Alaptus schmitzi Soyka 1939
Creators: name: Serguei V. Triapitsyn
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Mymaridae
Alaptus
Alaptus schmitzi

description: Alaptus schmitzi Soyka, 1939
(Figs 142–153)
Alaptus schmitzi Soyka 1939b: 27 –28, 30 (key). Type locality: Karkonosze Mountains (50°44’18’’N 15°42’19’’E, 1434 m), Karkonosze National Park, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland (the same locality and collecting event as the lectotype of A. stammeri Soyka; as “Riesengebirge” in the original description); incorrectly indicated as Germany by Debauche (1948), Vidal (2001), and Noyes (2016).
Alaptus schmitzi Soyka: Debauche 1948: 55 –56 (list, key); Soyka 1948: 75 (key); Trjapitzin 1978: 521 (key, distribution); Donev 1988b: 205 (distribution).
Alaptus globularis Sveum & Solem 1980: 127 –128. Type locality: Kongsvoll, Oppdal, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. Syn. n.
Type material examined. Holotype (as “Genotype” in the original description) female of A. schmitzi Soyka [NHMW] on slide (Fig. 142) labeled: 1. “ Alaptus ♀ schmitzi (Soyka) Type”, 2. [red] “Type”, 3. “Riesengebirge, Schlesien weisse Wiese am Weg Wiesenbaude - Schlesierhaus 28. Sept. 1933, det. Soyka gef. von Dr. Stammer det. W. Soyka In Canadabalsam”. The holotype (Fig. 144) is in fair condition, mounted almost dorsoventrally with one antenna, a pair of wings, and one metatarsus detached from the body, complete. Paratype (as “Cotype” in the original description) female [NHMW] on slide (Fig. 147) labeled: 1. “ Alaptus ♀ schmitzi (Soyka) Co-Type ”, 2. [red] “Co-Type”, 3. “Riesengebirge, Schlesien, weisse Wiese am Weg, Wiesenbaude - Schlesierhaus 28. Sept. 1933 gef. von Dr. Stammer, Breslau det. W. Soyka In Canadabalsam”.
Holotype female of A. globularis Sveum & Solem [NTNU] on slide (Fig. 150) labeled [partially in India ink and in pencil, or printed]: 1. “Lok. Norway, STi: Oppdal, Kongsvoll suction trap Dato 6. Aug. 1978 Coll. Anders Olsen Hab. Sub-alpine birch belt Ref. nr. Mont. Canadabalsam ”; 2. “ Name Alaptus globularis n. sp. Det. Sveum & Solem Tax. ♀ Holotype ”. The holotype (Fig. 151) is in fair condition, complete, mounted laterally. Also 6 female paratypes [NTNU] on individual slides, same data as the holotype; according to Sveum & Solem (1980), the species was described from the holotype and 8 paratypes, all of them females.
Material examined. CHINA: BEIJING, Mentougou District, Xiaolongmen Station, 39°59.22’N 115°31.48’E, 1095 m, 28.vii.2002, G. Melika [1 ♀, UCRC]. FINLAND: UUSIMAA, Nurmijärvi: 8.viii.1986, M. Koponen [1 ♀, FMNH]; Ruostesuo, 9.viii.1992, M. Koponen [1 ♀, FMNH]. RUSSIA: PRIMORSKIY KRAY, Ussuriyskiy rayon, Gornotayozhnoye, 23–28.v.2003, M.V. Michailovskaya [1 ♀, UCRC]. UK: ENGLAND, Dorset Co., West Moors, 29.ix.1957, S.G.C. Brown [1 ♀, MMUE].
Redescription. FEMALE (holotype of A. schmitzi). Body dark brown, appendages brown.
Antenna (Figs 144, 145) a little shorter than body; scape (including radicle) 3.1× as long as wide; funicle rather short, F1 much shorter than pedicel and the shortest funicle segment, other funicle segments subequal in length except F4 slightly longer, F2 2.3× as long as wide, F5 the widest funicle segment; clava 2.6× as long as wide, apparently with 4 mps, a little shorter than combined length of F2–F5.
Fore wing (Figs 143, 144) 9.45× as long as wide; disc with a slight brownish tinge and bare except for 1 seta on one of the wings and the admarginal rows; longest marginal seta 4.4× maximum wing width. Hind wing (Fig. 144) about 14× as long as wide; disc with 1 incomplete row of setae along posterior margin; longest marginal seta 5.0× maximum wing width.
Ovipositor (Fig. 144) barely exserted beyond apex of gaster, occupying about 0.6× its length, and 0.8× length of metatibia.
Measurements of the holotype (µm). Body 369; head 92; mesosoma 142; gaster 148; ovipositor 90. Antenna: scape (including radicle) 72; pedicel 39; F1 18; F2 21; F3 21; F4 24; F5 21; clava 88. Fore wing 378:40; longest marginal seta 175. Hind wing 376:27; longest marginal seta 136.
Variation. Paratype of A. schmitzi: body length 381 µm; antenna (Fig. 146) with scape 3.3× as long as wide and clava 3.1× as long as wide; fore wing 8.2× as long as wide, disc with 1 seta on one wing (Fig. 148) and 3 setae in a median row on the other (Fig. 149). The type series of A. globularis: body length 302–449 µm; antenna (Fig. 152) with scape 2.9–3.3× as long as wide and clava 2.8–2.9× as long as wide; fore wing (Fig. 153) 8.9–9.3× as long as wide, disc with 4–6 setae in a median row; ovipositor 0.9–1.0× length of metatibia. Non-type specimens: body length of dry-mounted specimens 200–264 µm, of slide-mounted specimens 350–405 µm; body dark brown to black, appendages brown (dry-mounted specimen from Finland); clava 3.1× as long as wide; fore wing about 8.9– 9.5× as long as wide, disc with 0, 1 or 2 setae in a median row; ovipositor 0.8–0.9× length of metatibia.
MALE. Known (Donev 1988b) but not described. Its identity needs to be verified though.
Diagnosis. See those of A. eriococci and A. huberi.
Distribution. Palaearctic: Bulgaria (Donev 1988b), China *, Finland *, Norway (Sveum & Solem 1980 [as A. globularis]), Poland, Russia * (Primorskiy kray), and UK * (England).
Hosts. Unknown.
Comments. Most specimens of A. globularis are larger than the holotype and paratype of A. schmitzi, and have more (4–6) setae in a median row on the fore wing, but otherwise are very similar to specimens of the latter species, hence the synonymy.
description: Published as part of Serguei V. Triapitsyn, 2017, Revision of Alaptus (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) in the Holarctic region, with taxonomic notes on some extralimital species, pp. 1-92 in Zootaxa 4279 (1) on pages 67-70, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4279.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1010234