Sycophila (Sycophila) nigriterga Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus, 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 : 119-122

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scientific name	Sycophila (Sycophila) nigriterga Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus
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Sycophila (Sycophila) nigriterga Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus sp. n.

( Figs 83–85 View FIGURE 83 View FIGURE 84 View FIGURE 85 )

Type material examined. Holotype ♀, Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, Lamto, 6.222197° -5.024070°, ex syconia of Ficus recurvata , 20.vi.1989, Rasplus J.-Y. leg. Deposited in CBGP. Paratypes: same data as holotype, 14♀ & 12♂. Same data but ex syconia of Ficus ovata , 8.vi.1994, 2♀.

Etymology. The specific name refers to the black colouration of the back of the gaster.

Diagnosis. Body colour of female similar to S. kestraneura with much wider dorsal dark band ( Fig. 83A View FIGURE 83 ). Funiculars distinctly long, 2× as long as wide ( Fig. 83B View FIGURE 83 ). Mesoscutum entirely punctured ( Fig. 84A View FIGURE 84 ). Propodeum with smooth median band, reaching close to nucha, with a short row of areolae in each side, reach at most half of propodeum ( Fig. 84B View FIGURE 84 ). Fore wing with pmv relatively long, longer than mv ( Fig. 84F View FIGURE 84 ). Metanotum smooth, petiole short at most as long as broad dorsally, ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present ( Figs 84C, D View FIGURE 84 ).

Male body mainly dark, partly yellowish. Flagellum with fu1–fu4 much longer than wide.

Description of holotype ♀ ( Figs 83–84 View FIGURE 83 View FIGURE 84 ). Length 4.30 mm. Body yellowish ( Fig. 83A View FIGURE 83 ), except head dorsally and posteriorly, frons, scape distally, pedicel basally, antennal flagellum, mesosoma dorsally, propodeum entirely, mesopleuron medially, prepectus ventrally and gaster dorsally dark brown; pronotum anterolaterally testaceous; fore wing with a dark brown spot below mv, reaching base of mv, lower margin of mv not obscured by dark brown spot ( Fig. 84E View FIGURE 84 ); gaster not uniformly coloured ( Fig. 84C View FIGURE 84 ); body setation whitish, setation of fore wing entirely dark.

Head 1.53× as broad as high [HW 165 & HH 108] ( Fig. 83C View FIGURE 83 ); in dorsal view transverse, 2.18× as broad as long [HW 292 & HL 134] ( Fig. 83D View FIGURE 83 ); face densely punctulate, vertex coriaceous and sparsely punctulate; malar space 0.48× length of eye [ms 35 & EH 73]; malar sulcus distinct, sinuous ( Fig. 83E View FIGURE 83 ); genal margin regularly curved, edged but not carinate; antennal toruli narrowly separated; interantennal space not raised, not carinate laterally; scrobal depression smooth, reaching the median ocellus, carinate on dorsal margin; POL 1.63× as long as OOL [POL 57 & OOL 35] ( Fig. 83D View FIGURE 83 ); temple rounded, 0.21× the eye length (in dorsal view) [TL 23 & EL 110]; setation oriented downwards on face, outwards on the punctuate frons.

Antenna. Scape reaching above the lower margin of median ocellus, 4.42× as long as broad [SL 106 & SW 24]; fu1 2.56× as long as broad, [fu1L 64 & fu1W 25]; distinctly longer than pedicel, not bulging dorsally; funiculars (fu2–fu4) with three rows of mps and 2–3 whorls of adpressed short setae; fu2–fu5 distinctly longer than broad ( Fig. 83B View FIGURE 83 ).

Mesosoma weakly arched dorsally, 1.65× as long as wide (165:100), with deep sculpture ( Fig. 84A View FIGURE 84 ); pronotum with coarse umbilicate punctures; mesepisternum raised medially, with piliferous sculpture on epicnemium, being closer to anteroventral margin of mesepisternum than to mesocoxa; mesoscutum anteriorly with coarse umbilicate punctures, posteriorly with dense umbilicate punctures; notauli conspicuous, slightly obliterated by mesoscutum sculpture; prepectus bare, with raised sculpture; mesoscutum 0.55× as long as wide (55:100), 0.7× longer than length of pronotal collar (55:80), deeply umbilicate laterally and with coriaceous sculpture on mesoscutellar disc; mesepimeron transversally strigose; metepimeron subtriangular and areolate with long white hairs; propodeum ( Fig. 84B View FIGURE 84 ) with deep median depression, with a smooth median band, with two short submedian carinae; lateral rows of areolae short (extending at most to half-length of propodeum); basal carina inverted V, truncate mesally, lateral branches relatively straight; distance between lateral carinae less than 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 distinctly enlarged, rounded, lower margin convex, not longer than pmv; stv not curved, pmv distinct, longer than stv; ventral side of costal cell densely setose, dorsally bare; speculum present; parastigmal bristles absent.

Legs. Fore coxa without depression on frontal surface, hind coxa bare basodorsally; fore (30:10) and hind femora (35:12); hind tibia dorsally with more than 10 setae, setae shorter than hind tibia width ( Figs 84E, F View FIGURE 84 ).

Metasoma. Petiole shorter than broad dorsally, ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present. Metasoma 1.65× as long as wide (165:100) ( Fig. 84C View FIGURE 84 ), longer than mesosoma, strongly compressed laterally and dorsally angulate ( Fig. 84D View FIGURE 84 ); ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present; petiole in dorsal view not longer than wide, shorter than half length of hind coxa; tergites smooth; Gt4 (in lateral view) much as long as Gt3 (at least 1.5× longer), not sinuous posteriorly; Gt5 partly covering Gt6, sinuous posteriorly; Gt6 sparsely setose ventrally; ovipositor oriented dorsad but not distinctly upturned ( Fig. 84C View FIGURE 84 ).

Male ( Fig. 85 View FIGURE 85 ). Length 4.22–5.95 mm. Similar to female with longer petiole ( Fig. 85A View FIGURE 85 ); exhibiting entirely different colouration, body dark except antenna, mesosoma dorsally, fore and mid tibia and tarsomeres yellowish; antennal formula 11143; each funicular with 3–4 rows of mps and several whorls short appressed setae ( Fig. 85B View FIGURE 85 ); fore wing more setose than in female, speculum absent, costal cell dorsally and ventrally setose, mv much wider than female, dark brown spot under mv widely distributed ( Fig. 85D View FIGURE 85 ).

Variation. Length 3.18–6.00 mm.

Host plants. Ficus laurifolia and F. recurvata .

Geographical distribution. Republic of Côte d’Ivoire.