Notes on the genus Streblocera Westwood, 1883 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Euphorinae) from Vietnam, with description of four new species
Author
Long, Khuat Dang
Author
Nhi, Pham Thi
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-04-28
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10.11646/zootaxa.4767.3.2
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Streblocera
(
Eutanycerus
)
trangana
Long & Pham
,
sp. n.
(
Figs 23–33
)
Material examined.
Holotype
,
♀
, “Euph.
347
” (
IEBR
), N
Vietnam
:
Ninh Binh
, Trang An,
Den Tran
, limestone forest,
light trap
,
11.vi.2018
, Pham,
T
.N
.
Paratype
1 ♀
, “Euph.
348
” (
IEBR
), locality as
holotype
.
Diagnosis
. Antenna with 19 antennomeres; scapus robust, with tooth-shaped horn in basal 0.3 of scapus (
Fig. 30
); length of scapus 4.7 × its maximum width, and 1.7 × of head height (in dorsal view); second-seventh flagellomeres serrate ventrally; tentorial pits below lower level of eyes (
Fig. 25
); malar space 1.4 × as long as basal width of mandible; temple wide, in lateral view, transverse diameter of eye 2.3 × temple; mesosoma 1.6 × as long as its height; propodeum distinctly convex anteriorly higher upper level of scutellum; propodeum largely rugose; first metasomal indistinctly narrowed behind spiracle, 2.0 × as long as its apical width; first tergite almost smooth medially and apically, rugose basally, striate laterally and subapically (
Fig. 31
).
FIGURE 23
.
Streblocera
(
Eutanycerus
)
trangana
Long & Pham
,
sp. n.
Holotype, female. Habitus, lateral view.
FIGURES 24–33
.
Streblocera
(
Eutanycerus
)
trangana
Long & Pham
,
sp. n.
Holotype, female.
24
Head, dorsal view
25
Head, frontal view
26
Head, lateral view
27
Mesonotum
28
Mesopleuron
29
First-seventh flagellomeres, lateral view
30
Scapus
31
First metasomal tergite
32
Propodeum
33
Fore wing.
Description.
Holotype
,
♀
, body length
3.3 mm
, fore wing length
2.9 mm
, ovipositor sheath
0.4 mm
(
Fig. 23
).
Head
. Antenna with 19 antennomeres; scapus robust, length of scapus 4.7 × its maximum width (42: 9); with tooth-shaped horn in basal 0.3 of scapus (14: 42); scapus 1.7 × of head height (42: 25); third antennomere 1.4 × fourth (7: 5); second-seventh flagellomeres serrate ventrally (
Fig. 29
); length from eighth flagellomere to apex of antenna 0.9 × scapus (37: 42); in dorsal view, temple roundly narrowed behind eye; width of head 1.6
×
its median length (39: 25), 1.5 × width of mesoscutum (without tegulae) (39: 26); ocelli small, POL: OD: OOL = 5: 2: 8 (
Fig. 24
); in lateral view, transverse diameter of eye 2.3 × temple (14: 6); length of eye 1.75 × as long as broad (14: 8); in frontal view, diameter of antennal socket 2.0 × distance between sockets (8: 4); face width subequal to length of face and clypeus combined (20: 21), and 1.3 × height of eye (20: 15); clypeus margin straight; malar space 1.4 × as long as basal width of mandible (7: 5), and 0.5 × as long as eye height (7: 15); distance between tentorial pits 1.3 × distance from pit to eye margin (8: 6); face setose, rugo-punctate (
Fig. 25
); frons and vertex sparsely punctate (
Fig. 24
); temple smooth (
Fig. 26
).
Mesosoma
. Mesosoma highly convex, length of mesosoma 1.6 × as long as its height (55: 34) (
Fig. 28
); notauli wide, sparsely crenulated anteriorly, rugose posteriorly, fused with largely rugose area of mesoscutum close to scutellar sulcus (
Fig. 27
); prescutellar sulcus rather wide, smooth, with one carina, and 0.6 × as long as scutellum (4: 7) (
Fig. 27
); mesoscutum and scutellum almost smooth, with finely scattered punctures; subalar depression rugose; pronotal side almost smooth (
Fig. 28
); precoxal sulcus wide, sparsely crenulated (
Fig. 28
); mesopleuron smooth medially; metapleuron rugose; propodeum with short basal carina, coarsely rugose entirely (
Fig. 32
).
Wings
. Length of fore wing 2.7 × its width (118: 43); length of pterostigma 3.4 × its width (27: 8), and 1.6 × vein 1-R1 (27: 17) (
Fig. 33
); vein r arising distinctly behind middle of pterostigma, and 0.1 × as long as width of pterostigma (3: 27), and 0.2 × vein 1-R1 (3: 17); vein 1-CU1 short and thick, near quadrate (
Fig. 33
); vein cu-a 0.33 × vein 2-CU1 (4: 12); length of hind wing 4.1 × its width (90: 22); vein 1-M: 1r-m: 2-SC+R = 2: 6: 5.
Legs
. Length of hind femur, tibia and basitarsus 6.2, 12.5 and 10.0 × as long as their width, respectively; hind basitarsus 0.4 × hind tibia (20: 50); hind basitarsus 2.85 × second-fifth tarsus (20: 27); fourth hind tarsus 0.8 × fifth tarsus without pretarsus (5: 6).
Metasoma
. Length of first tergite 2.0 × its apical width (30: 15); apical width of first tergite 3.0 × its minimum width (15: 5); ovipositor sheath 0.2 × fore wing (19: 118), and 6.3 × first tergite (19: 30); first tergite almost smooth medially and apically, rugose basally, striate laterally and subapically (
Fig. 31
); ovipositor sheath 0.1 × as long as fore wing; ovipositor sinuate.
Colour
. Body yellow, except first metasomal tergite and ovipositor sheath yellowish-brown; eyes silver-grey; wing veins pale yellow; wing membrane hyaline.
Male
. Unknown.
Host
: Unknown.
Etymology
. Named after
type
locality, Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex,
Ninh Binh Province
, Northern
Vietnam
.
Variation
.
Paratype
, female, body length
3.1 mm
, fore wing length
2.6 mm
; ovipositor sheath
0.4 mm
.
Distribution
. N
Vietnam
:
Ninh Binh
.