Platyplectrus setulosus, Zhu & Huang, 2004

Zhu, C. D. & Huang, D. W., 2004, A study of Platyplectrus Ferrière (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) in mainland China, Journal of Natural History 38 (17), pp. 2183-2209 : 2205

P. setulosus sp. nov.

( figures 25–36, 63, 64)

Diagnosis. Head with dark parts not green; occiput rounded off; post-occipital carina absent. Pedicel yellow; clava around 1.2–1.6 times as long as broad. Funicular segments all longer than broad. Mesosoma completely dark. Pronotum rounded into neck, without distinct transverse carina anteriorly. Axillae with setae. Mid lobe of mesoscutum with engraved reticulations, covered with setae all over the dorsum. Scutellum smooth. Scutellum with sublateral grooves narrow. Propodeal median carina not raised, concolorous to other parts of the propodeum. Petiole not apparent. Hind femora yellow.

Description. Head completely black; occiput rounded off; post-occipital carina absent. Scape yellow; pedicel yellow; flagellum concolorous. Funicular segments all longer than broad, with segments not becoming shorter and broadened towards clava simultaneously, with F4 samely separated from F3 and clava, and distinctly four-segmented; F1 1.7–4 times as long as broad. Clava medially same breadth as funicle, acute, around 1.2–1.6 times as long as broad.

Mesosoma completely black. Pronotum rounded into neck, without distinct transverse carina anteriorly. Mid lobe of mesoscutum with engraved reticulations, covered with setae all over the dorsum, without longitudinal median carina. Axillae smooth, with more than two setae. Scutellum without longitudinal median carina, smooth, with sublateral grooves narrow, united at middle point posteriorly. The area lateral to the sublateral grooves smooth. Dorsellum smooth, without tooth-like structure directing posteriorly. Propodeum completely smooth, with median carina concolorous to other parts of the propodeum, not raised, Y-shaped, without short carinae attached. Petiole not apparent.

Hind coxae completely dark. Hind femora and hind tibiae yellow. Hind tibial with one spur more than 1.5 times length of the first tarsomere. Hind tarsi with the first segment at least as long as the second, yellow.

Material examined. Holotype ”, Fujian, Fuzhou , 9 May 1956, ex. larva of Limacodidae (Zhao Xiu-fu) . Paratypes 10””, same data as holotype.

Distribution. China: Fujian.