Teasienna burksi Mitroiu 2017, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pteromalidae
Teasienna
Teasienna burksi

description: Teasienna burksi sp. nov.   
(Figs 82–90)  
 Diagnosis. Female (male unknown): flagellum uniformly brown on dorsal side, paler ventrally (Figs 86, 87); legs with femora conspicuously dark (Fig. 82); fore wing hyaline (Fig. 90); body setation short (longest genal setae about 1/5 length of tegula) and whitish (Figs 84–86, 88); antenna (Figs 86, 87) strongly clavate, clava about twice as wide as F1; funicular segments strongly transverse; mesosoma length about equal to width.   
 The female of T. burksi most closely resembles those of T. eirene, from which it can be easily separated by the dark femora (Fig. 82) and strongly transverse funicular segments (Fig. 87).   
 Material examined. Type material. Holotype ♀ (deposited in UCR) [entire except right front leg beyond trochanter missing; on triangular card]. D. R. CONGO: ‘Rep. Congo: Pool, Abio, Lesio-Louna Park, 3°6’1”S 15°31’26”E, 26.viii.2008 Braet MT’, ‘Univ. Calif. Riverside, Ent. Res. Museum, UCRCENT 00229345 ’.   
 Description. Female. Body length: 1.4 mm.   
 Colour. Head and mesosoma mainly brownish-black, with weak blue-green reflections (Figs 82, 83); membranous area between pronotum and fore coxa whitish (Fig. 89). Gaster brown (Figs 82, 83). Eyes pale reddish-grey; ocelli whitish (Figs 84, 85). Antenna (Figs 86, 87) with scape light brown; pedicel and flagellum brown dorsally, light brown ventrally. Mandibles light brown, teeth reddish-brown (Figs 84, 86). Legs (Fig. 82) with coxae brown; trochanters pale yellow; femora brown except for pale yellow tips; tibiae pale yellow; tarsi pale yellow except for brown pretarsi. Wings hyaline, tegula and venation brown (Fig. 90). Body setation whitish, wing setation brownish (Figs 84, 86, 88, 90).   
 Sculpture. Head and mesosoma smooth to finely coriaceous-alutaceous (Figs 84, 86, 88); gaster smooth.   
 Structure. Head. Longest genal setae about 1/5 length of tegula. Head in profile with face slightly convex at toruli level (Fig. 86). Lower margins of toruli below lower eye margins (Fig. 84). Scape reaching median ocellus. Antenna strongly clavate, clava 2.6× as wide as F1 (6.5:2.5) (Figs 86, 87). Eyes virtually round, inner margins slightly diverging ventrally (Fig. 84); eye in lateral view slightly inclined relative to vertical axis of head (Fig. 86). Head width 2.55× length in dorsal view (51:20) and about 1.3× height in frontal view (51:40). POL about 1.6× OOL (13:8). Eye height subequal to length (18:17) and equal to malar space (18:18). Scape length about 1.2× eye height (22:18). Head width 1.45× length of pedicel plus flagellum (51:35). F1 width 1.25× length (2.5:2.0); F5 width 2.75× length (5.5:2.0); clava length about 2.4× width (15.5:6.5).   
Mesosoma. Scutellar spine small, hardly visible among dense setae (Fig. 88). Propodeum smooth, median carina very thin (Fig. 88). Fore wing (Fig. 90) with small speculum, otherwise completely setose; parastigma with hyaline break. Mesosoma length equal to width (50:50), width 1.25× height (50:40). Mesoscutum width about 2.8× length (50:18). Mesoscutellum length about 1.1× width (25:23). Propodeum length about 0.2× mesoscutellum length (6:25). Fore wing length about twice width (115:57). MV length 1.9× width (9.5:5.0); SV about 2.3× MV (22:9.5); PV about 3.3× MV (31.0:9.5).  
Gaster. Short ovate, shorter than head plus mesosoma (Figs 82, 83); length about 1.4× width (59:42).  
 Male. Unknown.   
 Distribution. Democratic Republic of Congo.   
 Biology. Unknown.   
 Etymology. Named in honour of Dr. Roger Burks (UCR), for his contribution to the systematics of Chalcidoidea.
description: Published as part of 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) on pages 35-38, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4301.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/839721