Netomocera gloriosa Mitroiu 2019, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pteromalidae
Netomocera
Netomocera gloriosa

description: Netomocera gloriosa sp. nov.
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Figs 76–86
Diagnosis
Both sexes
Head black (Figs 77–78, 85). Macropterous; fore wing subhyaline (Figs 84–85). Clypeal margin slightly produced (Fig. 79). Scrobes deep and smooth (Fig. 77). Upper face and vertex with eight large setae (Fig. 78). Occiput margin blunt (Fig. 78). Pronotal collar wide but not long (Fig. 82). Mesepimeral sulcus shallow. Propodeum (Fig. 83) without a well-defined V-shaped area basally. Visible part of petiole very short, distinctly transverse, with more or less obliterate sculpture (Fig. 83).
Female
Toruli distinctly below lower margins of eyes (Fig. 77). Face with conspicuous piliferous punctures. Antenna with funicle gradually becoming brown towards clava; flagellum strongly clavate; clava conspicuously asymmetric; fu1 and fu7 strongly transverse (Fig. 80). Mesoscutum width about 2.6× length. Fore wing with basal third extensively bare, except for several setae across basal cell (Fig. 84).
Male
Body length 1.2–1.5 mm. Mesosoma dorsally with reticulation not dense, alveolae shallow (cf. Fig. 82). Funicular segments slender and long, fu1 not wider than pedicel, length 2.0–2.1 × width (Fig. 86).
Etymology
The name of the species (adjective) indicates the locality where the type material was collected (Mount Glorious).
Material examined
Holotype AUSTRALIA • ♀; “AUST.: Qld. 630m. Mt. Glorious S.F., Feb. 28-March 9, 84, L. Masner, MT”; “Dry sclerophyl Eucalyptus for.”; “ Netomocera, det. R. A. Burks ”; left flagellum missing, left fore wing glued aside, on triangular card; CNC.
Allotype AUSTRALIA • ♂; “AUST.: Qld. 630m. Mt. Glorious S.F., Feb. 28-March 9, 84, L. Masner, MT”; CNC.
Additional paratype AUSTRALIA • 1 ♂; same data as for allotype; CNC.
Description
Female (habitus: Fig. 76)
COLOUR. Head (Figs 77–78) black. Mandibles reddish, teeth reddish-brown. Antenna (Fig. 80) with scape and pedicel light yellowish-brown; flagellum yellowish-brown basally, gradually becoming dark brown towards clava; clava yellowish ventrally. Mesosoma (Figs 81–83) reddish-brown. Legs reddishyellow. Wings (Fig. 84) subhyaline, venation and setation brown. Metasoma (Fig. 76) with petiole and gaster reddish-brown. Body setation pale except for several large, symetrically arranged dark brown setae.
BODY LENGTH. 1.5 mm.
HEAD. Clypeus virtually smooth; apical margin slightly produced (Fig. 79). Lower face reticulate, piliferous punctures distinct. Upper face, including vertex, with shallow reticulation (Fig. 78); scrobes deep, smooth and shiny; parascrobal region extensively striate-reticulate (Fig. 77). Occiput coriaceousalutaceous; margin blunt (Fig. 78). Toruli with lower margins distinctly below lower margins of eyes (Fig. 77). Antenna with flagellum strongly widening towards clava; clava conspicuously asymmetric (Fig. 80). Upper face and vertex with eight large setae. Head in dorsal view with width about twice length (76:38) and in frontal view about 1.2× height (76:64). POL about 3.8× OOL (23:6). Eye height about 1.4 × length (45:32), about 3.2× malar space (45:14) and about 1.5× scape length (45:30). Head width about 1.2× length of pedicel plus flagellum (76:62). Fu1 length about 0.7× width (3.5:5.0); fu7 width about 1.6× length (10.5:6.5); clava length about 1.9× width (21:11).
MESOSOMA. Pronotal collar slightly narrower than mesoscutum, with eight large setae (Fig. 82). Mesonotum moderately setose dorsally (Fig. 82). Mesoscutum and axillae with extremely fine reticulation, appearing almost smooth (Fig. 82). Scutellar disc as mesoscutum, but longitudinally striate on frenal area (Figs 82–83). Mesepisternum mainly reticulate, less conspicuously so dorsally (Fig. 81). Mesepimeron smooth; mesepimeral sulcus shallow. Propodeum mainly smooth, with intricate pattern of carinae, interspaces smooth to finely wrinkled (Fig. 83). Macropterous; fore wing extensively bare on basal third, except for several setae across basal cell (Fig. 84). Mesosoma length about 1.2 × width (75:62) and about 1.3× height (62:48). Pronotal collar 0.45 × as long as mesoscutum (11:24) and about 0.9× as wide as mesoscutum (55:62). Mesoscutum width about 2.6× length (62:24). Scutellum length 0.85 × width (30:35). Propodeum length about half scutellum length (15:30). Fore wing length 2.25 × width (135:60); MV 4× SV (40:10) and about 3.6× SV (40:11).
METASOMA. Petiole barely visible, transverse, smooth except for a few superficial longitudinal striae (Fig. 83). Gaster ovate, length about 1.4× width (82:60) (Fig. 76); gt1 long, length about 0.9× width (55:60), with hind margin straight to slightly produced; gt2–6 short; syntergum acutely pointed. Ovipositor sheaths slightly protruding beyond apex of gaster. Cercal setae surpassing apex of gaster.
Male (habitus: Fig. 85)
Differs from female mainly as follows. Body length: 1.2–1.5 mm. Flagellum uniformly dark brown or fu1 sometimes paler (Fig. 86). Mesosoma dorsally yellowish to dark brown but in the latter case pronotal collar, metanotum and propodeum lighter; gaster dorsally yellowish, with darker margins to uniformly brown. Fu1 length 2.0–2.1× width, remaining funicular segments subequal in length to fu1; combined length of pedicel plus flagellum 2.4–2.6 × head width. Fore wing more setose on basal third, with small to medium bare region. Gaster (inflated) as long as or shorter than mesosoma, length 1.5–1.7 × width.
Distribution
Australia.
Remarks
Both sexes are similar to those of N. sedlaceki. This could be the macropterous form of the latter species, but differences in body setation, and the shape and colour of the antenna indicate it is a different species.
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 39-42, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.568, http://zenodo.org/record/3517435