Oreiscelio badius Talamas &amp; Johnson &amp; van Noort &amp; Masner &amp; Polaszek 2009, sp. n.
Creators: name: Talamas, Elijah
name: Johnson, Norman
name: van Noort, Simon
name: Masner, Lubomir
name: Polaszek, Andrew
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Scelionidae
Oreiscelio
Oreiscelio badius

description: <i>Oreiscelio badius</i> Talamas &amp; Johnson, sp. n. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 24D4D01B-13CF-4310-99FE-BA66482DC2AF urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:232502 Figures 1, 8, 16, 20, 37-42; Morphbank <b> 18</b> <b>Description.</b> General: Body length of female: 2.2-2.4 mm (n=20). Body length of male: 2.2 mm (n=1). Body color: dark brown to black, metasoma often lighter than head and mesosoma. Antenna: Color of antennae in female: pale brown throughout. Color of antennae in male: A1–A2 brown; A3–A12 variably becoming yellow apically, antennomeres often yellow ventrally. Seta on pedicel of antenna in female: present, reaching past apex of A3. Head: Color of setae on the head: white. Sculpture of dorsal frons between frontal carina and median ocellus: areolate, areolate, effaced medially. Preocellar pit in females: absent, indicated by a small round depression. Transverse rugae at vertex: present. Sculpture of posterior vertex: areolate. Sculpture of occipital rim: areolate. Interantennal process: simple. Number of anteriorly projecting setae on anteclypeus: 6. Color of mandibles in male: basal half black; apical half pale brown. Color of mandibles in female: yellow throughout with teeth brown. Mandibular teeth in female: teeth of equal size, ventral tooth larger, but less than 2 times as long as dorsal tooth. Sculpture of ventral gena anterior to genal carina: row of areolae, dorsoventrally rugose. Sculpture of ventral gena posterior to genal carina: areolate, mostly smooth, with sparse large punctures. Shape of anteclypeus: striplike, straight to slightly convex. Legs: Color of legs: brown, tarsi and distal portion of tibiae yellow, brown, distal portion of tibiae and tarsomeres 1-4 yellow, apical tarsomere brown. Mesosoma: Sculpture of dorsal pronotum: areolate. Color of setae on the dorsal mesosoma: white. Sculpture of medial mesoscutum: areolate, areolate, with pronounced longitudinal ridges. Sculpture of lateral mesoscutum: same as medial mesoscutum with a subtle confusion of sculptural elements. Notaulus in female: absent. Parapsidal line: indistinguishable. Sculpture of scutellum: areolate. Median furrow on scutellum: absent, present as a weak indentation. Posterior margin of scutellum: emarginate, convex. Outer projection of the propodeum: present as distinct corner or posteriorly projecting spine. Posterior margin of propodeal shelf between inner and outer propodeal projections in female: concave. Posterior margin of propodeal shelf between inner and outer propodeal projections in male: nearly straight. Sculpture of ventral pronotum: foveate reticulate, becoming smooth at anterolateral corner, mostly smooth with longitudinal rugulae ventrally. Anterior pronotal pit: absent, small. Pronotal cervical sulcus: poorly defined, well defined by contiguous punctures. Mesepimeral sulcus: indicated by dorsoventral line of foveae, crenulate. Sculpture of femoral depression in female: anterior half smooth, posterior half longitudinally striate. Sculpture of femoral depression in male: smooth throughout, with weak transverse striae throughout. Mesopleural carina: present as one or two carinae, weakly defined by fine ridges. Sculpture of ventral mesepisternum: with smooth area surrounded by small foveae. Pilosity of metapleural triangle in female: present as many short fine white setae. Pilosity of metapleural triangle in male: present as many short fine white setae. Sculpture of ventral area of metapleuron: smooth Metasoma: Submarginal ridge on T1: indicated by an irregular ridge, absent. Sublateral tergal carina on T2: absent. Sculpture of T2–T3: reticulate rugose. Sculpture of T4: longitudinally strigose. Sculpure of T5: longitudinally strigose. Shape of subapical T 6 in female in dorsal view: short, width along anterior margin at least three times the length. Apex of T 7 in male: straight to slightly concave, with small points laterally. Longitudinal medial keel on S1: absent. Sculpture of medial S 2 in female: reticulate rugose. Sculpture of medial S 3 in female: effaced to smooth. Sculpture of medial S 4 in female: effaced to smooth. Sculpture of medial S 5 in female: effaced to smooth. Sculpture of lateral S 3 in female: reticulate rugose, longitudinally strigose. Sculpture of lateral S 4 in female: reticulate rugose, longitudinally strigose. Sculpture of lateral S 5 in female: reticulate rugose. Sculpture of marginal depression of S 2 in female: rugulose. Sculpture of marginal depression of S 3 in female: rugulose. Sculpture of marginal depression of S 4 in female: rugulose. Sculpture of marginal depression of S 5 in female: rugulose. Apical spine on S 6 in female: extending beyond apex of T6 and visible in dorsal view. Sculpture of medial S 2 in male: punctate reticulate. Sculpture of medial S 3 in male: smooth. Sculpture of lateral S 3 in male: longitudinally strigose. Sculpture of lateral S 4 in male: rugulose. Sculpture of medial S 5 in male: smooth. Sculpture of lateral S 5 in male: longitudinally strigose. <b>Diagnosis.</b> <i>Oreiscelio badius</i> is similar to <i>O. rugosus</i>, <i>O. turneri</i>, <i>O. zulu</i> and <i>O. coracinus</i>. Th e concave carina that delimits the subapical portion of T6 (Fig. 42) serves well to identify this species. It may be reliably separated from <i>O. rugosus</i> by the coarse sculpture of the gena (Fig. 1), from <i>O. turneri</i> by the subequal size of the mandibular teeth, and from O. <i>coracinus</i> by the lack of an anterior pronotal pit (Fig. 8) and very faint or absent divergent carinae on the frons above the interantennal process (Fig. 41). <i>Oreiscelio badius</i> can be separated from <i>O. zulu</i> by the presence of a dorsal flange on the interantennal process (Fig. 131, 132) in the latter. <b>Etymology.</b> The epithet <i>badius</i>, meaning “brown”, refers to the color of this species. <b>Link to distribution map.</b> <b> 19</b> <b>Material examined.</b> Holotype female: <b>BOTSWANA</b>: Serowe, Farmer’s Brigade, II.1989, malaise trap, P. Forchhammer, OSUC 171169 (deposited in USNM) <b> 20</b> . <i>Paratypes</i>: <b>BOTSWANA</b>: 1 male, 55 females, OSUC 164327-164340, 164342, 164344- 164349, 164351, 202158, 202161, 202163, 202165-202168, 211427, 211430 (OSUC); OSUC 171165-171168, 171170, 171172, 211402-211412, 223911- 223913 (USNM); OSUC 234275, 234332, 234335-234337 (CNCI).
description: Published as part of <i>Talamas, Elijah, Johnson, Norman, van Noort, Simon, Masner, Lubomir &amp; Polaszek, Andrew, 2009, Revision of world species of the genus Oreiscelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea, Platygastridae), pp. 1-68 in ZooKeys 6 (6)</i> on pages 20-22, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.6.67, http://zenodo.org/record/576433