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New species of egg parasites from the Oil Palm
Stick Insect (Eurycantha insularis) in Papua
New Guinea (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae,

Phasmatodea, Phasmatidae)

Lynn S. Kimsey'', Charles F Dewhurst**, Seno Nyaure”$

| Bohart Museum of Entomology, Department of Entomology, University of California, One Shields Ave., Da-
vis, California 95616, USA 2 Papua New Guinea Oil Palm Research Association Inc., Dami Research Station,
Kimbe, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea

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Corresponding author: Lynn S. Kimsey (Iskimsey@ucdavis.edu)

Academic editor: W. Pulawski | Received 19 September 2012 | Accepted 27 November2012 | Published 30 January 2013
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Citation: Kimsey LS, Dewhurst CE, Nyaure S (2013) New species of egg parasites from the Oil Palm Stick Insect
(Eurycantha insularis) in Papua New Guinea (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae, Phasmatodea, Phasmatidae). Journal of
Hymenoptera Research 30: 19-28. doi: 10.3897/JHR.30.4010

Abstract
Two new species of amisegine chrysidids, Cladobethylus insularis and Exova tunana, are described. Both
species were reared from eggs of the stick insect, Eurycantha insularis Lucas (Phasmatidae), collected from

infestations of oil palm pests in Papua New Guinea. This is the first host record for either genus.

Keywords
Cladobethylus, Exova

Introduction

Outbreaks of the oil palm stick insect, Eurycantha insularis Lucas, 1869 (Figs 1, 2), oc-
curred in 2007 and 2008 in smallholder oil palm plantations in the Tunana smallholder
blocks in Northern (Oro) Province, Papua New Guinea. Damage caused by these stick

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Figures 1-3. Eurycantha insularis Lucas | feeding damage in Tunana small holding oil palm plantation
in Papua New Guinea 2 Male 3 Female with parasitized egg; egg not to scale.

New species of egg parasites from the Oil Palm Stick Insect (Eurycantha insularis)... 21

insects can be seen in Fig. 3. Eggs from this stick insect were regularly collected during
these infestations and two new species of chrysidid egg parasites, Exova tunana sp. n.
and Cladobethylus insularis sp. n. described below were reared from the eggs. There is
no information on the ecology of these parasitoids except for the rearing information.

There are seven named species of Cladobethylus and two species of Exova described
prior to those described below (Kimsey and Bohart 1991, Kimsey 2011). The new spe-
cies of Cladobethylus described below is the second one recorded from New Guinea.
Exova is known from northern Australia and Fiji, so it is not surprising to find a species
in Papua New Guinea.

Materials and methods

Specimens were all reared by the second and third authors and their staff at PNGO-
PRA, Higaturu Centre, Northern Province, Papua New Guinea.

Types are deposited in the following museums and institutions: CANBERRA —
Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia; DAVIS —
Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis, USA; KIMBE - Pap-
ua new Guinea, PNG Oil Palm Research Association Dami Research Station, Kimbe,
West New Britain Province; LONDON — The Natural History Museum, London,
England, and PORT MORESBY -— the National Insect Collection, Port Moresby,

Papua New Guinea.

Cladobethylus insularis Kimsey & Dewhurst, sp. n.
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http://species-id.net/wiki/Cladobethylus_insularis

Figs 4-10

Holotype male. Papua New Guinea, Northern (Oro) Province, Higaturu, ex Eurycan-
tha insularis egg, second generation coll. 23/ii/2009, died 23/ii/2009 C. F Dewhurst,
No. 888 (LONDON).

Paratypes (17 males, 3 females): same data as holotype except: 1 male, 1“ genera-
tion, em. (emerged) 28/xii/2008, died 5/i/2009, C. F. Dewhurst , No. 855; 1 male,
1* generation, emerged 28/xii/2008, died 5/i/2009, S. Nyaure, No. 855; 1 female, 1*
generation, emerged 8/ii/2008, died 14/ii/2008, C. F. Dewhurst, No. 833; 1 male, 1"
generation, emerged 6/i/2009, died 17/i/2009, S. Nyaure, No. 869; 1 male, 1* gen-
eration, emerged 2/i/2009, died 9/i/2009, S. Nyaure, No. 862; 1 male, 1* generation,
emerged& dead 22, 23, 25/i/2009, S. Nyaure, No. 875; 1 male, 2" generation, coll.
3/11/2009, died 16/ii/2009, C. F. Dewhurst, No. 887; 1 male, Higaturu Oil Palms,
coll. 8/v/2007, H9/vi/2007, C. F. Dewhurst, Nos. 823; 3 males, 2! generation, coll.
25/vii/2009, died 27/vii/2009, C. F. Dewhurst, No. 893, 894, 895; 1 male, 2"¢ gen-
eration, coll. 5/ii/2009, died 20/ii/2009, C. F. Dewhurst, No. 890; 1 male, 1 female,

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Figures 4-5. Cladobethylus insularis, side views 4 Male 5 Female.

2° generation, coll. 26/i/2009, died 16/ii/2009, C. F. Dewhurst, No. 881, 882; 1
male; 2 generation, coll. 8/ii/2009, died 16/ii/2009, C. F. Dewhurst, No. 8923; 1
male, 2™ generation, coll. 2/ii/2009, died 15/ii/2009, C. F. Dewhurst, No. 886; 1
male, emerged 12/ii/2008, died 17/ii/2008, C. F. Dewhurst, No. 837; 1 female, 24
generation, coll. 27/i/2009, died 21/ii/2009, C. F. Dewhurst, No. 883 (CANBERRA,
LONDON, DAVIS, KIMBE, PORT MORESBY).

Diagnosis. This is the largest bodied species of Cladobethylus, with males averag-
ing twice the length of the known other species. Male insularis can be distinguished
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Figures 6-10. Cladobethylus insularis 6—8 Male head 6 Front view 7 Lateral view 8 Dorsal view 9 Dor-

sal view of male mesosoma, wings removed 10 Front view of female face.

space (4 midocellus diameters versus 3.5 in aquilus), pronotum not blue-tinted, much
broader zone of cross-ridging in the scapal basin, legs brown instead of yellow (aqui-
lus) flagellomere I shorter (4.5x as long as broad versus 5x in aquilus) and flagellomere
XI shorter (5x as long as broad versus 6x in aquilus). Features of female insularis not
shared with other Cladobethylus include the bicolored antenna and legs, long clypeus
(0.8 midocellus diameter long versus 0.3—-0.6 midocellus diameters in other species),
and narrow distance between the midocellus and nearest eye margin (up to 2 midocel-
lus diameters versus 2.6—2.7 midocellus diameters in the others).

Description. Male (Fig. 4). Body length. 5-7 mm.

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Head (Figs 6-8). Face about as long as broad across the eyes; genal area without
foveae; midocellus 1.8 diameters from ocular margin; hindocelli 4 diameters from
posterior margin of vertex; scapal basin with narrow, longitudinal submedial band of
cross-ridges; malar space 3.5—3.8 midocellus diameters; subantennal distance 1 mido-
cellus diameter long; flagellomere I 4x as long as broad; flagellomere II 2.8—3.0x as
long as broad; flagellomere [X 5x as long as broad, flagellar setae 0.7 midocellar diam-
eter long; ocular setulae 0.4 midocellus diameter long.

Mesosoma (Fig. 9). Pronotum about as long as scutum; punctation on pronotum,
scutum and mesopleuron large, deep and nearly contiguous punctuation, without
scrobal sulcus or omaulus; scutellum polished with scattered tiny punctures; meta-
pleuron polished, impunctate.

Metasoma. Tergum I polished with few tiny highly scattered punctures; tergum II
with two large ovoid patches of small punctures, 1 puncture diameter apart, separated
medially by impunctate band and with broad apical impunctate band; terga III-IV
with tiny punctures 1 puncture diameter apart, becoming sparser toward apical margin.

Color. Head, meso- and metasoma black with metallic bluish green highlights
dorsally on head, pronotum and scutellum, sometimes faint on metasomal terga;
mandible and antenna dark brown; legs light reddish brown, except coxae dark
brown to black basally; wing membrane brown-tinted, darkest in vicinity of stigma;
wing veins dark brown.

Female (Fig. 5). Body length. 4.5-5.5 mm. As in the male, except face (Fig. 10) about
as long as broad across the eyes; malar space 3.6-3.8midocellus diameters; subantennal dis-
tance 0.8 midocellus diameter; flagellomere I 2.4x as long as broad; flagellomere II long as
broad; flagellomere IX 1.3x as long as broad; scape, pedicel black, flagellomeres I-III white,
remaining flagellomeres black; coxae, femora, mid and hindtibiae black basally, whitish
apically; foretibia and tarsi brown; wing membrane brown-tinted with dark brown veins.

Etymology. The species is named after the host species.

Exova tunana Kimsey & Dewhurst, sp. n.
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http://species-id.net/wiki/Exova_tunana

Figs 11-18

Holotype male. Papua New Guinea, Northern (Oro) Province, Saiho Division (Tu-
nana), ex Eurycantha insularis egg, emerged 27/vii/2007, died 30/vii/2007, C. FE De-
whurst, No. 828 (LONDON).

Paratypes: 1 male, emerged 5/ii/2008, died 13/ii/2008, C. F. Dewhurst, No. 831;
1 female, emerged 10/ii/2008, died 15/ii/2008, C. F. Dewhurst, No. 835; 1 female,
Higaturu, 1“ generation, coll. 2/vi/2008, died 12/vi/2008, C. F. Dewhurst, No. 841
(CANBERRA, DAVIS, KIMBE, PORT MORESBY).

Diagnosis. This is the largest bodied species of Exova. Female tunana can be distin-
guished from fijiensis Kimsey by the long spine-like propodeal angle (a feature shared

New species of egg parasites from the Oil Palm Stick Insect (Eurycantha insularis)... 25

Figures | |-—13. Exova tunana, side views 11 Male 12 Female 13 Dorsal view of female Mesosoma.

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is)

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Figures 14-18. Exova tunana 14, 15, 18 Male head 14 Front view 15 Lateral view 18 Dorsal view
16 Female head front view. 17 Dorsal view of male mesosoma, wings removed.

with tetraspina), which is conical in fijiensis. Female fijiensis can be distinguished from
tetraspina by the more weakly produced medial propodeal projections and the highly
polished and smooth metapleuron and propodeum. Male tunana can be distinguished
from fijiensis by the shorter distance from the midocellus to ocular margin (2 mido-
cellus diameters or less in tumana versus 2.5 midocellus diameters in fijiensis), flagel-

New species of egg parasites from the Oil Palm Stick Insect (Eurycantha insularis)... 27

lomeres I and II equivalent versus I much longer than broad than II in fijiensis and the
body with bluish green tints versus brassy in fijiensis.

Description. Male (Fig. 11). Body length. 5.0-5.5 mm.

Head (Figs 14, 15, 17). Face 1.0-1.2 x as long as broad across the eyes; face be-
tween scapal basin and vertex with punctures separated by about 1 puncture diameter;
scapal basin with cross-ridged medial zone occupying one-third of area between in-
ner eye margins; midocellus 1.9 diameter from ocular margin; malar space 2.5 mido-
cellus diameters; subantennal distance 1 midocellus diameter long; flagellomeres I-II
3.5—3.6x as long as broad; flagellomere IX 6x as long as broad; flagellar setae short,
0.1 midocellus diameter long; ocular setulae minute or absent; postocular distance 0.4
midocellus diameter wide.

Mesosoma (Fig. 18). Pronotum about as long as scutum; mesopleural punctures
nearly contiguous, without scrobal sulcus or omaulus; metapleuron horizontally cross-
ridged.

Metasoma. Tergum I polished, nearly impunctate with scattered tiny punctures;
terga II-IV with small punctures separated by 2—3 puncture diameters.

Color. Head, meso- and metasoma black with metallic bluish green tints dorsally;
antenna black, legs pale yellow; wing membrane brown-tinted, veins dark brown.

Female (Fig. 12). Body length. 6-7 mm.

Head (Fig. 16). Face 0.9x as long as broad across the eyes in front view; scapal ba-
sin with medial one-half to one-third coarsely transversely striate, laterally with dense
contiguous punctures; malar space 4.3 midocellus diameters; subantennal distance 1
midocellus diameter; flagellum fusiform, broadest medially, flattened ventrally; flagel-
lomere I 2.8x as long as broad; flagellomere II 0.7x as long as broad; flagellomere IX
1.2x as long as broad.

Mesosoma (Fig. 13). Apterous; pronotum and scutum densely longitudinally stri-
ate, pronotum 0.7~x as broad as long, 1.4x as long as length of scutum plus scutellum;
scutellum transversely striate.

Metasoma. Polished; tergum I with fine dense scratches in two touching postero-
medial patches, scratches parallel and curving laterally; tergum II with two anterome-
dial patches of dense curved scratches subtended by large medial patch of dense pos-
teriorly curved fine scratches; terga III and IV smooth with scattered tiny punctures.

Color. Body dark reddish brown, paler on side of scapal basin, mesopleuron medi-
ally, propodeal spines, legs and metasomal apex; apical flagellar segments yellowish
beneath; coxae whitish.

Etymology. The species is named after the collection site in Northern Province, PNG.

Acknowledgements

This study was made possible by the efforts of Entomology Section staff at the PNGO-
PRA Higaturu Research Centre, Northern Province. CFD acknowledges ‘The Director
of Research, PNGOPRA for permission to publish this article.

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