Spaniopus belokobylskiji Tselikh, 2015, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Tselikh, Ekaterina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pteromalidae
Spaniopus
Spaniopus belokobylskiji

description: Spaniopus belokobylskiji sp. nov.
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Description. Female. Body length 2.7–3.0 mm; fore wing length 2.2–2.4 mm. Colour: head, mesosoma and metasoma dark metallic green with diffuse coppery lustre; antenna with scape yellowish-brown, pedicel basally brown and apically yellowish-brown, flagellum brown; coxae brown, femora and tibiae yellowish-brown, and tarsi yellow except last segment brown; fore wing with dark broad spot under M and S, venation yellowish-brown; ovipositor sheath dark brown.
Head in dorsal view 2.1–2.2× as broad as long and 1.1–1.2× as broad as mesoscutum; in frontal view 1.25× broader than high. POL 1.1–1.2× OOL. Eye height 1.4× eye length and 1.6× as long as malar space. Frons 1.5× broader than eye height. Distance between antennal toruli and lower margin of clypeus 0.8× distance between antennal toruli and median ocellus. Clypeus radially striate, its lower margin weakly emarginate. Mandible formula 3:4. Antenna with scape as long as eye height and 1.4× as long as eye length, reaching to anterior edge of median ocellus; pedicel 1.6–1.8× as long as broad and as long as F1; combined length of pedicel and flagellum 0.8–0.9× breadth of head; anelli equal in length; flagellum almost filiform; F1 1.5× as long as broad and hardly constricted basally; F2–F5 longer than broad and F6 subquadrate; each funicular segment with one row of dense sensilla; clava 2.0–2.2× as long as broad.
Mesosoma 1.50–1.55× as long as broad. Pronotal collar medially 0.2× as long as mesoscutum. Scutellum finely reticulate, about as long as broad, with distinctly frenal line. Propodeum medially 0.70–0.75× as long as scutellum; with median carina complete and irregular, costula absent; nucha subglobose and strongly reticulate, occupying 0.5× length of propodeum. Fore wing 2.3× as long as maximum width; basal cell bare; speculum open; M as long as P and 1.2–1.25× as long as S; P 1.2–1.25× as long as S.
Metasoma ovate-acuminate, 1.5–1.6× as long as broad and 1.1× as long as mesosoma. Ovipositor sheath projecting slightly beyond apex of metasoma.
Male. Unknown.
Material examined. Holotype: ♀, RUSSIA, “Primorskiy Territory, near Vladivostok, 21.VII 1961, E. Shuvakhina” (ZISP). Paratype: 1 ♀, RUSSIA, “Primorskiy Territory, 30 km SE Ussuriysk, 12–17.VII.2001, S. Belokobylskij” (ZISP).
Distribution. Russia (South of Far East).
Biology. Unknown.
Etymology. Named in honour of the Russian hymenopterist, Dr. Sergey A. Belokobylskij.
Comparative diagnosis. Spaniopus belokobylskiji belongs to a group that includes most known species, in which females have as relative shorter F1 that is hardly constricted basally and the second anellus is distinctly transverse; differences from other species are shown in the key. Females are similar to those of S. fulvicornis and S. monospilus by the fore wing having a broad dark spot under M and S, but differ from females of both in having a shorter F1 and M as long as P.
description: Published as part of Tselikh, Ekaterina, 2015, Review of the world species of Spaniopus Walker, 1833 (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), with description of a new species from the Russian Far East, pp. 41-65 in Zootaxa 4058 (1) on pages 46-48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4058.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/239870