Zaischnopsis pacis Tang & Jiang & Deng & Peng 2022, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Tang, Hao
name: Jiang, Jingtao
name: Wu, Tong
name: Deng, Jun
name: Peng, Lingfei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eupelmidae
Zaischnopsis
Zaischnopsis pacis

description: Zaischnopsis pacis Jiang & Peng sp. nov.
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Figs 4, 7D, 8C, H, 9I, 10D
Diagnosis
Head with dorsal margin of scrobal depression separated from anterior ocellus by distance equal to 0.77 × diameter of anterior ocellus (Fig. 4D); OOL: POL: LOL: MPOD = 1.0: 10.3: 9.5: 9.7; antennal clava 2.3× as long as wide (Fig. 4F). All tibiae black, with white setae (Fig. 4A). Fore wing disc infuscate with dark brown setae beyond level of parastigma and gradually lightened distally, except for one hyaline cross band behind marginal vein (Fig. 4E). Propodeum with anterior margin V-shaped; plical region very short, the V-shaped emargination extending to propodeal foramen (Fig. 10D).
Etymology
From the Latin word ‘ pax ’ (‘peace’), we pray for world peace.
Material examined
Holotype CHINA – Zhejiang Prov. • ♀; ṁữ省DZ凉峰自‼保ÑṂAE塘Ɯ [Longtangshan, Qingliangfeng natural reserve]; Aug. 2013; Malaise trap; FAFU.
Paratype CHINA – Zhejiang Prov. • 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; DNA 437; FAFU.
Description
Female
LENGTH. About 5.2 mm.
HEAD (Fig. 4C–D, F, H). Black with mostly purple and green metallic luster, as follows: scrobal depression, interantennal prominence, parascrobal region and lower face black to very dark purple (Fig. 4C), frons, vertex and temple with purple and green metallic luster (Fig. 4D). Setae (Fig. 7D) of face (Fig. 8C) and gena (Fig. 8H) white and lanceolate, setae of frons, vertex and occiput brown and hair-like, parascrobal region (Figs 7D, 8C) with two or three rows of white lanceolate setae ventrally and one row dorsally; maxillary and labial palpi dark brown (Fig. 4C). Head in frontal view 1.28 × as wide as high; in dorsal view width 1.84 × length, with interocular distance 0.18 × head width and less than width of eye; in lateral view 1.49 × as high as long. Eye height about equal to width in lateral view; distance between eyes below 3.88 × distance between eyes above; malar space 0.46 × eye height; distance between toruli greater than distance between torulus and clypeal margin, but close to the distance between torulus and orbit. OOL: POL: LOL: MPOD = 1.0: 10.3: 9.5: 9.7. Face with parascrobal region very narrow, interantennal region reticulate, scrobal depression deep and ∩-like, imbricate, with dorsal margin delimited, separated from anterior ocellus by distance equal to 0.77 × diameter of anterior ocellus; lower orbit below level of dorsal margin of torulus; lower face coriaceous (Fig. 7D); vertex and temple coriaceous to imbricate. Antenna dark brown, scape with blue metallic luster (Figs 4F, 9I); scape normal, not expanded; relative length(width) of scape = 40(9), pedicel 9.5(5), 1 st to 8 th funiculars: 5(5), 13.5(6.5), 18(7), 15(10.5), 11(10.7), 9.7(11.5), 11.5(11), 9(11), clava 28(12).
MESOSOMA. Pronotum in dorsal view (Fig. 4B), dark with slight green metallic luster, setae brown and hair-like; divided medially, pentagonal, imbricate. Mesoscutum (Fig. 4B) slightly convex anteriorly and concave posteriorly, and with lateral lobe carinate posteriorly, dark with slight greenish-purple metallic luster, anterior convex region with setae white and hair-like, setae of posterior depressed region and lateral lobe white and lanceolate. Scutellar-axillar complex (Fig. 4B) dark purple, setae brown and hair-like; disc flat (Fig. 4B) with coarsely reticulate pattern arranged longitudinally in scutellum and transversely in axillae; scutellum 1.38 × as long as broad. Prepectus (Fig. 4G) dark purple with margins slight yellow; tegula dark brown with white hair-like setae; mesopectus dark purple, with long white hair-like setae in a patch anterolaterally; acropleuron reddish-purple with green metallic luster. Mesopectus reticulate anterior to acropleural sulcus, acropleuron with very fine longitudinally imbricate sculpture medially but more coriaceous to reticulate anteriorly, posterior region coriaceous but with slight reticulate pattern. Propodeum (Fig. 10D) black with slight green metallic luster, anterior margin V-shaped; plical region very short, the V-shaped emargination extending to propodeal foramen, reticulate, with one patch of setae adjacent to spiracle anteriorly, callus obscurely coriaceous and bare, with long white hair-like setae laterally. Fore wing (Fig. 4E) extended to near apex of gaster, with costal cell dorsally bare except for dark brown setae in infuscate region in front of parastigma; basal cell hyaline with long white setae except infuscate basally with brown setae, mediocubital fold with sparse white setae; disc infuscate with dense brown setae except hyaline distally beyond level of postmarginal vein, and with one hyaline crossband with white setae behind marginal vein distally. Fore wing stigmal vein distinctly bent anteriorly to parallel anterior margin; SMV: MV: PMV: STV = 10.0: 6.5: 6.0: 2.0. Fore leg (Fig. 4A, G) black, except tarsus brown; middle leg black, tibia with dense white setae, except tarsus white to light yellow, spur yellowish-brown, mesotibial spur shorter than basitarsus of middle leg; hind leg black with dense white setae on tibia, except tarsus white to light yellow, with basitarsus longer than the following two tarsomeres combined.
GASTER (Fig. 4A). Elongate-lanceolate, longer than mesosoma, dark brown to black with metallic luster, except apex of syntergum and ovipositor sheaths brown; syntergum tapered to rounded apex; ovipositor sheaths slightly exserted.
Remarks
Females of this new species resemble those of Z. tubatius (Walker, 1852) because both have dense white setae on the metatibia and a complete hyaline cross-band on the fore wing, but Z. pacis sp. nov. is distinguished by its darker body color, and the scape (Fig. 4F) not being foliaceously dilated as for females of Z. tubatius (Peng et al. 2018: fig. 32).
Distribution
China: Zhejiang (Oriental).
description: Published as part of Tang, Hao, Jiang, Jingtao, Wu, Tong, Deng, Jun & Peng, Lingfei, 2022, Six new species of Zaischnopsis Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eupelmidae) from China based on morphological and molecular data, pp. 1-27 in European Journal of Taxonomy 847 on pages 15-18, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1977, http://zenodo.org/record/7330870