Lysitermus tritoma
Creators: name: Achterberg, Cornelis van
name: Skeppstedt, Fredrik
name: Vaeaenaenen, Simo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Lysitermus
Lysitermus tritoma

description: Lysitermus tritoma (Bou&amp;ccaron;ek, 1956) Figs 12, 13-18, 19-21, 22-25, 26-27, 28-29 Rogadinaspis tritoma Bou&amp;ccaron;ek, 1956: 441. Lysitermus tritoma; Hedqvist, 1963: 35; Shenefelt 1975: 1155; van Achterberg 1991: 20; Gupta and Quicke 2018: 429; Mifsud et al. 2019: 54 [examined]. Paracedria suecicus Hedqvist, 1957: 219. Lysitermus suecicus; Hedqvist, 1963: 35 (as synonym of L. pallidus); Shenefelt 1975: 1155; van Achterberg 1991: 20; Gupta and Quicke 2018: 429; Mifsud et al. 2019: 54 [examined]. Syn. nov. Material. 1 &amp;female; (FMNH), " <b>Finland</b>: Ab, Parainen, Pexor, 60.26°N, 22.25°E, Malaise trap 1a, 25.vi.-6.vii.2020, Juho Paukkunen"; 1 &amp;female; (CSV), same label data, but 6-19.vii.2020, Juho Paukkunen &amp; Jonathan Scotson; 1 &amp;female; + 1 &amp;male; (RMNH), "S. <b>Sweden</b>: Uppland, Edsbro, Kristineholm, S15 or S20, coll. 28.i.2009, ex <i>Inonotus radiatus</i> on <i>Alnus glutinosa</i>, C. Gonzales Alonso, RMNH’11”; 1 &amp;male; (RMNH), " <b>Netherlands</b>: UT, UTM FF 6560, Amerongen, unmanaged <i>Quercus robur</i> [forest], ex dead stem [in] cage 9(h), 29.v.-12.vi.2001, L. Moraal, RMNH’02”; 1 &amp;female; (NMS), " <b>France</b>: Lot-et-Garonne, Bernac, 28.vii.[19]90, M.R. Shaw"; 1 &amp;female; + 2 &amp;male; (RMNH), " <b>Spain</b>, Llansa, 1986, ex <i>Luffia lapidella</i>, H. Hendrickx, RMNH’96”; 1 &amp;female; (RMNH), " <b>Portugal</b>, Oeiras, 18-22.viii.1979, A. van Harten"; 9 &amp;female; + 4 &amp;male; (RMNH), "Portugal, Cascais fort, ex <i>Luffia lapidella</i>, coll. 27.vii.1994, H. Hendrickx"; 5 &amp;female; + 3 &amp;male; (RMNH), idem, but coll. 4.v.1995, ex <i>Luffia</i> sp.; 1 &amp;female; (RMNH), idem, but coll. 1.iii.1995; 10 &amp;female; + 2 &amp;male; (RMNH, ZJUH), idem, but Cascais (and mislabelled as from Azores), ex <i>Luffia ferchaultella</i> (Psych.), coll. 27.vii.1994, em. 21.viii.1994; 2 &amp;female; (RMNH, MTMA) " <b>Italy</b>: Sardinia centr., Bruncu Istiddi, 900 m, ex <i>Luffia</i> sp. n.?, viii.1975, E. Hartig &amp; Gozmany"; 1 &amp;female; + 1 &amp;male; (NMS), " <b>Malta</b>, Buscett, 22.xi.2006, ex larva on <i>Luffia lapidella</i> (Goeze, 1783) [Psychidae], M. Zerafa"; 2 &amp;female; + 1 &amp;male; (NMS), "Malta: Mosta valley, larva on <i>Eudarcia derrai</i> (Gaedike, 1983) [Tineidae], coll. 22.ii.2010, em. v.2010, M. Zerafa"; 3 &amp;female; + 5 &amp;male; (BZL, NMS), " <b>Romania</b>: Siebenbürgen, Munt Apuseni (Trascaului), Umg. Posaga 2 km oberhalb, 600 m, ex <i>Dahlica rakosy</i> oder <i>Apt. Dahlica helicoidella</i> [Psychidae], em. Ende April 2005, M. Weidlich"; 2 &amp;female; + 1 &amp;male; (BZL, NMS), " <b>Bulgaria</b>: Macedonia, Pirin planina - Süd, Umg. Jane Sandanski, 1220 m, el. 13.v.2000, M. Weidlich, ex <i>Dahlica</i> sp. [Psychidae]". Redescription. Figured &amp;female; from France (NMS), length of body 1.6 mm and of fore wing 1.4 mm. <b> <i>Head</i>.</b> Antenna 1.1 × as long as fore wing, with 15 segments, rather widened apically (Fig. 12), scapus oblique apically, length of third segment 1.1 × fourth segment; third, fourth and penultimate segments 5.0, 4.5, and 3.1 × their width, respectively; face largely smooth, with long erect setae and 1.7 × wider than high; clypeus smooth, upper half distinctly convex and ventral half depressed; head in dorsal view 1.8 × broader than long medially, eye 1.4 × longer than temple dorsally, strongly and roundly narrowed posteriorly (Fig. 18); vertex smooth and shiny, including area near stemmaticum (Fig. 18); occipital carina moderately strong and in front of it indistinctly micro-crenulate; POL: diameter of posterior ocellus: OOL = 2:2:3; eye in lateral view 1.6 × as high as wide, temple distinctly broadening ventrally, smooth and width of eye 1.6 × minimum width of temple laterally (Fig. 12); malar space 0.4 × as long as height of eye and 1.5 × as long as basal width of mandible; frons smooth and shiny. <b> <i>Mesosoma</i>.</b> Mesosoma 1.5 × as long as high in lateral view; mesoscutum granulate and with 2 rather short carinulae and no medio-posterior groove (Fig. 14); notauli shallow, distinctly developed anteriorly and posterior half obsolescent, largely smooth and anteriorly connected to lateral irregular carina; scutellar sulcus with 1 carina; scutellum smooth and shiny, convex (Fig. 14); propodeum shiny, largely smooth between carinae and with large areola, its median carina approx. as long as anterior side of areola (Fig. 14); side of pronotum rugose-crenulate and with some granulate sculpture; mesopleuron largely smooth and convex (Fig. 12); precoxal sulcus rather deep and only in anterior half present, with few crenulae anteriorly; metapleuron largely smooth and with long setae; mesosternal sulcus deep, narrow and smooth. <b> <i>Wings</i>.</b> Fore wing: pterostigma elongate triangular and 3.5 × longer than wide (Fig. 13), r issued from its middle and slightly longer than width of pterostigma; 2-SR completely absent (Fig. 13); 3-SR 1.5 × longer than r; SR1 straight and reaching tip of wing; m-cu rather short (Fig. 13); subdiscal cell distally closed, CU1b close to m-cu and CU1a at same level as 2-CU1 (Fig. 13). <b> <i>Legs</i>.</b> Hind coxa largely smooth; length of femur, tibia and basitarsus of hind leg 5.0, 9.2, and 5.2 × their width, respectively; hind tarsus hardly compressed. <b> <i>Metasoma</i>.</b> Length of first tergite 0.6 × its apical width, its dorsal surface evenly convex, surface longitudinally striate and with additional granulate sculpture between striae, its dorsal carinae lamelliform and medially interconnected; medial length of second tergite 0.9 × its basal width, and 1.4 × as long as third tergite; second and third tergites longitudinally striate and with distinct secondary granulate sculpture; second transverse suture coarsely crenulate and nearly straight (Fig. 15); third tergite antero-laterally without minute tooth-shaped protuberance and distinctly narrowed posteriorly (Figs 15, 16), with distinct smooth and shiny apical rim (Fig. 15); apical lamella of third metasomal tergite moderately protruding laterally (Fig. 12), concave and wide in dorsal view, with approx. 8 carinae (Fig. 16); setose part of ovipositor sheath 0.21 × as long as fore wing and 0.6 × as long as hind tibia, slightly widened apically (Fig. 12). <b> <i>Colour</i>.</b> Dark brown; third tergite dark brown, contrasting with largely yellowish brown second tergite (Figs 15, 16); first tergite yellowish brown; antenna (basal segments yellowish), pterostigma (but basal fifth yellow) and veins M+CU1 apically, 1-CU1, 1-M, and veins of apical half of fore wing dark brown (Fig. 13); palpi and tarsi pale yellowish; remainder of legs yellowish brown; wing membrane infuscate, but band below base of pterostigma and marginal cell partly, subhyaline (Fig. 13). <b> <i>Variations</i>.</b> Antenna with 14-17 segments; length of body 1.5-1.9 mm, and of fore wing 1.3-1.5 mm; length of ovipositor sheath 0.21-0.26 × as long as fore wing; vein 2-SR of fore wing varies from completely absent (Figs 13, 19), complete (Fig. 29) to small unsclerotised trace (Fig. 45); notauli complete to posterior third obsolescent; scutellar sulcus with 1-3 carinae; precoxal sulcus smooth or with few crenulae; metapleuron largely smooth or with some rugulae medially; median carina of propodeum approx. as long as anterior side of areola or much shorter; second metasomal tergite 1.3-1.5 × longer than second tergite; lamella of third tergite hardly serrate (Fig. 12), with 8-16 carinae; colour of body is very variable: southern specimens are brownish yellow with only third tergite dark brown and northern specimens are largely dark brown (except first and second tergites, but in both Finnish specimens also darkened; Figs 27 - 29), sometimes hind coxa, femur and tibia largely brown or dark brown (Fig. 29). <b>Male.</b> Very similar to female, but metasoma slenderer (Fig. 20); antenna with 16 or 17 segments; length of body 1.4-1.6 mm, and of fore wing 1.3 mm; head dark brown dorsally; linear medio-posterior depression of mesoscutum absent or slightly impressed; third tergite dark brown and contrasting with yellowish second tergite (Fig. 20), striate and/or granulate and its lamella hardly serrate (Figs 19-21, 45); pterostigma dark brown basally. Biology. Reared from lepidopterous case-bearing larvae belonging to Psychidae (<i>Luffia ferchaultella</i> (Stephens, 1850); <i>L. lapidella</i> (Goeze, 1783); <i>L.</i> sp.; <i>Dahlica</i> sp.) and Tineidae (<i>Eudarcia derrai</i> (Gaedike, 1983); Mifsud et al. 2019). It has been reared from <i>Inonotus radiatus</i> bracket fungi on <i>Alnus glutinosa</i> (L.) (Jonsell et al. 2016), most likely from host cases hiding in the fungi. Distribution. *Bulgaria, Czech Rep., *Finland, *France, Italy (Sardinia), Malta, *Netherlands, Poland, *Portugal (mainland), *Romania, *Spain (mainland), Sweden. Notes. The medio-longitudinal carina of the propodeum is very variable in length, from about as long as oblique anterior side of propodeal areola to much shorter and the second metasomal suture varies from distinctly sinuate (typical <i>L. tritoma</i>; Figs 24, 25) to straight (typical <i>L. suecicus</i>; Figs 15, 20, 22). After more reared specimens became available, intermediates of both characters have been found, and there are no grounds to separate any longer the two species, as has been proposed by van Achterberg (1991). The holotype of <i>L. suecicus</i> (NRS) is incorrectly figured in the original description. For instance, the second tergite is not twice as long as the third tergite but 1.5 × (Fig. 22), the ovipositor sheath is not widened but subparallel, and the pterostigma is not robust but rather slender (Fig. 22).
description: Published as part of <i>Achterberg, Cornelis van, Skeppstedt, Fredrik &amp; Vaeaenaenen, Simo, 2021, Revision of the Palaearctic species of Lysitermus Foerster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Hormiinae), pp. 65-89 in ZooKeys 1040</i> on pages 73-77, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1040.66274
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