Sycophila (Tineomyza) maldesi Lotfalizadeh, 2024

Lotfalizadeh, Hossein, Delvare, Gérard, Cruaud, Astrid & Rasplus, Jean-Yves, 2024, Morphological phylogeny and revision of Sycophila and Ficomila (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea, Eurytomidae) associated with Afrotropical fig trees (Moraceae, Ficus), Zootaxa 5401 (1), pp. 1-190 : 160-163

Sycophila (Tineomyza) maldesi Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus sp. n.

( Figs 115–117 )

Type material examined. Holotype ♀: Gabon, Makokou , ex syconia of F. artocarpoides , 23.ix.1988, Maldès, J.- M. leg. Deposited in CBGP . Paratypes: same data as holotype , 1♀. Cameroon, Mt Febe , ex syconia of Ficus sur , 19.ii.1993, Gibernau M. leg. , 1♀ & 1♂.

Etymology. The species is named in honor of our colleague J.M. Maldès who sampled the holotype.

Diagnosis. Female body generally dark and large, more than 4 mm ( Fig. 115A ). All funiculars much longer than broad, fu1 distinctly longer than pedicel ( Fig. 115B ). Propodeum with a long smooth median band, reaching the posterior margin, propodeum areolate posteriorly ( Fig. 116B ). Dark brown spot of fore wing large and expanding below mv, costal cell sparsely setose ventrally ( Fig. 116E ).

Male body entirely yellowish ( Fig. 117A ). All funiculars slightly longer than wide, funicle at most slightly longer than head width ( Fig. 117C ). Fore wing entirely setose with a dark brown spot longer than wide, below mv ( Fig. 117B ).

Description of holotype ♀ ( Figs 115–116 ). Length 5.22 mm. Body partly dark brown ( Fig. 115A ), except orbital margin, antennal scrobe laterally, scape, pronotum anterolaterally, tegula, mesopleuron anterodorsally, metapleuron, fore tibia and tarsomeres, mid and hind femur and tarsomeres, hind coxae yellowish, flagellum brown; pronotum anterolaterally testaceous; fore wing with a dark brown spot below mv, reaching base of mv, lower margin of mv not obscured by dark brown spot ( Fig. 116E ); gaster bicoloured ( Fig. 116C ); body setation whitish, setation of fore wing entirely dark.

Head 1.29× as broad as high [HW 155 & HH 120] ( Fig. 115C ); in dorsal view transverse, 1.92× as broad as long [HW 265 & HL 138] ( Fig. 115D ); face coriaceous with sparse punctures, dorsally mostly coriaceous; malar space 0.42× length of eye [ms 38 & EH 90]; malar sulcus distinct, sinuous ( Fig. 115E ); lower margin of gena sinuous, edged but not carinate; antennal toruli widely separated; interantennal space not raised, carinate laterally; scrobal depression slightly sculptured ventrally, reaching the median ocellus, not carinate on margin, POL 2.4× as long as OOL [POL 48 & OOL 20] ( Fig. 115D ); temple rounded, 0.29× the eye length (in dorsal view) [TL 32 & EL 110]; setation oriented downwards on face, outwards on the punctuate frons.

Antenna. Scape reaching lower margin of median ocellus, 3.33× as long as broad [SL 100 & SW 30]; fu1 2.28× as long as broad [fu1L 57 &fu1W 25]; distinctly longer than pedicel, not bulging dorsally; funicular (fu2–fu4) with two rows of mps and 3 whorls of adpressed short setae; fu2–fu4 distinctly longer than broad; fu5 distinctly longer than broad ( Fig. 115B ).

Mesosoma weakly arched dorsally, 1.7× as long as wide (170:100), with deep sculpture ( Fig. 116A ); pronotum with coarse umbilicate punctures; mesepisternum flattened, without raised medially, with piliferous sculpture on epicnemium; mesoscutum 0.5× as long as wide (50:100), 0.6× longer than length of pronotal collar (50:85), with dense umbilicate punctures, transversely strigose anteriorly; notauli conspicuous, slightly obliterated by mesoscutum sculpture; prepectus bare, slightly sculptured; mesoscutellum distinctly umbilicate laterally and coriaceous sculpture on mesoscutellar disc; mesepimeron transversally strigose; metepimeron subtriangular and areolate with long white hairs; propodeum ( Fig. 116B ) with deep median depression, with a smooth median band, without any median carina; lateral rows of areolae long and extending at least over posterior half of propodeum; basal carina inverted V, truncate mesally, lateral branches relatively straight; distance between lateral carinae less than 0.5× width of nucha.

Fore wing with short marginal fringe, apically subtruncate (pointed anteriorly); dark brown spot below mv; basal cell bare or nearly so; mv distinctly enlarged, normally broadened, in lower margin straight, longer than pmv; stv not curved; pmv distinct, longer than stv, ventral side of costal cell sparsely setose, dorsally bare; speculum present; parastigmal bristles absent ( Figs 116E, F ).

Legs. Fore coxa without depression on frontal surface, hind coxa bare basodorsally; fore (32:15) and hind femora (40:17); hind tibia dorsally with more than 15 setae, setae shorter than hind tibia width.

Metasoma. Petiole shorter than broad dorsally, ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present. Metasoma 1.7× as long as wide (165:95) ( Fig. 116C ), longer than mesosoma, strongly compressed laterally and dorsally angulate ( Fig. 116D ); ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present; petiole in dorsal view not longer than wide, shorter than half length of hind coxa; tergites smooth; Gt4 (in lateral view) much as long as Gt3 (at least 1.5× longer), sinuous posteriorly; Gt5 partly covering Gt6, sinuous posteriorly; Gt5 with few setae dorsally, Gt6 ventrally setose; ovipositor oriented dorsad but not distinctly upturned ( Fig. 116C ).

Male ( Fig. 117 ). Length 2.50 mm. body entirely yellowish ( Fig. 117A ), except head and antenna yellowish-brown; gaster petiolate, petiole distinctly longer than in female; antennal formula 11143, with shorter funiculars, as long as broad; each funicular with one row of mps and 3 whorls of relatively short adpressed setae ( Fig. 117C ); fore wing entirely setose ( Fig. 117B ).

Variation. Length 4.02–5.22 mm. In one specimen, body yellowish-brown.

Host plants. Ficus artocarpoides and F. sur .

Geographical distribution. Cameroon and Gabon.

Figures

FIGURE 115. S. (Tineomyza) maldesi sp. n. (♀). A, female in lateral view. B, antenna. C, head in frontal view. D, head in dorsal view. E, head in lateral view. F, mesosoma in lateral view.

FIGURE 116. S. (Tineomyza) maldesi sp. n. (♀). A, mesosoma in dorsal view. B, propodeum. C, metasoma in lateral view. D, metasoma in dorsal view. E, fore wing. F, fore wing venation.

FIGURE 117. S. (Tineomyza) maldesi sp. n. (♂). A, male in lateral view. B, fore wing. C, antenna. D, propodeum.