Aphelinus elvestueni Japoshvili & Hansen 2014
Creators: name: Japoshvili, George
name: Hansen, Lars Ove
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Aphelinidae
Aphelinus
Aphelinus elvestueni

description: Aphelinus elvestueni sp. nov.
Description: Holotype ♀. Length of body 1.66 mm.
Head dark brown; behind anterior ocellus and between posterior ocelli almost yellow, anterior part of FV yellow; scrobes on the face brown, around scrobes between eyes and between scrobes, also between mouth margin and antennal toruli yellow. Scape and basal half of pedicel brown, rest of antenna yellow. Thorax dark brown with metallic reflection. Tegula dark but not as dark as thorax. Ventral part and dorsal part (except first tergite, which is yellow) of gaster brown. Forewings hyaline, but under marginal vein with slight infuscation. Legs yellow, only mid and hind coxae dark, basal half of hind- and midtibia brown, midfemora and apical half of fore femora brownish, last tarsal segments brown.
Mesoscutum with fine dark setae and a pair of long setae at the apex, scutellum with 2 pairs of long setae.
Head slightly shiny. Ocelli forming an angle of about 100°. Antenna with apex of clava more or less pointed (Figure 1). Eye reaching occipital margin; upper temple rounded in facial view. Eye margins on the face curved. Scrobes moderately deep, U-shaped. Antennal torulus separated from mouth margin by about its own length.
Relative measurements on slides: HW 39, FV 12, POL 8, AOL 4, DPO 2, DAO 2, OOL 1.5, OCL 1.5, EL 22, MSL 14.
Paratype ♀ (length 1.29–1.43 mm). Forewing venation as in Figure 2.
Material examined [NORWAY]: Holotype: AKERSHUS [AK], Ullensaker: Randbydalen [N60.1147°, E11.2011°], 1♀ 26 August 1995, sweep-netted/meadow, leg. Ketil Sand. Paratypes: ØSTFOLD [Ø], Eidsberg: Mysen, Ertevatn [N59.49080, E 11.46566 ±500 m], 1♀ 12 June 2011, leg. Ove SØrlibråten; Eidsberg: Mysen, HØytorp fort [N59.56367°, E11.34181° ± 500 m], 1♀ 6 August 2012, leg. Ove SØrlibråten; AKERSHUS [AK], Nesodden: GjØfjell [N59.75253°, E10.60390° ± 100 m], 1♀ 28 July–1 Aug. 1997, Malaise trap, leg. Sverre Kobro; Asker: Langåra [N59.8519°, E10.5431° ± 2500 m], 1♀ 10 August 1997, Malaise trap, leg. Sverre Kobro; HEDMARK south [HES] Hamar: Hamar [Martodden; N60.7997°, E11.0292° ± 250 m], 1♀ 26 June 1959, leg. Alf Bakke; Arendal: HisØy [N58.4328°, E08.7469° ± 2500 m], 1♀ 18 July 1954, 3♀♀ 26 June 1959, leg. Alf Bakke.
Holotype and paratypes deposited at the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway; designated to the NHM, Oslo, Norway. One paratype deposited at the collection of Agricultural University of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Biology: Unknown.
Distribution: Norway.
Etymology: To honor the Norwegian politician Ola Elvestuen.
Comments: The new species is closely related to A. fusciscapus, but differs by the following morphological characters: ovipositor 3.6× as long as gonostyli (fusciscapus: 3×); clava 3.6× as long as broad (fusciscapus: less than 3×); F 3 longer than broad (fusciscapus: transverse).
description: Published as part of Japoshvili, George & Hansen, Lars Ove, 2014, Revision of the genus Aphelinus Dalman (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Aphelinidae) in Norway with descriptions of 3 new species, pp. 552-558 in Turkish Journal of Zoology 38 (5) on pages 553-554, DOI: 10.3906/zoo-1309-36, http://zenodo.org/record/10973730