Omphale brevibuccata Szelenyi 1978
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 brevibuccata

description: Omphale brevibuccata Szelényi, 1978
Figs 1 A, 2 A – I
Omphale brevibuccata Szelényi, 1978: 222, holotype ♀, Hungary, HNHM, not examined.
Material examined.
• 14 ♀: 1 ♀ [NEFU; on card, right antenna and right wings on slide], China, Guangdong Province, Shaoguan City, Chebaling National Nature Reserve, 29–30. IV. 2019, leg. Wen-Jian Li and Jun Wu, by yellow-pan trapping • 3 ♀ [NEFU; on cards], China, Shandong Province, Qingdao City, Laoshan Scenic Spot, Beijiushui, 8–10. VII. 2014, leg. Hui Geng, Guo-Hao Zu, Zhi-Guang Wu, and Hai-Feng Bai, by yellow-pan trapping • 2 ♀ [NEFU; on cards], China, Shandong Province, Qingdao City, Jimo District, Mashan Park, 11. VII. 2014, leg. Si-Zhu Liu, Guo-Hao Zu, and Zhi-Guang Wu, by sweep netting • 2 ♀ [NEFU; 1 on slide, 1 on card], China, Shandong Province, Qingdao City, Laoshan Scenic Spot, Beijiushui, 12. VII. 2014, leg. Hui Geng, Guo-Hao Zu, Zhi-Guang Wu, and Hai-Feng Bai, by sweep netting • 4 ♀ [NEFU; on cards], China, Shandong Province, Qingdao City, Dazhushan, 13–14. VII. 2014, leg. Ye Chen and Chao Zhang, by yellow-pan trapping • 2 ♀ [NEFU; on cards], China, Liaoning Province, Anshan City, Qianshan, 20. VIII. 2015, leg. Hui Geng, Yan Gao, and Zhi-Guang Wu, by sweep netting.
Diagnosis.
Female. Body length 1.2–1.8 mm. Vertex golden-green, face dark brown with golden or purple reflections; antenna with scape yellow to pale brown, pedicel and flagellum brown; mesoscutum dark brown, mesoscutellum with anterior 1 / 3–1 / 2 yellowish brown and remainder brown to dark brown; axillae with anterior 1 / 2 dark brown to brown, remainder yellowish brown to yellowish white; propodeum pale brown; other parts of mesosoma yellow to yellowish white (including legs); gaster dark brown. Head (Fig. 2 A) with antennal scrobes meeting on the V-shaped frontal sulcus; frontal cross-ridge absent; gena very short, HE: MS: WM ~ 5.0: 1.0: 3.4; clypeus semicircular 1.7 × as wide as high; antenna (Fig. 2 B) slender, with five flagellomeres separated from each other, F 1 1.1 × as long as F 2. Mesosoma (Fig. 2 C) with mesoscutum and scutellum with weak reticulation; midlobe of mesoscutum with two pairs of setae; scutellum 1.0–1.2 × as long as wide, with anterior margin almost straight; propodeum smooth, with a weak median carina, and anteromedially with a fovea. Fore wing (Fig. 2 D) speculum closed, with seven or eight admarginal setae arising from MV and membrane just behind MV, radial cell setose, PMV 1.8 × as long as STV. Metasoma (Fig. 2 F), gaster 1.6 × as long as mesosoma, and nearly as long as head + mesosoma.
Male. Unknown.
Host.
Unknown.
Distribution.
China (Liaoning, Shandong, and Guangdong Provinces) (new record); Hungary (Szelényi 1978); United Kingdom (Askew 2003); Russia, Sweden, Netherlands, Bulgaria (Hansson and Shevtsova 2012); Romania (Hansson 2016).
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