Pristaulacus dilleri Turrisi &amp; Smith 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Turrisi, Giuseppe Fabrizio
name: Smith, David R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Aulacidae
Pristaulacus
Pristaulacus dilleri

description: <i>Pristaulacus dilleri</i> Turrisi &amp; Smith, sp. nov. (Figs 37–45) <b>Type material</b>. LAOS: holotype &amp;female;, “Laos C, 7–16.V.04, Bolikhamsai pr., Ban Nape env, 350 m, 18°20'N, 105°08'E, Jendek &amp; Šauša lg./ <i>Pristaulacus dilleri</i> Turrisi &amp; Smith sp. n. &amp;female;, 2009, Holotypus ” (OLML). Paratypes. 1&amp;female;, “ Laos south, Bay Houaykong, 18–30.IV.1999, O. Šauša lgt./ <i>Pristaulacus dilleri</i> Turrisi &amp; Smith sp. n. &amp;female;, 2009, Paratypus ” (OLML); 1&amp;male; same data of the previous paratype (OLML); 1&amp;male;, “Laos CE, 1–18.v.2001, Boli Kham Xai, 18°21'N, 105°08'E, Ban Nape (8 km NE), 600 m, Vit Kuban leg./ <i>Pristaulacus dilleri</i> Turrisi &amp; Smith sp. n. &amp;male;, 2009, Paratypus ” (OLML). <b>Etymology</b>. Named after Erich Diller (Zoologische Staatssammlung Munich, Germany), specialist in Ichneumonidae. <b>Description</b>. FEMALE (holotype). Length: 12.8 mm; fore wing length: 9.0 mm; ovipositor length: about 9.0 mm (apex missing). <i>Colour</i> black, except: clypeus with apical margin dark reddish; basal half of mandible reddish orange; maxillolabial complex dark brown; antenna dark brown; fore and mid tibiae reddish orange, hind tibia dark brown and tarsi white yellowish; fore wing hyaline, with two small and irregular brown spots on cell B and between cells SB and SD1, one large dark brown spot below stigma (slightly narrower than stigma extended posteriorly to Cu1a) and apex infuscate; hind wing hyaline; metasoma dark brown; valvula 3 of ovipositor dark brown. Setae: whitish. <i>Head</i>, from above, 1.2 × wider than long, shiny; occipital margin strongly concave, with a narrow and weak medial groove; temple, from above, well developed, straight, about as eye length; occipital carina moderately wide, 0.4–0.5 × diameter of an ocellus, narrower along medial occipital groove; POL:OOL= 1.1; ocellar area 1.9 × wider than long; vertex and temple with fine, deep and scattered punctures (distance between punctures 3.0–5.0 × puncture diameters); frons with fine, deep and dense punctures (distance between punctures 2.0 × puncture diameters); clypeus with fine to coarse, deep and dense punctures; malar area finely and densely punctate; occipital area with fine, superficial and dense punctures; antenna 0.7 × as long as fore wing length; A3 4.8 × longer than wide; A4 8.2 × longer than wide, and 1.7 × longer than A3; A5 7.8 × longer than wide, and 1.5 × longer than A3. Setae: erect, short and scattered on vertex; semi erect to erect, short and scattered to dense on temple (length of setae 0.5–0.6 × diameter of an ocellus); erect, short and dense on upper frons; recumbent, short and dense on lower frons; recumbent, long and dense on clypeus; recumbent, short and dense on malar area. <i>Mesosoma</i> coarsely sculptured; pronotum densely and coarsely areolate-rugose with one long and acute anterior tooth-like process on each lateroventral margin; propleuron polished and shiny with fine, deep and dense punctures on dorsal surface, fine, deep and scattered to dense on ventral surface (distance between punctures 2.0–3.0 × puncture diameters); prescutum triangular, wide, long, not concave to weakly concave toward apex, transverse carinate; mesoscutum mostly transverse-carinate, partly areolate-rugose posterior to notauli; anterior margin very slightly prominent and angulate (lateral view); notauli deep and wide; scutellum areolate-rugose on base, transverse-carinate medially, longitudinally carinate laterally; mesopleuron areolate-rugose, foveolate-rugulose on subalar area; metanotum longitudinally carinate; propodeum areolate-rugose, except anterior margin longitudinally carinate; venter of mesosoma transverse-carinate; fore wing with vein <i>2-rs+m</i> short; coxa I polished and shiny, with very fine to fine, superficial to deep and dense punctures, deeper and denser basally; coxa II transverse-carinulate, with fine, deep and dense punctures medially on ventral surface; coxa III transverse-carinate on dorsal surface, transverse-carinulate-punctate on ventral surface (punctures coarse, deep and dense, distance between punctures about 2.0–3.0 × puncture diameters); inner spur of mid and hind tibia longer than outer spur; hind basitarsus 9.5 × longer than wide, and 1.2 × as tarsomeres 2–5; tarsal claw with four tooth-like processes. Setae: erect to semi erect, very short and dense on dorsal surface; mostly recumbent to semi erect, long and dense on sides and venter of mesosoma; erect to semi erect, long and dense on hind surface of propodeum; erect, long and dense on propleuron (setae length at most 0.6 × pretarsus length). <i>Metasoma</i> pyriform (lateral view), strongly compressed laterally; petiole very elongate, slender, 7.0 × longer than wide; segments 1 and 2 polished and shiny, impunctate; remaining tergites with fine, superficial and dense punctures; remaining sternites shiny, impunctate, with only a very fine microsculpture; S7 polished and punctate to longitudinally carinulate (distal half) with coarse, deep and very dense punctures; T8 very finely microreticulate, with fine, deep and scattered (on basal third) to dense punctures; ovipositor length equal to fore wing length. Setae: segments 1–2 and S3 glabrous, except a few very short and scattered setae on distal margin of T2; recumbent, short and dense on remaining tergites, especially on last two; semi erect, very short and scattered on medial part of S4– S6; erect, short and dense on S7. MALE (paratype). Length: 11.2 mm; fore wing length: 7.9 mm. Colour, structure, and setae like &amp;female;, except: S1, metasomal segment 2 extensively reddish orange; wings without brown markings on cell B and obsolescent markings between cells SB and SD1; antenna length 0.7 × fore wing length; A3 3.5 × longer than wide; A4 6.0 × longer than wide, and 1.7 × longer than A3; A5 as long and wide as A4; A13 subcylindrical, with apex slightly acute, 4.7 × longer than wide; hind basitarsus 10.4 × longer than wide. <b>Variation</b>. Examined 2&amp;female;, 2&amp;male;. Length: 9.2–12.8 mm (&amp;female;); 9.7–11.2 (&amp;male;); fore wing length: 7.6–9.0 mm (&amp;female;); 7.4– 7.9 mm (&amp;male;); ovipositor 1.0–1.1 × fore wing length. The irregular brown spots on cells B, SB, SD1 are obsolescent to absent in the males paratypes; the metasoma is lighter in the female paratype and especially in the two males paratypes, with irregular reddish-orange markings on S1, and partly on segments 2–4. <b>Distribution</b>. Laos (Bolikhamsai and Attapeu provinces) (Fig. 186). <b>Biology</b>. Unknown.
description: Published as part of <i>Turrisi, Giuseppe Fabrizio &amp; Smith, David R., 2011, Systematic revision and phylogeny of the endemic southeastern Asian Pristaulacus comptipennis species group (Hymenoptera: Aulacidae) 2959, pp. 1-72 in Zootaxa 2959 (1)</i> on pages 19-22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2959.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5281410