorsal view and a more pronounced reticulate sculpture on the mesonotum.

Etymology

The specific name (a noun in apposition) is a common feminine name; this species is named so for no particular reason other that it makes a good combination with the subgeneric name (" Prosto Maria" was a popular soap opera serial shown on Russian television in the 1990s).

Figures

FIGURES 104–106. Boccacciomymar (Prosto) maria (female, holotype). 104. Antenna. 105. Forewing. 106. Metasoma (lateral view).