Heterocoelia zhaoi Xu &amp; He 2006, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Xu, Zaifu
name: He, Junhua
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Heterocoelia
Heterocoelia zhaoi

description: 2, <i>Heterocoelia zhaoi</i> sp. nov. (Figs. 4–6) <b>Diagnosis.</b> Similar to <i>H. granulata</i> Móczár, 1984 from Sri Lanka in having head as long as wide and T2 broadly granulate basally, but differs in having a much larger body size, first flagellomere more than twice as long as pedicel, pedicel and flagellomeres 1–2 nearly parallel­sided and eye about 1.5x as long as malar space. In contrast, <i>H. granulata</i> has a shorter first flagellomere, unmodified pedicel and first two flagellomeres, and the malar space considerably shorter. <b>Description.</b> Holotype male. Body length 6.20 mm. Fore wing length 3.14 mm. <i>Colouration.</i> Body mainly black, except ventral surface of flagellomeres 1–4, mandible, clypeus, trochanters, tibiae, tarsi, posterior margins of T3–T6 reddish­brown. Wings hyaline; fore wing light brown, vein brown. <i>Vestiture.</i> Head and thorax with white hairs; T1 laterally, T2 laterally and posteriorly, and T3–T6 with white hairs; sterna with denser white hairs. <i>Structure.</i> Head dull, as long as wide; lateral margins strongly converging behind eyes; posterior margin straight in dorsal view, with some distinct pits along occipital carina; rounded posterolaterally. Eye 1.08x as long as wide (13: 12), convex, with sparse erect white hairs. Malar space 0.69x as long as eye (9: 13). Distance between posterior margin of eye and occipital carina 0.96x as long as first flagellomere (26: 27). Antenna gradually narrowed apically, flagellomeres 2–10 nearly parallel­sided; length (and width) of antennal segments in following proportions: 25.0 (11.0): 12.0 (9.0): 27.0 (10.5): 21.0 (10.0): 20.5 (9.5): 21.5 (9.0): 21.0 (8.5): 20.0 (7.5): 20.0 (7.5): 19.0 (7.0): 16.0 (6.0): 17.0 (5.5): 22.0 (5.0); flagellar hairs short, about half as long as width of last flagellomere. Anterolateral margin of clypeus rectangular. Frons densely, coarsely and deeply punctate, interspaces narrower than punctures. POL: OOL = 1:2. Pronotum dull, with anterior corners nearly rectangular, slightly protruding laterally, slightly concave laterally; posterior margin slightly concave in dorsal view. Mesoscutum somewhat shining, with fine scattered punctures; notauli very deep and sharply margined; longitudinal furrow not developed; transverse furrow between scutum and scutellum deep with pair of deep pits laterally; scutellum weakly shining, with 10 large scattered punctures posteriorly. Episternum deeply punctate. Propodeal disc slightly less than half as long as wide (3: 8); lateral surface of propodeum slightly divergent; lateral spines 0.40x as long as disc medially (2: 5); all carinae on dorsal surface well developed; sublateral carinae extending onto lateral spines; lateral surface of propodeum irregularly wrinkled, upper margin with a parallel strong carina reaching only to vertical edge of disc but not to lateral spine, posterior margin with two parallel strong carinae. Metasoma smooth; T1 impunctate; T2 broadly granulate basally, distinctly and deeply punctate posteriorly; T3–T6 granulate anteriorly and impunctate posteriorly. <i>Female.</i> Unknown. <i>Type material</i>. Male holotype, <b>China</b>, Fujian Province, Fuzhou, 26.05°N, 119.18°E, 19.IX.1990, coll. Xiufu ZHAO, No. 967700. Paratype: 1 male, same locality of holotype, 13.VIII.1989, coll. Changming LIU, No. 966312. <i>Etymology</i>. This species is named in honour of the collector of the holotype, the late Prof Xiufu ZHAO from Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University.
description: Published as part of <i>Xu, Zaifu &amp; He, Junhua, 2006, Revision of the genus Heterocoelia Dahlbom from China, with a key to the Oriental species (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae), pp. 61-68 in Zootaxa 1114 (1)</i> on pages 64-65, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1114.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5057797
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