Pleurotroppopsis tischeriae ( Kamijo, 1977 )

Cao, Huan-Xi, Dale-Skey, Natalie, Burwell, Chris J. & Zhu, Chao-Dong, 2022, Review of the genus Pleurotroppopsis Girault (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) with interspecific phylogenetic relationships based on morphological characters, Zootaxa 5190 (4), pp. 451-484 : 478-480

Pleurotroppopsis tischeriae ( Kamijo, 1977)

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Cotterellia tischeriae Kamijo, 1977: 258–260 . Holotype ♀, HUMJ (examined).

Pleurotroppopsis tischeriae ( Kamijo, 1977) , Bouček, 1988: 710.

Diagnosis. FEMALE. Antenna brown with scape predominantly whitish, infuscate only apically. Fore wing broadly infuscate below MV, with speculum reduced ( Fig. 18c ). Upper margin of scrobes incised medially, hence frontal carina sinuate ( Fig. 18b ). Ocelli in a right-angled triangle. Mesoscutum with numerous setae evenly distributed over surface, including notaular depressions; MLM without a trace of a median groove ( Fig. 18a ). Axilla evenly tuberculate with numerous setae ( Figs 18a, 18c ). Scutellum with posterior groove. Dorsellum smooth with posterior margin weakly carinate ( Fig. 18a ). Propodeum with plicae angled inwards in the middle, and with a transverse weak carina usually extending from the angulation to the median carina ( Fig. 18a , fig. 6 in Kamijo 1977). Gt 1 smooth with a row of setae posteriorly ( Fig. 18c ). Metafemur with teeth along ventral margin.

MALE. Differs from female in the following characters. Vertex transverse with ocelli in an obtuse-angled triangle ( Fig. 18f ). Face between frontal carina and toruli weakly depressed, and frontal carina not raised or incised. Antenna with scape metallic in apical 2/5, and white in basal 3/5; funiculars stalked apically, with long, erect, white setae ( Fig. 18e ). Fore and mid legs white except for metallic blue coxae and infuscate claws; hind leg with coxa and femur metallic blue, tibia and tarsomeres white but claws infuscate ( Fig. 18e ). Gastral tergites almost smooth. Wings hyaline ( Fig. 18e ).

Material examined. Type material. Holotype ♀, Bibai , Hokkaido, ex. Tischeria sp. on Quercus mongolica , em. 17.VIII.1975, coll. K. Kamijo ( HUMJ); paratypes: 1♀, Bibai, Hokkaido, 10.VIII.1975, coll. Kamijo, ex. Tischeriae sp. on Quercus mongolica (HUMJ) ; 1♀ 3♂, Sapporo, Hokkaido, ex. Tischeria sp. on Quercus dentata , em. 28.I– 16.II.1956, coll. T. Kumata; 1♀ 1♂, ex. Tischeria sp. , em. 1–15.VII.1959 ( HUMJ).

Other material examined. 1♀, CHINA: Jilin, Jilin Agricultural University, the Department of Biological Control, 5.VI–12.VI.2015, coll. Huan-Xi Cao ( IZCAS) .

Biology. The type specimens were recorded from a lepidopteran leaf-miner species, a Tischeria sp. ( Lepidoptera : Tischeriidae ), mining leaves of Quercus mongolica Fisch. ex Ledeb and Quercus dentata Thunb. ( Kamijo 1977) .

Distribution. China: Jilin (new distribution record); Japan; Korea.

Remarks. See remarks under P. hirta .

Figures

FIGURE 18. Pleurotroppopsis tischeriae (Kamijo). a‒d, holotype female: a, habitus in dorsal view; b, frontovertex; c, wings in dorsal view; d, labels. e‒f, paratype male: e, habitus in lateral view; f, habitus in dorsal view. Scale bar: 0.5 mm.