Sycophila maculafacies Chen, 1999

Xiao, Hui, Zhang, Rui & Gao, Mengqing, 2021, Three new species of the genus Sycophila (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Eurytomidae) from China, ZooKeys 1029, pp. 123-137 : 123

Sycophila maculafacies Chen, 1999 Figs 23-26

Sycophila maculafacies Chen, 1999, in Chen et al. 1999: 51.

Material examined.

5♀, China: Hainan: Zhanzhou , V. 2006, leg. Haoyuan Hu. 6♀, China: Hainan: Zhanzhou , VI. 2006, leg. Haoyuan Hu. 5♀, China: Hainan: Zhanzhou , VIII.2006, leg. Haoyuan Hu. 5♀, China: Hainan: Zhanzhou , IX.2006, leg. Haoyuan Hu. 4♀, China: Hainan: Lingshui , IV.2005, leg. Yanzhou Zhang, Tongxin Zhang. ♀, China: Guangxi: Wuzhou , X.2005, leg. Yanzhou Zhang, Wei Li.

Diagnosis.

Female. Body (Fig. 23 ) length 1.5-1.62 mm. Body yellow-brown (or head, thorax, and gaster dark brown except pronotum yellowish); eyes dark red; antennal yellow or yellow-brown; wings hyaline, venation yellow-brown except marginal vein enlarged and with dark brown maculae; head and thorax with sparsely shallower umbilicate puncturation. Head in frontal view 1.25 × as wide as high (Fig. 24 ), eyes separated by 1.6 × their height; malar space 0.8 × eyes height. Head in dorsal view 2.0 × as broad as long, POL 5 × OOL, OOL 3.0 × ocellus diameter. Antennal insertion on lower ocular line. Antenna stout, formula 11153 (11143 in male) (Figs 24 , 25 ), scape 5.0 × as long as broad, not reaching anterior ocellus; scape length equal to eyes height, 3.33 × as long as pedicel; pedicel slightly longer than Fu1; each funicular square or shorter than its broad, (Fu1 square, Fu2 0.78 × as long as broad); pedicel and flagellum combined shorter than head width (0.88 ×). Mandible three teethed. Mesosoma (Fig. 25 ) 1.4 × as long as broad, pronotum and mesosoma with sparsely umbilicate puncturation, notauli deep and complete, scutellum as long as broad. Fore wing (Fig. 26 ) marginal vein broaden, stigma elongate; marginal vein as long as stigmal vein, 1.43 × as long as postmarginal vein. Gaster diamond-shape in dorsal view.

Male. According to Chen et al. (1999), body length 0.96-1.20 mm. Frons black, gena yellow, eyes dark red, body black except pronotum yellowish. Body covered with small umbilicate puncturation. Head as wide as high, antennal formula 11143. Petiole shorter than gaster.

Host.

Ficus microcarpa L.

Distribution.

China (Guangxi, Hainan, Taiwan).

Figures

Figures 23 - 26. Sycophila maculafacies Chen, female 23 body in lateral view 24 head and antenna in frontal view 25 head and thorax in dorsal view 26 fore wing in dorsal view.