Tetrastichus intruitus, 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

Tetrastichus intruitus sp. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/API_Public/specimen?ids=BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-D01; catalogNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-D01 ; recordNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-D01; recordedBy: J.S. Noyes; individualID: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-D01; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Tetrastichusintruitus; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Eulophidae; genus: Tetrastichinae; taxonRemarks: Holotype deposited in NHM; Location: country: Romania; decimalLatitude: 46.985; decimalLongitude: 27.585; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; institutionCode: NHM; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/API_Public/specimen?ids=BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-A07; catalogNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-A07 ; recordNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-A07; recordedBy: J.S. Noyes; individualID: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-A07; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Tetrastichusintruitus; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Eulophidae; genus: Tetrastichinae; Location: country: Romania; decimalLatitude: 47.011; decimalLongitude: 27.603; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/API_Public/specimen?ids=BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-C12; catalogNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-C12 ; recordNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-C12; recordedBy: J.S. Noyes; individualID: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-C12; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Tetrastichusintruitus; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Eulophidae; genus: Tetrastichinae; Location: country: Romania; decimalLatitude: 46.985; decimalLongitude: 27.585; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/API_Public/specimen?ids=BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-C06; catalogNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-C06 ; recordNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-C06; recordedBy: J.S. Noyes; individualID: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-C06; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Tetrastichusintruitus; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Eulophidae; genus: Tetrastichinae; Location: country: Romania; decimalLatitude: 47.011; decimalLongitude: 27.603; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/API_Public/specimen?ids=BC-ZSM-HYM-22524-C12; catalogNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-22524-C12 ; recordNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-22524-C12; recordedBy: C. Hansson; individualID: BC-ZSM-HYM-22524-C12; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Tetrastichusintruitus; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Eulophidae; genus: Tetrastichinae; Location: country: Hungary; decimalLatitude: 47; decimalLongitude: 17.27; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; institutionCode: MZLU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/API_Public/specimen?ids=BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-B03; catalogNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-B03 ; recordNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-B03; recordedBy: J.S. Noyes; individualID: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-B03; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Tetrastichusintruitus; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Eulophidae; genus: Tetrastichinae; Location: country: Romania; decimalLatitude: 47.011; decimalLongitude: 27.603; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/API_Public/specimen?ids=BC-ZSM-HYM-27770-A10; catalogNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-27760-A10 ; recordNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-27760-A10; recordedBy: J.S. Noyes; individualID: BC-ZSM-HYM-27770-A10; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Tetrastichusintruitus; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Eulophidae; genus: Tetrastichinae; Location: country: Romania; decimalLatitude: 46.9853; decimalLongitude: 27.5847; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; institutionCode: NHM; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/API_Public/specimen?ids=BC-ZSM-HYM-27770-A08; catalogNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-27760-A08 ; recordNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-27760-A08; recordedBy: J.S. Noyes; individualID: BC-ZSM-HYM-27770-A08; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Tetrastichusintruitus; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Eulophidae; genus: Tetrastichinae; Location: country: Romania; decimalLatitude: 46.9853; decimalLongitude: 27.5847; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; institutionCode: NHM; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/API_Public/specimen?ids=BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-A06; catalogNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-A06 ; recordNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-A06; recordedBy: J.S. Noyes; individualID: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-A06; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Tetrastichusintruitus; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Eulophidae; genus: Tetrastichinae; Location: country: Romania; decimalLatitude: 47.011; decimalLongitude: 27.603; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/API_Public/specimen?ids=BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-F09; catalogNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-F09 ; recordNumber: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-F09; recordedBy: J.S. Noyes; individualID: BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-F09; individualCount: 1; sex: F; lifeStage: a; associatedMedia: http://www.boldsystems.org/pics/BCHYM/BC-ZSM-HYM-27768-F09+1445344240.jpg; Taxon: scientificName: Tetrastichusintruitus; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Eulophidae; genus: Tetrastichus; Location: country: Romania; locality: Iasi Botanical Garden ; decimalLatitude: 47.188; decimalLongitude: 27.549; Identification: identifiedBy: Christer Hansson

Description

FEMALE holotype (Fig. 8). Body length 1.4 mm (paratypes 1.4-1.6 mm). Head. Width/length (dorsal view) 2.2, width/length (frontal view) 2.0, POL/OOL 2.3, widths head/mesosoma 1.1, mouth width/malar space 1.0, malar space/eye height 0.7. Antenna. Scape length/eye height 1.0, pedicel+flagellum length/mesosoma width 1.3, length/width F1, F2, F3 2.5, 2.5, 1.9, clava length/width 3.0, lengths pedicel/F1 0.7, lengths F1/F2 1.0, F1/F3 1.2, lengths F1, F2, F3/clava 0.6, 0.6, 0.5, widths F1/pedicel (dorsal view) 1.0, lengths antennal spicule/C3 0.4. Mesosoma. Length/width 1.4, mesoscutal mid-lobe length/width (width measured in anterior part) 0.9, mid-lobe with median groove in posterior ⅓, with four adnotaular setae on each side, lengths mesoscutum/mesoscutellum (measured medially) 1.1, mesoscutellum length/width 0.9, length/width of enclosed space between submedian grooves 2.6, distance between SMG/distance between SMG and SLG 1.2, lengths dorsellum/propodeum (measured medially) 0.6, propodeum with strong reticulation, propodeal callus with three setae. Fore wing. Costal cell length/width 11.0, lengths costal cell/marginal vein 0.9, lengths marginal/stigmal veins 3.3. Gaster. Subcircular to ovate, length/width 1.5, lengths gaster/mesosoma 1.1, Gt7 length/width 0.5, length of longest cercal seta/next longest seta 2.0, longest cercal seta slightly kinked in apical ¼, ovipositor sheaths projecting slightly beyond apex of Gt7.

Colour. Body with weak coppery tinges, entire antenna dark brown, tegulae dark brown, wings hyaline with veins yellowish-white, coxae and femora black, trochanters dark brown, tibiae dark brown to black with apex yellowish-brown, tarsi yellowish-brown or dark brown.

Variation. Scape yellowish-brown (one specimen) or pale brown (one specimen).

MALE. Body length 1.3 mm. Head. Width/length (dorsal view) 2.5, width/length (frontal view) 2.1, mouth width/malar space 1.4, widths head/mesosoma 1.2. Antenna. F1-F4 without basal whorls of setae, scape length/eye height 0.9, scape length/width 2.5, ventral plaque placed in central part of scape, lengths ventral plaque/scape 0.6, pedicel+flagellum length/mesosoma width 2.0, length/width F1, F2, F3, F4 3.0, 2.7, 2.7, 2.7, clava length/width 6.7, lengths pedicel/F1 0.7, lengths F1/F2 1.1, F1/F3 1.1, F1/F4 1.1, lengths F1, F2, F3, F4/clava 0.5, 0.4, 0.4, 0.4.

Colour. As in female.

Diagnosis

Female with antennal flagellum long, for example, F1 and F2 both 2.5 × and F3 1.9 × as long as wide and pedicel+flagellum 1.32 × as long as width of mesoscutum; ovipositor sheaths not protruding beyond apex of Gt7. Male with scattered setae and without externo-dorsal, sub-basal compact whorls of long dark setae on funiculars. Through the erect setae on vertex and erect adnotaular setae, similar to species in the Tetrastichus murcia -group.

Distribution

Hungary, Romania.

Ecology

Host

Unknown.

Notes

Holotype deposited in NHM, paratypes in MZLU, NHM.