A new genus and two new species of Braconinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from the Oriental region Author Ranjith, A. P. 0000-0001-7061-9659 Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Royal Enclave, Srirampura, Jakkur Post, Bangalore 560064, India & Curresponding author: ridhuranjith @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7061 - 9659 ridhuranjith@gmail.com Author Achterberg, Cornelis Van 0000–0001–8137–3404 Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, the Netherlands priyan@atree.org Author Kumar, P. Girish 0000-0002-6495-4853 Zoological Survey of India, Western Ghat Regional Centre, Kozhikode, Kerala, Pin: 673006, India kees@vanachterberg.org Author Priyadarsanan, Dharma Rajan 0000-0003-2121-0165 Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Royal Enclave, Srirampura, Jakkur Post, Bangalore 560064, India kpgiris@gmail.com text Zootaxa 2023 2023-11-16 5374 2 196 210 https://mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5374.2.2/52285 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5374.2.2 1175-5326 10147247 D5E69F1B-75DC-4C9D-A702-C7C92299EB2E Pseudorhadinobracon luteus Szépligeti gen. et comb. nov. ( Figs 1–2 ) Material examined . Holotype , female “Ceylon, Holotypus, Rhadinobracon luteus Szépl. 1906 des. Papp J. 1968, Hym. Typ. No. 891. Mus. Budapest, id 153169 HNHM Hym. coll.” Redescription . Holotype , female, length of body 17.7 mm , fore wing 14.9 mm , ovipositor 19.7 mm . Head . Antennae broken (in pieces) with 62 remaining antennomeres. Length of first flagellomere 1.6 × as long as second flagellomere. First and second flagellomeres 1.1 and 0.7 × as long as wide respectively. Maxillary palp 0.6 × as long as height of head. Height of clypeus: inter tentorial distance: tentorio-ocular distance= 1.0: 1.8: 1.9. Width of head: width of face: height of eye = 2.0: 1.1: 1.0. Face 0.6 × as long as wide. Malar space smooth, 1.7 × as long as basal width of mandible. Lateral temple 1.2 × as long as transverse diameter of eye; POL: diameter of posterior ocellus: OOL= 1.2: 1.0: 3.6. Length of eye 0.85 × as long as temple in dorsal view. Legs . Ratio of length of fore femur: fore tibia: fore tarsus = 1.0: 1.2: 1.6. Lengths of hind femur, tibia and basitarsus 3.3, 8.0 and 5.7 × as long as wide, respectively. Wings . Fore wing pterostigma 3.6 × as long as wide. Fore wing vein r-rs: 3RSa: 3RSb = 1.0: 4.0: 5.1. Vein 2RS: m-cu= 1.0: 1.1. Lengths of veins 2RS: 3RSa:rs-m= 1.0: 2.4: 1.2. Second submarginal cell 2.3 × as long as wide. Hind wing SC+R 12.4 × as long as R; SC+R as wide as 1r-m. Subbasal cell evenly setose. Metasoma . Metasoma 1.2 × as long as mesosoma and head combined. Tergite 1, as long as apically wide, 0.9 × as long as tergite 2. Tergite 2 0.8 × as long as apically wide. Tergite 3 0.7 × as long as apically wide. Ovipositor sheath 1.3 × as long as fore wing. Colour . Body brownish yellow except antenna, eye, tarsal claw, fore and hind wing apical half, pterostigma apically, ovipositor sheath brown. Male: Unknown. Distribution. Sri Lanka . Host. Unknown.