Ficomila artocarpoides 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 : 37-39

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scientific name	Ficomila artocarpoides Lotfalizadeh
status	sp. n.

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Ficomila artocarpoides Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus sp. n.

( Figs 17–18 View FIGURE 17 View FIGURE 18 )

Type material examined. Holotype ♀: Cameroon, Mont Koupé , 4.824667° 9.701717°, ex syconia of Ficus artocarpoides , 15.v.2007, Kjellberg, F. & Djeto-Lordon, C. leg. Deposited in CBGP . Paratypes: same data as holotype , 2♀. Nigeria, Idarne (W. State), ex syconia of Ficus sp. , 2.v.1970, Medler, J. - T . leg., Wiebes Coll° N 1707, 1♀ (4♀ MNHL) .

Etymology. The specific name refers to the Ficus species, with which the species is associated.

Diagnosis. Body mostly dark brown with few parts yellowish, gaster frequently light brownish ( Fig. 17A View FIGURE 17 ). POL less than 1.5× of OOL. Flagellum with fu2–fu5 longer than wide ( Fig. 17D View FIGURE 17 ). Mesoscutum sparsely umbilicate punctures and densely coriaceous anteriorly ( Fig. 18A View FIGURE 18 ). Propodeum with long smooth median band reaching posterior margin ( Fig. 18B View FIGURE 18 ). Gaster of female compressed laterally, dorsally angulate ( Fig. 18D View FIGURE 18 ).

Description of holotype ♀ ( Figs 17–18 View FIGURE 17 View FIGURE 18 ). Length 4.73 mm. Body generally dark ( Fig. 17A View FIGURE 17 ), except scape, tegula, tibia, tarsomeres, femur distally and gaster brownish-yellowish; antenna mostly darkened; pronotum anterolaterally testaceous; 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. 18E View FIGURE 18 ); gaster reddish-brown with petiole and ovipositor sheet dark brown ( Fig. 18C View FIGURE 18 ); body setation whitish, setation of fore wing entirely dark.

Head 1.3× as broad as high [HW 148 & HH 114] ( Fig. 17C View FIGURE 17 ), in dorsal view transverse and 2.02× as broad as long [HW 148 & HL 73] ( Fig. 17D View FIGURE 17 ); face and vertex coriaceous with sparse punctures; malar space 0.52× length of eye [ms 40 & EH77]; malar sulcus absent ( Fig. 17E View FIGURE 17 ); lower margin of gena sinuous, edged but not carinate; antennal toruli widely separated, interantennal space not raised, carinate laterally; scrobal depression slightly sculptured dorsally, reaching the median ocellus, carinate on margin; POL 1.36× as long as OOL [POL 38 & OOL 28] ( Fig. 17D View FIGURE 17 ); temple margined, 0.38× the eye length (in dorsal view) [TL 30 & EL 80]; setation oriented downwards on face, outwards on the punctuate frons.

Antenna. Scape not reaching median ocellus, 4.25× as long as broad [SL 85 & SW 20]; fu1 1.6× as long as broad [fu1L 53 & fu1W 33], distinctly longer than pedicel, bulging dorsally; funiculars (fu2–fu4) with three rows of mps and several whorls of adpressed short setae; fu2–fu5 slightly longer than broad ( Fig. 17B View FIGURE 17 ).

Mesosoma arched dorsally, 1.5× as long as wide (165:110), with obliterate punctures ( Fig. 18A View FIGURE 18 ); pronotum with sparse umbilicate punctures, mesodiscrimen with a ring-like process, adjacent to mesocoxa; mesoscutum 0.7× as long as wide (80:110), 0.9× longer than length of pronotal collar (80:90), sparsely umbilicate, finely coriaceous anteriorly; notauli conspicuous, slightly obliterated by mesoscutum sculpture; prepectus bare, with raised sculpture; mesoscutellum sparsely umbilicate and coriaceous; mesepimeron transversally strigose ( Fig. 18C View FIGURE 18 ); metepimeron subtriangular and areolate with long white hairs; propodeum ( Fig. 18B View FIGURE 18 ) with deep median depression, with a smooth median band and a distinct median carina; lateral rows of areolae long and extending at least over posterior half of propodeum, inverted U-shaped basal carina, lateral branches relatively straight; 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, normally broadened and in lower margin concave; stv curved up; pmv not distinct; ventral side of costal cell sparsely setose, dorsally bare; speculum present, parastigmal bristles absent ( Figs 18E, F View FIGURE 18 ).

Legs. Fore coxa without depression on frontal surface, hind coxa bare basodorsally; fore (35:14) and hind femora (45:16); hind tibia dorsally with more than 10 setae, setae shorter than basal tibial width.

Metasoma. Petiole shorter than broad dorsally, ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present. Metasoma 1.55× as long as wide (170:110), longer than mesosoma, slightly compressed laterally ( Fig. 18D View FIGURE 18 ); 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) slightly as long as Gt3, sinuous posteriorly; Gt5 partly covering Gt6, sinuous posteriorly; Gt4 with few setae dorsally, Gt6 entirely setose ventrally; ovipositor upturned ( Fig. 18C View FIGURE 18 ).

Male. Unknown.

Variation. Length 4.46–4.90 mm; in some paratypes gaster entirely black.

Host plant. Ficus artocarpoides .

Geographical distribution. Cameroon and Nigeria.