Ficorytoma Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus

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 : 72-74

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5401.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16422751
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scientific name	Ficorytoma Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus
status	subgen. n.

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Subgenus Ficorytoma Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus , subgen. n.

Type species. Sycophila (Ficorytoma) persicae Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus sp. n. here designated.

Etymology. The subgeneric name is feminine and is a mixture of Ficomila and Eurytoma in reference to the chimeric aspect of the species.

Diagnosis. This subgenus shares characters with Eurytoma such as a well-developed and laminate genal carina however without postgenal carina; distinct umbilicate punctures on mesosoma and a well-developed pmv. The subgenus Ficorytoma also shares characters with subgenus Ficomila such as the mesosternal epicnemium with raised umbilicate sculpture similar to ring-like process, being closer to anteroventral margin of mesepisternum than to mesocoxa (ring-like process of mesepisternum adjacent to mesocoxa in Ficomila ), fu1 longer than pedicel; petiole without transverse ventral transverse carina separating it from St1 (while it is carinate in Ficomila ). Clava relatively short, shorter than fu4–fu5 taken together.

Female. Length 2.2–6 mm; yellowish, except head, antenna, mesosoma, gaster dorsally and posterior margin of gastral segments dark; pronotum anterolaterally testaceous; legs yellowish; fore wings hyaline, with dark brown spot behind mv; gaster with dark bands.

Head in frontal view coriaceous with sparse punctures, in dorsal view densely punctulate; in frontal view less than 1.5× as broad as high; in dorsal view transverse, more than 2× as broad as long; malar space more than 0.4× length of eye; malar sulcus distinct, sinuous; genal margin regularly curved in lower margin, distinctly laminate; antennal toruli narrowly separated, interantennal space not raised, not carinate laterally; scrobal depression slightly sculptured ventrally or smooth, not carinate on margin; POL 1.5 or more than 1.5× as long as OOL, temple margined, about 0.25× the eye length (in dorsal view); antenna with 11 antennomeres, antennal formula 11153.

Antenna. Scape reaching median ocellus, more than 2× as long as broad; fu1 more than 2× as long as broad, distinctly longer than pedicel, not bulging dorsally; funicular (fu2–fu4) with at least three rows of mps; fu2–fu5 distinctly longer than broad.

Mesosoma deeply sculptured; pronotum with coarse umbilicate punctures; mesepisternum with a semi-ring-like process on epicnemium, closer to anteroventral margin of mesepisternum than to mesocoxa; mesoscutum with dense umbilicate punctures, transversely strigose anteriorly; prepectus bare, slightly sculptured; mesoscutellum deeply umbilicate laterally and coriaceous sculpture on mesoscutellar disc; propodeum with deep median depression, with a smooth median band or rugulose; with a basal carina, lateral branches relatively straight.

Fore wing generally with short marginal fringe, apically subtruncate (pointed anteriorly); dark brown spot behind mv or distributed below it; basal cell bare to more setose; 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 or with a row of setae; speculum present.

Metasoma longer than mesosoma, slightly to strongly compressed laterally and dorsally angulate; ventral transverse carina between petiole and St1 present or absent; petiole in dorsal view short or long, usually shorter than half length of hind coxa; tergites smooth; Gt4 (in lateral view) slightly as long as Gt3, sinuous posteriorly; Gt5 partly to mostly covering Gt6, sinuous posteriorly; ovipositor oriented dorsad but not distinctly upturned.

Male. Length 2.06–6.00 mm.Similar to female with longer petiole and different colouration, the gaster sometimes mostly dark; antennal formula 11143, with much longer segments; fore wing more setose than in female.

Key to Afrotropical species of Sycophila (Ficorytoma) associated with Ficus View in CoL

1 Antenna with 5 funiculars, funiculars with short and adpressed hairs ( Figs 47B View FIGURE 47 , 50B View FIGURE 50 ); metasoma longer than mesosoma, with petiole relatively short, at most as long as hind coxa ( Figs 47A View FIGURE 47 , 50A View FIGURE 50 ); fore wing hyaline with enlarged marginal vein ( Figs 48E View FIGURE 48 , 51E View FIGURE 51 ).................................................................................. go to female key

- Antenna with 4 funiculars, funiculars with relatively long and erect hairs ( Figs 49C View FIGURE 49 , 52B View FIGURE 52 ); metasoma shorter than mesosoma, petiole relatively long, longer than hind coxa ( Figs 49A View FIGURE 49 , 52A View FIGURE 52 ); fore wing slightly infumate with most enlarger marginal vein ( Figs 49B View FIGURE 49 , 52E View FIGURE 52 )........................................................................... go to male key

Female

1 Petiole elongated, longer than wide dorsally and conspicuous ( Figs 51C, D View FIGURE 51 ); propodeum areolate medially, with a median longitudinal carina anteriorly ( Fig. 51B View FIGURE 51 ); antennal scrobe short, not reach median ocellus ( Fig. 50C View FIGURE 50 ).................................................................................... S. (F.) persicae Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus sp. n.

- Petiole short, distinctly shorter than wide ( Figs 48C, D View FIGURE 48 ); propodeum smoother, with longitudinal carinae medially ( Fig. 48B View FIGURE 48 ); antennal scrobe long, reaching median ocellus ( Fig. 47C View FIGURE 47 ).................. S. (F.) delvarei Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus sp. n.

Male

1 Fore and hind femora normal, not enlarged ( Fig. 51A View FIGURE 51 ); fore wing hyaline, setose, with a bare band under basal cell; marginal vein enlarged, longer than wide, 0.55× as broad as long ( Fig. 51E View FIGURE 51 ); propodeum entirely rugose, medially with a row of arranged cells ( Fig. 51B View FIGURE 51 )................................................... S. (F.) persicae Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus sp. n.

- Fore and hind femora enlarged ( Fig. 49A View FIGURE 49 ); fore wing entirely setose, with a large infuscate spot under venation; marginal vein distinctly stout, wider than long, about 1.2× as broad as long ( Fig. 49B View FIGURE 49 ); propodeum smoother, especially in median furrow ( Fig. 49D View FIGURE 49 )........................................................ S. (F.) delvarei Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus sp. n.