Teasienna eirene Heydon
Creators: name: Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pteromalidae
Teasienna
Teasienna eirene

description: <i>Teasienna eirene</i> Heydon (Figs 91–99) <i>T. eirene</i> Heydon, 2004: 184 –186; holotype in UCD, examined. <b>Diagnosis.</b> <i>Female</i> (male unknown): flagellum uniformly brown on dorsal side, paler ventrally (Figs 93, 95); legs uniformly pale (Fig. 91); fore wing hyaline (Fig. 99); body setation short (longest genal setae about 1/5 length of tegula) and whitish (Figs 93, 95, 96, 99); head in profile with face only slightly convex at toruli level (Fig. 95); eye height 1.55–1.80× length of malar space; eye in lateral view not distinctly inclined relative to vertical axis of head (Fig. 95); lower margin of toruli slightly above or level with lower margin of eyes (Fig. 93); antenna (Figs 93, 95) with scape barely reaching median ocellus; clava width 1.1–1.5× width of F1; proximal funicular segments quadrate to slightly transverse, distal funicular segments slightly to moderately transverse (F5 width 1.1–1.5× length); mesosoma length about equal to width; MV length 2.0–2.5× width; fore wing speculum present, although small (Fig. 99). The females of <i>T. eirene</i> are very similar to those of <i>T. africana</i> (see diagnosis of the latter species). <b>Material examined.</b> Type material. Holotype &amp;female;. <b>INDIA:</b> ‘ India: Karnataka, Bangalore 916m, 11-20.V.1989, K. Ghorpade’, ‘ HOLOTYPE Teasienna eirene Heydon 2004, UCDavis Type No. 1713’ (UCD). Paratypes. 3&amp;female;, same information as holotype (UCD); 2&amp;female;, same information, ’ 21-30.III.1987, Ghorpade MT’ (UCD); 3&amp;female;, same information, ’ 21-30.IV.89, K. Ghorpade MT’ (UCD). Other material. <b>INDIA:</b> 1&amp;female; ‘ India: 916m, Karnataka, Bangalore, 21-30.IV.87, Ghorpade MT’ (UCD); 1&amp;female;, same information, ’ 21-30.IV.89 ’ (UCD); 1&amp;female; ‘Utar Pradesh, New Dehli, IARI; 230 m, 28°37’51”N 77°9’50”E, 9.vii.90 J. Heraty’, ‘Univ. Calif. Riverside, Ent. Res. Museum, UCRCENT 122455 ’, ‘ Teasienna Det. R. Burks 2005 ’ (UCR); 5&amp;female; ‘ India: Karnataka, Bangalore, 916m, 1-15.V.1988, K. Ghorpade’ (CNC); 2&amp;female;, same information, ‘ 1-10.VI.1988 ’ (CNC); 2&amp;female;, same information, ‘ 21-30.VI.1988 ’ (CNC); 1&amp;female;, same information, ‘ 1-9.VI.1988 ’ (CNC); 1&amp;female;, same information, ‘ 1-10.VII.1988 ’ (CNC). <b>INDONESIA:</b> 1&amp;female; ‘ Indonesia: Flores Is., Manggarai Dist., Sano Nggoang Subdist., Golo Leleng Village YPT, 29.VII-5.VIII.1999, M. I. Wibawa’ (UCD); 1&amp;female; ‘ Indonesia: Sumatra, Aceh, Gunung Leuser Nat. Pk., Ketambe Res. Sta., 1-31 DEC 1989. per DC Darling. IIS 890014, 1° rainforest. Young forest (T3) / mature forest (T4). gap / canopy. 350- 400 m. 3°41’N, 97°39’E, Malaise trap head’, ‘ROM’ (UCD). <b>THAILAND:</b> 2&amp;female; ‘ Thailand: Doi Inthanon Natl. Pk., 70km SW Chiangmai, 1700m 27.IV- 3.V.1990 B. V. Brown’ (CNC). <b>VIETNAM:</b> 2&amp;female; ‘N Vietnam: Hai Phong Cat Ba N. P., 87 m, N 20°47’58” E 107°00’21”, 18-24.x.2009, Mal. Tr., RMNH’09, C. v. Achterberg &amp; R. de Vries’, ‘BE.67986’ (RMNH). <b>Redescription.</b> <i>Female</i>. Body length: 0.8–2.0 mm. <i>Colour.</i> Head and mesosoma mostly black, with weak, mainly blue-green reflections (Figs 93–96); pronotum, mesopleuron and propodeum from yellowish-brown to dark brown (Figs 97, 98); membranous area between pronotum and fore coxa whitish (Fig. 97). Gaster dorsally light brown to dark brown, lighter ventrally, from whitish to light brown (Fig. 91). Eyes from pale reddish-grey to dark red; ocelli whitish (Figs 93, 94). Antenna (Figs 93, 95) with scape and pedicel yellowish-brown; flagellum uniformly brown. Mandibles yellowish-brown, teeth reddish-brown. Legs (Fig. 91) entirely pale yellow to yellowish-brown except for darker pretarsi. Wings hyaline, tegula and venation yellowish-brown, venation paler ventrally (Fig. 99). Body setation whitish, wing setation brownish (Figs 93, 96, 99). <i>Sculpture.</i> Head and mesosoma smooth to finely coriaceous-alutaceous (Figs 93–98); gaster smooth. <i>Structure.</i> Head. Longest genal setae about 1/5 length of tegula. Head in profile with face slightly convex at toruli level (Fig. 95). Lower margin of toruli from about level with to slightly above lower eye margins (Fig. 93). Scape not or barely reaching median ocellus. Antenna only slightly clavate, clava 1.1–1.5× as wide as F1 (6.5:4.5) (Figs 93, 95). Eyes oval, inner margins slightly diverging ventrally (Fig. 93); eye in lateral view not distinctly inclined relative to vertical axis of head (Fig. 95). Head width 2.1–2.4× length in dorsal view (47:22) and 1.2–1.3× height in frontal view (47:40). POL 1.4–1.6× as long as OOL (12:8). Eye height 1.20–1.25× length (22:18) and 1.55–1.80× malar space (22:12). Scape length from slightly shorter (usually) to virtually equal to eye height (20:22). Head width about 1.2× length of pedicel plus flagellum (47:40). F1 width 1.0–1.2× length (4.5:4.0); F5 width 1.1–1.5× length (6:5); clava length 1.8–2.1× width (12.0:6.5). Mesosoma. Scutellar spine small, hardly visible among dense setae (Fig. 96). Propodeum smooth, median carina thin (Fig. 98). Fore wing (Fig. 99) with small speculum; parastigma with hyaline break. Mesosoma length 1.0–1.1× width (41:41), width 1.3–1.5× height (41:32). Mesoscutum width 2.3–2.8× length (41:16). Mesoscutellum length about equal to width (20:20). Propodeum length about 0.3× mesoscutellum length (6:20). Fore wing length 1.85–2.10× width (87:47). MV length 2.0–2.5× width (8.5:4.0); SV 1.6–2.6× MV (17.0:8.5); PV 2.5–3.8× MV (20.0:8.5). Gaster. Short ovate, from slightly longer to distinctly shorter than head plus mesosoma (Figs 91, 92); length 1.3–2.1× width (43:33). <i>Male</i>. Unknown. <b>Distribution.</b> India (Heydon 2004); Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam (new records). <b>Biology.</b> Unknown.
description: Published as part of <i>Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan, 2017, Revision of world Austroterobiinae and Parasaphodinae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae), parasitoids of giant scales (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Monophlebidae), pp. 1-63 in Zootaxa 4301 (1)</i> on pages 38-41, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4301.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/839721
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