Tanyxiphium breviovipositor Huber

Huber, John T., 2015, World reclassification of the Gonatocerus group of genera (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae), Zootaxa 3967 (1), pp. 1-184 : 59

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3967.1.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6112351

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scientific name

Tanyxiphium breviovipositor Huber
status

sp. nov.

Tanyxiphium breviovipositor Huber , sp. n.

( Figs 249–257 View FIGURES 249 – 252 View FIGURES 253, 254 View FIGURES 255 – 257 , 272, 275 View FIGURES 271 – 276 )

Type material. Holotype ♀ ( IAVH), on slide ( Fig. 250 View FIGURES 249 – 252 ) labelled: 1. “ Colombia: Vichada, PNN Tuparro, Centro Administrativo, 5°21'N 67°51'W 100m, 8–28.viii.2000, W. Villalba, MT (M.514)”. 2. “ Tanyxiphium breviovipositor Huber Holotype ♀ dorsal”.

Paratypes. 28 ♀, 1 ♂. COLOMBIA. Vichada. Same data as holotype (15 ♀, 1 ♂, CNC, IAVH, UCRC); Same data as holotype but 29.vi–15.vii, M.273 (2 ♀, IAVH), Cerro Tomás, 140m, 29.vi–15.vii, M. 269 (2 ♀, IAVH) and 22.v–3.vi.2001, M1789, I. Gil (2 ♀, CNC), Rio Tomo, 250m [sic], 1–12.v.2001, MT, M 1797 (1 ♀, IAVH). Amazonas. PNN Amacayacu, Matamata, 3°23'S 70°06'W, 150m, 12–19.vii.2000, A. Parente, MT, M.688 (2 ♀, IAVH), 30.x–11.xi.2000 (2 ♀, IAVH, UCRC), and 31.vii–7.viii.2000, M686 (1 ♀, IVAH), San Martin, 12– 16.vi.2000, B. Amado, MT M697 (1 ♀, IAVH).

Diagnosis. Tanyxiphium breviovipositor differs from the three other described Tanyxiphium species by the short ovipositor sheaths that are only slightly exserted beyond the gaster apex. The other described species have much longer, distinctly exserted ovipositor sheaths.

Description. FEMALE. Body length 691–819 (n=10). Colour. Antenna except scape and pedicel laterally and ventrally, head and mesosoma except (usually) a streak along outside of notauli and inside of axilla and axillula, and ovipositor plates brown. Metasoma lighter, mottled with brown dorsally as follows: gt2–gt6 laterally and medially (lighter brown), these areas usually (not on gt5 and gt6) separated by lighter (white) areas sublaterally along anterior margin. Scape and pedicel except dorsally, legs except femora, and sublateral streak on mesosoma yellowish or at least lighter in colour. Head. Head width 282–305 (n=2). Antenna. Funicle segments fl7 and fl8 each with 2 mps ( Fig. 249 View FIGURES 249 – 252 ). Length/width measurements (n=3, but 2 for scape and pedicel): scape 197–216/31–34, pedicel 60–63/32–33, fl 1 30–35 /17–18, fl2 32–33/13–19, fl3 36–38/15–18, fl4 34–36/15–18, fl5 38–44/16–18, fl6 38– 41/18–20, fl7 48–55/22–23, fl8 51–56/28–30, clava 168–194–42–47. Mesosoma. As in generic description ( Fig. 252 View FIGURES 249 – 252 ). Wings. Fore wing ( Fig. 251 View FIGURES 249 – 252 ) length (n=3) 755–808, width 210–235, length/width 3.44–3.60, longest marginal setae 83–90. Hind wing length (n=3) 614–702, width 19–21, longest marginal setae 88–92. Metasoma. Gaster ( Fig. 253 View FIGURES 253, 254 ) at most 2.5× as long as wide. Ovipositor sheath ( Fig. 254 View FIGURES 253, 254 ) length (n=3) 339–451, 1.21–1.25× metatibia length (279, n=2), not or only slightly exserted beyond apex of gaster.

MALE. Body length ~ 824 (n=1, from slide mount, dissected). Colour. Body except for longitudinal white submedian bands on pronotum more uniformly brown than in female. Antenna. Measurements (n=1) ( Fig. 256 View FIGURES 255 – 257 ): scape ~ 135, pedicel 56, fl1 50, fl2 53, fl3 62, fl4 60, fl5 64, fl6 66, fl7 66, fl8 70, fl9 70, fl10 68, fl11 ~ 81; total flagellar length ~ 710; fl6 length/width 3.23, with about 7 mps. Metasoma. Genitalia as in generic description ( Fig. 257 View FIGURES 255 – 257 ).

Etymology. From brevis, Latin for short, and ovipositor, referring to the relatively short ovipositor of this species.

IAVH

Instituto de Ivestigacion de los Recursos Biologicos Alexander von Humboldt

CNC

Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes

UCRC

University of California, Riverside

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Mymaridae

Genus

Tanyxiphium

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