Proterops fumosus Belokobylskij, 1993

Achterberg, C. van & Chenon, R. Desmier de, 2009, The first report of the biology of Proterops borneoensis Szépligeti (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Ichneutinae), with the description of a new species from China, Journal of Natural History 43 (11 - 12), pp. 619-633 : 629

Proterops fumosus Belokobylskij, 1993

( Figure 5 A–F)

Proterops fumosus Belokobylskij, 1993, p. 58 –59; figures 89–96.

Notes

Up to now the species is only know from the holotype from Vietnam. The head of the Chinese specimens is usually largely blackish, but one female has the head largely yellowish-brown as the holotype. The fore and middle femora are completely yellowish or basally and apically darkened. The propodeal spiracle is medium-sized and surrounded by long setae ( Figure 3E ). The second metasomal tergite is comparatively long ( Figure 3D ) .

Distribution

Vietnam (Hoa Binh, south of Hanoi); China ( Tianjin, east of Beijing).

Material

Three females plus one male from northeast China, ‘‘ Tientsin [5 Tianjin], F.M. Thomson, 1907-200’’ (BMNH, RMNH).

Figures

Figure 3. Proterops bicolorinus sp. nov., female, holotype. (A) Wings. (B) First to third metasomal tergites, dorsal aspect. (C) Anterior subalar depression. (D) Hind femur, lateral aspect. (E) Propodeal spiracle, dorsolateral aspect. Scale bars: 1.0X(A); 2.0X(B, D); 4.5X(C); 6.8X(E).

Figure 5. (A–F) Proterops fumosus Belokobylskij, female, northeast China, Tianjin; (G) P. borneoensis Szépligeti, female, Indonesia, Sumatra, Pematang Siantar; (H) P. nigripennis Wesmael, female, the Netherlands, Westerveld; (I–K) P. decoloratus Shestakov, females, southeast China, no. 841422. (A) Wings. (B, I) Hind femur, lateral aspect. (C) Anterior subalar depression. (D) First to third metasomal tergites, dorsal aspect. (E, G, H, J, K) Fore femur, lateral aspect. (F) Propodeal spiracle, dorsolateral aspect. Scale bars: 1.0X(A); 2.2X(B, E, G– K); 2.0X(C); 1.1X(D); 4.5X(F).