Echthrodelphax tauricus Ponomarenko 1970
Creators: name: Derafshan, Hossein Ali
name: Olmi, Massimo
name: Moghaddam, Mostafa Ghafouri
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Dryinidae
Echthrodelphax
Echthrodelphax tauricus

description: Echthrodelphax tauricus Ponomarenko, 1970   
Figs 1A, 3–5, 20A  
 Echthrodelphax tauricus Ponomarenko, 1970: 432. Type locality: Madagascar, Bekily (♀ holotype, MNHN); Pterogonatopus hortusensis Abdul-Nour, 1976: 276; Echthrodelphax hortusensis (Abdul-Nour, 1976); Echthrodelphax afer Olmi, 1984:   
1155.  
 Description (♀). Fully winged (Figs 3F, 5A), length 2.62–3.12 mm. Color. Head testaceous, usually with brown spot on vertex; antenna, pronotum and mesoscutum testaceous; lateral side of mesoscutellum, metanotum and metapectal-propodeal complex black (except distal apex of metapectal-propodeal complex yellow); metasoma yellowish brown, with first tergite partly black and transversal brown bands; legs testaceous. Color variability: Female specimen collected from Zabol-Nimrooz (Nim-229, DPPZ): antenna testaceous; mesoscutum-mesoscutellar suture and mesoscutellum yellowish and/or black; metanotum shiny, smooth, yellowish and black; mesopleuron shiny and smooth, mainly black, with narrow anterior yellowish part. Head (Figs 3 A–3C). Shiny, unsculptured; ocellar triangle strongly isosceles; POL=1, OL=4, OOL=7; occipital carina absent; frons with median keel extended between ocelli; palpal formula 5/2. Mesosoma (Figs 1A, 3 D–3G, 3I, 5A). Pronotum crossed by transversal impression, with collar and lateral regions shiny and unsculptured; disc dull and granulated; posterior edges of pronotum not produced into lobes directed towards tegulae; mesoscutum shiny, weakly punctate; mesoscutellum shiny, smooth, weakly punctate; metanotum reduced, short; metapectal-propodeal complex reticulate rugose, without longitudinal keels; forewing with one brown transversal band; protrochanters approximately four times as long as wide; enlarged claw with one subapical tooth and 4–5 lamellae; protarsomere 5 with one row of 7–11 lamellae; apex with group of 6–11 lamellae; tibial spurs 1/0/1.   
 Description. (♂). Fully winged (Figs 4E, 5B), length 1.37 mm. Color. Head black, except yellow mandible; antenna brown; mesosoma black; metasoma reddish-brown; legs testaceous. Head (Figs 4 A–4C): Antennomere 3 more than three times as long as wide; head shiny, unsculptured; occipital carina complete; frons without median keel; palpal formula 4/2. Mesosoma (Figs 4 D–4F, 5B). Mesoscutum setose, weakly granulate; mesoscutellum and metanotum shiny, unsculptured; metapectal-propodeal complex reticulate rugose, without longitudinal keels; forewing without brown transversal band; tibial spurs 1/1/2. Genitalia (Figs 4G, 20A). Dorsal process of paramer every short, pointed and transverse.   
 Material examined. 12♀ 1♂: 1♀ (MOLC), IRAN, Sistan-o Baluchestan province, Zabol-Nimrooz (31°05ʹ02ʺN, 61°26ʹ07ʺ E, 461m), 07. VI.2016, Nim-230, swept on mix vegetations, Leg.: H.A. Derafshan; 2 ♀ (MOLC, DPPZ), same locality label, 03. VI.2016, Nim-226; 1 ♀ (MOLC), 1 ♂ (DPPZ), same locality label, 23.IV.2015, Nim-45; 1 ♀ (DPPZ), same locality label, 04. VI.2016, Nim-227; 1 ♀ (DPPZ), same locality label, 06. VI.2016, Nim-229; 1 ♀ (DPPZ), same locality label, 16. V.2015, Nim-91; 1 ♀, same locality label, 05.VII.2016 Nim-236; 2 ♀, (MOLC), IRAN, Sistan-o Baluchestan province, Zabol-Hirmand (31°02ʹ12ʺ N, 61°32ʹ13ʺ E, 471m), 24. VI.2016, Malaise trap Funnel, Leg.: M. Enayatnia; 1 ♀ (DPPZ), same locality label, 04. VI.2016; 1 ♀ (DPPZ), IRAN, Sistan-o Baluchestan province, Zabol-Niatak forest (31°07ʹ01ʺ N, 61°37ʹ29ʺ E, 482m), 24. VI.2016, swept on mix vegetations, Leg.: M. Enayatnia.   
 Distribution (Fig. 21A). Afrotropical (Olmi & Xu 2015; Olmi et al. 2016), Eastern Palaearctic—Iran— new record), Western Palaearctic (Olmi 1984, 1999, 2008; Olmi & van Harten 2000; Azevedo et al. 2010).
description: Published as part of Derafshan, Hossein Ali, Olmi, Massimo, Moghaddam, Mostafa Ghafouri & Rakhshani, Ehsan, 2020, Taxonomy of Iranian Gonatopodinae (Hymenoptera, Dryinidae), with description of a new species, pp. 371-402 in Zootaxa 4789 (2) on pages 373-379, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4789.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/3887658