Scelio ememeye Yoder &amp; Polaszek &amp; Masner &amp; Johnson &amp; Valerio 2009, sp. n.
Creators: name: Yoder, Matthew
name: Polaszek, Andrew
name: Masner, Lubomir
name: Johnson, Norman
name: Valerio, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Scelionidae
Scelio
Scelio ememeye

description: <i>Scelio ememeye</i> Yoder, sp. n. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 5DBB647C-559E-4A11-B7DE-9528AE7291E0 urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:238051 Figs 37–42; Morphbank 16 <b>Description.</b> Female body length: 3.16–3.61 mm (n=3). Male body length: 3.06– 3.32 mm (n=3). Color of antenna in female: A1–A3 yellow to light brown, remaining brown. Color of head in female: black. Color of mesosoma in female: dark brown to black. Color of coxae in female: amber-orange. Color of leg past coxa in female: amber-orange. Color of metasoma in female: brown to dark brown. Sculpture of lower frons in female: predominantly transverse to slightly arcuate striae. Sculpture of ventrolateral frons in female: smooth, with some clearly defined fine umbilicate sculpture. Form of malar sulcus in female: not percurrent, with some sections variously obliterated. Sculpture of upper frons of female: rugulose, with dorsoventral trend. Sculpture of dorsal head between and posterior to lateral ocelli in female: rugulose, obliterated in spots or not. Mandible of female: upper tooth typically developed, lower tooth very short but clearly present, truncate to pointed. Transverse pronotal carina in female: well developed, linear or with extremely slight deviations, contiguous with mesoscutum or interrupted by a single subpolygonal cell, anterior shoulder relatively abruptly transitioned to anterior pronotum. Sculpture of medial mesoscutum in female: anterior patch of transverse striae, otherwise with a medial band of irregular rugluae/foveas bounded by thin more or less smooth strips. Sculpture of notaular course in female: broad band of confused minute foveae. Sculpture of lateral mesoscutum in female: absent, or with obliterated patch that covers at least 1/2 of area. Sculpture of mesoscutellum in female: minute round reticulations, patch immediately laterad median slightly obliterated. Sculpture of lateral pronotum in female (excluding interstitial sculpture): with smooth to obliterated patch immediately below lateral epomial carina, otherwise reticulate with few to moderate longitudinal elements. Pronotal verricule in female: base more or less unmodified, with tightly clumped clump of short to moderately elongate setae. Pronotal setal patch posteroven- tral to end of lateral epomial carina in female: dense (around 5 to many) small patch of appressed to slightly semi-decumbent setae. Sculpture of mesopleural depression in female: reticulate, with a smooth band in anterior half. Pilosity of anteroventral metapleuron in female: glabrous, or sparsely setose. Dorsal surface of hind tibia in female: typical distribution and moderate length, setae appressed to loosely appressed, more or less straight. Shape of hind femur in female: narrow, dorsal and ventral surfaces relatively symmetrical. Basal pigmented spot of fore wing in female: medially situated, not reaching fore or hind margin, not fusing with apical pigmented area, or percurrent <b>Figures 37</b> <b>–</b> <b>42 <b> .55</b> </b> <i>Scelio ememeye</i> sp. n. (OSUC 211567) <b>37</b> Habitus, dorsal view <b>38</b> Habitus, lateral view <b>39</b> Mesosoma, dorsal view <b>40</b> Mesosoma, lateral view <b>4Ι</b> Head, anterior view <b>42</b> Mesonotum, dorsolateral view. Abbreviation: <i>nt</i>, notauli. Scale bars in millimeters. from submarginal vein to posterior margin, striplike (a band), divided only by hyaline course of M+Cu. Basal fascia of fore wing in female: subrectangular, striplike, percurrent from anterior to posterior margin. Apical fascia of fore wing in female: anterior margin with slightly lighter smaller patch, posterior margin even fainter (less contrasting), broadly divided medially by coloration that gradually fades to apex of fore wing. Sculpture of dorsal T 1 in female: polygonal-reticulate, interstices more or less smooth. Sculpture of dorsal T 2 in female: fine parallel to slightly reticulate striae with minutely colliculate to transverse sculpture within interstices. Sculpture of anterior T2 through anterior depression in female: percurrent, interrupted with by a smooth strip, majority of sculpture not contiguous with that of posterior T2. Sculpture of dorsal T 3 in female: fine parallel to irregular longitudinal striae, with reticulation absent to moderately present. Medial sculpture of T 4 in female: present. Medial sculpture of T 5 in female: present. Sculpture of T2–T5 curved transition from dorsal to lateral terga in female: obliterated to smooth. Profile of female metasoma in lateral view: dorsal and ventral surfaces more or less evenly convex. Sculpture of lateral T2–T 6 in female: with some fine striae ventrally, particularly medially, dorsally smooth. Pilosity of laterotergites in female: present on T1–T2. <b>Diagnosis.</b> Most similar to <i>S. tria</i> which shares the presence of notauli and a medial mesoscutal division in the form of longitudinal carinae (Fig. 42, nt). Differing from <i>S. tria</i> by the sculpture of the mesoscutellum (longitudinally striate in <i>S. tria</i>, obliterate or reticulate in <i>S. ememeye</i>). <b>Etymology.</b> Phonetically MMI, or 2001, in reference to one of the most famous novels of Arthur C. Clarke. <b>Link to distribution map.</b> [http://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/HymOnline/maplarge.html?id=238051] <b>Material examined.</b> Holotype female: <b>SRI LANKA</b>: Western Prov., Colombo Dist., seashore, Pamunugama, 16.III.1981, K.-V. Krombein, T. Wijesinhe &amp; L. Weeratunge, OSUC 211567 (deposited in CNCI). Paratypes (2 females, 3 males): <b>NEPAL</b>: 2 males, OSUC 234823, 234825 (CNCI). <b>SRI LANKA</b>: 2 females, 1 male, OSUC 211568 (CNCI); OSUC 244200–244201 (USNM). <b>Comments.</b> The patch of transverse striae of the lower frons is relatively small for species of the <i>pulchripennis</i> -group.
description: Published as part of <i>Yoder, Matthew, Polaszek, Andrew, Masner, Lubomir, Johnson, Norman &amp; Valerio, Alejandro, 2009, Revision of Scelio pulchripennis - group species (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea, Platygastridae), pp. 53-118 in ZooKeys 20 (20)</i> on pages 76-78, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.20.205, http://zenodo.org/record/576507