Sycophila curta 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 curta Chen, 1999 Figs 19-22

Sycophila curta Chen, 1999, in Chen et al. 1999: 45.

Material examined.

3♀, China: Hainan: Danzhou , VI.2006, leg. Haoyuan Hu. 5♀, China: Hainan: Danzhou , VIII.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.

Body (Figs 19 , 20 ) length 1.38-1.8 mm. Body yellow-brown, eyes reddish, antennal yellow, wings venation yellow-brown except marginal vein enlarged and with dark brown maculae. Head in frontal view 1.4 × as wide as high, eyes separated by 1.5 × their height; malar space 0.6 × eyes height. Lower margin of clypeus emarginated and with a small tooth on both sides, mandible three teethed. Head in dorsal view 2.14 × as broad as long, POL 3.33 × OOL, OOL 3 × ocellus diameter. Antennal insertion on lower ocular line; scape 4.5 × as long as broad, not reaching anterior ocellus (Fig. 21 ); scape length shorter than eyes height; pedicel as long as Fu1; length of pedicel and flagellum combined shorter than head width (0.83 ×); Fu1 1.33 × as long as broad. Pronotum and mesosoma with sparsely umbilicate puncturation, scutellum sub-rectangular, without umbilicate puncturation. Fore wing (Fig. 22 ) with maculae around marginal, postmarginal and stigmal vein, and expending backward to disc. Marginal vein broaden, stigma elongate; marginal vein 1.5 × as long as postmarginal vein, 3.0 × as long as stigmal vein. Legs covered with soft small setae. Gaster blob-shape. Ovipositor unexposed.

Male. No male species was found in this study. According to Chen et al. (1999), body length 1.14-1.62 mm. Body yellowish, eyes dark red, 2 brown black spots at the end of gaster. 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 19 - 22. Sycophila curta Chen, female 19 body in dorsal view 20 body in lateral view 21 head in lateral view 22 fore wing in dorsal view.