Phanerotomella digitata, He & Achterberg & He & Tang & Chen, 2025

Phanerotomella digitata sp. nov.

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Diagnosis

Propodeum with pair of distinctly large and finger-shaped tubercles latero-posteriorly ( Fig. 26I View Fig ); vein 1-SR+M strongly concave ( Fig. 26G View Fig ); vein r 0.9× shorter than vein r-m ( Fig. 26G View Fig ); mandible more robust and inner tooth of mandible longer, 0.5× as long as apical tooth ( Fig. 26D View Fig ); length of fore wing 5.5 mm ( Fig. 26G View Fig ); scutellum densely and rather finely reticulate and matt ( Fig. 26H View Fig ); temple rugulose and matt ( Fig. 26C View Fig ); hind tarsus white ( Fig. 26F View Fig ); metasoma black except first tergite orange brown ( Fig. 26J View Fig ).

Etymology

Named after a pair of distinctly finger-shaped tuberculate corners of the propodeum postero-laterally; ‘ digitus ’ is Latin for ‘finger’.

Type material

Holotype CHINA – Yunnan • ♀; Lvchun ; 25 Jul. 2003; Z.F. Xu leg.; ZJUH No. 20045216 .

Description

Female

MEASUREMENTS. Length of body 6.1 mm, fore wing 5.5 mm.

COLOURATION. Head black; mesosoma orange brown; metasomal carapace black except first tergite yellow; metasoma ventrally white or ivory; antenna dark brown except 3 rd –6 th segments white; mandible basal half blackish and apical half yellowish and with reddish teeth; fore and middle legs brown except coxa, trochanter and tibia basally white; hind leg dark brown except basal third of coxa, trochanter, tibia basally and first to fourth tarsal segments white; pterostigma dark brown, parastigma reddish brown and wing veins dark brown to pale brown.

HEAD ( Fig. 26A–C View Fig ). Width 1.4 × median length in anterior view ( Fig. 26B View Fig ) and part of head above eye in lateral view 0.3× height of eye ( Fig. 26C View Fig ); antenna with 60 segments and 1.8× as long as fore wing, not widened but shortened medially, gradually narrowing apically, subapical segments non-moniliform and longer than wide, third, fourth, tenth, fifteenth and penultimate segments 4.0, 3.6, 2.6, 1.8 and 3.0× as long as wide in lateral view, respectively ( Fig. 26K–L View Fig ); area of stemmaticum transversely striate; OOL: OD: POL= 37: 10:10; length of eye as long as temple in dorsal view ( Fig. 26A View Fig ); frons transversely rugulose and with median carina; vertex reticulate-rugulose with short setae; temple rugulose-reticulate; face rugulose-reticulate and with distinct median ridge, dorsally connected to median carina; clypeus mainly densely punctate and shiny except basally rugulose, truncate medio-ventrally; eye width in lateral view equal to maximum width of temple ( Fig. 26C View Fig ), eye height in anterior view 0.7× minimum width of face ( Fig. 26B View Fig ); malar space rugulose-reticulate and 1.3× as long as basal width of mandible; mandible rather slender, lower tooth of mandible 0.6× as long as apical tooth ( Fig. 26D View Fig ); face width 0.9× height of face and clypeus together.

MESOSOMA ( Fig. 26H–I View Fig ). Length 1.4× its width in lateral view ( Fig. 26I View Fig ); side of pronotum superficially rugulose-punctate; mesoscutum regularly and densely reticulate; notauli absent; scutellar sulcus with seven crenulae ( Fig. 26H View Fig ); scutellum reticulate but posteriorly punctate; mesopleuron regularly reticulate and without distinctly smooth and shiny area posteriorly, with weak but complete precoxal sulcus; propodeum reticulate, without median carina, with irregular transverse carina connected to pair of distinctly large and finger-shaped tuberculate corners latero-posteriorly and two weak and blunt lateral tubercles medio-posteriorly.

WINGS ( Fig. 26G View Fig ). Fore wing 3.1× as long as its maximum width; second submarginal cell sessile and vein 3-SR distinctly developed; vein m-cu distinctly postfurcal; vein r and vein SR1 straight; vein 1-SR+M concave; length of 1-R1 1.2× pterostigma; vein r issued far beyond middle of pterostigma, 0.9× vein r-m; r: 2-SR: SR1=13: 35: 55; vein 1-CU1 0.2× as long as vein 2-CU1. Hind wing: M+CU: 1-M: 1r-m =19: 37: 14.

LEGS ( Fig. 26F View Fig ). Hind femur 6.0× as long as wide; longest spur of hind tibia 0.5× as long as its basitarsus; hind leg smooth and shiny except fine and superficial punctation; hind tibia slender; middle tibia without ivory blister.

METASOMA ( Fig. 26E, J View Fig ). Oval in dorsal view ( Fig. 26J View Fig ), carapace 1.8 × as long as wide and as long as mesosoma; first to third tergites densely and regularly reticulate; third tergite 0.9× as long as second tergite, medial length of third tergite 0.6× its maximum width; lamella of third tergite not protruding medio-apically and with pair of large and blunt tubercles latero-apically ( Fig. 26E View Fig ).

Male

Unknown.

Host

Unknown.

Distribution

China (Yunnan).

Remarks

Phanerotomella digitata sp. nov. is similar to P. aurantisoma sp. nov. For a comparison between both taxa, see remarks under P. aurantisoma .