Apsilocera budai Tselikh, Lee & Ku 2024, sp. nov.

Apsilocera budai Tselikh, Lee & Ku sp. nov. Figs 1–7 Type material. Holotype • female, Republic of Korea: “ Gyeongsangnam-do, Goseong-gun, Hail-myeon, Suyang-ri, 34°58'34.8"N, 128°12'08.3"E, 18.VI.2022, coll. E. Tselikh ” (NIBR). Description. Female. Body length 1.40 mm; fore wing length 1.30 mm. Coloration. Head black, in frontal view dark green with metallic diffuse luster; antenna yellowish brown. Mesosoma black, but propodeum dorsally dark blue-green with metallic diffuse luster; all coxa, all femora and tibiae yellowish brown, all tarsi yellow. Fore wing hyaline, venation yellowish brown. Metasoma dark brown with metallic green, diffuse coppery luster; ovipositor sheaths dark brown. Sculpture. Head grossly reticulate; clypeus radially striate, but near clypeal margin smooth. Mesosoma grossly reticulate; propodeum smooth. Metasoma weakly alutaceous and shiny. Head. Head in dorsal view 2.39 × as broad as long and 1.27 × as broad as mesoscutum; in frontal view 1.00 × as broad as high. Vertex with one continuous crest composed of small sharp teeth, leaving no depression in middle; crest height 0.80 × eye length. POL 0.77 × as long as OOL. Eye height 1.31 × eye length and 1.79 × as long as malar space. Distance between antennal toruli and lower margin of clypeus 3.46 × distance between antennal toruli and median ocellus. Antenna with scape 1.18 × as long as eye height and 1.54 × as long as eye length; pedicel 1.31 × as long as broad; combined length of pedicel and flagellum 1.26 × breadth of head; F 1 – F 6 longer than broad, with 1 row of sensilla; clava 2.63 × as long as broad, with small micropilose area on each C 3 and C 4. Clypeal margin produced and weakly emarginate medially. Mesosoma. Mesosoma 1.30 × as long as broad. Scutellum moderately depressed, 0.96 × as long as broad, frenal area indistinct. Propodeum 0.38 × as long as scutellum; nucha short. Fore wing 2.24 × as long as its maximum width; basal cell with several hairs near submarginal vein; basal vein pilose; speculum partly closed below; M 0.98 × as long as PM and 2.17 × as long as S; stigma small. Metasoma. Metasoma 1.63 × as long as broad, 1.19 × as long as mesosoma. Petiole strongly transverse. Ovipositor sheath projecting slightly beyond apex of metasoma. Male. Unknown. Etymology. The species is named in honor of the large golden statue of Buddha in the type locality. Distribution. Korean Peninsula. Comments. Apsilocera budai sp. nov. belongs to a group of species that have a vertex with one continuous crest composed of small sharp teeth. This species is very similar to A. jejuensis sp. nov.; the differences between these species are given in the key.