Mallochia macula Kasparyan & Ruiz-Cancino 2008
Creators: name: Khalaim, Andrey I.
name: Kasparyan, Dmitri R.
name: López-Ortega, Maurilio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Mallochia
Mallochia macula

description: 37. Mallochia macula Kasparyan & Ruíz-Cancino, 2008
(Figs 11–13)
References. Kasparyan & Ruíz-Cancino 2008: 143.
Remarks. Colour pattern of female is similar to that of male, and both sexes can easily be distinguished from their Mexican congeners by mesoscutum with a single subquadrate whitish spot in centre (Fig. 12) while in other species mesoscutum is either uncolored or black with a pair of yellow longitudinal stripes. Ovipositor of M. macula (Fig. 13) is similar to that of M. tabasco Kasparyan & Ruíz-Cancino.
Description. Female (first record). Fore wing length 5.3 mm. Antenna with 22 flagellomeres; flagellum 0.9× as long as fore wing; flagellomeres 1–3 subequal in length, 5–6× as long as wide; flagellomeres 1 and 2 combined 1.15× as long as maximum diameter of eye; flagellomeres 5–9 white, slightly compressed; flagellomeres 10–21 flagellomeres subcylindric, 1.3–1.5× as long as wide, slightly thickened, 1.6× as wide as basal flagellomere.
Face and clypeus mat, with fine dense punctures and short fine pubescence. Lower margin of clypeus sharp and with a small median tooth. Frons evenly granulate, with scarce fine pubescence. Gena subpolished, finely and sparsely punctate. Pronotum smooth, subpolished, without discernible punctures. Epomia absent. Mesoscutum evenly and finely granulate; lateral lobe anteriorly almost smooth; posterior 0.4 of mesoscutum with longitudinal striation reaching prescutellar groove. Scutellum subpolished, with scarce fine punctures. Mesopleuron smooth, with moderately fine punctures, distinctly striate in its upper front corner; speculum polished. Metapleuron subpolished, with scarce fine punctures in its anterior half and with very fine and dense oblique striation in posterior half. Propodeum with fine transverse striae; only basal transverse carina and pleural carinae present.
Fore wing with areolet open, receiving second recurrent vein (2m-cu) at basal 0.3; areolet as high as portion of second recurrent vein between bulla and areolet; nervulus (cu-a) opposite basal vein (Rs&M); postnervulus intercepted in its anterior 0.4. Hind wing with brachiella (distal section of 1A) absent.
Hind coxa mat, alutaceous, with rather dense, shallow, moderately fine punctures. Tergite 1 finely granulate. Tergite 2 evenly covered with very dense fine punctures. Tergites 3 and 4 smoother, with very fine punctures on very finely granulate background; subsequent tergites almost smooth, with hardly discernible granulation and punctures. Ovipositor sheath about 0.75× as long as hind tibia. Ovipositor apically with lower valve expanded dorsally (Fig. 13); distance from nodus to apex of upper valve equal to 0.75× length of hind tarsomere 2.
Antenna brownish-black; scape pale yellow ventrally; flagellomeres 5 to 9 white with brownish markings ventrally. Head white with black median wide band extending from antennal sockets to ocellar area and further to occiput; occiput black except for its lower 0.3. Mandible brownish with dull whitish spot at base; palpi with two basal segments white and following segments brownish. Propleuron white; pronotum whitish yellow anteriorly and black posteriorly, with small white markings in its upper hind corner and on upper margin before notaulus. Mesoscutum black with median subquadrate white mark (Fig. 12). Scutellum dorsally and tegula white. Prepectus black; mesopleuron white with narrow longitudinal black stripe below subtegular ridge, and with black mark on mesopleural pit (Fig. 11). Metanotum black with postscutellum dorsally white. Metapleuron with upper and lower divisions white except for narrow wedge-like fuscous mark in its lower front corner. Propodeum before basal transverse carina black with a pair of submedian whitish spots. Pterostigma pale yellow. Legs pale orange with fore coxa and trochanter white, mid coxa and trochanter whitish yellow, hind tarsomeres 2 and 3 white, and two apical tarsomeres of all tarsi brownish dorsally. Metasoma light orange with tergites 2 and 3 dorsally darkened at base, tergite 4 dorsally slightly infuscate mediobasally, and tergites 1–3 with widely whitish apically (Fig. 11).
Material examined. Veracruz: 1 ♀ (UNAM) municipio Teocelo, Tejerias, N 19°21′, W 96°54′, 924 m, Malaise trap, 28.VI–23.VII.2015, coll. M. López-Ortega.
Distribution. Mexico (Quintana Roo, * Veracruz, Yucatán).
description: Published as part of Khalaim, Andrey I., Kasparyan, Dmitri R. & López-Ortega, Maurilio, 2018, New records and descriptions of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) from Mexico, pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 4486 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4486.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1437993