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,
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With ripe fig crop
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Similar to
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<emphasis id="E481B8473FED06624B8FD6F09E8A61EC" italics="true">T. trilobata</emphasis>
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but tarsal claw with a smaller, bidentate, and more rounded basal lobe compared to a larger, more foliaceous, and acutely triangular basal lobe in
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. The postero-lateral margin of T 5 has more prominent teeth (~ 8 or 9) compared to
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<emphasis id="67136B916234F5D9F22CE10168F3BC8B" italics="true">T. trilobata</emphasis>
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which has only 5 or fewer obvious teeth (Fig.
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). Postero-medial protuberance of T 5 acutely rounded, shorter than lateral lobes, with concavities lateral of medial protuberance acutely invaginated, whereas in
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the medial protuberance is of equivalent length to the lateral lobes; and the concavities lateral of medial protuberance are broadly invaginated.
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<heading id="66283B7D985495D8FB2BAF3F159F1CB8" reason="title">Description.</heading>
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female. Length of body
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, fore wing
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1.5 × longer than high. Mesoscutum rugose; notauli weakly impressed for entire length with weak crenulations. Scutellar sulcus shallow, narrow, finely crenulate. Scutellum weakly rugose, setose without small pit medially behind sulcus. Median area of metanotum with complete mid-longitudinal carina. Propodeum weakly rugose; mid-longitudinal carina complete, lamelliform, with ~ 9 transverse, curved striae radiating laterally for short distance before grading into rugulosity; posteriorly propodeum with short longitudinal carinae.
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.
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Fore wing. Lengths of fore wing veins r-rs: 3 RSa: 3 RSb = 1.0: 1.5: 4.6. Lengths of vein 2 RS: 3 RSa: rs-m = 1.0: 1.3: 1.8. Base of hind wing glabrous.
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.
</emphasis>
Lengths of fore femur: fore tibia: fore tarsus = 1.0: 1.2: 1.2. Lengths of hind femur: hind tibia: hind tarsus = 1.0: 1.1: 1.0. Claws with small rounded weakly bilobate basal lobe.
<emphasis id="91B958F331D525A6E8888A414AB97D0E" bold="true">
<emphasis id="1039B18780710D30257B6C059583F57D" bold="true" italics="true">Metasoma</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
T 1 2.0 × wider than long. T 2 0.7 × as long as T 3. TT 15 with coarse reticulate sculpture. Second metasomal suture weakly strigose, basal grooves of TT 4 and 5 deep, strigose. T 5 with postero-lateral margin convex, distinctly denticulate (~ 8 or 9 uneven teeth) along anterior 3 / 4 of margin; medial protuberance acutely rounded, shorter than lateral lobes, concavities lateral of medial protuberance acutely invaginated.
<emphasis id="76287DBCBC25FAF88D4604B86C9DB101" bold="true">
<emphasis id="CB759B83B9309E39D3EB3510E05C5431" bold="true" italics="true">Coloration</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
Body mostly yellow except antenna, eyes, and tarsi black, and stemmaticum which is dark brown with orange margins.
</paragraph>
<caption id="5766BF073FAD69CAC962CDC9DC35EF7A" ID-DOI="10.3897/zookeys.1205.125014.figure23" ID-arpha="A6EF32BB-8C7C-5BC6-8063-37829D6B3342" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1076753" startId="F23">
<paragraph id="99AEA4626F7CFAB551EE5950EE3BBD64">
<label id="3DA75157C6AC888ABDE6291B8C7CA0E4">Figure 23.</label>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="DB2D9B12054227E2B75057824911949A">
<taxonomicName id="D434407F487933187F6C31024D004EB3" authorityName="van Noort" authorityYear="2024" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Trigastrotheca" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="simba" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="3C8EA20EE222E156688162B602F76D59" italics="true">Trigastrotheca simba</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="E1F5CEBA20D684A60630AA222183B2E6" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
♀ holotype
<emphasis id="20F47E0DBA88FDC9FC5E0A4018EF3A75" bold="true">A</emphasis>
habitus, lateral view
<emphasis id="5D8C0F92100BDB26B1A16155878090F1" bold="true">B</emphasis>
habitus, dorsal view with labels inset
<emphasis id="D0C09A7C8B730B8F69805318E868FB2C" bold="true">C</emphasis>
head, anterior view
<emphasis id="B679B8AA97EC944489C78827B8118E8B" bold="true">D</emphasis>
head, antero-ventral view
<emphasis id="1F3FC8DED9BDA2F53E2B0ACC5AE24607" bold="true">E</emphasis>
head, dorsal view
<emphasis id="89A56FA17E5F26127996E023E61E4B08" bold="true">F</emphasis>
head and mesosoma, lateral view.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<caption id="086444B31885F6394977A8639C019CB0" ID-DOI="10.3897/zookeys.1205.125014.figure24" ID-arpha="7F3FCB62-9BEE-5B75-8B6C-F03B0C28B403" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1076754" startId="F24">
<paragraph id="02E9C37B47B3B6D36F102DA7756C9643">
<label id="466DB90A4B62F11E633F2A1CF4C60425">Figure 24.</label>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="D4075DE96504887B1CC8117577FA9B45">
<taxonomicName id="250030CB448D5761EC919FFF9C784E8F" authorityName="van Noort" authorityYear="2024" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Trigastrotheca" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="simba" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="E21CE7CD2210C392154A702DDF9C86DB" italics="true">Trigastrotheca simba</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="2AB88F25395F9E6ED98E139538A0360B" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
♀ holotype
<emphasis id="496759CEA000FD857CA8C939B382C5FE" bold="true">A</emphasis>
head and mesosoma, dorsal view
<emphasis id="7EEB1B8C3FF4FAE1274F13B4BAA36CCD" bold="true">B</emphasis>
scutellum, metanotum and propodeum, dorsal view
<emphasis id="95A4C0F68FA542AC3246BF693F3C0231" bold="true">C</emphasis>
T 1, dorsal view
<emphasis id="4A6ED77BC2CE8A7A159C6BA8B8D8F5FB" bold="true">D</emphasis>
T 5, dorsal view
<emphasis id="73B77683E79B4B64B5165DDAD5F11A9D" bold="true">E</emphasis>
metasoma, lateral view
<emphasis id="C58EDE9BECC6592D04433FEA35BD9BF8" bold="true">F</emphasis>
fore wing.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph id="16D7EC3612D72DDDCE52A69AFBD947F2">
<emphasis id="91D5C54826AA8CCB3C4B8D6138A0D699" bold="true">Male.</emphasis>
Same as female.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="SECID0E2KCI" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="7C87B91151EA8A8B942B73876758F1EE">
<heading id="2070A1A422446F4E530B1FA1917E028C" reason="title">Distribution.</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="CF1762F1D1B3B4C6C187128C8B10604F">
Afrotropical (
<collectingCountry id="0B9E3F325363804AF06D298DB791A566" name="Tanzania">Tanzania</collectingCountry>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="SECID0EALCI" type="host">
<paragraph id="2A35CAEE5AF13B09CA05B68D660CAFC4">
<heading id="0342427DC02ADF206E3B92F789AA4A36" reason="title">Host.</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="072BDC3E6382FC0FEF4C60D48695C4F5">
Unknown, but both the female and male were hand collected from a
<taxonomicName id="24FEF6AF0A85337FC0C722FBD8138694" class="Gastropoda" family="Ficidae" genus="Ficus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Littorinimorpha" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="ingens">
<emphasis id="75B1363DCE05E9808B59594FE655C8CA" italics="true">Ficus ingens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
tree with a ripe fig crop, and they may have been locating or recently emerged from arboreal nesting
<taxonomicName id="203C6670D39E0C34E65E206936F3726E" authorityName="Lund" authorityYear="1831" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Crematogaster" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B4A468842C431D15EB6E0FF7B26C2A4B" italics="true">Crematogaster</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
on the tree.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="SECID0EYLCI" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="4EF10BE27EDDA11C527E3A5F1378AD25">
<heading id="83034E25067A77922377D618E2ACB095" reason="title">Etymology.</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="2FE00B96B27D9D19CF58BC9CD1A927E9">
Specific name refers to the presence alongside wild lions of this uniformly pale colored species in the East African savanna (Mkomazi Game Reserve, now a National Park), the provenance of the
<typeStatus id="E25A1286767CB19718CFC6E9AEF46071" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
. Simba is Kiswahili for lion. Noun in apposition.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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