Anagyrus kvesitadzei Japoshvili & Salakaia 2026, sp. nov.

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Salakaia, Meri
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Salakaia, Meri
contents <p><b><i>Anagyrus kvesitadzei</i> Japoshvili sp. nov.</b></p><p>(Figure 1)</p><p><i>Material examined.</i> Type material: Holotype, ♀ (on slide). GEORGIA: Vashlovani National Park, Datviskhevi, 27.05.- 08.06.2023, leg. G. Japoshvili.</p><p><i>Female.</i> Holotype length, 1.65mm.</p><p>Body fairly stout, slightly elongate (Fig. 1a). Head black. Antenna with radicle dark brown; scape dark brown with a white, oblique, subapical band, which is interrupted on dorsal side, hence apical and basal dark parts are connected, and with a basal white spot; pedicel dark brown; Fl with basal 2/3 white, rest of funicle segments brown, clava brown. Body dark brown to almost black with a few lighter parts, each eye surrounded with a yellow rim, interrupted near torulus; sides of mesoscutum with yellow spots. Fore wing hyaline; venation testaceous. Legs yellow, except mid and hind coxae, which are dark brown; fore coxa orange or light brown; hind femur dark brown except apical 1/5; mid tibia with a dark spot in the basal part. Gaster varying from largely orange-brown to dark brown; visible parts of gonostyli dark brown.</p><p><i>Head.</i> Head shiny with shallow rugose to coriaceous sculpture on frontovertex (Fig. 1b,c); frontovertex about 0.45× head width; ocelli forming an angle of about 90°; eyes with fairly inconspicuous, slender pale setae; posterior ocelli separated from occipital margin by at least 1.5× distance from eye margin and occipital margin; eyes almost reaching occipital margin which is sharp; antennal toruli each separated from mouth margin by less than their own lengths, their dorsal margins above ventral eye margins; area between toruli anterior ocelus slightly convex. Antenna (Fig. 1d) with sutures of clava subparallel; scape broadened and compressed.</p><p><i>Relative measurements.</i> HW 70; HH 80; FV 32; POL 15; OOL 5; OCL 5; AOL 7; OD 3; EL 56; EW 26; MS 17; SL 50; SW 18.</p><p><i>Mesosoma.</i> Mesoscutum with shallow, fine to very fine coriaceous sculpture; scutellum matt, with deep longitudinally elongate coriaceous to strigose sculpture (Fig. 1g). Mid tibial spur about 12× as long as wide and 0.36× length of mid tibia. Fore wing 2.8× as long as broad; costal cell very narrow, with proximal half well distinguished and with two lines of setae, distal half almost indistinguishable; marginal and postmarginal veins combined clearly longer than stigma vein; setation at base of fore wing and venation as in Fig. 1e. Relative measurements: SbV:M: SV:P—70:8:9:12.</p><p><i>Metasoma.</i> Gaster longer than head and mesosoma combined; ovipositor not exserted to very slightly exserted, about 0.7× as long as MT (Fig. 1f); hypopygium extending to apical part of ovipositor.</p><p><i>Male.</i> Unknown.</p><p><i>Hosts.</i> Unknown.</p><p><i>Comment</i>. The closest species to <i>Anagyrus kvesitadzei</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> is <i>Anagyrus alienus</i> Japoshvili (Japoshvili, 2012). Females of these species can be separated by the characters given in Table 1.</p><p><i>Etymology</i>. The species is named after the internationally well-known Georgian biotechnologist, professor and academician Giorgi (Otar) Kvesitadze, for his contribution to the biotechnological sciences.</p>
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spellingShingle Anagyrus kvesitadzei Japoshvili & Salakaia 2026, sp. nov.
Japoshvili, George
Salakaia, Meri
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Encyrtidae
Anagyrus
Anagyrus kvesitadzei
<p><b><i>Anagyrus kvesitadzei</i> Japoshvili sp. nov.</b></p><p>(Figure 1)</p><p><i>Material examined.</i> Type material: Holotype, ♀ (on slide). GEORGIA: Vashlovani National Park, Datviskhevi, 27.05.- 08.06.2023, leg. G. Japoshvili.</p><p><i>Female.</i> Holotype length, 1.65mm.</p><p>Body fairly stout, slightly elongate (Fig. 1a). Head black. Antenna with radicle dark brown; scape dark brown with a white, oblique, subapical band, which is interrupted on dorsal side, hence apical and basal dark parts are connected, and with a basal white spot; pedicel dark brown; Fl with basal 2/3 white, rest of funicle segments brown, clava brown. Body dark brown to almost black with a few lighter parts, each eye surrounded with a yellow rim, interrupted near torulus; sides of mesoscutum with yellow spots. Fore wing hyaline; venation testaceous. Legs yellow, except mid and hind coxae, which are dark brown; fore coxa orange or light brown; hind femur dark brown except apical 1/5; mid tibia with a dark spot in the basal part. Gaster varying from largely orange-brown to dark brown; visible parts of gonostyli dark brown.</p><p><i>Head.</i> Head shiny with shallow rugose to coriaceous sculpture on frontovertex (Fig. 1b,c); frontovertex about 0.45× head width; ocelli forming an angle of about 90°; eyes with fairly inconspicuous, slender pale setae; posterior ocelli separated from occipital margin by at least 1.5× distance from eye margin and occipital margin; eyes almost reaching occipital margin which is sharp; antennal toruli each separated from mouth margin by less than their own lengths, their dorsal margins above ventral eye margins; area between toruli anterior ocelus slightly convex. Antenna (Fig. 1d) with sutures of clava subparallel; scape broadened and compressed.</p><p><i>Relative measurements.</i> HW 70; HH 80; FV 32; POL 15; OOL 5; OCL 5; AOL 7; OD 3; EL 56; EW 26; MS 17; SL 50; SW 18.</p><p><i>Mesosoma.</i> Mesoscutum with shallow, fine to very fine coriaceous sculpture; scutellum matt, with deep longitudinally elongate coriaceous to strigose sculpture (Fig. 1g). Mid tibial spur about 12× as long as wide and 0.36× length of mid tibia. Fore wing 2.8× as long as broad; costal cell very narrow, with proximal half well distinguished and with two lines of setae, distal half almost indistinguishable; marginal and postmarginal veins combined clearly longer than stigma vein; setation at base of fore wing and venation as in Fig. 1e. Relative measurements: SbV:M: SV:P—70:8:9:12.</p><p><i>Metasoma.</i> Gaster longer than head and mesosoma combined; ovipositor not exserted to very slightly exserted, about 0.7× as long as MT (Fig. 1f); hypopygium extending to apical part of ovipositor.</p><p><i>Male.</i> Unknown.</p><p><i>Hosts.</i> Unknown.</p><p><i>Comment</i>. The closest species to <i>Anagyrus kvesitadzei</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> is <i>Anagyrus alienus</i> Japoshvili (Japoshvili, 2012). Females of these species can be separated by the characters given in Table 1.</p><p><i>Etymology</i>. The species is named after the internationally well-known Georgian biotechnologist, professor and academician Giorgi (Otar) Kvesitadze, for his contribution to the biotechnological sciences.</p>
title Anagyrus kvesitadzei Japoshvili & Salakaia 2026, sp. nov.
topic Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Encyrtidae
Anagyrus
Anagyrus kvesitadzei
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19179144