Diaparsis (Diaparsis) nitidulentis Khalaim &amp; Sheng 2009, sp. n.
Creators: name: Khalaim, Andrey
name: Sheng, Mao-Ling
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Diaparsis
Diaparsis nitidulentis

description: <i>Diaparsis (Diaparsis) nitidulentis</i> Khalaim &amp; Sheng, sp. n. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 52526EBE-F980-4A86-B37E-783699E4C9B8 Figs 1-3, 11-14 <b>Diagnosis.</b> In the key to Palaearctic species of the subgenus <i>Diaparsis</i> s. str. (Khalaim 2005), <i>D. nitidulentis</i> sp. n. runs to <i>D. nitida</i> Horstmann at couplet 22. Th e new species may be distinguished from this species by the slender flagellomeres (Fig. 2), weaker sternaulus (Fig. 12), longer ovipositor sheath (Fig. 11), and the shape of the ovipositor (Fig. 3). <b>Description.</b> Female. Body length 4.7 mm. Head roundly narrowed behind eyes in dorsal view (Fig. 1), temple 0.68 times as long as eye width (Fig. 1). Flagellum of antenna with 21-22 segments; all flagellomeres, excepting the first and apical ones, distinctly elongate, 1.3-1.5 times as long as wide (Fig. 2). Mandible mostly punctate, upper tooth distinctly longer than lower tooth. Malar space about as long as basal width of mandible. Occipital carina slightly raised in its lower part, after the juncture with oral carina. Clypeus broad, weakly and evenly convex, smooth, distinctly punctate in its upper 0.6. Face and frons finely granulate and densely punctate. Vertex almost smooth, rath- er densely pubescent. Temple finely and sparsely punctate, smooth and shining. Mesoscutum finely granulate and very densely punctate. Sternaulus as moderately depressed oblique area, transversely wrinkled (Fig. 12). Mesopleuron distinctly punctate centrally, with finer and denser punctures peripherally, smooth between punc- tures, with smooth impunctate area above sternaulus (Fig. 12). Mesosternum distinctly punctate, smooth between punctures. Basal keel of propodeum well developed, 0.41- 0.46 times as long as apical area (Fig. 13). Spiracle separate from pleural carina by two diameters of spiracle. Dorsolateral area of propodeum finely granulate, distinctly punctate. Apical area punctato-rugulose, weakly pointed anteriorly (at angle of about 85°) (Fig. 13). Fore wing length 3.65 mm. First section of radial vein longer than width of pterostigma. Metacarp not reaching apex of fore wing. Second recurrent vein postfurcal, unpigmented in its anterior part. Nervellus of hind wing weakly reclivous. Tarsal claws not pectinate. First tergite length 1.14, posterior width 0.27 mm; tergite very slender, round in transverse section, entirely smooth. Glymma small, round, with short furrow anteriorly, not joined by a furrow to ventral part of postpetiole. Th yridia about twice as long as wide (Fig. 14). Second tergite length 0.45 mm. Ovipositor upcurved, with two dorsal subapical teeth, and three fine teeth ventrally (Fig. 3); sheath 1.57 mm long, about 1.4 times as long as first tergite (Fig. 11). <b>Coloration.</b> Body black. Palpi, mandible (excepting teeth), lower 1/3 of clypeus, scape and pedicel of antenna ventrally and legs brownish yellow to yellow-brown. Coxae more or less darkened; fore coxa brownish yellow to brownish; mid and hind coxae brownish to dark brown, yellowish ventrally. Hind femur mostly brown, yellow-brown basally, apically and ventrally. Hind tibia and all tarsi usually slightly infuscate. Tegula and pterostigma dark brown. Metasoma behind first segment mostly yellow-brown, darkened dorsally. Male unknown. <b>Type material.</b> Holotype female, China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Liupanshan, 35°24’ N, 106°23’ E, 1820 m, 15.IX.2005, coll. M.-L. Sheng (GSFPM). Paratype. Data as in holotype, but 25.VIII.2005, 1 &amp;female; (ZISP). <b>Etymology.</b> From the Latin nitidus (bright, shining).
description: Published as part of <i>Khalaim, Andrey &amp; Sheng, Mao-Ling, 2009, Review of Tersilochinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of China, with descriptions of four new species, pp. 67-81 in ZooKeys 14 (14)</i> on pages 70-72, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.14.141, http://zenodo.org/record/576472
description: {"references": ["Khalaim AI (2005) A review of the subgenera Diaparsis s. str. and Pectinoparsis subgen. n. of the genus Diaparsis Forster (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Tersilochinae). Entomologicheskoe obozrenie 84 (2): 407 - 426. [In Russian]."]}