Tetrastichus lazius, Hansson & Schmidt, 2020

Hansson, Christer & Schmidt, Stefan, 2020, A revision of European species of the genus Tetrastichus Haliday (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) using integrative taxonomy, Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 59177-59177 : 59177

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e59177

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:AD70B3AB-6763-4D28-85F2-90988225C5C8

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2D7C33A0-5750-4257-8DBA-5D478FDDDC15

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:2D7C33A0-5750-4257-8DBA-5D478FDDDC15

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scientific name

Tetrastichus lazius
status

sp. n.

Tetrastichus lazius   ZBK sp. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/API_Public/specimen?ids=BC-ZSM-HYM-29813-G01; catalogNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-29813-G01 ; recordNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-29813-G01; recordedBy: Munro et al; individualID: BC-ZSM-HYM-29813-G01; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Tetrastichuslazius; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Eulophidae; genus: Tetrastichinae; taxonRemarks: Holotype deposited in UCRC; Location: country: Italy; decimalLatitude: 41.6552; decimalLongitude: 12.9896; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; institutionCode: UCRC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen GoogleMaps

Description

FEMALE holotype (Fig. 48). Body length 1.9 mm. Head. Width/length in dorsal view 2.4, width/length in frontal view 1.3, POL/OOL 1.4, widths head/mesosoma 1.2, mouth width/malar space 1.2, malar space/eye height 0.8. Antenna. Scape length/eye height 1.0, pedicel+flagellum length/mesosoma width 1.3, length/width F1, F2, F3 1.4, 1.7, 1.4, clava length/width 4.2, lengths pedicel/F1 1.0, lengths F1/F2 0.9, F1/F3 1.0, lengths F1, F2, F3/clava 0.3, 0.4, 0.3, widths F1/pedicel (dorsal view) 1.3, lengths antennal spicule/C3 0.3. Mesosoma. Length/width 1.5, mesoscutal mid-lobe length/width 1.1 (width measured in anterior part), mid-lobe with median groove in posterior 4/5, with three adnotaular setae on each side, lengths mesoscutum/mesoscutellum (measured medially) 1.6, mesoscutellum length/width 1.0, length/width of enclosed space between submedian grooves 2.4, distance between SMG/distance between SMG and SLG 1.0, lengths dorsellum/propodeum 0.6, propodeum with strong reticulation, propodeal callus with two setae. Fore wing. Costal cell length/width 10.4, lengths costal cell/marginal vein 0.9, lengths marginal/stigmal veins 2.8. Gaster. Ovate, length/width nm, lengths gaster/head+mesosoma nm, Gt7 length/width 0.4, length of longest cercal seta/next longest seta 1.5, longest cercal seta curved, ovipositor sheaths not reaching apex of Gt7.

Colour. Body metallic blue, antenna dark brown, tegulae black, wings hyaline with venation yellowish-brown, coxae and hind femur concolorous with body, trochanters and fore and mid femora dark brown, tibiae pale yellowish-brown, fore tarsus pale brown, mid and hind tarsi yellowish-white with T4 pale brown.

MALE. Unknown.

Diagnosis

Mesosoma distinctly blue metallic. See key for separation from similar species.

Distribution

Italy.

Ecology

Host

Unknown.

Notes

Holotype deposited in UCRC.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Eulophidae

Genus

Tetrastichus