Omphale sulciscuta
Creators: name: Li, Ming-Rui
name: Wang, Jia-Sheng
name: Jing, Ze-Ji
name: Meng, Qing-Fan
name: Zhao, Hong-Rui
name: Li, Xing-Peng
name: Liu, Sheng-Dong
name: Li, Cheng-De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eulophidae
Omphale
Omphale sulciscuta

description: Omphale sulciscuta (Thomson, 1878)
Figs 1 I, 9 A – K
Derostenus (Holcopelte) sulciscuta Thomson, 1878: 272, holotype ♀, Sweden, LUZN, not examined.
Horismenus sulciscuta (Thomson, 1878): Schmiedeknecht (1909): 433.
Holcopelte sulciscuta (Thomson, 1878): Bouček (1971): 541.
Omphale sulciscuta (Thomson, 1878): Hansson and Shevtsova (2012): 122.
Material examined.
• 2 ♀: 1 ♀ [NEFU; on card], China, Heilongjiang Province, Yichun City, Dailing District, Liangshui National Nature Reserve, 26. VII. 2015, leg. Si-Zhu Liu, Xing-Yue Jin, and Xin-Yu Zhang, by sweep netting • 1 ♀ [NEFU; on slide], China, Heilongjiang Province, Yichun City, Dailing District, Liangshui National Nature Reserve, 02. VIII. 2015, leg. Si-Zhu Liu, Xing-Yue Jin, and Xin-Yu Zhang, by sweep netting.
Diagnosis.
Female. Body length 1.1–1.7 mm, strongly sclerotized, mainly black to dark brown; antenna with scape yellowish brown to brown, pedicel and flagellum dark brown; fore wing hyaline. Head (Fig. 9 A, B) with face and vertex smooth, frontal sulcus V-shaped, antennal scrobes meeting below meeting below frontal sulcus and connected frontal sulcus with longitudinal suture; clypeus trapezoid, 1.5 × as wide as high. Antenna (Fig. 9 C) with five flagellomeres separated from each other; scape slightly stout, 5.2 × as long as wide; pedicel 1.5 × as long as wide; F 1 1.0 × as long and 2.0 × as wide as F 2; F 1 –5 with verticillate setae at base, the setae reaching or reaching beyond the apex of flagellomere attached to. Mesosoma (Fig. 9 D, E) with mesoscutum and scutellum with distinct and sparse reticulation, meshes of reticulation mainly hexagonal; midlobe of mesoscutum with two pairs of setae and an incomplete shallow median groove; notauli as distinct deep grooves in posterior 1 / 2; scutellum 1.2 × as long as wide, with an incomplete median groove in anterior 1 / 2–2 / 3; metascutellum tongue like and without foveae anterolaterally; propodeum smooth, with a weak and narrow median carina, plica, between median carina and spiracular sulcus with a longitudinal carina, posterior part forming a short nucha; Fore wing (Fig. 9 J) speculum closed, with 8–12 admarginal setae arising from MV and membrane just below MV; PMV shorter than STV, 0.7–0.8 × as long as STV, radial cell nearly bare (at least without setae along PMV). Metasoma (Fig. 9 I), petiole quadratic to transverse, with anterior part drawn out to form a sharp margin that covers propodeal nucha; gaster 1.3 × as long as mesosoma, slightly longer than head + mesosoma (1.1: 1.0).
Male. See Hansson and Shevtsova (2012).
Host.
Unknown.
Distribution.
China (Heilongjiang, Gansu, and Guangxi provinces); Armenia and Germany (Bouček and Askew 1968); Bulgaria (Boyadzhiev 2006); Croatia and Montenegro (Bouček 1977); Czech Republic (Bouček 1957); Denmark, France, and Russia (Hansson and Shevtsova 2012); Hungary (Erdös 1956); Moldova (Bouček 1965); Netherlands (Gijswijt 2003); Romania (Hansson 2016); Slovakia (Kalina 1989); Sweden (Thomson 1878); United Kingdom (Graham 1959).
description: Published as part of Li, Ming-Rui, Wang, Jia-Sheng, Jing, Ze-Ji, Meng, Qing-Fan, Zhao, Hong-Rui, Li, Xing-Peng, Liu, Sheng-Dong & Li, Cheng-De, 2024, Four new species and four newly recorded species of Omphale Haliday (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) from China, with a key to Chinese species, pp. 209-234 in ZooKeys 1215 on pages 209-234, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1215.130669