Taxonomic investigations on the Braconinae fauna (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) in north-eastern Anatolian region, Turkey, with the description of a new species Author Beyarslan, Ahmet text Zootaxa 2016 4079 1 1 33 journal article 37191 10.11646/zootaxa.4079.1.1 d6210282-5963-4db4-b644-54f7c28bf7ca 1175-5326 270868 E2700D83-41F1-426C-BC38-4DE03201C97B Bracon (Bracon) selviae sp. n. ( Figs. 2—9 ) Description. Female ( holotype ). Length of body 3.8 mm , antennae 3.4 mm , fore wing 3.6 mm , hind wing 3.0 mm, hind leg 3.4 mm , mesosoma 1.25 mm , metasoma 1.7 mm , ovipositor sheath 1.0 mm ( Fig. 2 ). Head. Transverse, ratios of width: length: height of head = 14: 9: 14 ( Figs 3, 4 ). Antenna with 31 segments, first flagellomere 2.3 times longer than its width and as long as second flagellomere, penultimate antennal segment 1.75 as long as its width ( Fig. 5 ). Width of the hypoclypeal depression 0.38 times longitudinal diameter of eye and 0.8 times length of malar space; longitudinal diameter of eye 1.2 times longer than its transverse diameter; ratios of height of clypeus: inter-tentorial distance: tenterio-oculardistance = 5: 25: 9; length of maxillary palp 0.9 times height of head; width of face 1.3 times its height, face microsculptured and shiny, white setae; height of eye: width of face: width of head= 29: 30: 52; vertex and frons smooth and glabrous with some white setae; length of eye 2.0 times as long as temple in dorsal view; ratios of OOL: OD: POL = 15: 3: 4; basal part of mandible microsculptured; temple smooth, shiny; length of malar space 2.0 times as long as basal width of mandible and 0.4 times longitudinal diameter of eye. Mesosoma ( Fig. 6 ). Mesosoma approximately 1.6 times longer than height; pronotum and propleuron, smooth; mesoscutum smooth, glabrous, with silvery setae; notauli very weak developed; scutellar sulcus smooth, scutellum compressed, smooth and shiny; flange of metapleuron distinctly developed; metanotum smooth, shiny; surface of propodeum in mid longitudinally scultured and with sparse silvery setae laterally. Fore wing ( Fig. 7 ). Pterostigma almost triangular, length of pterostigma 3.4 times its maximum width, vein 1- SR+M slightly bent and 2.2 times as long as length of m-cu; vein cu-a interstitial; ratio of r: 3-SR: SR1 = 10: 25: 50; CUlb short, 3-CU1 2.0 times as long as CUlb and 0.66 times as long as m-cu; ratios of 2- SR: 3-SR: r-m: 2-M: 2-SR+M= 20: 25: 11: 40: 5. Hind wing ( Fig. 8 ). Ratios of cu-a: M+Cu: 1-M: 1r-m: 2-SC+R: SC+R1= 10: 15: 50: 12: 5: 19; apex of C+SC+R with a row of bristles. Legs ( Fig. 9 ). Hind coxa smooth, with long, whitish setae; femur weakly compressed; ratios of femur: tibia: basitarsus of hind leg = 40: 60: 23; length of femur, tibia and basitarsus of hind leg 3.4, 9.0 and 5.0 times their maximum width, respectively; length of hind tibial spurs 0.4 and 0.5 times hind basitarsus; length of longer fore tibial spurs 0.5 basitarsus; tibia and tarsus densely setose. Metasoma. Length of first tergite 0.8 times its apical width and sculptured; Second tergite sculptured, medial length of second tergite 0.4 times as long as its apical length and as long as medial length of third tergite; suture between 2nd and 3rd metasomal tergites deep and sinuate; remaining tergites smooth. Ovipositor sheath 0.58 times as long as metasomal length. Colour. Black; only mandibula, palpis labialis, palis maxillaries, fore legs completely black, middle and hind legs (coxae and middle part of the femura red) yellow red;; wing membrane hyaline; pterostigma and veins yellow, only outer edge of pterostigma black. Male: Similar to female. Material examined. Holotype : Female—Trabzon-Maçka, Şomla Yaylası, (euxin provice with Abies nordmanniana, Rhododendron sp., grassland area; 40051′36"N, 39032′39"E), 1677 m . 0 6.08.2005, AB., 1♀. FIGURES 2–9. Bracon (Bracon) salviae sp. n. 2—Habitus, 3—head in lateral, 4—head in frontal view, 5—antenna, 6— mesosoma in lateral view; 7— fore wing, 8— hind wing, 9—hind leg. Paratypes : Erzurum-İspir-Çamlıkaya Ormanları, (Anatolian steppe province with Salix sp., Quercus sp., Ulmus sp., creek edge grasslands; ( 40°37'49"N , 41°10'52"E ), 950 m . AB., 1♀. Ardahan-Göle-Yiğitkonağı köyü, (Subeuxin with wild grass, ( 40°56'47"N , 42°34'53"E ), 1993 m . 22.06.2012 , MY., 1♀. Ardahan-Çıldır, ( 41°7'47"N , 42°54'32"E ), Eskibeyrehatun, (Anatolian steppe province with Anthemis sp., reeds, grassland; ( 41°7'47"N , 42°54'32"E ), 1952 m . 22.08.ÖŞ., 1♀. Allotype: Kars-Sarıkamış-Büyükkumru, (Anatolian steppe province with Pinus sylvestris , wild grass; ( 40°25'05"N , 42°28'13"E ), 2400 m . 25.06.2013 , AB., 1♂ . Etymology. Named in honour of Turkey’s young mathematician Ms. Selvi Kara Beyarslan. Differential diagnosis . Bracon (Bracon) salviae sp. n. is related to B. (B.) exhilarator Nees, 1834 . The two species are separated by the combination of the following characters: 1 (2) Mesosoma approximately 1.6 times longer than height; propodeum, first and second metasomal tergites sculptured, 2-SR 2 times as long as m-cu, body 3.8 mm ............................................... Bracon (Bracon) salviae sp. n. 1 (2) Mesosoma 2 times as long as its height; propodeum and first metasomal tergite smooth; second metasomal tergite rugose, folds longituninal; 2-SR 1.4 times as long as m-cu, body 2.3–3.6 mm ..................... Bracon (Bracon) exhilarator Nees.