Boccacciomymar (Prosto) maria S. Triapitsyn, sp. n.
Creators: name: TRIAPITSYN, SERGUEI V.
name: BEREZOVSKIY, VLADIMIR V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Mymaridae
Boccacciomymar
Boccacciomymar maria

description: <i>Boccacciomymar (Prosto) maria</i> S. Triapitsyn &amp; Berezovskiy, sp. n. (Figs 104–106) Type material Holotype female (on slide, QMBA): AUSTRALIA, New South Wales, Kosciuszko National Park, road to Tantangara Reservoir (1.6 km N of Hwy 18), 35°54.9'S, 148°37.3'E, 26–28.XI.2002, J. George, J. Munro, A. Owen, J. Pinto, G. Platner, yellow pan traps (UCR PEET #02-0306). Paratypes: AUSTRALIA, New South Wales, Kosciuszko National Park, road to Tantangara Reservoir: 1.6 km N of Hwy 18, 35°54.9'S, 148°37.3'E, 26–28.XI.2002, J. George, J. Munro, A. Owen, J. Pinto, G. Platner, yellow pan traps [2 females and 3 males on slides, UCRC; 15 females and 25 males on points: 1 female, 1 male each in ANIC, CNCI, QMBA, USNM, remaining in UCRC]; ca. 18 km N of Hwy 18, 35°52.4'S, 148°37.5'E, 26–28.XI.2002, J. George, J. Munro, A. Owen, J. Pinto, G. Platner, yellow pan traps, bog [1 female on slide and 1 female, 1 male on points, UCRC]. Description FEMALE (holotype and paratypes). Length 660–760. Head and mesosoma dark brown; metasoma, F2– F6 and clava brown; scape, pedicel and F1 light brown; legs light brown to brown. Vertex reticulate, with short, weak setae. Face with fine sculpture. Antenna (Fig. 104) a little shorter than body. Scape with weak cross-ridges, about 3 x as long as wide; pedicel as long as F1; F2 the longest funicle segment; F3 shorter than F2, F4 shorter than F3 or F5, F6 slightly shorter than F5; F5 and F6 each with 1 longitudinal sensillum, slightly wider than preceding funicle segments, clava slightly longer than combined length of F5 and F6, with 8 longitudinal sensilla. Pronotum and mesoscutum with reticulate sculpture; axilla, scutellum and metanotum with finer but conspicuous, longitudinal sculpture (cells long). Pronotal collar with 2 rows of short setae on each lobe. Mesoscutum much wider than long, a little shorter than scutellum. Axillar seta not too strong. Scutellum with row of frenal foveae. Propodeum with submedial carinae short. Forewing (Fig. 105) 4.1–4.5 x as long as wide, with 2 or 3 rows of setae behind venation; longest marginal cilia 3/5–7/10 forewing width; blade slightly infumate. Hind wing 26–28 x as long as wide. Metasoma longer than mesosoma. Petiole about 2 x as long as wide. Ovipositor 4/5–9/10 length of gaster (Fig. 106), slightly exserted beyond apex of gaster (by 1/13 of its total length in the holotype); ovipositor length: metatibia length 1.5–1.6:1. Measurements (holotype): Mesosoma: 291; mesoscutum: 94; scutellum: 100; petiole: 60; gaster: 433; ovipositor: 402. Antenna: scape (excluding radicle): 91; pedicel: 50; F1: 50; F2: 76; F3: 67; F4: 56; F5: 63; F6: 61; clava: 133. Forewing: 781/192; longest marginal cilia: 118. Hind wing: 580/21. Legs (given as coxa, femur, tibia, tarsus): fore: 67, 163, 158, 212; middle: 64, 166, 236, 227; hind: 69, 182, 255, 249. MALE (paratypes). Length 620–760. Similar to female except for normal sexually dimorphic features, such as antenna and genitalia. Appendages darker than in female: antenna brown, legs brown to dark brown. Diagnosis This new species differs from <i>B. (P.) victoria</i>, to which it is most similar, in having a shorter F1 of the female antenna, which is about as long as pedicel (notably longer than pedicel in <i>B. (P.) victoria</i>). From the two newly described New Zealand species of <i>Boccacciomymar (Prosto)</i>, <i>B. (P.) pobeda</i> and <i>B. (P.) tak</i>, <i>B. (P.) maria</i> differs by having a narrower petiole in dorsal view and a more pronounced reticulate sculpture on the mesonotum. Etymology The specific name (a noun in apposition) is a common feminine name; this species is named so for no particular reason other that it makes a good combination with the subgeneric name (" Prosto Maria" was a popular soap opera serial shown on Russian television in the 1990s).
description: Published as part of <i>TRIAPITSYN, SERGUEI V. &amp; BEREZOVSKIY, VLADIMIR V., 2007, Review of the Oriental and Australasian species of Acmopolynema, with taxonomic notes on Palaeoneura and Xenopolynema stat. rev. and description of a new genus (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 1455 (1)</i> on pages 55-56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1455.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5077726