Plutothrix canariensis Hedqvist, 1974

Tselikh, Ekaterina V., Varkonyi, Gergely & Dale-Skey, Natalie, 2022, Review of the genus Plutothrix Foerster, 1856 (Hymenoptera, Pteromalidae) with a key to Palaearctic species, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 93, pp. 1-32 : 1

Plutothrix canariensis Hedqvist, 1974

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Plutothrix canariensis Hedqvist, 1974: 26-28. Holotype female (NHMUK, examined).

Description.

Male. Body length 2.60 mm. Fore wing length 2.40 mm.

Head, mesosoma, metasoma Mt2 metallic green with diffuse coppery lustre, Mt3-Mt6 yellowish-brown, Mt7-Mt8 brown. Antenna with scape yellowish-brown, pedicel and flagellum brown. Fore and hind coxa basally metallic green with diffuse coppery lustre, apically yellowish-brown, mid coxa yellowish-brown; all femora, tibiae, and tarsi yellowish-brown. Fore wing with brownish tint and fuscous cloud touching stigma, venation yellowish-brown.

Head in dorsal view 2.20 × as broad as long and 1.36 × as broad as mesoscutum; in frontal view 1.40 × as broad as high. POL as long as OOL. Eye height 1.25 × eye length and 2.35 × as long as malar space. Distance between antennal toruli and lower margin of clypeus 0.92 × distance between antennal toruli and median ocellus. Antenna with scape 0.80 × as long as eye height and as long as eye length; pedicel 1.80 × as long as broad and 0.37 × as long as F1; combined length of pedicel and flagellum 2.36 × breadth of head; F1 4.80 × as long as broad, F3-F6 longer than broad; clava 4.50 × as long as broad.

Mesosoma 1.87 × as long as broad. Scutellum finely reticulate, 1.2 × as long as broad. Propodeum without nucha, 0.65 × as long as scutellum; median carina present. Metapleuron alutaceous, upper mesepimeron smooth. Fore wing 2.40 × as long as maximum width; basal cell, cubital vein, basal vein setose; speculum closed; PST 0.43 × as long as M, M 0.97 × as long as PM and 2.30 × as long as S.

Metasoma 2.60 × as long as broad, 1.15 × as long as mesosoma and 0.89 × as long as mesosoma and head.

Material examined.

Holotype female (NHMUK): "Tenerife IV 1967 leg. T. Palm ", " HOLOTYPUS Plutothrix canariensis ♀ sp.n. K.J. Hedqvist det. 1970", " Hedqvist coll. BMNH(E) 2011-27", “HOLOTYPE”, "B.M. TYPE HYM 5.4754", NHMUK 013457290 . Other material: Spain, Canary Islands (all in ZMUH): 1 female, 1 male, Tenerife, Los Silos Monte del Aqua , 16.XI.2000, coll. M. Koponen.

Distribution.

Canary Islands.

Biology.

Unknown.

Figures

Figures 9 - 17. Plutothrix canariensis Hedqvist, 1974, holotype female (9 - 12), non-type male (13) 9 body, dorsal view 10 mesosoma and metasoma, lateral view 11 antenna 12 wings 13 body, lateral view. Plutothrix coelius (Walker, 1839), non-type female (14 - 17) 14 body, dorsal view 15 head and mesosoma, dorsal view 16 wings 17 mesosoma, lateral view. Scale bars: 1.05 mm (9); 0.85 mm (13); 1.3 mm (14).