Anagyrus minipedicellus Zu & Zhang, 2018

Zu, Guo-Hao, Zhang, Xu, Li, Cheng-De & Zhang, Yan-Zhou, 2018, A new species of Anagyrus (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae) from Malaysia, parasitoid of Lanceacoccus sp. (Hemiptera, Pseudococcidae), Journal of Hymenoptera Research 65, pp. 141-148 : 142-146

Anagyrus minipedicellus Zu & Zhang sp. n.

Figs 1-3 , 4-11 , 12-18

Holotype.

♀ [on slide], MALAYSIA, Sabah, Mt. Trus Madi, 5°26'27"N; 116°27'0"W, c. 1180m, 8.II.2017, Guo-Hao Zu, rearing from Lanceacoccus sp. ( Hemiptera : Pseudococcidae ) (Fig. 1 ) (IZCAS).

Paratypes.

4♀, 4♂ [4♀, 2♂ on slides], the same data as holotype (IZCAS). 15♀, 3♂ [2♀, 1♂ on slides], MALAYSIA, Sabah, Mt. Trus Madi, 5°26'27"N; 116°27'0"W, c. 1180m, 3.IV.2017, Xu Zhang rearing from Lanceacoccus sp. ( Hemiptera : Pseudococcidae ) (IZCAS).

Diagnosis.

Female. Length, excluding ovipositor, 1.38-1.83 mm. Body stout (Fig. 2 ); head generally orange with interantennal prominence and gena below mid eye level dark brown; scape dark brown, with a white subapical band; pedicel and funicle generally dark brown; clava white; mesosoma and metasoma mostly dark brown, except mesopleuron orange; frontovertex nearly 0.4 × head width; clypeal margin slightly emarginate; antennal scape strongly broadened, about twice as long as broad; pedicel shorter and narrower than F1; all funicular segments at least 1.5 × as long as broad; fore wing completely hyaline, 2.15 × as long as broad; costal cell broad, with four complete lines of setae ventrally; ovipositor about 0.7 × as long as mid tibia.

Male (length, 1.22-1.33 mm): Color similar to female (Fig. 3 ), except head completely black, flagellum black, gradually becoming yellowish distad; antenna with scape about twice as long as broad, all funicular segments much longer than broad, F1 the longest; scale-like sensilla present only on F6; frontovertex nearly half head width; fore wing 2.08 × as long as broad, costal cell ventrally with four lines of setae; metasoma shorter than mesosoma; phallobase without digiti; aedeagus about 1.6 × as long as mid tibia.

Description.

Female. Holotype. Length, 1.83 mm (excluding ovipositor). Head generally orange, interantennal prominence dark brown, gena dark brown to mid eye level, occiput mostly dark brown. Antenna with radicle dark brown; scape dark brown with a white subapical band; pedicel and funicle black, funicle gradually becoming paler distad and ventrally paler, clava white. Mesosoma dark brown; mesopleuron orange. Wings hyaline. Legs generally yellowish white, except dorsal and ventral margins of fore coxa, fore and mid femora, hind tibia dark brown, mid coxa mostly dark brown, hind coxa brown, all tarsi yellowish brown. Metasoma dark brown.

Head. Frontovertex 0.37 × head width, with very fine scale-like sculpture; setae on frontovertex about half as long as diameter of anterior ocellus; ocelli forming an angle of about 85°; posterior ocellus slightly closer to occipital margin than to eye margin; eye reaching occipital margin, with dense, dark brown setae, each seta about 1.5 × as long as a facet width; head, in frontal view (Fig. 4 ), slightly (1.12 ×) wider than high; antennal torulus with its dorsal margin well above lower margin of eyes and separated from mouth margin by about its own height; antennal scrobes moderately deep; clypeal margin slightly emarginate. Antennal scape (Fig. 6 ) strongly broadened and flattened, 1.9 × as long as broad; pedicel short, 1.45 × as long as broad, 0.75 × as long as F1; all funicular segments at least 1.5 × as long as broad and subequal in length; clava 3.3 × as long as broad, shorter than preceding three funicular segments combined; funicle with linear sensilla on all segments. Measurements (μm): head high 600; head width 670; frontovertex width 250; OD 66; POL 110; OOL 29; OCL 23; AOL 58; eye length 420; malar space 180; length and (width) - radicle 90; scape 360 (190); pedicel 90 (62); F1 120 (80); F2 130 (80); F3 130 (80); F4 130 (80); F5 120 (80); F6 120 (78); clava 330 (100).

Mesosoma (Fig. 5 ) dorsally with fine sculpture as on frontovertex; posterior margin of pronotum broadly concave; scutellum 1.13 × as wide as long, pointed apically, and almost as long as mesoscutum. Fore wing (Fig. 7 ) moderately broad, about 2.2 × as long as width; linea calva interrupted by 3 rows of setae and closed posteriorly by 2-3 rows of setae; costal cell broad, about 5.2 × as wide as submarginal vein and 11 × as long as broad, ventrally with four complete lines of setae; stigmal vein longer than marginal and postmarginal veins combined; hind wing (Fig. 8 ) 3 × as long as broad. Length of mid tibial spur (Fig. 9 ) 0.28 × mid tibia and shorter than corresponding basitarsus. Measurements (μm): fore wing length 1825; fore wing width 850; submarginal vein 710; marginal vein 38; postmarginal vein 58; stigmal vein 130; hind wing length 1125; hind wing width 375; MT 760; mid tibial spur 210; mid basitarsus 250.

Metasoma 0.86 × as long as mesosoma; ovipositor (Fig. 11 ) 0.70 × as long as mid tibia, hardly exserted. Measurements (μm): ovipositor length 535; gonostylus length 115; last tergite length 640; last tergite width 610.

Variation.

Length of female, excluding ovipositor, varies from 1.38-1.83 mm, scape in smaller species as in Fig. 6B , colour of F6 in some specimens is paler, ventral 1/3 dark brown, dorsal 2/3 nearly white mixed with brown, otherwise very little in material available.

Male. Length 1.22-1.33 mm. Color is similar to that of female except head completely black, flagellum gradually going from dark brown to yellowish. Antenna (Fig. 14 ) with scape about 2.02 × as long as broad, all funicular segments much longer than broad, F1 the longest; longest flagellar setae about 1.5 × as long as diameter of corresponding segments; scale-like sensilla present only on F6; antennal torulus with lower margin slightly below lower margin of eye and separated from mouth margin by about 1.46 × its own height; frontovertex nearly (Fig. 12 ) 0.49 × head width. Fore wing (Fig. 15 ) 2.08 × as long as broad, costal cell ventrally with four lines of setae. Metasoma shorter than mesosoma; phallobase (Fig. 18 ) without digiti; aedeagus about 1.57 × as long as mid tibia. Otherwise similar to female.

Host.

Lanceacoccus sp. ( Hemiptera : Pseudococcidae ).

Etymology.

The specific name refers to the small pedicel of female antennae.

Comments.

This species is similar to A. alami Hayat, 1970 in the short and narrow pedicel. However, it can be easily separated from A. alami by its dark brown body (generally yellowish in Anagyrus alami ), F1 1.33 × as long as pedicel (twice in A. alami ), MT 1.42 × as long as OL (1.05 × in borneensis).

It is also probably close to A. subtilis Noyes & Hayat, 1994 and A. aceris Noyes & Hayat, 1994, but differs in the short pedicel, which is 0.75 × as long as F1 (at least longer than F1 in A. subtilis and A. aceris ), normal F1, which is similar to other funicular segments (F1 much shorter than any other funicular segments in A. subtilis ), dark brown radicle (orange in A. subtilis ), subparallel eye margins (diverging ventrally in A. aceris ) and generally orange mesosoma (dorsum of mesosoma dark brown in A. aceris ).

Figures

Figures 1 - 3. 1 Lanceacoccus sp.; A. minipedicellus sp. n.: 2 habitus, lateral view (female, paratype) 3 habitus, lateral view (male, paratype). Scale bars: 1 mm.

Figures 4 - 11. A. minipedicellus sp. n., holotype female: 4 head, frontal view 5 mesosoma, dorsal view 6 antenna (A holotype, B paratype) 7 fore wing 8 hind wing 9 legs 10 hypopygium 11 ovipositor. Scale bars: 100 μm.

Figures 12 - 18. A. minipedicellus sp. n., paratype male: 12 head, frontal view 13 mesosoma, lateral view 14 antenna 15 fore wing 16 hind wing 17 legs 18 genitalia. Scale bars: 100 μm.