New Gnamptodontinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from China and Vietnam, with two genera new for China and seven new species
Author
Tian, Xiao-Xia
Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Animal Conservation / Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, 229 North Taibai Road, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710069, China & 763727752 @ qq. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2430 - 1409
Author
Achterberg, Cornelis Van
Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Animal Conservation / Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, 229 North Taibai Road, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710069, China & kees @ vanachterberg. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6495 - 4853 & State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology & Ministry of Agriculture Key Lab of Agricultural Entomology, Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Author
Wu, Jia-Xuan
Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Animal Conservation / Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, 229 North Taibai Road, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710069, China & 1289010893 @ qq. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4450 - 9664
Author
Tan, Jiang-Li
Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Animal Conservation / Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, 229 North Taibai Road, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710069, China
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-05-15
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4778.3.3
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Tamdaona sculpturata
van Achterberg
,
sp. n.
(
Figs 100–110
)
Type material.
Holotype
,
♀
(
RMNH
), “
S.
Vietnam
:
Dong Nai
, Cát Tiên, N.P.,
Bird
trail,
Mal
[aise] trap[s] 30–35, c.
100 m
,
15–20.v.2007
,
C. v. Achterberg
&
R
. de Vries, RMNH’07”
.
Paratype
:
1 ♂
(
RMNH
), topotypic, but
Ficus
trail,
9–30.iv.2007
,
M.P. Quy
& N.
T
.
Manh
.
Diagnosis.
Antenna of
♀
with approx. 28 antennomeres (
Fig. 100
); frons with medio-longitudinal depression (
Fig. 107
); pronope large (
Fig. 103
); notauli rather wide anteriorly (
Fig. 103
); rim of mesoscutum brownish near tegulae; mesosoma ventrally and posteriorly black; propodeum gradually lowered posteriorly (
Fig. 102
); vein 3-SR of fore wing about twice as long as vein r (
Fig. 101
); vein 1-R1 slightly longer than pterostigma (
Fig. 101
); basal area of second metasomal tergite transverse, circular and medially 0.10–0.15 × as long as wide anteriorly, entirely sculptured and hardly or not protruding medio-posteriorly (
Fig. 104
); second metasomal suture widened medially; fourth and fifth metasomal tergites distinctly sculptured (
Figs 100
,
104
); setose part of ovipositor sheath approx. 0.23 × as long as fore wing (
Figs 100
,
105
).
Description.
Holotype
,
♀
, length of fore wing 2.0 mm, and of body
2.4 mm
.
Head.
Antenna with 28 antennomeres, scapus longer dorsally than ventrally, length of third antennomere 1.1 × fourth antennomere, third, fourth and penultimate antennomeres 2.2, 2.0 and 1.4 × as long as wide, respectively (
Figs 106, 110
); maxillary and labial palpi with 6 and 4 segments, respectively; length of maxillary palp 0.8 × height of head; temple smooth; hypostomal flange narrow; eye 2.3 × as long as temple in dorsal view; temples directly narrowed behind eyes (
Fig. 108
); OOL:diameter of posterior ocellus:POL = 15:9:8; vertex largely smooth, distinctly setose and shiny; frons with median groove, medially largely smooth and shiny, but flat area near antennal sockets rugose and convex part behind it remotely punctate; face remotely punctate and superficially rugose, shiny and irregularly convex (
Fig. 107
); clypeus truncate medially and ventral rim thin, moderately convex and smooth; hypoclypeal depression 0.4 × as wide as face, medium-sized and rather shallow; malar suture absent; length of malar space 1.5 × basal width of mandible; mandible rather flat medially and smooth, strongly narrowed and twisted apically.
Mesosoma.
Length of mesosoma 1.7 × its height; pronotum anteriorly largely horizontal and with large slit-like pronope (
Fig. 103
); side of pronotum smooth, but with carina and micro-crenulae anteriorly (
Fig. 102
); mesopleuron convex, shiny and smooth; precoxal sulcus long and curved, medially with some crenulae; episternal scrobe long and linear; pleural sulcus finely crenulate; mesosternal suture deep, medium-sized and coarsely crenulate; mesosternum punctate; notauli complete but shallow posteriorly, finely crenulate anteriorly and smooth posteriorly, moderately wide (
Fig. 103
); mesoscutum convex, strongly shiny, and superficially punctate or punctulate, entirely conspicuously setose and medio-posteriorly with longitudinal groove plus some striae between notauli; scutellar sulcus slightly narrowed laterally and with 5 medium-sized crenulae (
Fig. 103
); scutellum wide, convex, conspicuously setose, largely punctate and shiny; metapleuron largely finely and densely reticulate-rugose; propodeum anteriorly convex and about as long as posterior part, moderately shiny and coarsely reticulate-rugose (
Fig. 104
), posteriorly with pair of anteriorly converging carinae and anterior half with medio-longitudinal carina.
Wings.
Fore wing: pterostigma wide triangular (
Fig. 101
); second submarginal cell slightly narrowed anteriorly (
Fig. 101
); 1-SR much longer than wide; 1-SR+M present anteriorly; 1-R1 1.1 × longer than pterostigma; vein
r emitted
just before middle of pterostigma and slender; r:3-SR:SR1:2-SR = 10:22:78:27; vein SR1 nearly straight; m-cu distinctly antefurcal; 1-CU1 widened, shorter than cu-a; 1-CU1:2-CU1 = 6:49; CU1b complete; basal and subbasal cells of fore wing similarly setose as other cells. Hind wing: M+CU:1-M:1r-m = 7:12:4; basal and subbasal cells less densely setose than other cells; m-cu distinctly indicated.
FIGURE 100
.
Tamdaona sculpturata
sp. n.
, ♀, holotype, habitus, lateral aspect.
Legs.
Hind coxa smooth; tarsal claws medium-sized and simple (
Fig. 105
); length of femur, tibia and basitarsus of hind leg 3.6, 7.9 and 5.9 × as long as their maximum width; hind tibial spurs 0.30 and 0.35 × as long as basitarsus.
Metasoma.
First tergite 0.8 × longer than its apical width, gradually widened apically, convex, coarsely reticulate rugose, shiny, dorsope absent, its dorsal carinae coarsely developed basally, strongly converging, posteriorly merging in sculpture (
Fig. 104
); first tergite laterally with deep elliptical laterope in smooth glymma (
Fig. 100
); second tergite and most of third tergite coarsely reticulate-rugose (including basal area), following tergites largely rugose but much less pronounced than on second tergite (
Fig. 104
); basal area of second tergite transverse, narrow hemicircular and medially 0.14 × as long as combined second and third tergites; second metasomal suture and antero-lateral grooves of third tergite distinct and coarsely crenulate (
Fig. 104
); epipleura of second and third tergites semi-transparent; ovipositor sheath subparallel-sided and apically pointed, its setose part 0.23 × as long as fore wing, 1.2 × first tergite and 1.6 × hind basitarsus; ovipositor moderately compressed and hardly widened subapically, with small subapical nodus (
Fig. 100
).
FIGURES 101–110
.
Tamdaona sculpturata
sp. n.
, ♀, holotype.
101
wings
102
mesosoma, lateral aspect
103
mesosoma, dorsal aspect
104
propodeum and metasoma, dorsal aspect
105
hind leg., lateral aspect
106
base of antenna
107
head, anterior aspect
108
head, dorsal aspect
109
head, lateral aspect
110
apex of antenna.
FIGURES 111–121
.
Exodontiella
deserticola
Wharton
, ♀, holotype.
111
wings
112
head, dorsal aspect
113
head, anterior aspect
114
habitus, lateral aspect
115
apex of antenna
116
hind leg
117
mesosoma, dorsal aspect
118
outer hind claw
119
mandible, full view on dorsal part
120
mandible, full view on ventral part
121
first–third metasomal tergites, dorsal aspect. 111, 114, 116, 117, 121: 1.0 × scale-line; others: 1.5 ×. After
van Achterberg (1993)
.
FIGURES 122–133
.
Alysdacnusa breviventris
Tobias & Perepetchayenko
, ♀, Turkmenia.
122
wings
123
head, anterior aspect
124
habitus, lateral aspect
125
apex of antenna
126
head, dorsal aspect
127
mandible, full view on ventral part
128
mandible, full view on dorsal part
129
mesosoma, dorsal aspect
130
base of antenna
131
metasoma, dorsal aspect
132
hind leg
133
outer hind claw. 122, 124, 132: 1.0 × scale-line; others: 1.5 ×.
FIGURES 134–142
.
Telengaia ventralis
Tobias
, ♀, Turkmenistan.
134
wings
135
head, dorsal aspect
136
head, anterior aspect
137
habitus, lateral aspect
138
mesosoma, dorsal aspect
139
metasoma, dorsal aspect
140
hind leg
141
inner fore claw
142
malar space, mandible and clypeus, lateral aspect. 134, 137, 140: 1.0 × scale-line; 135, 136, 141, 142: 2.5 ×; 138, 139: 1.2 ×. After
van Achterberg (1993)
.
FIGURES 143–151
.
Gnaptogaster mongolica
Tobias
, ♀, paratype.
143
wings
144
head, dorsal aspect
145
head, anterior aspect
146
habitus, lateral aspect
147
apex of antenna
148
mesosoma, dorsal aspect
149
outer hind claw
150
hind leg
151
first–third metasomal tergites, dorsal aspect. 143, 146, 150: 1.0 × scale-line; 147, 149: 2.5 ×; 144, 145, 148, 151: 1.7 ×. After
van Achterberg (1983)
.
FIGURES 152–163
.
Gnamptodon pumilio
(Nees)
, ♀, neotype.
152
wings
153
head, dorsal aspect
154
head, anterior aspect
155
habitus, lateral aspect
156
detail of first discal cell of fore wing
157
first–third metasomal tergites, dorsal aspect
158
ovipositor and sheath, lateral aspect
159
apex of antenna
160
hind leg
161
palpi
162
outer hind claw
163
mesosoma, dorsal aspect. 152, 155, 160: 1.0 × scale-line; 156, 158, 159, 161, 162: 2.5 ×; 153, 154, 157, 163: 1.6 ×. After
van Achterberg (1983)
.
Colour.
Yellowish brown; palpi and metasoma ventrally (except apically) white; scapus largely, pedicellus ventrally, mouthparts, clypeus, tegulae and legs (but telotarsi dark brown) pale yellowish; remainder of antenna, stemmaticum, mesosternum, metanotum, propodeum, first tergite (except latero-posteriorly), second–fifth tergites (except laterally) dark brown; pterostigma (but pale brown apically) and most veins of fore wing (except basally) brown; wing membrane subhyaline.
Male
.
Paratype
: length of fore wing
1.8 mm
and of body
2.3 mm
; antenna with 25 segments; very similar to
holotype
, but pronotum dorsally, mesoscutum partly, scutellum, sixth and seventh tergites dark brown or brown; mesosoma 1.5 × longer than high; vein 3-SR of fore wing twice as long as vein r.
Etymology.
Named after its extensively sculptured metasoma.
Distribution.
Oriental:
Vietnam
. Collected in lowland forest at
100 m
.