Turkish Journal of Zoology Turk J Zool (2019) 43: 388-392 http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/zoology/ © TÜBİTAK Short Communication doi:10.3906/zoo-1805-21

A new of Chelonini (: ) from pistachio twig borer (Kermania pistaciella Amsel (Lep.: )) in Gaziantep

1, 2 Ahmet BEYARSLAN *, Yasemin Bengü ŞAHAN  1 Department of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Bitlis Eren University, Bitlis, Turkey 2 Pistachio Research Institute, Gaziantep, Turkey

Received: 14.05.2018 Accepted/Published Online: 19.06.2019 Final Version: 01.07.2019

Abstract: Pupae of the pistachio twig borer moth (Kermania pistaciella Amsel (Lep.: Tineidae)) were collected in the Şahinbey and Nizip-Alahacı regions of Gaziantep in February and March 2017. The pupae were kept in cages and from (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) were obtained. chetini Beyarslan & Şahan sp. nov. is described as a new species for science. The new species is described and the figures of its diagnostic characters are given.

Key words: Braconidae, Chelonus, Kermania, Turkey, new species

Cheloninae Foerster, 1863 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) chelonines in Turkey dates back to the early 1900s, by is a large subfamily of 1523 described species worldwide Kohl (1905), which were followed by studies all performed (Yu et al., 2016). Most of the species (1077 species) of the decades later (Beyarslan, 1985; Tobias, 1986; Aydoğdu subfamily belong to the tribe Chelonini Foerster, 1863, and Beyarslan, 2002, 2006b, 2007; Lozan, 2005; Aydoğdu, while the other tribes are small (Adeliini Viereck, 1918 2008; Özgen et al., 2012). On the other hand, important and Odontosphaeropygini Zettel, 1990) or medium-sized contributions to Turkish Chelonini fauna were made in (Phanerotomini Baker, 1926) (Yu et al., 2016). Species the past in a number of studies (Beyarslan, 1985; Aydoğdu of Cheloninae are solitary egg-larval endoparasitoids of and Beyarslan, 2009, 2011, 2012). Five species of Chelonus, , especially of members of Tortricoidea and , and Phanerotomella were recorded from (Shaw and Huddleston, 1991). The the Turkish islands Imbros and Tenedos (Beyarslan et eggs are deposited in the eggs of the hosts. The delicate al., 2002). Aydoğdu and Beyarslan (2006a) published 18 cocoon is attached to the remains of the host Microchelonus species from the Marmara, Western, and (van Achterberg, 1976; Shaw and Huddleston, 1991). Middle Black Sea regions of Turkey and eight of these Chelonines are small or medium-sized (body usually 2–6 species were reported for the first time from Turkey. mm), with a compact, sculptured body, with the first three Twenty-six species of Ascogaster and Chelonus were abdominal tergites fused to form a shield and, as a rule, with recorded by the same researchers in the same region in a short ovipositor, occasionally concealed inside the shield 2007. Aydoğdu and Beyarslan (2009) determined thirteen (Tobias, 1986). This subfamily has many apomorphous Phanerotomini species, and six of these were reported for characters, e.g., the metasomal carapace, the short and the first time from Turkey. ThirteenChelonus species were high radial cell, the presence of the postpectal carina, the identified, and five of them are new records for the Turkish often densely setose eyes, the basally slender mandibles of fauna (Aydoğdu and Beyarslan, 2011). Eighteen Ascogaster the final instar larvae, and the often indistinct hypostomal species were recorded from Turkey and two of these are suture (van Achterberg, 1976). new to the Turkish fauna (Aydoğdu and Beyarslan, 2012). Chelonus (including Microchelonus Szépligeti, 1908) is Twenty-three Cheloninae species were determined in the a large with a worldwide distribution, containing 974 Eastern Anatolian region with 20 being new records for the valid species (Yu et al., 2016). However, the Turkish fauna region (Aydoğdu, 2016). More recently, thirteen Chelonus of chelonines is poorly known due to the low number of species were identified from the Middle Anatolian region studies performed on the genus. The first records of the (Aydoğdu, 2017). * Correspondence: [email protected] 388

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This study on the pistachio twig borer moth (Kermania Occiput concave, ocelli small, ratios of OD : POL : OOL pistaciella Amsel (Lep: Tineidae)) was carried out in the = 5 : 12 : 15. Vertex with transverse rugae behind ocelli, Şahinbey and Nizip-Alahacı regions of Gaziantep in longitudinal diameter of eye 3.3 times height of gena; order to observe emergences of adults and parasitoids of antennae short and slender, 16-segmented, slightly longer the moth. A total of 700 pest-infected pistachio shoots, than mesosoma, pubescent; scape elongate and smooth, 100 from Nizip and 700 from Şahinbey, were collected in pedicel small and 1.7 times the width, length of 1st flagellar February and March 2017. All pest-infected shoots were segment 2.6 times its width, 2nd flagellar segment as long taken in wooden culture cages covered with nets. as 3rd, shorter than 1st, apical segments almost as long as While the first adult individuals of the moth in the Nizip- their width; face transverse in frontal view, width of face Alahacı region were collected with pheromone traps, 1.4 times its height, coarsely reticulate-punctate; clypeus parasitoid emergences in the cages settled in the garden protuberant, denticles absent; length of maxillary palp 0.6 of the Gaziantep Şahinbey Institute were monitored and times as long as length of head (Figures 1 and 4). daily counts were made. By doing so, emergences of the Mesosoma. Mesoscutum, scutellum and mesopleuron parasitoid of the pest moth were determined in their coarsely reticulate; propodeum coarsely sculpture, with natural conditions. small lateral teeth (Figures 1 and 5). Specimens of the parasitoids belonging to Cheloninae Wings. Anterior margin of marginal cell of forewing and Miracinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) were shorter than pterostigma; radial cell of fore wing about as recorded. Preparations of the obtained specimens were long as 2nd submarginal cell (Figures 1 and 7). The hind done according to van Achterberg (1990) and their wing very transparent and veins light yellow (Figure 7). identifications were performed according to the relevant Legs. Hind coxa coarsely punctate; length of hind keys and definitions (Huddleston, 1984; Tobias 1986, femur 2.5 times its width, with minute punctures (Figures 2008; Belokobylskij, 2004). Chelonus chetini Beyarslan & 1), hind tibia longer than hind tarsus (70 : 57 respectively). Şahan sp. nov. was recorded as a new species for science. Metasoma. Metasomal carapace oval, not bent apically; Photographs of the new species were taken using a Leica length of metasomal carapace 1.3 times its width in middle, S8APO camera attached to a stereomicroscope (Leica densely and rather coarsely punctate, with reticule in basal, S8APO). The study of van Achterberg (1993) was followed becoming weaker toward its posterior part. Metasomal for the terminology used. Abbreviations: OOL = ocular- carapace with a suture at distal 2/3 (Figure 8). Ovipositor ocellar line, POL = postocellar line, OD = maximal projecting beyond apical sternite (Figure 9). diameter of lateral ocelli. The studied materials are Coloration. Body black; antenna black, except deposited in the collections of the Bitlis Eren University brownish basal segments; maxillary palp and mandible Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biology. brownish; wings slightly infuscate, basal half with pale In the present study Chelonus chetini Beyarslan and yellowish veins, pterostigma dark brown, distal half with Şahan sp. nov. was obtained from larvae and pupae of brown veins (Figures 1 and 7); legs mostly brownish, coxae Kermania pistaciella Amsel (Lep: Tineidae) and described black, hind femur and partially tibia infuscate, the basis of as a new species. carapace with a yellow triangular spot (Figure 8). Chelonus chetini Beyarslan and Şahan sp. nov. Distribution. Turkey (Gaziantep). (Figures 1–9) Differential diagnosis. Chelonus chetini Beyarslan & Material examined: Holotype: female, Turkey: Şahan sp. nov. is related to C. latrunculus (Marshall 1885). Gaziantep Province: Nizip, Alahacı (36°55′10″N, The two species are separated by the combination of the 37°45′3″E, 525 m a.s.l.), 04.06.2017, 1♀; leg.: Y.B. Şahan. following characters: Paratypes: Nizip, Alahacı (37°13′2″N, 37°46′13″E, 720 1 (2). Metasomal carapace with a suture at distal 2/3 m a.s.l.), 11.04.2017, 1♀; 37°02′59″9, 37°22′11″1°1leg.: Y.B. (Figure 8), 1.3 times as long as wide, black and with a Şahan.Gaziantep, Şahinbey (37° 02’ 59’’N, 37° 22’ 11”E), yellow triangular spot at base, metasomal carapace without 840 m asl), 11.04.2017, 1♀; leg.: Y.B. Şahan. longitudinal folds; tegulae black, body 3.1 mm ...... Description. Female (holotype). Length of body 3.1 ...... C. chetini Beyarslan & Şahan sp. nov. mm, length of head 0.35 mm, length of antenna 1.75 mm, 2 (1). Metasomal carapace without a suture at proximal length of fore wing 2.5 mm, length of hind wing 2.0 mm, 1/3, 1.5 times as long as wide and entirely black, longitudinal length of mesosoma 1.3 mm, length of hind leg 2.7 mm, folds on abdomen fine and short; tegulae brown, body 2.5– length of metasoma 1.6 mm, length of ovipositor 0.35 mm 3 mm...... C. (M.) latrunculus (Marshall 1885) (Figure 1). Etymology. The new species was named in honor of Head. Head transverse, 2.0 times as wide as its length Turkey’s entomologist Çetin Şengonca, who led us to the in dorsal view, roundly contracted behind eyes, temple 0.5 systematics of Braconidae. times as long as transverse diameter of eye in dorsal view. Male. Unknown.

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Figures 1–5. Chelonus chetini Beyarslan & Şahan sp. nov.: 1- habitus, 2- head frontal, 3- head dorsal view, 4- head lateral view, 5- mesosoma lateral view.

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Figures 6–9. Chelonus chetini Beyarslan & Şahan sp. nov.: 6- mesosoma dorsal view, 7- fore wing, 8- metasoma dorsal view, 9- metasoma distal view.

Nomenclatural acts Acknowledgment This work and the nomenclatural acts it contains have We present our endless gratitude to the Directorate of been registered in ZooBank. The ZooBank Life Science the Pistachio Research Institute/Gaziantep, for providing Identifier (LSID) for this publication is: http://zoobank. tools, materials, and services during the collection of org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:18B978C4-C0F3-4DFC- infected shoots and monitoring of parasitoid emergences. A273-FC85AD1E9C2D

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