Ficomila artocarpoides 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 artocarpoides

description: Ficomila artocarpoides Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus sp. n.   
(Figs 17–18)  
 Type material examined. Holotype ♀: Cameroon, Mont Koupé, 4.824667° 9.701717°, ex syconia of Ficus artocarpoides, 15.v.2007, Kjellberg, F. & Djeto-Lordon, C. leg. Deposited in CBGP. Paratypes: same data as holotype, 2♀. Nigeria, Idarne (W. State), ex syconia of Ficus sp., 2.v.1970, Medler, J. - T. leg., Wiebes Coll° N 1707, 1♀ (4♀ MNHL).   
 Etymology. The specific name refers to the Ficus species, with which the species is associated.   
 Diagnosis. Body mostly dark brown with few parts yellowish, gaster frequently light brownish (Fig. 17A). POL less than 1.5× of OOL. Flagellum with fu2–fu5 longer than wide (Fig. 17D). Mesoscutum sparsely umbilicate punctures and densely coriaceous anteriorly (Fig. 18A). Propodeum with long smooth median band reaching posterior margin (Fig. 18B). Gaster of female compressed laterally, dorsally angulate (Fig. 18D).   
 Description of holotype ♀ (Figs 17–18). Length 4.73 mm. Body generally dark (Fig. 17A), except scape, tegula, tibia, tarsomeres, femur distally and gaster brownish-yellowish; antenna mostly darkened; pronotum anterolaterally testaceous; fore wing with a dark brown spot below mv, lower margin of mv not obscured by dark brown spot, dark brown spot reaching base of mv (Fig. 18E); gaster reddish-brown with petiole and ovipositor sheet dark brown (Fig. 18C); body setation whitish, setation of fore wing entirely dark.   
 Head 1.3× as broad as high [HW 148 & HH 114] (Fig. 17C), in dorsal view transverse and 2.02× as broad as long [HW 148 & HL 73] (Fig. 17D); face and vertex coriaceous with sparse punctures; malar space 0.52× length of eye [ms 40 & EH77]; malar sulcus absent (Fig. 17E); lower margin of gena sinuous, edged but not carinate; antennal toruli widely separated, interantennal space not raised, carinate laterally; scrobal depression slightly sculptured dorsally, reaching the median ocellus, carinate on margin; POL 1.36× as long as OOL [POL 38 & OOL 28] (Fig. 17D); temple margined, 0.38× the eye length (in dorsal view) [TL 30 & EL 80]; setation oriented downwards on face, outwards on the punctuate frons.   
 Antenna. Scape not reaching median ocellus, 4.25× as long as broad [SL 85 & SW 20]; fu1 1.6× as long as broad [fu1L 53 & fu1W 33], distinctly longer than pedicel, bulging dorsally; funiculars (fu2–fu4) with three rows of mps and several whorls of adpressed short setae; fu2–fu5 slightly longer than broad (Fig. 17B).   
 Mesosoma arched dorsally, 1.5× as long as wide (165:110), with obliterate punctures (Fig. 18A); pronotum with sparse umbilicate punctures, mesodiscrimen with a ring-like process, adjacent to mesocoxa; mesoscutum 0.7× as long as wide (80:110), 0.9× longer than length of pronotal collar (80:90), sparsely umbilicate, finely coriaceous anteriorly; notauli conspicuous, slightly obliterated by mesoscutum sculpture; prepectus bare, with raised sculpture; mesoscutellum sparsely umbilicate and coriaceous; mesepimeron transversally strigose (Fig. 18C); metepimeron subtriangular and areolate with long white hairs; propodeum (Fig. 18B) 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 relatively straight; 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 and in lower margin concave; stv curved up; pmv not distinct; ventral side of costal cell sparsely setose, dorsally bare; speculum present, parastigmal bristles absent (Figs 18E, F).   
 Legs. Fore coxa without depression on frontal surface, hind coxa bare basodorsally; fore (35:14) and hind femora (45:16); hind tibia dorsally with more than 10 setae, setae shorter than basal tibial width.   
 Metasoma. Petiole shorter than broad dorsally, ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present. Metasoma 1.55× as long as wide (170:110), longer than mesosoma, slightly compressed laterally (Fig. 18D); 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; Gt4 with few setae dorsally, Gt6 entirely setose ventrally; ovipositor upturned (Fig. 18C).   
 Male. Unknown.   
 Variation. Length 4.46–4.90 mm; in some paratypes gaster entirely black.   
 Host plant. Ficus artocarpoides.   
 Geographical distribution. Cameroon and Nigeria.
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 37-39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5401.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524258