Platyplectrus nigroflaveatus Yefremova 2022
Creators: name: Yefremova, Zoya A.
name: Copeland, Robert S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eulophidae
Platyplectrus
Platyplectrus nigroflaveatus

description: 11. Platyplectrus nigroflaveatus Yefremova, 2022
Figs 42–48
Euplectromorpha variegata Ferrière, 1941: 26. Lectotype, ♀, Mossel Bay, Cape Prov., 18–30.xi.192 1, South Africa, R. E. Turner. Brit. Mus. 1922–2, Type, B.M. TYPE, Hym. 5.1220 (NHMUK 013457197, examined).
The species Euplectromorpha variegata Ch. Ferrière (Figs 45–48) was never synonymized with Platyplectrus. A second species, Euplectromorpha variegata Girault 1915: 279 [Holotype female, Queensland, New South Wales (QMB), was examined by Bouček, 1988] and synonymized by him (Bouček, 1988: 635) as Platyplectrus variegatus (Girault), making P. variegatus a preoccupied name.
Diagnosis. Pronotum without carina. Occiput rounded (Fig. 43). Eyes asetose. Scutellum reticulate. POL 1.5× as long as OOL. Antenna. F1 1.2× as long as F2, F2=F3=F4. Clava 1.7–1.8× as long as wide and 1.4× as long as F4. Petiole transverse.
Redescription. Female. Size 1.8–2.3 mm.
Colour (Figs 42–44): Body yellow and black. Head light yellow, except frons and vertex with dark brown stripe (Fig. 44), clypeus and genae yellow, wide inner margin along eyes yellow. Legs yellow, except hind coxae dark brown, femora darker yellow; fore coxae yellow (Fig. 42).
Head: Eyes with short setae (Fig. 44). POL 1.5× as long as OOL. Antenna (Figs 42, 44): Scape 7.0 x as long as wide, pedicel 2.25× as long as wide, F1 1.2× as long as F2, F2=F3=F4. Clava 1.7–1.8× as long as wide and 1.4× as long as F4.
Mesosoma: Pronotum smooth. Mesoscutum engraved, reticulate. Scutellum reticulate with crenulated grooves laterally and posteriorly. Propodeum with distinct median carina, smooth, callus with two rows with 4 setae in each. Fore wing 2.3× as long as wide. SMV with 7 long setae. Speculum large and narrowly closed along pterostigma and marginal vein. SMV (15): MV (36): PMV (18): STV (9). PMV 2.0× as long as STV. Costal cell with three rows of setae: 22 setae in first margin row, 16 in second and 9 in third (Fig. 42).
Metasoma: Petiole transverse. Gaster 2.0× as long as wide.
Host. Unknown.
Distribution. South Africa; * Kenya, * Ethiopia, * Congo, * Mali.
Etymology. Body black with yellow marking as in Latin–‘nigro and flavea’.
Material examined. Kenya, 3 ♀, Eastern Prov., Kibwezi forest, 945 m, 2.41687º S, 37.95388º E, Malaise trap, indigenous forest, 18 May–3 Jun 2016, R. Copeland (2-SMNH-TAU; 1- NMK); 1 ♀, Eastern Prov., Kibwezi forest, 925 m, 2.41649º S, 37.95560º E, Malaise trap, indigenous forest, 5–19 Nov 2017, R. Copeland (NMK); 1 ♀, Coast Prov., Kaya Kinondo, indigenous forest, 10 m, 4.39382º S, 39.54567º E, Malaise trap, coral rag canopy forest, 25 Dec 2011 – 8 Jan 2012, R. Copeland (NMK); 1 ♀, Coast Prov., Taita Hills, Mwatate area, 3.48444º S, 38.33251º E, 1011 m, Malaise trap, below Bura Bluff, riverine forest, 10–24 Jan 2012, R. Copeland (SMNH-TAU); 1 ♀, Coast Prov., Kasigau Mtn., bottom of forest, 737 m, 3.82080° S, 38.64178° E, Malaise trap, woodland with grass, 7–21 Sep 2011, R. Copeland (NMK); 1 ♀, Coast Prov., Mrima Hill forest, 212 m, 4.48576º S, 39.25845º E, Malaise trap, indigenous forest edge, 27 Nov–11 Dec 2011, R. Copeland (NMK); 1 ♀, same data except 25 Dec 2011 – 8 Jan 2012, R. Copeland (SMNH-TAU); 1 ♀, Coast Prov., Shimba Hills Nat. Park, 389 m, 4.23456º S, 39.41687º E, Malaise trap, just inside Longomwagandi forest, 24 Sep–8 Oct 2008, R. Copeland (NMK); Ethiopia, 1 ♀, Ambo, 29.v.1990, Emeljanov (ZISP); Mali, 1 ♀, Kenieroba, 15.ix.2015, V. Kravchenko (SMNH-TAU); Rep. Congo, 1 ♀, Pool Abio, Lesio-Laun Park, 3.618° S, 15.3126° E, 26.viii.2008, Braet MT (UCRC).
description: Published as part of Yefremova, Zoya A. & Copeland, Robert S., 2023, African Platyplectrus Ferrière (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) from Kenya, with description of nine new species, pp. 355-384 in Zootaxa 5360 (3) on pages 369-372, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5360.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/10088533