Heresiarches tarsator, Riedel, 2013

Riedel, M., 2013, Contribution to the Ichneumoninae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of Southeastern Asia: 2. Tribe Heresiarchini, Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2), pp. 2025-2076 : 2056-2057

Heresiarches tarsator nov. sp. ( figs 25 , 46 )

H o l o t y p u s (): "Laos-CE, 1-18.V.2001, Boli Khan Xai prov. 18 21´N 105 08´E, BAN NAPE (8 km NE) ca. 600 m, Vit Kuban leg." (Linz).

P a r a t y p u s (): "S Vietnam: Dak Lak, Chu Yang Sin N.P. Krong K`Mar, Malaise traps 740-900 m, 2-10.VI.2007, leg. C. v. Achterberg and R. de Vries, RMNH´07" (Leiden).

D e s c r i p t i o n of: Body length 14-15 mm. Flagellum slender, very slightly lanceolate, with 39-42 flagellomeres, first flagellomere 5.0x as long as wide, two basal flagellomeres together about 0.9x as long as compound eye, widest flagellomeres about as wide as long. Temple short, strongly narrowed behind eye, with superficial puncture. Distance of lateral ocellus to eye about 0.9x its diameter. Frons smooth, above with superficial puncture. Face and clypeus with puncture, intervals smooth.

Mesosoma with pale brownish hairs. Notaulus impressed anteriorly. Sides of pronotum with smoothened sculpture. Mesoscutum with very dense puncture and granulation, matte. Mesopleurum and metaspleurum densely punctured, speculum smooth. Coxal carina distinct. Scutellum moderately convex, wider than long, with strong complete lateral carina and scattered puncture. Propodeum with coarse puncture, shining. Areae basalis and superomedia confluent, but area superomedia with carinae, heart-shaped and with some coarse punctures, costula in the middle. Coxa III with dense rugulo-puncture, without scopa. Femur III with superficial puncture, about 4.7-4.9x as long as high.

Areolet pentagonal, frontal distance of intercubiti 2x its diameter, nervulus strongly postfurcal.

Postpetiole slightly widened. Median field with weak fine striation, dorsal carina not developed. Gastrocoelus large, triangular, with longitudinal striae. Thyridium very small, about 0.2x as wide as the thyridial interval. Second tergite 1.1x as long as wide. Tergites 2-3 with dense rugulos-puncture, matte, tergite 2 with fine median striation. Tergites 4-5 with superficial puncture. Ovipositor sheath long, seen from dorsal as long as the sixth and seventh tergites together.

Coloration: black. Ivory stripe on flagellomeres 7/8-13/14. Cream-yellow are palps, mandible except teeth, labrum, clypeus and face, gena and complete orbit, anterior and upper margins of pronotum, subtegular ridge, longitudinal stripe on lower mesopleurum, sides of scutellum, postscutellum, small spots on posterior propodeum at dentiparal edge, coxae I-II, trochanters I-III, anterodorsal spot on coxa III, tibia III except infuscate apical third, and tarsus III. Coxa III black. Legs otherwise yellowish-red. Femur III black, reddish in the basal 0.1. Postpetiolus with yellow posterodorsal spot, tergites 2-3 with a wide yellowish-red apical band, following tergites with narrow yellowish apical margins. Pterostigma brownish.

unknown.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Laos and Vietnam.

Figures

Fig. 25-27: Propodeum of (25) Heresiarches tarsator nov.sp.; (26) Neocratojoppa flavescipes HEINRICH; (27) Heresiarches atanyjoppoides nov.sp.. Fig. 28: Femur III of Aglaojoppa nepalensis nov.sp.

Fig. 43-48: Metasoma from dorsal of (43) Heresiarches formosanus nov.sp.; (44) Heresiarches rufomaculatus nov.sp.; (45) Heresiarches secundus HEINRICH; (46) Heresiarches tarsator nov.sp.; (47) Heresiarches atanyjoppoides nov.sp.; (48) Heresiarches felix HEINRICH.