Ceranisus votetoda S. Triapitsyn 2005, sp. n.
Creators: name: Triapitsyn, Serguei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eulophidae
Ceranisus
Ceranisus votetoda

description: Ceranisus votetoda sp. n. Figs 42–45 Etymology: “Vot eto da” stands for “wow” in Russian. Diagnosis: This species seems to be unrelated to <i>C. pacuvius</i> but in some regards is rather more similar to <i>C. barsoomensis</i> sp. n. (in having an elongated body, a long pronotum, and very short wings) and also to <i>C. femoratus</i> (in having a somewhat similar chaetotaxy on the forewing and a short ovipositor).All three species (<i>C. votetoda</i> sp. n., <i>C. barsoomensis</i> sp. n., and <i>C. femoratus</i>) have an angulate, broadly V or Y-shaped vertexal suture. Female of <i>C. votetoda</i> sp. n. can be easily distinguished from that of <i>C. barsoomensis</i> sp. n. by a much shorter ovipositor and different proportions of funicle segments, and from female of <i>C. femoratus</i> by a very small F1 without sensilla, a much longer pronotum, and much shorter marginal setae on the forewing. Description: Female (holotype). Body slender; general body colour brown, appendages light brown. Vertexal suture angulate (broadly Y-shaped). Antenna (Fig. 42) with scape slender, about 6 x as long as wide; pedicel a little longer than funicle; funicle short, F1 notably smaller than F2 and without sensilla, F2 with 1 sensillum; clava about 2.4 x as long as wide, its two segments subequal in length, with several sensilla. Mesosoma almost as long as metasoma; pronotum, mesoscutum, scutellum, and axillae with faint cellulate sculpture; pronotum very long for the genus (about as long as scutellum); notauli indistinct, faintly marked by change in sculpturing; midlobe of mesoscutum with 2 pairs of setae. Forewing (Fig. 43) 2.6–2.7 x as long as wide; longest marginal setae very short, less than 1/10 maximal width of forewing; disc hyaline, with numerous, very short setae, more or less uniformly setose behind and beyond base of marginal vein except for a narrow bare area along posterior margin behind base of marginal vein (this bare area not as prominent as in <i>C. menes</i>, the line of hairs demarcating it just a little sinuate); postmarginal vein about as long as stigmal vein. Hind wing about 8 x as long as wide; longest marginal setae equal to wing’s maximal width. Fore- and hind coxae faintly sculptured. Petiole much wider than long. Ovipositor occupying about 3/5 length of gaster, not exserted; ovipositor length/metatibia length ratio about 1.4:1. Measurements (n=1, holotype). Body: 867. Antenna: scape: 109; pedicel: 55; F1: 20; F2: 28; clava: 70. Forewing: 500/188; longest marginal seta: 16. Hind wing: 425/55; longest marginal seta: 55. Ovipositor: 221. Male. Body larger and darker (dark brown, with appendages brown to light brown), with shorter pronotum, and also wings notably broader than in female; otherwise similar to female except for normal sexually dimorphic features, as follows. Antenna (Fig. 44) with scape strongly dilated, smooth, about 1.7 x as long as wide; funicle as in female, clava compact, a little longer than funicle, about 1.7 x as long as wide. Genitalia as in Fig. 45. Holotype: Female on slide, labelled: 1. “ 29.21S 117.20E, 15 km N by E Mt. Singleton WA, 28-29 Sept. 1981 I. D. Naumann, J. C. Cardale ”; 2. “caught in yellow tray; ex alcohol collection”; 3. “Mounted at UCR/ ERM by V. V. Berezovskiy 2004 in Canada balsam. ANIC”; 4. (red) “ <i>Ceranisus votetoda</i> S. Triapitsyn HOLOTYPE ^” [ANIC]. Paratype: AUSTRALIA: <i>Western Australia</i>: same data as the holotype, 1ơ on slide (also labelled as “ơ <i>Ceranisus</i> nr <i>pacuvius</i> Walk. det. Z. Boucek, 1986”) [ANIC]. Host: Unknown.
description: Published as part of <i>Triapitsyn, Serguei V., 2005, Revision of Ceranisus and the related thrips-attacking entedonine genera (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) of the world, pp. 261-315 in African Invertebrates 46</i> on pages 297-298, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7909932