Copidosoma isfahan Japoshvili, sp. n.
Creators: name: Japoshvili, George
name: Rakhshani, Hamid
name: Khajehali, Jahangir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Encyrtidae
Copidosoma
Copidosoma isfahan

description: <b> <i>Copidosoma isfahan</i> Japoshvili sp. n.</b> (Figure 1) <b>Material.</b> Holotype &amp;female;, Northeast of Isfahan, Shahinshahr &amp; Komshecheh, 13.vi. 2015, H. Rakhshani (card mounted); – Paratypes 2&amp;female;, 1&amp;male;, same data as holotype (slide mount- ed); 2&amp;male;, same data as holotype (card mounted, one individual missing head). All material deposited in the collection of the Institute of Entomology, Agricultural University of Georgia, Tbilisi (IEAUG). <b>Diagnosis</b>. <i>Copidosoma isfahan</i> sp. n. is close to the following species: <i>C. charon</i> Guerrieri &amp; Noyes, 2005, <i>C. filicorne</i> (Dalman, 1820) and <i>C. fulgens</i> Sharkov, 1985, howev- er it differs from these species by the characters given in Table 1. <b>Description.</b> Female. Length 1.34-1.4 mm (1.44-1.5 mm including exserted part of ovipositor). Holotype 1.4 mm (1.5 mm). – Body black; head with shiny golden-green metallic reflection; pronotum, mesoscutum, axillae similar colouration as head; scutellum with shiny purple-silver metallic reflection; propodeum, metanotum, gaster with shiny golden-green metallic reflection; mesopleuron with purple-silver metallic reflection; tegullae and legs almost all white, only mid and hind coxa dark, with some metallic reflection; wings hyaline. Head about two times as wide as frontovertex; frontovertex 1.2x as long as wide; scape about 4x as long as wide; mandible tridentate; pedicel plus funicle 1.65x as long as head wide; clava longer than F4-6; occiputal margin sharp; metasoma slightly longer than mesosoma and almost 2x as long as broad; mesoscutum almost 0.7x as long as broad; scutellum almost as long as or slightly longer than broad; sculpture on mesoscutum and scutellum little different, on the mesoscutum with round- ed polygonal cells, scutellum with little elongated, but with wide cells similar to that of mesoscutum; metasoma with ovipositor straight, and exserted part about 0.2-0.23x as long as metasoma (holotype 0.23) and as long as or very slightly longer than basitarsus; hypopygium reaching apex of gaster. Relative measurement: HW (maximum head width) 19; FV (minimum frontovertex width) 10; POL (posterior ocellar line) 4; AOL (distance between posterior and anterior ocelli) 3; OOL (ocular-ocellar line) 1; OCL (occipital-ocellar line) 1.5; OD (greatest diameter of an ocellus) 2; EL (maximum eye length) 11; MS (malar space, i.e. shortest distance from the eye to mouth margin) 7; SL (scape length) 13, SW (maximum scape width) 2; FWL (maximum forewing length) 55; FWW (maximum forewing width) 25. Male. 1.18- 1.28 mm. Colouration as female. <b>Biology</b>. Gregarious endoparasitoid of <i>Altenia mersinella</i> (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) on <i>Pistacia vera</i> (Anacardiaceae). <b>Distribution</b>. Iran. <b>Etymology</b>. The name is after the collecting site name of the city Isfahan, Iran. The city was a capital of Persia during the XI-XVIII centuries.
description: Published as part of <i>George Japoshvili, Hamid Rakhshani &amp; Jahangir Khajehali, 2016, Zoology in the Middle East, pp. 261-264 in Zoology in the Middle East 62 (3)</i> on pages 262-263, DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2016.1202909, http://zenodo.org/record/192935
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