Netomocera setifera Bck., Z. Boucek 1954
Creators: name: Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pteromalidae
Netomocera
Netomocera setifera

description: Netomocera setifera Bouček, 1954
Figs 178–190
Netomocera setifera Bouček, 1954: 50 (holotype (♀) in NMPC, examined).
Diagnosis
Both sexes
Clypeal margin slightly produced (Fig. 181). Occiput margin blunt (Fig. 180). Upper face and vertex with eight large setae. Pronotal collar long, 0.55–0.60× as long as mesoscutum and wide, 0.85–0.95 × as wide as mesoscutum (Figs 183–184). Mesepimeral sulcus inconspicuous (Fig. 183). Visible part of petiole very short, distinctly transverse, with more or less obliterate sculpture (Fig. 185).
Female
Head usually with green or bronze metallic reflections (Figs 179–180). Macropterous, submacropterous (Fig. 178) or brachypterous (Fig. 187); fore wing in macropterous form with two more or less distinct brownish spots, a large one behind marginal vein and a smaller one a short distance beyond stigma vein towards apical margin (Fig. 186). Propodeum (Fig. 185) with a well-defined, densely sculptured V-shaped area basally surrounded by shallowly sculptured areas.
Male
Head and mesosoma both black, without metallic reflections (Fig. 189); or head distinctly greenish and mesosoma brownish, the latter without metallic reflections. MV 3.0–3.2 × SV.
Material examined
Holotype CZECH REPUBLIC • ♀; “ Netomocera setifera Bčk. ♀ Det. Z. Bouček 1954 ”; “Holotypus”; “Mus. Nat. Paragae Inv. 3001”; “Mor. mer.: Pouzdřany step, 3.VI.41. Hoffer.”; NMPC.
Other material
BULGARIA • 1 ♂; “ Varvara, BULGARIA, Kocourek. 8.70”; “♂ Netomocera setifera Bčk., Z. Bouček det. 1973”; BMNH • 1 ♂; “ BULGARIA: Kavarna, slope by sea border, 24-25.viii.2012, 43°25′09″ N, 28°21′22″ E, YPT, Leg. Fusu L. & Ploscaru B. ”; MICO • 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding, “ 22-27.viii.2012, 2 Malaise tr.”; MICO.
CROATIA • 1 ♂; “YUGOSL., Dalm. Isl. Mljet N.P., 7.IX.1980 Bouček ”; “♂ Netomocera setifera Bčk., det. Z. Bouček 1970”; BMNH • 1 ♂; “YUGOSL: CR. GORA: Durmitor: Vrdo, 25.6.87 Bouček ”; “♂ setifera”; BMNH.
CZECH REPUBLIC • 1 ♀; “ Moravia centr., Mohelno, 10/7/63. Hoffer”; “ Netomocera setifera Bčk. ♀”; “ BMNH(E) 199 5-489”; BMNH • 1 ♂; “ČSR., Mohelno, 7.7.1963, A. Hoffer ”; “♂ Netom. setifera”; BMNH • 1 ♂; “ Hlavence u Brandýsa / L. Bohemia, vi.1959. Martínek ”; “♂ Netomocera setifera Bčk., det. Z. Bouček 1970”; BMNH.
FRANCE • 1 ♂; “FRANCE, Var: St. Tropez, 16.VI.80 Bouček ”; “♂ Netomocera setifera Bčk., det. Z. Bouček 1980”; BMNH • 1 ♂; “SE. France, Château-Arnoux, 10.8.72. Bouček ”; “♂ Netomocera setifera Bčk., det. Z. Bouček 1980”; BMNH • 1 ♂; “ France, Aveyron: La Pezade, 27.7.78, M. de V. Graham ”; “♂ Netomocera setifera Bčk., det. Z. Bouček 1980”; BMNH • 2 ♂♂; “ La Blaqueresie, (2) 3/8/78 ”; “ BMNH(E) 199 5-489”; “♂ Netomocera setifera Bčk. ”; BMNH • 2 ♂♂; “ France, M.J. Gijswijt ”; “ Dentelles de Montmirail, 29 IV 1987 ”; “♂ Netomocera setifera Bouček, M.J. Gijswijt det. 2001”; RMNH • 1 ♂; “ FRANCE, Dépt Aveyron, M.J. Gijswijt ”; “ La Pezade (Causse), 16 VI 1982 ”; “♂ Netomocera setifera Bčk., Gijswijt det. 1999”; RMNH • 2 ♂♂; “ FRANCE, Dept. Drôme, M.J. Gijswijt”; “ Veau, 4 VIII 1973 ”; “Remounted 1989, M.J. Gijswijt ”; “♂ Netomocera setifera Bck., Gijswijt det. 1999”; RMNH • 1 ♂; “ FRANCE, Drôme, M.J. Gijswijt”; “ Condorcet, 7 km NE Nyons, 11 IX 1987 ”; “♂ Netomocera setifera Bčk., det. Z. Bouček, 1990”; RMNH.
GREECE • 7 ♂♂; “GREECE, Korfu: Nissaki, 6.9.87 JS Noyes”; “♂ Netom. setifera Bčk., det. Z. Bouček 1997”; BMNH • 1 ♂; “ HELLAS, Makedonia, J.P. Duffels ”; “ 18 km SE of KÓZANI, 3-VII-1975 ”; “♂ Netomocera setifera Bčk., det. Z. Bouček, 1990”; RMNH.
ITALY • 2 ♂♂; “ ITALIA - Abr. Prov. l’Aquila, M.J. Gijswijt ”; “Gran Sasso d’Italia, S.E. slope, 1400 m, 17.vi.1993 ”; “♂ Netomocera setifera Bck., Gijswijt det. 1999”; RMNH.
MOLDAVIA • 2 ♂♂; “MOLDAV. SSR, KOTOVSKOJE, 12.VII.1961, Bouček & Talitzki ”; “♂ Netomocera setifera Bčk., det. Z. Bouček 1970”; BMNH.
ROMANIA • 1 ♀, 4 ♂♂; “RO: MH, Gura Văii, Valea Oglănicului, xeroph. veg. on dry slope, 17-18. VII.09, OP & LF, sweep, 232 m / 44°39′22.8″ N, 22°34′18.8″ E ”; MICO • 1 ♂; “ RN Valea lui David (IS), vegetatie de stepa, 14.V.1999, Leg. IP”; “ Netomocera setifera Bčk. ♂, Det. M. Mitroiu ”; MICO • 2 ♂♂; same data as for preceding; “ 9.V.1999 ”; “ Netomocera setifera Bčk. ♂, Det. M. Mitroiu ”; MICO • 1 ♂; same data as for preceding; “ 28.V.1999, Leg. LF”; “ Netomocera setifera Bčk. ♂, Det. M. Mitroiu ”; MICO • 3 ♂♂; same data as for preceding; “ 2.V.2005 ”; “ Netomocera setifera Bčk. ♂, Det. M. Mitroiu ”; MICO.
SLOVAKIA • 1 ♂; “Slovakia or. Král. Chlumec, 20.5.58 Bouček ”; “♂ Netomocera setifera Bčk., det. Z. Bouček 1970”; BMNH • 1 ♂; “ Slovakia or.: Baba u Ladmovcu, 23.6.52 Kocourek ”; “♂ Netomocera setifera Bčk., det. Z. Bouček 1970”; BMNH • 1 ♂; “ Královský Chimec ”; “Slokakia mer., 20.V.58, Bouček ”; “ Netomocera setifera Bčk ♂, Zd. Bouček det. 1965”; “EX COLL. J.C. ROSKAM, Museum Leiden 2004”; RMNH.
Description
Female (habitus: Figs 178, 187)
COLOUR. Head(Figs179–180) usually with more or less distinct dark green to bronze reflections.Mandibles reddish-yellow, teeth darker. Antenna (Fig. 182) with scape pale yellow to reddish-brown; pedicel pale yellow to brown; funicle uniformly brown or basally paler; clava, especially ventrally, slightly paler than funicle. Mesosoma (Fig. 183–185) reddish-yellow to reddish-brown. Legs reddish-yellow, except for brownish tips, or hind coxa lighter. Fore wing (Fig. 186) of macropterous and submacropterous forms usually with two large brownish spots, a larger one in middle of wing below marginal vein and a smaller one in apical quarter, the latter sometimes appearing divided into two smaller spots; setation brown. Metasoma with petiole as mesosoma (Fig. 185); gaster (Figs 178, 187) reddish-yellow to reddish-brown in basal half and light brown to dark brown in apical half; gt1 usually with two darker spots anterolaterally. Body setation pale except for several large, symmetrically arranged, dark brown setae.
BODY LENGTH. 1.6–2.1 mm.
HEAD. Clypeus virtually smooth; apical margin slightly produced (Fig. 181). Lower face below toruli striate-reticulate, piliferous punctures mostly indistinct. Upper face including vertex densely but finely reticulate, piliferous punctures slightly visible (Fig. 180). Scrobes deep, reticulate; parascrobal region mostly without elongate cells (Fig. 179). Occiput coriaceous-alutaceous; margin blunt (Fig. 180). Toruli with lower margins below lower margins of eyes (Fig. 179). Antenna moderately clavate, with clava conspicuously asymmetric (Fig. 182). Upper face and vertex with eight large setae. Head width about 2.2× length in dorsal view and 1.15–1.30 × height in frontal view. POL 2.2–2.3× OOL. Eye height 1.3– 1.4× length, 2.2–2.3 × malar space and 1.0–1.2× scape length. Head width 1.0–1.1 × length of pedicel plus flagellum. Fu1 length 1.3–1.8 × width; fu7 width 1.1–1.5 × length; clava length 1.8–2.0 × width.
MESOSOMA. Moderately setose dorsally (Fig. 184). Pronotal collar virtually as wide as or slightly narrower than mesoscutum, with six large setae (Fig. 184). Mesoscutum and axillae with extremely fine reticulation, appearing almost smooth (Fig. 184). Scutellar disc with sculpture as mesoscutum and longitudinally striate-reticulate on frenal area (Figs 184–185). Mesepisternum mainly weakly reticulate, almost smooth dorsally (Fig. 183). Mesepimeron smooth; mesepimeral sulcus indistinct (Fig. 183). Propodeum mainly smooth, with intricate pattern of carinae defining a central V-shaped area, interspaces smooth to slightly wrinkled (Fig. 185). Macropterous, submacropterous (Fig. 178) or brachypterous (Fig. 187). Macropterous and submacropterous forms with fore wing uniformly and densely setose except for moderately large, elongate bare region some distance behind parastigma and basal half of marginal vein (Fig. 186). Brachypterous form with fore and hind wings reduced and represented by stumps, venation vestigial; fore wing with rounded apex not reaching posterior margin of propodeum; setation absent except in apical third (Fig. 188). Mesosoma length 1.3–1.5 × width and 1.4–1.7 × height. Pronotal collar 0.55–0.60 × as long as mesoscutum and 0.85–0.95 × as wide as mesoscutum. Mesoscutum width 2.6–3.0 × length. Scutellum length about 0.9 × width. Propodeum length about 0.7 × scutellum length. Fore wing length of macropterous form about 2.5 × width; MV 3.0–3.2 × SV and 2.7–3.0× PV. Fore wing length of brachypterous form 3.75 × width.
METASOMA. Petiole barely visible, transverse, smooth except for a few superficial longitudinal striae (Fig. 185). Gaster ovate, length 1.7–1.8× width (Figs 178, 187); gt1 longest, length 0.80–1.15 × width, with hind margin straight to slightly emarginate; gt2–6 short; syntergum acutely pointed. Ovipositor sheaths distinctly protruding beyond apex of gaster. Cercal setae not surpassing apex of gaster.
Male (habitus: Fig. 189)
Differs from female mainly as follows. Body length: 1.0– 1.8 mm. Head sometimes without distinct metallic reflections (Fig. 189). Flagellum uniformly dark brown to black (Fig. 190). Mesosoma usually dark brown to black (Fig. 189), occasionally with reddish pronotal collar, propodeum and pleura. Gaster dark brown to black (Fig. 189) or with basal half lighter, light brown to reddish-brown. Propodeum more uniformly sculptured, mostly without a well-defined V-shaped area. Fu1 length 1.7–2.0 × width, other funicular segments subequal in length to fu1; combined length of pedicel plus flagellum 2.0–2.5× head width. Gaster (inflated) shorter than mesosoma, length 1.5–1.6 × width.
Distribution
China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Moldavia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia (Noyes 2018); Bulgaria, France, Greece, Italy (new records).
Remarks
Females of Netomocera setifera are distinct from those of all other species with a reduced petiole in having a well defined V-shaped area on the propodeum (Fig. 185). Together with males, they display mesosomal colour variation, which can range from yellowish to brown. Except for N. rufa, both sexes are also unique in having a long and wide pronotal collar (Figs 183–184).
description: Published as part of Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan, 2019, Revision of Netomocera Bouček (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae), excluding the Oriental species, pp. 1-87 in European Journal of Taxonomy 568 on pages 76-81, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.568, http://zenodo.org/record/3517435