Ficomila gibba Lotfalizadeh, 2024

Lotfalizadeh, Hossein, Delvare, Gérard, Cruaud, Astrid & Rasplus, Jean-Yves, 2024, Morphological phylogeny and revision of Sycophila and Ficomila (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea, Eurytomidae) associated with Afrotropical fig trees (Moraceae, Ficus), Zootaxa 5401 (1), pp. 1-190 : 59-62

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scientific name	Ficomila gibba Lotfalizadeh
status	sp. n.

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Ficomila gibba Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus sp. n.

( Figs 36–38 View FIGURE 36 View FIGURE 37 View FIGURE 38 )

Type material examined. Holotype ♀, Congo, Brazzaville , xi.1989, Ficus bubu, J. David leg . Paratypes: Congo, Brazzaville , xi.1989, Ficus bubu, J. David leg., 15♀ & 5♂ .

Etymology. The specific name refers to the shape of mesosoma that is strongly arched dorsally.

Diagnosis. Female body dark or dark brown ( Fig. 36A View FIGURE 36 ). Flagellum with fu2–fu5 distinctly broader than long ( Fig. 36C View FIGURE 36 ). Mesosoma distinctly and unusually arced ( Figs 36A View FIGURE 36 , 37A View FIGURE 37 ). Head partly visible in dorsal view ( Fig. 37A View FIGURE 37 ). Mesoscutum generally coriaceous ( Fig. 37A View FIGURE 37 ). Gaster of female compressed laterally, dorsally angulate ( Fig. 37D View FIGURE 37 ).

Body of male distinctly arched ( Fig. 38A View FIGURE 38 ). Flagellum with fu2–fu4 extremely wide, much wider than long ( Fig. 38C View FIGURE 38 ).

Description of holotype ♀ ( Figs 36–37 View FIGURE 36 View FIGURE 37 ). Length 3.04 mm. Body generally dark brown ( Fig. 36A View FIGURE 36 ), except pronotum anterolaterally, tegula, gaster basally, antenna, tibia and tarsomeres yellowish; fore wing with a dark brown spot below mv, lower margin of mv not obscured by dark brown spot; dark brown spot reaching base of mv ( Fig. 37E View FIGURE 37 ); gaster uniformly coloured ( Fig. 37C View FIGURE 37 ); body setation whitish, setation of fore wing entirely dark.

Head 1.36× as broad as high [HW 292 & HH 215] ( Fig. 36C View FIGURE 36 ); in dorsal view stout, 2.03× as broad as long [HW 292 & HL 144] ( Fig. 36B View FIGURE 36 ); face and vertex mostly coriaceous, malar space 0.44× length of eye [ms 55 & EH 126]; malar sulcus distinct, straight ( Fig. 36D View FIGURE 36 ); lower margin of gena sinuous, edged but not carinate; antennal toruli widely separated, interantennal space not raised, carinate laterally; scrobal depression smooth, reaching the median ocellus, carinate on margin (at least dorsally); POL 1.7× as long as OOL [POL 75 & OOL 44] ( Fig. 36B View FIGURE 36 ); temple rounded, 0.33× the eye length (in dorsal view) [TL 54 & EL 165]; setation oriented downwards on face, outwards on the punctuate frons.

Antenna. Scape not reaching median ocellus, 3.25× as long as broad [SL 130 & SW 40]; fu1 1.8× as long as broad [fu1L 72 & fu1W 40]; distinctly longer than pedicel, bulging dorsally; funiculars (fu2–fu4) with 2 rows of mps and 2 whorls of adpressed setae; fu2–fu4 shorter than broad; fu5 distinctly wider than broad ( Fig. 36C View FIGURE 36 ).

Mesosoma distinctly arched, 1.45× as long as wide (160:110), with obliterate punctures ( Fig. 37A View FIGURE 37 ); pronotum with sparse umbilicate punctures; mesodiscrimen with a ring-like process, adjacent to mesocoxa; mesoscutum 0.65× as long as wide (70:110), 0.8× longer than length of pronotal collar (70:90), sparsely umbilicate, transversely strigose anteriorly; notauli conspicuous, slightly obliterated by mesoscutum sculpture; prepectus bare, with raised sculpture; mesoscutellum densely coriaceous medially and laterally with shallow punctures; mesepimeron transversally strigose; metepimeron subtriangular and areolate with long white hairs; propodeum ( Fig. 37B View FIGURE 37 ) with shallow median depression, without smooth median band, and a distinct median carina, lateral rows of areolae short (extending at most to half-length of propodeum), inverted U-shaped basal carina, lateral branches slightly concave, width of basal carinae about 0.5× width of nucha.

Fore wing with short marginal fringe, apically subtruncate (pointed anteriorly); dark brown spot below mv; basal cell bare or nearly so; mv slightly enlarged, triangular broadened, in lower margin concave; stv curved up; pmv not distinct, ventral side of costal cell sparsely setose, dorsally bare; speculum present; parastigmal bristles absent ( Fig. 37E View FIGURE 37 ).

Legs. Fore coxa without depression on frontal surface, hind coxa bare basodorsally; fore (30:15) and hind femora (30:15); hind tibia dorsally with more 10 setae, setae shorter than tibia width basally.

Metasoma. Petiole shorter than broad dorsally, ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present. Metasoma 1.2× as long as wide (140:115) ( Fig. 37C View FIGURE 37 ), shorter than mesosoma, slightly compressed laterally ( Fig. 37D View FIGURE 37 ); ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present; petiole in dorsal view not longer than wide, shorter than half length of hind coxa; tergites finely sculptured; Gt4 (in lateral view) much as long as Gt3 (at least 1.5× longer), not sinuous posteriorly; Gt5 mostly covering Gt6, not sinuous posteriorly; Gt3– Gt4 with few setae dorsally, Gt6 sparsely setose ventrally; ovipositor upturned ( Fig. 37C View FIGURE 37 ).

Male ( Fig. 38 View FIGURE 38 ). Length 1.41–1.86 mm. Similar to female with longer petiole ( Fig. 38A View FIGURE 38 ); exhibiting different colouration, entirely yellowish; antennal formula 11143, fu2–fu4 much broader than long; funicular with one row of mps and one whorl of relatively long erected setae ( Fig. 38C View FIGURE 38 ); fore wing more setose than in female.

Variation. Length 2.40–3.05 mm. Some specimens yellowish-brown coloured.

Host plant. Ficus bubu .

Geographical distribution. Congo.