Bracon planitibiae sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), a new parasitoid of Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis)
Author
Cao, Liang-Ming
Author
Wang, Xiao-Yi
Author
Gould, Juli-Ruth
Author
Li, Fei
Author
Zhang, Yan-Long
Author
Yang, Zhong-Qi
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-09-18
4671
3
427
433
journal article
25498
10.11646/zootaxa.4671.3.8
c147d251-d362-415c-934f-bffe5e85000c
1175-5326
3448712
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Subgenus
Glabrobracon
Fahringer,
1927
in the genus
Bracon
Glabrobracon
Fahringer, 1927
: 281;
Tobias, 1957: 486
;
Tobias, 1959: 896
;
Tobias, 1971: 214
;
Papp, 2000: 229
;
Güler & Cagatay, 2001: 275
;
Papp, 2012: 3
;
Ameri
et al
., 2014: 355
;
Li
et al
., 2016: 460
.
FIGURES 1–4.
Preparing the sentinel logs. 1, ALB adults reared in a hyaline box for laying eggs in logs, green leaves are
Acer negundo
for ALB adult nutrition. 2, Sentinel logs with ALB egg niches. 3, Making sentinel log cage for preventing bird predation. 4, Hanging the sentinel logs in canopy of willows.
FIGURES 5–6.
B. planitibiae
sp. nov.
parsasitizing its host. 5, A young larva of
B. planitibiae
parasitizing a first instar larva of ALB. 6, The cocoon of
B. planitibiae
and remains of its host (the green arrow poins the remains of first instar ALB larva; the blue arrow points the parasitoid cocoon; the purple arrow points the emergence hole of
B. planitibiae
, the red arrow points to the frass of ALB larva.
Type
species:
Bracon variator
Nees, 1811
(Design. by
Tobias, 1959
).
Diagnosis (modified from
Tobias, 1957
and
Li
et al
., 2016
).
Body oblong, but not slender, covered with rare long setae; ocellar triangle less than its distance from eye; oral cavity small, as wide as its distance from eye or slightly more; antenna as long as or shorter than body length; maxillary palps very long, longer than height of head; pronotum and mesonotum polished, without granulose sculpture; scutellum lacking punctate depression, polished; propleuron in lateral view smooth and glossy; propodeum entirely polished; fore wing with marginal cell elongate, terminating near the apex of the wing; metasomal tergites polished, without granulose sculpture; sutures between tergites usually not crenulate, at most suture between tergites 2–3 crenulate; ovipositor sturdy, longer or shorter than metasoma.