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Dolichogenidea acron Liu & He & Chen & Gupta & Moghaddam 2019, comb. nov.

Description

Dolichogenidea acron (Nixon, 1967), comb. nov.

(Figs 1, 66, 70a 1 –a 2)

Apanteles acron Nixon, 1967: 23. Holotype ♀ (examined)— Thailand [NHM, Figs 70a 1 –a 2].

Diagnosis. Ovipositor sheath about as long as hind tibia, ovipositor with a weak apical attenuation; pterostigma almost colourless, except parts along wing edge; venation proximal to areolet unpigmented; first discal cell of fore wing not wider than high; hind femur weakly infuscate; penultimate antennomere one and a third times longer than wide; horizontal surface of T1 very slightly longer than wide; apical part of T1 with satin-like sheen; and T2 about 2/3 length of T3.

Material examined. 1♀, Mt. Tianmu, Zhejiang, 1988.V.18, He Junhua, No. 881228.

Distribution. Oriental [China (Zhejiang: new record), Thailand].

Remarks. Features of the examined specimen mostly agree with Nixon’s original description (Nixon, 1967) and type species, except pterostigma is weakly yellowish (Fig. 1b) compared to distinctly whitish (Fig. 70a 2) and hind tibia is slightly darker towards apex (Fig. 1a).

Notes

Published as part of Liu, Zhen, He, Jun-Hua, Chen, Xue-Xin, Gupta, Ankita & Moghaddam, Mostafa Ghafouri, 2019, The ultor - group of the genus Dolichogenidea Viereck (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from China with the descriptions of thirty-nine new species, pp. 1-134 in Zootaxa 4710 (1) on pages 13-14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4710.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3587475

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
1988-05-18
Family
Braconidae
Genus
Dolichogenidea
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Liu & He & Chen & Gupta & Moghaddam
Species
acron
Taxonomic status
comb. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
1988-05-18
Taxonomic concept label
Dolichogenidea acron (Nixon, 1967) sec. Liu, He, Chen, Gupta & Moghaddam, 2019

References

  • Nixon, G. E. J. (1967) The Indo-Australian species of the ultor - group of Apanteles Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology series, 21 (1), 1 - 34.