Pleurotroppopsis tischeriae

Pleurotroppopsis tischeriae (Kamijo, 1977) (Fig. 18) Cotterellia tischeriae Kamijo, 1977: 258–260. Holotype ♀, HUMJ (examined). Pleurotroppopsis tischeriae (Kamijo, 1977), Bouček, 1988: 710. Diagnosis. FEMALE. Antenna brown with scape predominantly whitish, infuscate only apically. Fore wing broadly infuscate below MV, with speculum reduced (Fig. 18c). Upper margin of scrobes incised medially, hence frontal carina sinuate (Fig. 18b). Ocelli in a right-angled triangle. Mesoscutum with numerous setae evenly distributed over surface, including notaular depressions; MLM without a trace of a median groove (Fig. 18a). Axilla evenly tuberculate with numerous setae (Figs 18a, 18c). Scutellum with posterior groove. Dorsellum smooth with posterior margin weakly carinate (Fig. 18a). Propodeum with plicae angled inwards in the middle, and with a transverse weak carina usually extending from the angulation to the median carina (Fig. 18a, fig. 6 in Kamijo 1977). Gt 1 smooth with a row of setae posteriorly (Fig. 18c). Metafemur with teeth along ventral margin. MALE. Differs from female in the following characters. Vertex transverse with ocelli in an obtuse-angled triangle (Fig. 18f). Face between frontal carina and toruli weakly depressed, and frontal carina not raised or incised. Antenna with scape metallic in apical 2/5, and white in basal 3/5; funiculars stalked apically, with long, erect, white setae (Fig. 18e). Fore and mid legs white except for metallic blue coxae and infuscate claws; hind leg with coxa and femur metallic blue, tibia and tarsomeres white but claws infuscate (Fig. 18e). Gastral tergites almost smooth. Wings hyaline (Fig. 18e). Material examined. Type material. Holotype ♀, Bibai, Hokkaido, ex. Tischeria sp. on Quercus mongolica, em. 17.VIII.1975, coll. K. Kamijo (HUMJ); paratypes: 1♀, Bibai, Hokkaido, 10.VIII.1975, coll. Kamijo, ex. Tischeriae sp. on Quercus mongolica (HUMJ); 1♀ 3♂, Sapporo, Hokkaido, ex. Tischeria sp. on Quercus dentata, em. 28.I– 16.II.1956, coll. T. Kumata; 1♀ 1♂, ex. Tischeria sp., em. 1–15.VII.1959 (HUMJ). Other material examined. 1♀, CHINA: Jilin, Jilin Agricultural University, the Department of Biological Control, 5.VI–12.VI.2015, coll. Huan-Xi Cao (IZCAS). Biology. The type specimens were recorded from a lepidopteran leaf-miner species, a Tischeria sp. (Lepidoptera: Tischeriidae), mining leaves of Quercus mongolica Fisch. ex Ledeb and Quercus dentata Thunb. (Kamijo 1977). Distribution. China: Jilin (new distribution record); Japan; Korea. Remarks. See remarks under P. hirta.
Published as part of Cao, Huan-Xi, Dale-Skey, Natalie, Burwell, Chris J. & Zhu, Chao-Dong, 2022, Review of the genus Pleurotroppopsis Girault (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) with interspecific phylogenetic relationships based on morphological characters, pp. 451-484 in Zootaxa 5190 (4) on pages 478-480, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5190.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7138395
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