Pristaulacus konishii Turrisi & Smith, 2011

Turrisi, Giuseppe Fabrizio & Smith, David R., 2011, Systematic revision and phylogeny of the endemic southeastern Asian Pristaulacus comptipennis species group (Hymenoptera: Aulacidae) 2959, Zootaxa 2959 (1), pp. 1-72 : 35-38

Pristaulacus konishii Turrisi & Smith , sp. nov.

( Figs 91–99 )

Type material. THAILAND: holotype ♀, “ Thailand, Chiang Mai, Doi Inthanon NP, Summit marsh, 18º35.361'N, 98º29.157'E, 2500 m, Malaise trap, 15–22.iv.2007, Y. Areeluck leg., T1840/ Pristaulacus konishii Turrisi & Smith sp. n. ♀, 2010, Holotypus ” ( QSBG) .

Etymology. Named after Dr Kazuhiko Konishi (National Agricultural Research Center for Hokkaido, Sapporo), specialist in parasitoid Hymenoptera , for his contributions to the taxonomy of Aulacidae .

Description. FEMALE (holotype). Length: 12.0 mm; fore wing length: 8.9 mm; ovipositor length: 23.6 mm.

Colour black, except: clypeus yellowish orange at apex; mandible extensively yellowish orange with teeth dark reddish; maxillo-labial complex dark brown with maxillary palpi lighter; antenna dark brown with A1 orange; fore and mid legs and hind tarsus yellowish orange to orange, hind coxa, femur and tibia (except apex) dark brown, pretarsi and inner surface of hind femur reddish brown; hind tibia dark brown (except distally) and pretarsi yellowish brown; wings hyaline with veins and stigma dark brown; fore wing with a subquadrate dark brown spot below stigma (slightly wider than half stigma length), extended posteriorly to anterior margin of cell SM2; metasoma with most of T2 and part of T3 orange; valvula 3 of ovipositor dark brown. Setae: whitish, partly goldish on mandible.

Head, from above, 1.3 × wider than long, shiny; occipital margin straight, with a moderately wide and deep medial groove; temple, from above, developed, weakly convex, about 0.8 × as long as eye length; occipital carina moderately wide, 0.4–0.5 × diameter of an ocellus, absent along medial occipital groove; POL:OOL= 1.0; ocellar area 2.1 × wider than longer; vertex and upper half of temple with fine, deep and scattered punctures (distance between punctures 3.0–4.0 × puncture diameters); lower temple, behind eye, with fine to coarse, deep and dense punctures (distance between punctures 1.0–2.0 × puncture diameters); upper half of frons with fine, deep and dense punctures (distance between punctures about 1.0–2.0 × puncture diameters); lower half of frons with fine, deep and dense punctures (distance between punctures 0.5 × puncture diameters); clypeus with moderately coarse, deep and dense punctures; malar area with fine, deep and dense punctures, less dense on posterior half; occipital area with fine, superficial and dense punctures; antenna 1.1 × fore wing length; A3 5.5 × longer than wide; A4 10.2 × longer than wide, and 1.9 × longer than A3; A5 10.3 × longer than wide, and 1.8 × longer than A3. Setae: erect, long and oderately dense on vertex; semi erect to erect, long and dense on temple (length of setae 0.7–0.8 × diameter of an ocellus); erect, long and dense on upper frons; recumbent, long and dense on lower frons and clypeus; recumbent, short to long and dense on malar area.

Mesosoma coarsely sculptured; pronotum mostly areolate-rugose to areolate-rugose-foveolate above lateroventral margin, with one well-developed acute tooth-like process on each lateroventral margin, above side of propleuron; propleuron polished and shiny with coarse, deep and scattered to dense punctures on dorsal surface, fine, superficial and dense punctures on ventral surface (distance between punctures 2.0–3.0 × puncture diameters); prescutum triangular, wide, long, weakly concave, transverse-carinate; mesoscutum mostly transverse-carinate, areolate-rugose along transscutal fissure and on sides; dorsally not prominent, anterior margin slightly prominent and angulate (lateral view); notauli deep and wide; scutellum transverse-carinate in middle, areolate-rugose on anterior margin; metanotum scrobiculate; propodeum areolate-rugose, anterior margin longitudinally carinate; venter of mesosoma polished to transverse carinulate, scrobiculate in middle; fore wing with vein 2-rs+m short; coxa I polished-punctate with coarse, superficial and dense punctures on ventral surface; coxa II transverse-carinate on dorsal surface, polished-punctate (inner half) to transverse-carinulate on ventral surface, with fine to coarse, deep and dense punctures; coxa III transverse-carinate on dorsal surface, mostly polished-punctate on ventral surface, with fine, deep and dense punctures (distance between punctures 2.0–3.0 × puncture diameters), transverse-carinulate on sides; spurs of mid tibia subequal in length; inner spur of hind tibia slightly longer than outer spur; hind basitarsus 10.8 × longer than wide, and 1.2 × as tarsomeres 2–5; tarsal claw with four tooth-like processes. Setae: erect, short and scattered on dorsal surface, slightly longer and denser on propodeum; recumbent, long and dense on sides and venter of mesosoma (except pronotum); erect, long and dense on pronotum; erect, long and dense on hind surface of propodeum; erect, moderately long and dense on propleuron (setae length at most about 0.7 × pretarsus length).

Metasoma pyriform (lateral view), strongly compressed laterally; petiole elongate, slender, 5.0 × longer than wide; segments 1 and 2 polished and shiny, impunctate; remaining segments mostly with fine microsculpture and fine, superficial and dense punctures, except laterally on tergites; S7 polished to longitudinally strigate, with fine to coarse, deep and dense punctures; T8 microsculptured with fine, superficial and scattered to dense punctures; ovipositor 2.7 × longer than fore wing length. Setae: segments 1–2 and sides of remaining tergites and sternites glabrous; recumbent, short and moderately dense on middle of remaining tergites and sternites; semi erect, short and dense on S7.

MALE unknown.

Distribution. Thailand (Chiang Mai Province), known only from the type locality ( Fig. 186 ).

Biology. Unknown.

Figures

FIGURE 186. Distribution map of Pristaulacus comptipennis species group. The number of species is indicated for each subregions, north: Japanese islands, middle: China and surroundings, south: Laos, Thailand, Vietnam. Letters refer to species: a, P. asiaticus; b, P. boninensis; c, P. comptipennis; d, P. corellianus; e, P. dilleri; f, P. emarginaticeps; g, P. excisus; h, P. gusenleitneri; i, P. insularis; j, P. jenningsi; k, P.konishii; l, P. lagrecai; m, P. nobilei; n, P. porcatus; o, P. sharkeyi; p, P. thailandensis; q, P. vietnamensis; r, P. vilhelmseni; s, P. vivaldianus; t, P. watanabei.

FIGURES 91–95. Pristaulacus konishii sp. nov., holotype ♀. 91. Head, dorsal view. 92. Head, frontal view. 93. Head, lateral view. 94. Mesosoma, dorsal view. 95. Pronotum, lateral view.

FIGURES 96–99. Pristaulacus konishii sp. nov., holotype ♀. 96. Wings. 97. Mesosoma, lateral view. 98. Mid and hind coxae, ventral view. 99. Metasoma, lateral view.