Study of the genus Bracon Fabricius, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) of Southern Iran with description of a new species
Author
Ameri, Ali
Author
Talebi, Ali Asghar
Author
Beyarslan, Ahmet
Author
Kamali, Karim
Author
Rakhshani, Ehsan
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Zootaxa
2014
2014-01-16
3754
4
353
380
journal article
46655
10.11646/zootaxa.3754.4.2
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Bracon
(
Orthobracon
)
exhilarator
Nees, 1834
(
Figs 17
A–D)
Material examined
:
Iran
, Hormozgan province: Queshm
Island
, Ramkan (26° 52′ 25.27″ N, 56° 01′ 7.33″ E,
34 m
a.s.l.),
13-06-2012
, 1 ♀,
21-02-2012
,
1 ♂
,
27-04-2012
, 1 ♀,
O
2-04-2012
, 1 ♀,
17-05-2012
, 1 ♀,
19-03-2012
, 1 ♀,
21-02-2012
, 1 ♀,
03-04-2012
, 1 ♀, Minab, Chelo (27° 10′ 30.39″ N, 57° 1′ 9.79″ E,
16 m
a.s.l.),
20-03 -2012
, 4 ♀, Geno (27° 28′ 53.23″ N, 56° 18′ 27.03″ E,
680 m
a.s.l.),
20-03-2012
, 2 ♀, Leg. A. Ameri.
Diagnosis:
Head dark brown and polished, 1.9 X as broad as long in dorsal view; length of malar space 0.35 X as longitudinal eye diameter, antenna 31-segmented, slightly shorter than body; mesonotum polished, propodeum smooth, without median carina, propleuron straight in lateral view and smooth; fore wing marginal cell elongate, terminating near the apex of the wing, second submarginal cell elongate, r-m vein 0.7 X as long as r vein, 3-SR vein about as long as 2-SR vein (
Fig. 17
B); length of first abdominal tergite 1.3 X as long as its apical width, second tergite with longitudinal striateiform sculpture (
Fig. 17
C); ovipositor approximately 0.5 X as long as of metasoma (
Fig. 17
C); body dark reddish brown, head, propodeum, tergite I and medio-dorsal line of metasomal tergites dark brown to black (
Fig. 17
A).
General distribution:
Eastern Palaearctic (
China
,
Korea
,
Mongolia
,
Russia
), Western Palaearctic (
Austria
,
Belgium
,
Cyprus
,
Czech Republic
,
England
,
Finland
,
France
,
Germany
,
Hungary
,
Italy
,
Kazakhstan
,
Latvia
,
Lithuania
,
Moldova
,
Netherlands
,
Norway
,
Poland
,
Russia
,
Serbia
,
Slovenia
,
Sweden
,
Switzerland
,
Turkey
,
Ukraine
) (
Yu
et al.
2012
).