Ficomila tanzanica Lotfalizadeh & Delvare & Cruaud & Rasplus 2024, sp. n.
Creators: name: Lotfalizadeh, Hossein
name: Delvare, Gérard
name: Cruaud, Astrid
name: Rasplus, Jean-Yves
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eurytomidae
Ficomila
Ficomila tanzanica

description: Ficomila tanzanica Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus sp. n.   
(Figs 41–43)  
  Type material examined. Holotype  ♀: United Republic of Tanzania, Mazumbai, ex syconia of Ficus chirindensis, 16.iii.1996, Rasplus J.-Y. & Kerdelhué C. leg. Deposited in CBGP. Paratypes: same data as holotype, 8♀. Extralimital sampling: Saudi Arabia, Jebel Ibrahim, Ficus ingens, 17.iii.1993, Lachaise leg., 2♀ & 20♂.   
 Etymology. The specific name refers to the type locality in the United Republic of Tanzania.   
 Diagnosis. Female body yellowish (Fig. 41A). POL long, more than 2× as long as OOL (Fig. 41D). Flagellum with fu2–fu4 as long as broad, fu5 broader than long, fu1–fu4 with one row of sensilla (Fig. 41B). Mesoscutum densely coriaceous and sparsely umbilicate, propodeum rugose medially (Fig. 42A). Gaster of female compressed laterally, dorsally angulate (Fig. 42D).   
Male with body yellowish, partly dark brown, robust with enlarged femora (Fig. 43A). Flagellum with fu2–fu4 long, longer than wide; clava dark or dark brown (Fig. 43B). Propodeum with long median carina, exceeding half propodeum length (Fig. 43C). Fore wing and mv extremely setose, setae blackish (Fig. 43D).  
 Description of holotype ♀ (Figs 41–42). Length 3.36 mm. Body yellowish (Fig. 41A), except ocellar area dark and antennal flagellum, mesosoma dorsomedially dark brown, pronotum yellowish and black dorsomedially; fore wing with a dark brown spot below mv, lower margin of mv not obscured by dark brown spot, dark brown spot reaching base of mv (Fig. 42E); gaster uniformly coloured (Fig. 42C); body setation whitish, setation of fore wing entirely dark.   
 Head 1.39× as broad as high [HW 170 & HH 122] (Fig. 41C); in dorsal view stout, 1.74× as broad as long [HW 170 & HL 98] (Fig. 41D); face and vertex coriaceous with sparse punctures; malar space 0.62× length of eye [ms 40 & EH 65]; malar sulcus distinct, straight (Fig. 41E); genal margin regularly curved, edged but not carinate; antennal toruli narrowly separated, interantennal space not raised, carinate laterally; scrobal depression smooth, reaching the median ocellus, not carinate on margin; POL 2.5× as long as OOL [POL 55 & OOL 22] (Fig. 41D); temple rounded, 0.42× the eye length (in dorsal view) [TL 32 & EL 77]; setation oriented downwards on face, outwards on the punctuate frons.   
 Antenna. Scape not reaching median ocellus, 4.06× as long as broad, [SL 130 & SW 32]; fu1 1.81× as long as broad, [fu1L 67 & fu1W 37], distinctly longer than pedicel, bulging dorsally; funiculars (fu2–fu4) with one row of mps and 2 whorls of adpressed setae; fu2–fu5 as long as broad (Fig. 40B).   
 Mesosoma not distinctly arched, 1.7× as long as wide (170:100), with obliterate punctures (Fig. 42A); pronotum with coarse umbilicate punctures; mesodiscrimen with a ring-like process, adjacent to mesocoxa; mesoscutum 0.55× as long as wide (55:100), 0.6× longer than length of pronotal collar (55:90), with dense umbilicate punctures, transversely strigose anteriorly; notauli conspicuous, slightly obliterated by mesoscutum sculpture; prepectus bare, smooth medially; mesoscutellum laterally with sparse and shallow umbilicate punctures and coriaceous sculpture on mesoscutellar disc; mesepimeron transversally strigose; metepimeron subtriangular and areolate with long white hairs; propodeum (Fig. 42B) with shallow median depression, without smooth median band, without any median carina; lateral rows of areolae absent; inverted U-shaped basal carina, lateral branches relatively straight, width of basal carinae about 0.5× width of nucha.   
 Fore wing with short marginal fringe, apically subtruncate (pointed anteriorly); dark brown spot below mv; basal cell more setose; mv slightly enlarged, normally broadened, in lower margin concave; stv curved up; pmv not distinct; ventral side of costal cell sparsely setose, dorsally bare; speculum present; parastigmal bristles absent (Figs 42E, F).   
 Legs. Fore coxa without depression on frontal surface, hind coxa bare basodorsally; fore (30:10) and hind femora (30:12); hind tibia dorsally with 10 setae, setae shorter than tibia width basally.   
 Metasoma. Petiole shorter than broad dorsally, ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present. Metasoma 1.5× as long as wide (165:110) (Fig. 42C), shorter than mesosoma, slightly compressed laterally (Fig. 42D); ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present; petiole in dorsal view not longer than wide, shorter than half-length of hind coxa; tergites finely sculptured; Gt4 (in lateral view) slightly as long as Gt3, not sinuous posteriorly; Gt5 mostly covering Gt6, not sinuous posteriorly; Gt6 sparsely setose ventrally; ovipositor upturned (Fig. 42C).   
 Male (Fig. 43). Length 1.02–2.75 mm. Similar to female with longer petiole (Fig. 43A); exhibiting same colouration, clava and fu4 dark brown; antennal formula 11143, fu2–fu4 longer than broad; each funicular with 2 rows of mps and 2 whorls of adpressed setae (Fig. 43B); Propodeum with long median carina, exceeding half propodeum length (Fig. 43C); fore wing more setose than in female, without speculum, mv much wider than female, costal cell densely setose dorsally, basal cell slightly darkened distally (Fig. 43D).   
 Variation. Length 2.20–2.60 mm. Sometimes body generally brown.   
 Host plants. Ficus ingens and F. chirindensis.   
 Geographical distribution. United Republic of Tanzania and Saudi Arabia.
description: Published as part of Lotfalizadeh, Hossein, Delvare, Gérard, Cruaud, Astrid & Rasplus, Jean-Yves, 2024, Morphological phylogeny and revision of Sycophila and Ficomila (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea, Eurytomidae) associated with Afrotropical fig trees (Moraceae, Ficus), pp. 1-190 in Zootaxa 5401 (1) on pages 65-68, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5401.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524258