Pulchrisolia teras 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 teras Lahey sp. nov.

Figures 5 , 50 , 51-53 , 54-59 , 60-63

Description.

Female body length: 2.37 mm (n = 1). Male body length: 1.17-1.95 mm (n = 7). Coloration of head, female: concolorous with pronotum. Shape of dorsal interantennal process: apically rounded. Length of interantennal process: longer than radicle. 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: rugose. Sculpture of anterior margin of pronotal shoulders: carinate. Posterolateral margin of pronotal shoulders: sharply angled. Posterior margin of pronotal shoulders: carinate. Antero-admedian line: absent. Anterior admedian depression or pit: present. Parapsidial line: present. Median mesoscutal line: absent; present. Notaulus: present in posterior portion of mesoscutum. Shape of notaulus: broad, deep, abbreviated anteriorly. Coloration of mesoscutum: darker anteromedially and posterolaterally. 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: present. Length of setation of anteroventral metapleuron: long. Foamy structures on anterior metapleuron: absent. Shape of fore wing: elliptical. Infuscate banding of fore wing: absent. Costal margin of hind wing: fuscous posterior to hamuli. Marginal cilia of female fore wing: absent. Marginal cilia of male fore wing: absent.

Diagnosis.

Pulchrisolia teras is separated from all other species by the presence of deep notauli and well-defined preocellar depressions.

Etymology.

Taken from the Greek word for monster (tέρας), in reference to the size and appearance of this formidable creature. The epithet is treated as a noun in apposition.

Link to distribution map.

[http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=457302]

Material examined.

Holotype, female: MADAGASCAR: Toliara Auto. Prov., 36.1km (308°) NW Tolagnaro, 1.7km (61°) ENE Tsimelahy, Ambohibory Forest, tropical dry forest, BLF4915, 300m, 24°55'48"S, 46°38'44"E, Andohahela National Park, 16.I-20.I.2002, pitfall trap, Fisher, Griswold et al., CASENT 2043862 (deposited in CAS). Paratypes: MADAGASCAR: 7 males, CASENT 2043863-2043869 (CAS).

Comments.

The holotype of P. teras is considerably larger and more robust than most of the type series, which may indicate polyphagy or intraspecific variability in the size of its host(s).

Figures

Figure 5. Pulchrisolia teras, male (CASENT 2043867), head, mesosoma, T 1, dorsal view. Scale bar in millimeters.

Figure 50. Pulchrisolia teras, female holotype (CASENT 2043862) 50 head, mesosoma, T 1, T 2, dorsal view. Scale bar in millimeters.

Figures 51 - 53. Pulchrisolia teras, female holotype (CASENT 2043862) 51 head, mesosoma, lateral view 52 head, anterior view 53 head, anteroventral view. Scale bars in millimeters.

Figures 54 - 59. Pulchrisolia teras, female (OSUC 698062) 54 head, anterolateral view 55 interantennal process, clypeus, anterolateral view 56 mesosoma, lateral view 57 axillar complex, metanotum, propodeum, dorsolateral view 58 mesosoma, posterolateral view 59 metanotal trough, dorsal view. Scale bars in micrometers.

Figures 60 - 63. Pulchrisolia teras, female (OSUC 698062) 60 metasoma, dorsolateral view 61 metasoma, lateral view 62 S 1, S 2, anteroventral view 63 protibial spur, lateral view. Scale bars in micrometers.