Pristaulacus nobilei Turrisi & Smith 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Turrisi, Giuseppe Fabrizio
name: Smith, David R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Aulacidae
Pristaulacus
Pristaulacus nobilei

description: Pristaulacus nobilei Turrisi & Smith, sp. nov.   
(Figs 109–117)  
 Type material. CHINA: holotype ♀, “ Canton (China), Westfluss, Ting-Wu-San, Mell S.G./Zool. Mus. Berlin/ [unreadable handwritten label]/ Pristaulacus nobilei Turrisi & Smith sp. n. ♀, 2009, Holotypus ” (ZMHB). Paratypes: 1♀, “F, China, NGistGee, coll./ Pristaulacus nobilei Turrisi & Smith sp. n. ♀, 2009, Paratypus ” (USNM); 3♀, “China Macao”/ Pristaulacus nobilei Turrisi & Smith sp. n. ♀, 2009, Paratypus ” (BMNH); 1♀, “ Tai-o Lantau Isl, Hong Kong, VI.12.1978/RD Montgomery colr/Davis/USNM 2046975/ Pristaulacus nobilei Turrisi & Smith sp. n. ♀, 2009, Paratypus ” (USNM).   
 Etymology. Named after Dr Vittorio Nobile (University of Catania, Italy), specialist in Apoidea (Hymenoptera).   
 Description. FEMALE (holotype). Length: 18.5 mm; fore wing length: 13.1 mm; ovipositor length: 18.5 mm.   
 Colour black, except: clypeus dark brown on lateral lobes; mandible extensively dark reddish orange, lighter medially; maxillo-labial complex brownish, with palpi darker; antenna dark brown with A1 lighter; wing extensively infuscate, except middle and apical third; metasoma with T2 extensively dark reddish. Setae: brownish, reddish goldish on mandible.   
 Head, from above 1.2 × wider than long, shiny; occipital margin weakly grooved medially; temple, from above, well developed, rounded; occipital carina narrow, 0.3 × diameter of an ocellus; POL:OOL= 1.2; ocellar area 2.3 × wider than long; vertex and temple with coarse, deep and scattered punctures (distance between punctures 2.0–4.0 × puncture diameters); frons with coarse, deep and dense punctures (distance between punctures 1.0–1.5 × puncture diameters); clypeus with coarse, superficial and dense punctures; malar area with coarse, deep and dense punctures; occipital area with coarse, deep and scattered to dense punctures (distance between punctures 1.5–3.0 × puncture diameters); antenna 0.6 × fore wing length; A3 3.3 × longer than wide; A4 4.0 × longer than wide, and 1.3 × longer than A3; A5 3.8 × longer than wide, and 1.2 × longer than A3. Setae: erect or semi erect, long and scattered on vertex and upper third of frons; erect or semi erect, long and dense on most of frons, recumbent on lower half; semi erect, long and scattered on temple (length of setae 1.0–1.2 × diameter of an ocellus); recumbent, long and dense on clypeus; recumbent, long and dense on malar area.   
 Mesosoma coarsely sculptured; pronotum areolate rugose, with two well-developed tooth-like processes on each lateroventral margin, anterior one moderately developed, posterior one weaker; propleuron polished and shiny with coarse, deep and scattered punctures on dorsal surface, fine to moderately coarse, moderately deep and scattered on ventral surface (distance between punctures 3.0–5.0 × or more puncture diameters); prescutum sub-trapezoidal, concave, areolate-rugose; mesoscutum mostly areolate-rugose, with anterior part moderately emarginate in middle, very slightly pointed (lateral view); notauli deep and wide; scutellum areolate-rugose; mesopleuron areolate-rugose, except a restricted part of subalar area, punctate; metanotum longitudinally carinate; propodeum areolate-rugose, except anterior margin longitudinally carinate; venter of mesosoma foveolate-punctate to rugulose (medially); fore wing with vein 2-rs+m short; coxa I polished with a few weak punctures; coxa II transverse-carinulate on dorsal surface, polished and coarsely punctate on ventral surface; coxa III coarsely transverse-carinate on dorsal surface, polished and punctate on ventral surface, punctures coarse, deep and dense to scattered (distance between punctures 1.0–3.0 × puncture diameters); inner spur of mid and hind tibia slightly longer than outer spur; hind basitarsus 9.4 × longer than wide, and 1.0 × as tarsomeres 2–5; tarsal claws with six tooth-like processes. Setae: erect to recumbent, long and scattered on dorsal surface; erect or semi erect, long and scattered on pronotum; recumbent or semi erect, short and scattered on sides and venter of mesosoma; erect, long and dense on hind surface of propodeum; erect, long and dense on propleuron (setae length 0.8 × pretarsus length).   
 Metasoma pyriform (lateral view), moderately compressed laterally; petiole elongate, slender, 2.4 × longer than wide; segments 1 and 2 mostly polished and shiny; laterodistal parts of T2 and remaining segments with fine, superficial and dense punctures; S7 polished with coarse, deep and dense punctures; T8 finely sculptured, with fine, deep and scattered punctures; ovipositor 1.4 × fore wing length. Setae: segments 1 and 2 mostly glabrous; recumbent, short and dense on laterodistal parts of T2 and on remaining segments.   
MALE unknown.  
 Intraspecific variation. Examined 6♀. Length: 18.0– 19.8 mm; fore wing length: 13.1–15.3 mm; ovipositor 1.2–1.4 × fore wing length. The colour and the colour pattern, especially of the wings is almost constant within the six specimens.   
 Distribution. China (Guangdong and Jiangsu provinces) (Fig. 186).   
 Biology. Unknown.
description: Published as part of Turrisi, Giuseppe Fabrizio & Smith, David R., 2011, Systematic revision and phylogeny of the endemic southeastern Asian Pristaulacus comptipennis species group (Hymenoptera: Aulacidae) 2959, pp. 1-72 in Zootaxa 2959 (1) on pages 41-43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2959.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5281410