Revision of the Indo-Australian braconine wasp genus Ischnobracon Baltazar (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) with description of six new species from Thailand, Laos and Sri Lanka
Author
Butcher, Buntika Areekul
Author
Quicke, Donald L. J.
text
Journal of Natural History
2010
2010-08-06
44
35 - 36
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2010.488811
journal article
10.1080/00222933.2010.488811
1464-5262
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Ischnobracon laboriosus
(Smith, 1858)
(
Figure 10
)
Bracon laboriosus
Smith, 1858
Bracon laboriosus
: Baltazar, 1972
Rhadinobracon rhyssides
Enderlein (1918)
1920
Ischnobracon rhyssides
(Enderlein)
syn. nov.
Material examined
Holotype
.
Female
B. laboriosus
: “
Bracon laboriosus
Smith
”, “SAR” “
TYPE
HYME 2154
Bracon laboriosus
Smith
1858
HOLOTYPE
♀
HOPE
ENT
COLL
.,
OUMNH
” (
OUMNH
).
Holotype
.
Female
R. rhyssides
,
Indonesia
“Dohrn,
Sumatra
, Soekaranda”, “
Rhadinobracon rhyssides
type Enderl.
♀
Dr Enderlein
det. 1919” (
ZPAN
).
Additional specimens.
Brunei
,
one female
,
Kuala Belalong Field Studies Centre
,
115°7′ E
,
4°34′ N
,
18 May 1991
, N.
Mawdsley
(
BMNH
)
;
Indonesia
,
one female
, northeast
Sumatra
,
Sibolangil
,
400 m
,
17 November 1950
, M.A.
Liestinek
(
RMNH
)
;
one female
, western
Java
,
P. Peutiang
,
Udjung Reslom
,
2 August 1955
, O.M.
R
.
Wegner
(
RMNH
)
;
one female
, western
Java
,
Tjitalakab
,
December
,
Sternitzky Collection
(
RMNH
)
;
one female
Java
,
Noesa Kambangan
, 1911,
R
.
Jacobson
(
RMNH
)
;
one female
, southern
Java
,
Genteng Bay
,
Tjikepoek
, 2
Juily
1939, M. a.
Lieftinck
(
RMNH
)
;
Malaysia
,
one female
,
South East
Sabah
, nr
Danum Valley
Field C[entre], W0N1
Mall.
trap 5, c.
150 m
,
13 September to 4 October 1987
, C.v.
Achterberg
and D.
Kennedy
(
RMNH
)
;
one female
,
Sandakan
, Borneo [
Sabah
];
one female
,
Sarawak
, 4th
Div. Gn. Mulu
,
27 June to 19 July 1978
, RGS
Exp.
,
H. Vallack
(
BMNH
)
;
one female
,
Kuching
[
Sarawak
],
October 1906
, J.H. (
BMNH
)
;
one female
Sar
[awak], “56 44”, (
BMNH
)
;
one female
Johore
[
West
Malaysia
],
Lenggor F.
R
.,
12 May 1968
, C. G.
Roche
(
BMNH
)
;
Singapore
,
two females
, coll.
Baker
“2051874” (
USNM
)
.
Figure 10. Automontage
®
photomicrographs of features of
Ischnobracon laboriosus
Smith.
(A) Habitus showing general colour pattern and hind tarsal colour; (B) base of hind wing showing large glabrous area distal to vein cu-a; (C) hind leg showing uniform colouration.
Morphology
Length of body
12.5–14.5 mm
, and of ovipositor
6–9 mm
. Antenna with 97–104 flagellomeres. Raised median area of first tergite not depressed medially. Fore wing vein cu-a postfurcal. Second submarginal cell rather elongate, vein 2-M than 3.5 times length of 2-SR (
Figure 10A
). Hind wing sub-basal cell largely glabrous. Hind wing vein 2-SC+
R
interstitial to sub-transverse.
Colouration
Cream-yellow, the following black (or dark brown as indicated): antennae, differentiated triangular area of lower face, mid-longitudinal line on upper face, middle of frons, stemmaticum and transverse area across vertex and occiput reaching eyes, propleuron, lower half of lateral part of pronotum, mesoscutum except triangular area at anterior of notauli, anterior 0.6 of scutellum, mesopleuron except anterodorsal triangular area, tegula, mesosternum, most of metapleuron (dark brown), anterior and lateral part of propodeum, line on anterior aspect of fore and mid tibia (brown to black), except in specimens from
Java
in which the tibia is entirely yellow with at most a slight darkening laterally, hind coxa, hind trochantellus and basal 0.8 of femur and tibia (dark brown), hind tarsal articles except apicoventrally and the ventral surface telotarsus, metasomal tergites except antero-laterally and posteriorly. Wings pale smoky-grey to yellow grey with apical border darker grey.