Sycophila (Tineomyza) zebrogastra 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
Sycophila
Sycophila zebrogastra

description: Sycophila (Tineomyza) zebrogastra Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus sp. n.   
(Figs 6A, B, 100–102)  
  Type material examined. Holotype  ♀: United Republic of Tanzania, Mazumbai, Mt Usambara West, 23.ii.1995, ex syconia of Ficus thonningii, Rasplus J.-Y. & Kerdelhué C. leg. Deposited in CBGP. Paratypes: same data as holotype, 19♀ & 1♂. Usa River, -3.36869° 36.862022°, ex syconia of Ficus natalensis, 6.iv.1996, Rasplus J.-Y. & Kerdelhué C. leg., 1♂. Mialo, Mt Usambara West, ex syconia of Ficus thonningii, 20-21.ii.1995, Rasplus J.-Y. & Kerdelhué C. leg., 1♂. Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, Lamto, 6.222197° -5.024070°, ex syconia of Ficus platyphylla, 15.iv.1995, Kerdelhué C. leg., 1♀. Same locality, ex syconia of Ficus polita, 22.vi.1989, Rasplus J.-Y. leg., 1♀.   
 Etymology. The specific name refers to the striped colouration of gastral tergites.   
 Diagnosis. Female body mainly yellowish and partly brown (Fig. 100A). Malar sulcus sinuous (Fig. 100D). All funiculars longer than wide, fu1 as long as pedicel (Fig. 100B). Basal carina of propodeum as an inverted V, truncate mesally (Fig. 101B). Fore wing round apically, basal cell with long and sparse setae, costal cell dorsally with a row of setae, densely setose ventrally (Fig. 101C). Petiole in dorsal view longer than wide, longer than half-length of hind coxa (Fig. 101E).   
Male with all funiculars long, longer than wide (Fig. 102B). Dark brown spot of fore wing short and wider than long, costal cell dorsally with a row of setae, ventrally with more than two rows of setae (Fig. 100A).  
 Description of holotype ♀ (Figs 100–101). Length 2.70 mm. Body yellowish (Fig. 100A), except flagellum, petiole and tergites posteriorly brown and ocellar region, mesoscutum anteromedially and mesoscutellum medially slightly brownish-yellowish; antenna mostly dark brown; pronotum uniformly yellowish; fore wing with a dark brown spot below mv, lower margin of mv obscured by dark brown spot, reaching base of mv (Fig. 101C); gaster bicoloured, striped (Fig. 100E); body setation whitish, setation of fore wing entirely dark.   
 Head in frontal and dorsal views coriaceous with sparse punctures; in frontal view 1.3× as broad as high [HW 172 & HH 132] (Fig. 100C); in dorsal view stout, 1.72× as broad as long [HW 158 & HL 92] (Fig. 100D); malar space 0.63× length of eye [ms 38 & EH 60]; malar sulcus distinct, sinuous (Fig. 100E); genal margin regularly curved, rounded; antennal toruli widely separated; interantennal space not raised, not carinate laterally; scrobal depression smooth, reaching the median ocellus, not carinate on margin; POL 2.04× as long as OOL [POL 45 & OOL 22] (Fig. 100D); temple rounded, 0.33× the eye length (in dorsal view) [TL 28 & EL 85]; setation oriented downwards on face, outwards on the punctuate frons.   
 Antenna. Scape reaching above the lower margin of median ocellus, 4.64× as long as broad [SL 130 & SW 28]; fu1 1.76× as long as broad [fu1L 44 & fu1W 25], not longer than pedicel, not bulging dorsally; funicular (fu2–fu4) with two rows of mps and 3 whorls of adpressed setae; fu2–fu4 distinctly longer than broad; fu5 distinctly longer than broad (Fig. 100B).   
 Mesosoma weakly arched dorsally, 1.65× as long as wide (175:105), with obliterate punctures (Fig. 101A); pronotum with coarse umbilicate punctures; mesepisternum flattened, without any process or raised sculpture on epicnemium; mesoscutum 0.6× as long as wide (60:105), 0.75× longer than length of pronotal collar (60:80), sparsely umbilicate, transversely strigose anteriorly; notauli impressed; prepectus bare, smooth medially; mesoscutellum with sparse umbilicate punctures laterally and coriaceous sculpture on mesoscutellar disc; mesepimeron transversally strigose; metepimeron subtriangular and areolate with long white hairs; propodeum (Fig. 101B) with shallow median depression, without smooth median band, without any median carina; lateral rows of areolae long and extending at least over posterior half of propodeum; basal carina inverted V, truncate mesally; lateral branches of basal carina slightly convex; distance between lateral carinae less than 0.5× width of nucha.   
 Fore wing with long marginal fringe, distal margin round; dark brown spot below mv; basal cell with long and sparse setae; mv distinctly enlarged, triangular broadened, in lower margin straight, longer than pmv; stv not curved; pmv not distinct, not longer than stv; ventral side of costal cell densely setose, dorsally with row of setae; speculum present; parastigmal bristles absent (Figs 101C, 101F).   
 Legs. Fore coxa without depression on frontal surface, hind coxa bare basodorsally; fore (30:12) and hind femora (40:17); hind tibia dorsally with about 10 setae, setae shorter than basal tibial width.   
 Metasoma. Petiole longer than broad dorsally, ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 absent. Metasoma 1.75× as long as wide (175:100) (Fig. 101E), longer than mesosoma, slightly compressed laterally (Fig. 101D); ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 absent; petiole in dorsal view longer than wide, longer than half length of hind coxa; tergites finely sculptured; Gt4 (in lateral view) slightly as long as Gt3, not sinuous posteriorly; Gt5 mostly covering Gt6, not sinuous posteriorly; Gt5 with few setae dorsally, Gt6 sparsely setose ventrally; ovipositor upturned (Fig. 101E).   
 Male (Fig. 102). Length 2.00– 2.20 mm. Similar to female with longer petiole (Fig. 102A); antennal formula 11143; each funicular with 1–2 rows of mps and 2 whorls of erected setae (Fig. 102B); fore wing more setose than in female, without speculum (Fig. 102C).   
 Variation. Length 1.75–3.45 mm. In a few specimens body entirely dark brown or tergites dark brown and in some other specimens, gaster entirely yellowish.   
 Host plants. Ficus natalensis, F. platyphylla, F. polita and F. thonningii.   
 Geographical distribution. Republic of Côte d’Ivoire and United Republic of Tanzania.
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 141-145, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5401.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524258