Apsilocera totoroi Tselikh, Haas & Ku 2024, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Tselikh, Ekaterina V.
name: Lee, Jaehyeon
name: Haas, Michael
name: Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan
name: Ku, Deok-Seo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pteromalidae
Apsilocera
Apsilocera totoroi

description: Apsilocera totoroi Tselikh, Haas & Ku sp. nov.
Figs 73–80
Type material.
Holotype • female, Japan: “ Honshu, Fukushima Pref., HinoemataVill., 16–18.VIII.1999, coll. S. Belokobylskij ” (ZISP). Paratypes • 1 female (SMNS_Hym_T 00799), “ Sweden, Mörbylånga, Kalkstad NR (# 136 / 2014), mixed deciduous forest, 31.VII–27.VIII.2014, Malaise trap, 56.609569N, 16.503726E, coll. M. Jaschhof, C. Jaschhof ”, Sample ID: SMNS_47998 (SMNS) • 2 females (SMNS_Hym_T 00800 & SMNS_Hym_T 00801), “ Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Lkr. Rems-Murr-Kreis, Aspach bei Backnang, Forest, 15.VII–8.VIII.2013, Malaise trap, 48.998972N, 9.419746E, leg. L. Krogmann, J. Holstein, T. Kothe ”, Sample ID: SMNS_50181 & SMNS_50214 (SMNS).
Description.
Female. Body length 1.50–1.99 mm; fore wing length 1.36–1.76 mm.
Coloration. Head black; antenna with scape, pedicel, and anelli yellowish brown, F 1 – F 6 and clava brown. Mesosoma black, but propodeum dorsally dark blue with metallic diffuse luster. Fore coxae black or dark brown, mid and hind coxae yellowish brown; all femora and tibiae yellowish brown, all tarsi yellow. Fore wing hyaline, venation yellowish brown. Metasoma dorsally dark brown, but Mt 2 dorsally dark metallic blue-green; laterally and ventrally brown; ovipositor sheaths brown.
Sculpture. Head reticulate; clypeus radially striate. Mesosoma with propodeum reticulate. Metasoma weakly alutaceous and shiny.
Head. Head in dorsal view 2.33–2.53 × as broad as long and 1.23–1.37 × as broad as mesoscutum; in frontal view 1.40–1.67 × as broad as high. Vertex with regular sculpture. POL 1.13–1.29 × as long as OOL. Eye height 1.24–1.38 × eye length and 1.80–1.95 × as long as malar space. Distance between antennal toruli and lower margin of clypeus 1.92–2.10 × distance between antennal toruli and median ocellus. Antenna with scape 0.96–1.07 × as long as eye height and 1.30–1.38 × as long as eye length; pedicel 1.50–1.67 × as long as broad; combined length of pedicel and flagellum 0.91–1.10 × breadth of head; F 1 – F 6 longer than broad, with a row of sensilla; clava 3.00–3.40 × as long as broad, with small micropilose area on each C 3 and C 4. Clypeal margin with two small teeth. Mandible formula 4: 4.
Mesosoma. Mesosoma 1.29–1.48 × as long as broad. Scutellum moderately depressed, 0.92 × as long as broad, frenal area indistinct. Propodeum 0.44–0.53 × as long as scutellum. Fore wing 1.96–2.12 × as long as its maximum width; basal cell bare; basal cell with 0–4 hairs; basal vein pilose; speculum partly closed below; M 0.96–1.00 × as long as PM and 2.27–2.33 × as long as S, stigma small.
Metasoma. Metasoma 1.45–1.82 × as long as broad and 0.85–1.28 × as long as mesosoma. Petiole strongly transverse. Ovipositor sheath projecting slightly beyond apex of metasoma.
Male. Unknown.
Etymology.
The species is named in honor of the “ My Neighbor Totoro ” character – “ Totoro ” of Hayao Miyazaki.
Distribution.
Germany, Japan, Sweden.
Comments.
Apsilocera totoroi sp. nov. belongs to a group of species that have a vertex with regular sculpture. This species is very similar to A. bramleyi and A. triapitzini sp. nov.; the differences between these species are given in the key.
description: Published as part of Tselikh, Ekaterina V., Lee, Jaehyeon, Haas, Michael, Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan & Ku, Deok-Seo, 2024, Review of the Palaearctic species of Apsilocera Bouček, 1956 (Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae), with descriptions of the eight new species, pp. 259-288 in ZooKeys 1215 on pages 259-288, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1215.128603