Ficomila gibba 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
Ficomila
Ficomila gibba

description: Ficomila gibba Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus sp. n.   
(Figs 36–38)  
 Type material examined. Holotype ♀, Congo, Brazzaville, xi.1989, Ficus bubu, J. David leg. Paratypes: Congo, Brazzaville, xi.1989, Ficus bubu, J. David leg., 15♀ & 5♂.   
 Etymology. The specific name refers to the shape of mesosoma that is strongly arched dorsally.   
 Diagnosis. Female body dark or dark brown (Fig. 36A). Flagellum with fu2–fu5 distinctly broader than long (Fig. 36C). Mesosoma distinctly and unusually arced (Figs 36A, 37A). Head partly visible in dorsal view (Fig. 37A). Mesoscutum generally coriaceous (Fig. 37A). Gaster of female compressed laterally, dorsally angulate (Fig. 37D).   
Body of male distinctly arched (Fig. 38A). Flagellum with fu2–fu4 extremely wide, much wider than long (Fig. 38C).  
 Description of holotype ♀ (Figs 36–37). Length 3.04 mm. Body generally dark brown (Fig. 36A), except pronotum anterolaterally, tegula, gaster basally, antenna, tibia and tarsomeres yellowish; fore wing with a dark brown spot below mv, lower margin of mv not obscured by dark brown spot; dark brown spot reaching base of mv (Fig. 37E); gaster uniformly coloured (Fig. 37C); body setation whitish, setation of fore wing entirely dark.   
 Head 1.36× as broad as high [HW 292 & HH 215] (Fig. 36C); in dorsal view stout, 2.03× as broad as long [HW 292 & HL 144] (Fig. 36B); face and vertex mostly coriaceous, malar space 0.44× length of eye [ms 55 & EH 126]; malar sulcus distinct, straight (Fig. 36D); lower margin of gena sinuous, edged but not carinate; antennal toruli widely separated, interantennal space not raised, carinate laterally; scrobal depression smooth, reaching the median ocellus, carinate on margin (at least dorsally); POL 1.7× as long as OOL [POL 75 & OOL 44] (Fig. 36B); temple rounded, 0.33× the eye length (in dorsal view) [TL 54 & EL 165]; setation oriented downwards on face, outwards on the punctuate frons.   
 Antenna. Scape not reaching median ocellus, 3.25× as long as broad [SL 130 & SW 40]; fu1 1.8× as long as broad [fu1L 72 & fu1W 40]; distinctly longer than pedicel, bulging dorsally; funiculars (fu2–fu4) with 2 rows of mps and 2 whorls of adpressed setae; fu2–fu4 shorter than broad; fu5 distinctly wider than broad (Fig. 36C).   
 Mesosoma distinctly arched, 1.45× as long as wide (160:110), with obliterate punctures (Fig. 37A); pronotum with sparse umbilicate punctures; mesodiscrimen with a ring-like process, adjacent to mesocoxa; mesoscutum 0.65× as long as wide (70:110), 0.8× longer than length of pronotal collar (70:90), sparsely umbilicate, transversely strigose anteriorly; notauli conspicuous, slightly obliterated by mesoscutum sculpture; prepectus bare, with raised sculpture; mesoscutellum densely coriaceous medially and laterally with shallow punctures; mesepimeron transversally strigose; metepimeron subtriangular and areolate with long white hairs; propodeum (Fig. 37B) with shallow median depression, without smooth median band, and a distinct median carina, lateral rows of areolae short (extending at most to half-length of propodeum), inverted U-shaped basal carina, lateral branches slightly concave, width of basal carinae about 0.5× width of nucha.   
 Fore wing with short marginal fringe, apically subtruncate (pointed anteriorly); dark brown spot below mv; basal cell bare or nearly so; mv slightly enlarged, triangular broadened, in lower margin concave; stv curved up; pmv not distinct, ventral side of costal cell sparsely setose, dorsally bare; speculum present; parastigmal bristles absent (Fig. 37E).   
 Legs. Fore coxa without depression on frontal surface, hind coxa bare basodorsally; fore (30:15) and hind femora (30:15); hind tibia dorsally with more 10 setae, setae shorter than tibia width basally.   
 Metasoma. Petiole shorter than broad dorsally, ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present. Metasoma 1.2× as long as wide (140:115) (Fig. 37C), shorter than mesosoma, slightly compressed laterally (Fig. 37D); ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present; petiole in dorsal view not longer than wide, shorter than half length of hind coxa; tergites finely sculptured; Gt4 (in lateral view) much as long as Gt3 (at least 1.5× longer), not sinuous posteriorly; Gt5 mostly covering Gt6, not sinuous posteriorly; Gt3– Gt4 with few setae dorsally, Gt6 sparsely setose ventrally; ovipositor upturned (Fig. 37C).   
 Male (Fig. 38). Length 1.41–1.86 mm. Similar to female with longer petiole (Fig. 38A); exhibiting different colouration, entirely yellowish; antennal formula 11143, fu2–fu4 much broader than long; funicular with one row of mps and one whorl of relatively long erected setae (Fig. 38C); fore wing more setose than in female.   
 Variation. Length 2.40–3.05 mm. Some specimens yellowish-brown coloured.   
 Host plant. Ficus bubu.   
 Geographical distribution. Congo.
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 59-62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5401.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524258