Scutibracon Quicke & Walker, 1989

Samartsev, Konstantin G., Duong, Tran Dinh & Long, Khuat Dang, 2025, The genus Scutibracon Quicke & Walker (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in Vietnam, with new records and descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 5715 (1), pp. 407-418 : 408

Genus Scutibracon Quicke & Walker, 1989

Scutibracon Quicke & Walker, 1989: 19 ( type species Microbracon hispae Viereck, 1913 ). Samartsev 2023: 387 (taxonomic history and morphologic characteristics).

Remarks on the diagnosis of the genus. The previous review of the genus with its redescription ( Samartsev 2023) was based on the study of types of only a part of included species and lacked sufficient information on the type species. The material collected in Vietnam allows to specify the following characters in the diagnosis of this genus: the clypeus with not protruding or more or less protruding ventral rim; the vertex without the mid-longitudinal sulcus, but weakly longitudinally impressed in the specimens of S. hispae and S. sumodani from Vietnam; the notauli are deep or shallow anteriorly; the mesoscutum is evenly setose or entirely setose with longer setae on notaulic area, or widely smooth medially; T1 is usually with the complete dorsal carinae, but with no carinae in S. storozhenkoi sp. nov.; the median area of T2 variable, absent or developed (in latter case narrow, elongate-triangular, strongly elongated and extending into longitudinal carina or wider, parallel-sided); in some species, the metasoma with granulate sculpture.

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