Ficomila bouceki 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 : 39-42

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10524406
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scientific name	Ficomila bouceki Lotfalizadeh
status	sp. n.

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Ficomila bouceki Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus sp. n.

( Figs 19–20 View FIGURE 19 View FIGURE 20 )

Type material examined. Holotype ♀: Guinea, Monts Nimba , Mifergui, ex syconia of Ficus artocarpoides , 6.v.1993 , Rasplus J.-Y. leg., 1♀. Deposited in CBGP . Paratypes: same data as holotype , 1♀. Gabon, Makokou , ex syconia of F. artocarpoides , 23.ix.1988, Maldès J.-M. leg. , 1♀. Cameroon, Londjikubi , ex syconia of Ficus ovata , 24.ii.1993, Gibernau M. leg. , 1♀. Nkolbisson , ex syconia of Ficus macrosperma , 5.viii.1993, Gibernau M. leg. , 1♀ (4♀ CBGP) .

Etymology. This species is named in honor of our mentor Zdenek Bouček for his phenomenal contribution to our knowledge of Chalcidoidea .

Diagnosis. Female body dark brown with some yellowish marks ( Fig. 19A View FIGURE 19 ). Flagellum with fu2–fu4 longer than wide, fu5 as long as wide ( Fig. 19B View FIGURE 19 ). Propodeum without smooth median band, median carina distinct and reaching basal half of propodeum ( Fig. 20B View FIGURE 20 ). Mesoscutum densely coriaceous with sparse umbilicate punctures ( Fig. 20A View FIGURE 20 ). Gaster of female compressed laterally, dorsally angulate ( Fig. 20C View FIGURE 20 ).

Description of holotype ♀ ( Figs 19–20 View FIGURE 19 View FIGURE 20 ). Length 5.08 mm. Body generally dark brown ( Fig. 19A View FIGURE 19 ), except tergites Gt5–Gt6, all tibia, tarsomeres and scape yellowish-brown, Gt1–Gt4 brown, pronotum anterolaterally testaceous; fore wing with one dark brown spot below mv, lower margin of mv obscured by dark brown spot, dark brown spot reaching base of mv ( Fig. 19E View FIGURE 19 ); gaster bicoloured; body setation whitish, setation of fore wing entirely dark.

Head 1.5× as broad as high [HW 277 & HH 185] ( Fig. 19C View FIGURE 19 ), in dorsal view transverse, 2.15× as broad as long [HW 277 & HL 129] ( Fig. 19D View FIGURE 19 ); face mostly coriaceous with sparse punctures, vertex coriaceous; malar space 0.39× length of eye [ms 55 & EH 140]; malar sulcus distinct, straight ( Fig. 19E View FIGURE 19 ); 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 (at least dorsally); POL 1.1× as long as OOL [POL 64 & OOL 57] ( Fig. 19D View FIGURE 19 ); temples in dorsal view margined, 0.33× the eye length [TL 45 & EL 138]; setation oriented downwards on face, outwards on the punctuate frons.

Antenna. Scape not reaching median ocellus, 3.27× as long as broad [SL 144 & SW 44]; funiculars (fu2–fu4) with two or three rows of mps; fu1 1.83× as long as broad [fu1L 95 & fu1W 52], distinctly longer than pedicel, bulging dorsally; fu2–fu4 slightly longer than broad; fu5 as long as broad ( Fig. 19B View FIGURE 19 ).

Mesosoma arched dorsally, 1.5× as long as wide (170:115), with obliterate punctures ( Fig. 20A View FIGURE 20 ); pronotum with sparse umbilicate punctures; mesodiscrimen with a ring-like process, adjacent to mesocoxa; mesoscutum 0.5× as long as wide (55:115), 0.6× longer than length of pronotal collar (55:90), 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. 20B View FIGURE 20 ) with deep median depression and a smooth median band, inverted U-shaped basal carina, lateral branches relatively straight, width of basal carinae less than 0.5× width of nucha, median sculpture regular.

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, in lower margin concave; pmv not distinct; stv curved up; ventral side of costal cell bare, dorsally with row of setae; speculum present; parastigmal bristles absent ( Figs 20E, F View FIGURE 20 ).

Legs. Fore coxa without depression on frontal surface, hind coxa bare basodorsally; fore (30:12) and hind femora (35:15); 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 1.5× as long as wide (170:115) ( Fig. 20C View FIGURE 20 ), longer than mesosoma, strongly compressed laterally and dorsally angulate ( Fig. 20D View FIGURE 20 ); ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present; petiole in dorsal view not longer than wide, distinctly shorter than half-length of hind coxa; gastral tergites finely sculptured; Gt4 (in lateral view) slightly as long as Gt3, sinuous posteriorly; Gt5 partly covered Gt6, sinuous posteriorly; Gt6 entirely setose in ventral half; ovipositor upturned ( Fig. 20C View FIGURE 20 ).

Male. Unknown.

Variation. Length 4.76–6.17 mm. Gaster in some specimens uniformly yellowish.

Host plants. Ficus artocarpoides , F. sansibarica subsp. macrosperma and F. laurifolia .

Geographical distribution. Cameroon, Gabon and Guinea.