Pulchrisolia ankremos Lahey, 2019

Lahey, Zachary, van Noort, Simon, Polaszek, Andrew, Masner, Lubomir & Johnson, Norman F., 2019, Revision of the Afrotropical genus Pulchrisolia Szabo (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae, Sceliotrachelinae), Journal of Hymenoptera Research 73, pp. 39-71 : 39

Pulchrisolia ankremos Lahey sp. nov.

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Description.

Female body length: 0.74-1.02 mm (n = 10). Coloration of head, female: concolorous with mesosoma. Shape of dorsal interantennal process: simple, not strongly projecting. Length of interantennal process: shorter than radicle. Frontal ledge: absent. Preocellar depressions: absent. Setation of pronotal cervical sulcus: absent. Setation of cervical pronotal area: absent. Sculpture of pronotal shoulders: reticulate. Sculpture of anterior margin of pronotal shoulders: carinate. Posterolateral margin of pronotal shoulders: sharply angled. Posterior margin of pronotal shoulders: rounded. Antero-admedian line: absent. Anterior admedian depression or pit: absent; present. Parapsidial line: present. Median mesoscutal line: absent. Notaulus: absent. Color of mesoscutum: concolorous with pronotum. Shape of mesoscutum in lateral view: flat to slightly convex. Scupture of mesoscutum: reticulate. Sculpture of mesoscutellum: longitudinally striate. Setation of anterodorsal metapleuron: present. Length of setation of anterodorsal metapleuron: long. Setation of anteroventral metapleuron: present. Length of setation of anteroventral metapleuron: short. Foamy structures on anterior metapleuron: absent. Shape of fore wing: elliptical. Infuscate banding of fore wing: absent. Costal margin of hind wing: fuscous posterior to hamuli. Marginal cilia of female fore wing: absent.

Diagnosis.

The lack of a frontal ledge on the lower frons and simple interantennal process that does not extend past the radicle separates P. ankremos from all other species of Pulchrisolia .

Etymology.

Taken from the Greek word for cliff (γκρεμός), in reference to the lack of a frontal ledge on the lower frons. The epithet is treated as a noun in apposition.

Link to distribution map.

[http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=457749]

Material examined.

Holotype, female: GHANA: Ashanti Reg., 06°42'N, 01°20'W, Bobiri Forest Reserve, II-2002, flight intercept trap, C. Carlton & O. Frimpong, OSUC 666426 (deposited in CNCI). Paratypes: (8 females) GHANA: 7 females, OSUC 666420-666422, 666424-666425, 666427-666428 (CNCI). IVORY COAST: 1 female, OSUC 666404 (CNCI).

Comments.

Pulchrisolia ankremos is most similar to P. nephelae both morphologically and in geographic distribution. Nearly all the specimens examined have an antero-admedian depression, but this character is absent from the holotype, despite being present in other specimens collected during the same collecting event.

Figures

Figures 6 - 11. Pulchrisolia ankremos, female holotype (OSUC 666426) 6 head, mesosoma, metasoma, dorsal view 7 mesosoma, dorsal view 8 head, mesosoma, metasoma, lateral view 9 mesosoma, lateral view 10 head, anterior view 11 metasoma, dorsal view. Scale bars in millimeters.