Sycophila (Tineomyza) minuta Lotfalizadeh & Delvare & Cruaud & Rasplus 2024, sp. n.
Creators: name: Lotfalizadeh, Hossein
name: Delvare, Gérard
name: Cruaud, Astrid
name: Rasplus, Jean-Yves
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eurytomidae
Sycophila
Sycophila minuta

description: Sycophila (Tineomyza) minuta Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus sp. n.   
(Figs 107–109)  
  Type material examined. Holotype  ♀: Guinea, Monts Nimba, Mifergui, ex syconia of Ficus glumosa, 26.iv.1993, Rasplus J.-Y. leg. deposited in CBGP. Paratypes: same data as holotype, 8♀. Bakoré, ex syconia of Ficus glumosa, 2.v.1993, Rasplus J.-Y. leg., 3♀.   
 Etymology. The specific name refers to the small size of the species.   
 Diagnosis. Female body yellowish (Fig. 107A). Funiculars as long as wide, not longer than broad, fu1 obconical, narrower than pedicel, basal half without longitudinal sensilla (Fig. 107B). Basal carina of propodeum as an inverted V, truncate mesally (Fig. 108B). Dark brown spot of fore wing not reaching base of mv, costal cell bare dorsally (Fig. 108E). Petiole longer than broad, as long as hind coxa, Gt4 as long as Gt3 (Fig. 108C).   
Male with all funiculars long, longer than wide (Fig. 109B). Dark brown spot of fore wing short and wider than long, costal cell dorsally bare, ventrally at most with two rows of setae (Fig. 109D).  
 Description of holotype ♀ (Figs 107–108). Length 1.90 mm. Body yellowish (Fig. 107A), except beside ocelli, propodeum basally, petiole, gaster dorsally dark; antennal colour not darkened (mostly yellowish or yellowish-brown); fore wing with a dark brown spot below mv, not reaching base of mv, lower margin of mv not obscured by dark brown spot (Fig. 108E); gaster bicoloured (Fig. 108C); body setation whitish, setation of fore wing entirely dark.   
 Head 1.3× as broad as high [HW 175 & HH 135] (Fig. 107C); in dorsal view stout, 1.85× as broad as long [HW 248 & HL 134] (Fig. 107D); face mostly coriaceous, dorsally coriaceous and sparsely punctulate; malar space 0.71× length of eye [ms 55 & EH 78]; malar sulcus distinct, straight (Fig. 107E); genal margin regularly curved, rounded; antennal toruli narrowly separated; interantennal space not raised, not carinate laterally; scrobal depression smooth, reaching the median ocellus, not carinate on margin; POL 3.14× as long as OOL [POL 69 & OOL 22] (Fig. 107D); temple rounded, 0.26× the eye length (in dorsal view) [TL 26 & EL 100]; setation oriented downwards on face, outwards on the punctuate frons.   
 Antenna. Scape not reaching median ocellus, 5.83× as long as broad [SL 140 & SW 24]; fu1 1.09× as long as broad [fu1L 49 & fu1W 45], not longer than pedicel, not bulging dorsally; funiculars (fu2–fu4) with one row of mps and 2–3 whorls of adpressed very short setae; fu2–fu4 not longer than broad; fu5 as long as broad (Fig. 107B).   
 Mesosoma weakly arched dorsally, 1.55× as long as wide (170:110), with deep sculpture (Fig. 108A); pronotum with coarse umbilicate punctures; mesepisternum flattened, without any process or raised sculpture on epicnemium; mesoscutum with dense umbilicate punctures, transversely strigose anteriorly; notauli present, slightly obliterated by mesoscutum sculpture; prepectus bare, smooth medially; mesoscutum 0.5× as long as wide (55:110), 0.55× longer than length of pronotal collar (55:100), umbilicate laterally and coriaceous sculpture on mesoscutellar disc; mesepimeron transversally strigose; metepimeron subtriangular and areolate with long white hairs; propodeum (Fig. 108B) with shallow median depression, without smooth median band, without any median carina; lateral rows of areolae short (extending at most to half-length of propodeum); basal carina inverted V, truncate mesally; lateral branches of basal carina relatively straight; distance between lateral carinae less than 0.5× width of nucha.   
 Fore wing with long marginal fringe, apically subtruncate (pointed anteriorly); dark brown spot below mv; basal cell bare or nearly so; mv distinctly enlarged, triangularly broadened, in lower margin straight, longer than pmv; stv not curved; pmv distinct, not longer than stv; ventral side of costal cell sparsely setose, dorsally bare; speculum present; parastigmal bristles absent (Figs 108E, F).   
 Legs. Fore coxa without depression on frontal surface, hind coxa bare basodorsally; fore (30:12) and hind femora (30:13); hind tibia dorsally with about 5 setae, setae as long as hind tibia width basally.   
 Metasoma. Petiole as long as broad dorsally, ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present. Metasoma 1.6× as long as wide (155:95) (Fig. 108C), longer than mesosoma, strongly compressed laterally and dorsally angulate (Fig. 108D); ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 absent; petiole in dorsal view longer than wide, shorter than half length of hind coxa; tergites smooth; Gt4 (in lateral view) much as long as Gt3 (at least 1.5× longer), not sinuous posteriorly; Gt5 not covered Gt6, sinuous posteriorly; Gt5 with few setae dorsally, Gt6 sparsely setose ventrally; ovipositor oriented dorsad but not distinctly upturned (Fig. 108C).   
 Male (Fig. 109). Length 1.80–2.00 mm. Similar to female with longer petiole (Fig. 109A); colour about as in holotype female but head dorsally in ocellar area, mesosoma dorsally and last tergites darker than female; antennal formula 11143; each funicular with one row of mps and 2 whorls of relatively adpressed short setae (Fig. 109B); fore wing more setose than in female (Fig. 109D).   
 Variation. Length 1.90–2.40 mm. In some specimens, dark band of gaster wider than in holotype.   
 Host plants. Ficus glumosa.   
 Geographical distribution. Guinea.
description: Published as part of Lotfalizadeh, Hossein, Delvare, Gérard, Cruaud, Astrid & Rasplus, Jean-Yves, 2024, Morphological phylogeny and revision of Sycophila and Ficomila (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea, Eurytomidae) associated with Afrotropical fig trees (Moraceae, Ficus), pp. 1-190 in Zootaxa 5401 (1) on pages 150-154, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5401.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524258