Pulchrisolia sanbornei Lahey & Masner, 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 sanbornei Lahey & Masner sp. nov.

Figures 44-48 , 49

Description.

Female body length: 1.61-1.98 mm (n = 10). Male body length: 1.56-1.74 mm (n = 8). Coloration of head, female: concolorous with mesosoma. Shape of dorsal interantennal process: apically bilobed. Length of interantennal process: longer than radicle. Hyperoccipital carina: indicated as lateral tubercles; raised between lateral ocelli. Frontal ledge: present. Preocellar depressions: absent. Setation of pronotal cervical sulcus: absent. Setation of cervical pronotal area: absent. Sculpture of pronotal shoulders: rugose. Sculpture of anterior margin of pronotal shoulders: serrate. Posterolateral margin of pronotal shoulders: sharply angled. Posterior margin of pronotal shoulders: carinate. Antero-admedian line: absent. Anterior admedian depression or pit: absent. Parapsidial line: absent. Median mesoscutal line: absent. Notaulus: absent. Coloration of mesoscutum: concolorous with pronotum. Shape of mesoscutum in lateral view: flat to slightly convex. Scupture of mesoscutum: longitudinally striate. Sculpture of mesoscutellum: absent. Setation of anterodorsal metapleuron: absent. Setation of anteroventral metapleuron: absent. Foamy structures on anterior metapleuron: present. Shape of fore wing: oblong. Infuscate banding of fore wing: present. Costal margin of hind wing: darkly sclerotized posterior to hamuli. Marginal cilia of female fore wing: present. Marginal cilia of male fore wing: present.

Diagnosis.

The metapleuron completely covered in foamy structures and the rugose sculpture of the pronotal shoulders separates P. sanbornei from other species of Pulchrisolia .

Etymology.

Named in honor of the late Michael Sanborne (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada) for his efforts during a field expedition to South Africa which yielded a long series of this beautiful species. The epithet is treated as a noun in the genitive case.

Link to distribution map.

[http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=457751]

Material examined.

Holotype, female: SOUTH AFRICA: Limpopo Prov., 15km E Klaserie, Guernsey Farm, 19.XII-31.XII.1985, pan trap, M. Sanborne, OSUC 666387 (deposited in SAMC). Paratypes: SOUTH AFRICA: 8 females, 9 males, OSUC 666386, 666388-666403 (CNCI).

Figures

Figure 49. Pulchrisolia sanbornei, male paratype (OSUC 666396) 49 head, mesosoma, metasoma, dorsal view. Scale bars in millimeters.

Figures 44 - 48. Pulchrisolia sanbornei, female holotype (OSUC 666387) 44 head, mesosoma, metasoma, dorsal view 45 mesosoma, dorsal view 46 head, anterior view 47 mesosoma, lateral view 48 fore wing, dorsal view. Scale bars in millimeters.