Ficomila gabonensis Lotfalizadeh & Delvare & Cruaud & Rasplus 2024, sp. n.
Creators: name: Lotfalizadeh, Hossein
name: Delvare, Gérard
name: Cruaud, Astrid
name: Rasplus, Jean-Yves
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eurytomidae
Ficomila
Ficomila gabonensis

description: Ficomila gabonensis Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus sp. n.   
(Figs 30–32)  
  Type material examined. Holotype  ♀: Gabon, Makokou, ex syconia of F. artocarpoides, 23.ix.1988, Maldès J.- M. leg. Deposited in CBGP. Paratypes: same data as holotype, 31♀. Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, Lamto, 6.222197° -5.024070°, ex syconia of Ficus lutea, 26.vi.1989, Rasplus J.-Y. leg., 1♀. Cameroon, Ebogo, 10.i.1993, ex syconia of F. artocarpoides, Gibernau M. leg., 7♀ & 2♂.   
 Etymology. The specific name refers to the type locality of the species.   
 Diagnosis. Female body brown dark (Fig. 30A). POL at least 1.5× OOL (Fig. 30D). Flagellum with fu2– fu5 longer than wide (Fig. 30B). Mesoscutum densely coriaceous with sparse umbilicate puncture (Fig. 31A). Propodeum with a median carina reaching its basal half, smooth median band short (Fig. 31B). Gaster compressed laterally, dorsally angulate.   
Body of male yellowish, partly dark, not robust (Fig. 32A). Antennal formula 11152, fu2–fu4 long, longer than broad, first segment of clava separated from the rests (Fig. 32B). Propodeum with one row of areolae medially (Fig. 32C). Fore wing partly bare, not densely setose (Fig. 32D).  
 Description of holotype ♀ (Figs 30–31). Length 6.03 mm. Body generally dark (Fig. 30A), except scape yellowish, pedicel brown and clava distally yellowish-brown, pronotum with small brown spot anterolaterally, tegula yellowish-brown, tibia and tarsomeres brown; fore wing with a dark brown spot below mv, lower margin of mv obscured by dark brown spot, dark brown spot reaching base of mv (Fig. 31D); gaster uniformly coloured (Fig. 31C); body setation whitish, setation of fore wing entirely dark.   
 Head 1.5× as broad as high [HW 208 & HH 138] (Fig. 30C), in dorsal view transverse, 2.1× as broad as long [HW 208 & HL 99] (Fig. 30D); face and vertex coriaceous with sparse punctures; malar space 0.51× length of eye [sm 45 & EH 88]; malar sulcus distinct, straight (Fig. 30E); lower margin of gena sinuous, edged but not carinate; antennal toruli widely separated, interantennal space not raised, carinate laterally; scrobal depression smooth, reaching the median ocellus, carinate on margin (at least dorsally); POL 1.41× as long as OOL [POL 48 & OOL 34] (Fig. 30D); temple margined, 0.16× the eye length (in dorsal view) [TL 18 & EL 11]; setation oriented downwards on face, outwards on the punctuate frons.   
 Antenna. Scape not reaching median ocellus, 3.52× as long as broad, [SL 88 & SW 25]; fu1 1.79× as long as broad, [fu1L 68 & fu1W 38], distinctly longer than pedicel, bulging dorsally; funiculars (fu2–fu4) with three rows of mps and several whorls of short adpressed setae, fu2–fu5 distinctly longer than broad (Fig. 30A).   
 Mesosoma weakly arched dorsally, 1.4× as long as wide (150:110), with obliterate punctures (Fig. 31A); pronotum with sparse umbilicate punctures; mesodiscrimen with a ring-like process, adjacent to mesocoxa; mesoscutum 0.55× as long as wide (60:110), 0.65× longer than length of pronotal collar (60:90), sparsely umbilicate, coriaceous anteriorly; notauli conspicuous, slightly obliterated by mesoscutum sculpture; prepectus bare, with raised sculpture; mesoscutellum distinctly umbilicate laterally and coriaceous medially; mesepimeron transversally strigose; metepimeron subtriangular and areolate with long white hairs; propodeum (Fig. 31B) with deep median depression, with a smooth median band, and a distinct median carina; lateral rows of areolae long and extending at least over posterior half of propodeum, inverted U-shaped basal carina, lateral branches of propodeal basal carina slightly convex, width of basal carinae about 0.5× width of nucha.   
 Fore wing with short marginal fringe, apically subtruncate (pointed anteriorly); dark brown spot below mv; basal cell bare or nearly so; mv slightly enlarged, normally broadened, in lower margin concave; stv curved up; pmv not distinct, not longer than stv; ventral side of costal cell sparsely setose, dorsally bare; speculum present; parastigmal bristles absent.   
 Legs. Fore coxa without depression on frontal surface, hind coxa bare basodorsally; fore (35:15) and hind femora (40:16); hind tibia dorsally with more 10 setae, setae shorter than tibia width basally (Figs 31D, E).   
 Metasoma. Petiole shorter than broad dorsally, ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present. Metasoma 1.60× as long as wide (165:105) (Fig. 31C), longer than mesosoma, strongly compressed laterally and dorsally angulate; ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present; petiole in dorsal view not longer than wide, shorter than half-length of hind coxa; tergites finely sculptured; Gt4 (in lateral view) slightly as long as Gt3, sinuous posteriorly; Gt5 partly covering Gt6, sinuous posteriorly; Gt 6 in ventral half densely setose; ovipositor upturned (Fig. 31C).   
 Male (Fig. 32) Length 4.17–4.45mm. Similar to female with longer petiole (Fig. 32A); exhibiting entirely different colouration, mostly yellowish-brown, head and mesosoma dorsally, gaster basally and distally dark, antenna brown; antennal formula 11152, fu1–fu4 much longer than broad, at least 2× as long as broad; each funicular with several rows of mps and several whorls of relatively short setae (Fig. 32B); fore wing more setose than in female, without speculum, dark brown spot small, just behind mv (Fig. 32D).   
 Variation. Length 4.22–6.03 mm. Sometimes dark brown spot of fore wing smaller. Gastral yellowish-brown spots varied from small to relatively large.   
 Host plants. Ficus artocarpoides and F. lutea.   
 Geographical distribution. Cameroon, Gabon and Republic of Côte d’Ivoire.
description: Published as part of Lotfalizadeh, Hossein, Delvare, Gérard, Cruaud, Astrid & Rasplus, Jean-Yves, 2024, Morphological phylogeny and revision of Sycophila and Ficomila (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea, Eurytomidae) associated with Afrotropical fig trees (Moraceae, Ficus), pp. 1-190 in Zootaxa 5401 (1) on pages 52-55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5401.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524258