Ufo koreanus Melika, Pujade-Villar & Choi

Melika, George, Tang, Chang-Ti, Yang, Man-Miao, Bihari, Péter, Bozsó, Miklós & Pénzes, Zsolt, 2012, New species of cynipid inquilines of the genus Ufo Melika & Pujade-Villar, 2005 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini), Zootaxa 3478, pp. 143-163 : 156

Ufo koreanus Melika, Pujade-Villar & Choi

Figs 40–47

Diagnosis. For Ufo koreanus three female paratypes were designated originally: two with the same labels as the holotype, and one female labelled: KOREA, NIAST, 10. Oct. 1997. YPT. J. Y. Choi (Melika et al. 2007). Detail examination of U. koreanus holotype and paratypes showed that the one female paratype labelled “ KOREA, NIAST, 10. Oct. 1997. YPT. J. Y.Choi” belongs to the herein newly described species, Ufo cerroneuroteri .

Females emerged at the beginning of October from leaf spangle galls of Cerroneuroterus nawai (Ashmead) , on Q. variabilis (Melika et al. 2007) . Ufo koreanus differs from U. cerroneuroteri by incomplete notauli, extending the most to the half length of the mesoscutum; the median mesoscutal line absent and the 2nd metasomal tergite not incised posterodorsally ( Fig. 44 ). Also U. koreanus differs from U. nipponicus by the head ovate in anterior view ( Fig. 40 )(trapezoid in U. nipponicus , Fig. 18 ) and F 1 in the female antenna 1.4´longer than the pedicel ( Fig. 42 ) (2.0´in U. nipponicus , Fig. 22 ).

Distribution. Known from Republic of Korea, Suwon, Mt. Yeo Gi (Melika et al. 2007).

Figures

FIGURES 40 – 47. Ufo koreanus Melika, Pujade-Villar & Choi, female: 40 – 41, head: 40, anterior view, 41, dorsal view. 42, antenna. 43, mesosoma, lateral view, 44, mesoscutum, dorsal view, 45, mesoscutellum, dorsal view, 46, mesosoma, ventral view, 47, metasoma, lateral view.

FIGURES 18 – 22. Ufo nipponicus, new species, female: 18 – 21, head: 18, anterior view, 19, dorsal view, 20, posterior view. 21, lateral view. 22, antenna.