Ecrizotes longus Mitroiu & Andriescu & Manic 2024, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan
name: Andriescu, Ionel
name: Manic, Gheorghe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pteromalidae
Ecrizotes
Ecrizotes longus

description: Ecrizotes longus Mitroiu sp. nov.
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Fig. 9
Diagnosis
Female
All funiculars wider than long, Fu3 anelliform (Fig. 9D); ventral margin of clypeus weakly convex (Fig. 9C); head in frontal view with gena buccate (Fig. 9C); hind tibia length 6.6–6.8 × width; gaster longer than combined length of head and mesosoma and strongly compressed laterally (Fig. 9A); tip of hypopygium not incised (cf. Fig. 7I); ovipositor sheath length 0.5–0.6× length of hind tibia.
Male
Fore and mid tibiae normal, hind tibia strongly inflated, length 2.6–2.8× width (Fig. 9B). All funicular segments wider than long (Fig. 9E). Fore wing with upper side of basal cell densely and uniformly setose.
Etymology
The species name refers to the elongated body that characterizes the females of this species (from the Latin adjective ' longus ’ = 'long’).
Type material
Holotype ZIMBABWE • ♀; “ Rhodesia / Salisbury / A. Watsham / WF115 / (i)75”; NHMUK.
Allotype ZIMBABWE • ♂; “ Rhodesia / Salisbury / A. Watsham / WF117 / (i)75 // 420.R // Spathopus / Pirene m”; NHMUK.
Additional paratypes
ZIMBABWE • 1 ♀; “ Rhodesia / Salisbury / A. Watsham / WF110 / (i)75”; NHMUK • 2 ♂♂; “ Rhodesia / Salisbury / A. Watsham / WF.222 / (i)76”; NHMUK • 1 ♂; “ Rhodesia / Salisbury / A. Watsham / WF.99 / × ii.74 // 597.R; NHMUK • 1 ♂; “ Rhodesia / Salisbury / A. Watsham / WF108 / i-75 ”; NHMUK.
Description
Female holotype
Body length: 1.0 mm. Colour as in Fig. 9. Head in frontal view with vertex protruding between posterior ocelli (Fig. 9C). Gena buccate (Fig. 9C). Ventral margin of clypeus weakly convex (Fig. 9C). Upper face almost wholly very superficially sculptured except rare piliferous punctures (Fig. 9C). Length of pedicel plus flagellum about equal to head width. All funiculars wider than long, Fu3 anelliform (Fig. 9D). Mesosoma dorsally almost flat (Fig. 9A). Pronotum shorter than mesoscutum (Fig. 9F). Basal cell of fore wing entirely setose on upper side (Fig. 9G). MV about 3× SV. Hind tibia length about 6.6× width. Gaster longer than combined length of head and mesosoma and strongly compressed laterally (Fig. 9A). Tip of hypopygium not incised (cf. Fig. 7I). Ovipositor sheath length about 0.5 × length of hind tibia.
Male allotype
Body length: 0.8 mm. Differs from the female holotype mainly in the structure of the antenna (see generic diagnosis) and the characters given in the above species diagnosis; gaster much shorter (Fig. 9B).
Variation
Female
Body length: 1.00– 1.25 mm. MV about 3.0–3.3× SV. Hind tibia length about 6.6–6.8× width. Ovipositor sheath length about 0.5–0.6× length of hind tibia.
Male
Body length: 0.8–1.1 mm. Hind tibia length about 2.6–2.8 × width.
Distribution
Zimbabwe.
Hosts
Unknown.
Taxonomic comments
See E. longicauda sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan, Andriescu, Ionel & Manic, Gheorghe, 2024, The Afrotropical and West-Palaearctic species of Ecrizotes Förster (Hymenoptera: Pirenidae), pp. 1-37 in European Journal of Taxonomy 970 on pages 24-26, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.970.2745, http://zenodo.org/record/14250444