Pulchrisolia robynae van Noort & 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 robynae van Noort & Lahey sp. nov.

Figures 39-43

Description.

Female body length: 0.93-1.10 mm (n = 6). Male body length: 0.84-1.40 mm (n = 8). Coloration of head, female: concolorous with mesosoma. Shape of dorsal interantennal process: apically bilobed. Length of interantennal process: longer than radicle. Coloration of clavomeres: darker than funicle. Hyperoccipital carina: indicated as lateral tubercles; raised between lateral ocelli. Frontal ledge: present. Preocellar depressions: present. Setation of pronotal cervical sulcus: present. Setation of cervical pronotal area: present. Sculpture of pronotal shoulders: reticulate. Sculpture of anterior margin of pronotal shoulders: carinate. Posterolateral margin of pronotal shoulders: evenly rounded. Posterior margin of pronotal shoulders: rounded. Antero-admedian line: absent. Anterior admedian depression or pit: present. Parapsidial line: absent. Median mesoscutal line: present. Notaulus: absent. Coloration of mesoscutum: concolorous with pronotum. Shape of mesoscutum in lateral view: flat to slightly convex. Scupture of mesoscutum: mostly smooth. Sculpture of mesoscutellum: absent. Setation of anterodorsal metapleuron: present. Length of setation of anterodorsal metapleuron: long. Setation of anteroventral metapleuron: absent. Foamy structures on anterior metapleuron: absent. Shape of fore wing: elliptical; oblong. Infuscate banding of fore wing: present. Costal margin of hind wing: darkly sclerotized posterior to hamuli. Marginal cilia of female fore wing: present.

Diagnosis.

Pulchrisolia robynae is morphologically similar to P. maculata but differs from that species by the presence of an antero-admedian depression, the posterolateral margin of the pronotal shoulders that are nearly articulate with the tegula, and the scutoscutellar sulcus that is weakly crenulate.

Etymology.

Named in honor of Robyn Tourle, who was employed as a research assistant on the GEF-funded Conservation Farming project that produced these specimens, in recognition of all her hard work in the field as well as her sorting and curation of specimens. The epithet is treated as a noun in the genitive case.

Link to distribution map. [http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=467905]

Material examined. Holotype, female: SOUTH AFRICA: Eastern Cape Prov., 25.6km (254°) W Kirkwood, valley bushveld (goat trashed), VB01-R4T-P06, 33°32.635'S, 25°13.678'E, Marais Hoop Farm, 10.II-17.II.2001, pitfall trap, H. G. Robertson & R. Tourle, SAM-HYM-P031619 (deposited in SAMC). Paratypes: SOUTH AFRICA: Eastern Cape Province: 5 females, 5 males, SAM-HYM-P031616, P031617, P031618, P033082, P033745, P033746, P033747, P033748 (SAMC); Western Cape Province, Gamkaberg Nature Reserve: 3 males, SAM-HYM-P035656, P038480, P038642 (SAMC).

Figures

Figures 39 - 43. Pulchrisolia robynae, female holotype (SAM-HYM-P 031619) 39 head, mesosoma, T 1, dorsal view 40 head, mesosoma, S 1, lateral view 41 head, anterior view 42 male paratype (SAM-HYM- 033748), head, mesosoma, metasoma, dorsal view 43 head, anterior view. Scale bars in millimeters.