Mesochorus ( Stictopisthus ) punjabi, Riedel, 2025

Mesochorus ( Stictopisthus) punjabi nov.sp. (figs 13, 32, 50, 68, 79)

H o l o t y p e: ( ♀)“Pakistan- Punjab, Islamabad, Area of NARC, Malaise trap, 09.VI.-11.VI.2007, leg.

K. Schönitzer” (ZSM). D e s c r i p t i o n: ♀. Body length 2.1 mm. Flagellum with 32 segments; 1st flagellar segment 7.0× as long as wide, 0.62× as long as eye and 1.4× as long as 2 nd segment; 2 nd segment 5.0× and preapical segment 1.5× as long as wide. Temple distinctly and roundly narrowed behind eye, dorsally 0.4× as long as eye. OED 1.8× and OOD 0.8× ocellar diameter. Occipital carina widely obsolete medially. Frons with transverse microsculpture. Face coarsely punctate, its width 1.0× combined length of face and clypeus, lateral margins slightly convergent Mandible with two equally sized teeth. MI 0.8.

Mesosoma not depressed, 1.6× as long as high. Mesoscutum densely punctate, shining. Mesopleuron densely and coarsely punctate. Scuto-scutellar groove with 5 coarse longitudinal ridges. Propodeum completely carinate. Area basalis trapezoid, c. 2× as wide as long. Area superomedia 1.5× as long as wide and 1.0× as long as area petiolaris; costula reaching at its middle. Area petiolaris hexagonal, 1.2× as long as wide. Hind femur 4.2× as long as wide. Areolet sessile frontally and wider than long, vein 2m-cu reaching at its middle; vein 1cu-a strongly postfurcal by 0.5× its length. Postnervulus intercepted far basad its middle. Distal part of metacarpus long, as long as width of pterostigma. Hind wing with 4 distal hamuli; nervellus slightly reclivous.

1 st tergite 2.8× as long as wide; postpetiole with some longitudinal rugae. 2 nd tergite 1.2× as long as wide. Thyridium transverse, comma-shaped. Ovipositor sheath 8.2× as long as wide and 0.9× as long as hind metatarsus, moderately narrowed in apical 0.5 and slightly upcurved apically, pilose.

Color: reddish-yellow. Flagellum brownish in distal half. Palps, mandible except teeth, malar space, tegula and fore and mid legs yellowish. 2 nd tergite yellowish, with brownish triangular stripes antero-laterally. 3 rd tergite yellowish, slightly darkened in apical half. Hind tibia yellowish, slightly infuscate basally and in apical 0.1. Pterostigma hyaline.

³ unknown.

R e m a r k s: The species is characterized by the stout mesosoma, densely punctate mesopleuron, reclivous nervellus of hind wing and strongly striate scuto-scutellar groove.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Only known from Pakistan.