Habroteleia dagavia Kozlov & Le, 2017

Talamas, Elijah J. & Pham, Hong-Thai, 2017, An online photographic catalog of Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera) in the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources (Hanoi, Vietnam), with some taxonomic notes, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 56, pp. 239-239 : 239

Habroteleia dagavia Kozlov & Le comb. n. Figures 5-10

Triteleia dagavia Kozlov & Lê, 1995: 441, 445 (original description, keyed); Kozlov & Lê, 1996: 9, 14 (described as new, keyed); Lê, 2000: 76, 341 (description, keyed, type information).

Link to distribution map.

http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=28154

Material examined.

Holotype, female: VIETNAM: Quang Nam Prov., Lang Stream, forest, Dak Pring , 31.X.1979, X. H. Lê, IEBR 0143 (deposited in IEBR).

Comments.

The fore wing is missing from the holotype of H. dagavia , precluding examination of its venation, an important character in the key of Chen et al. (2013). We nonetheless are confident in placing this species in Habroteleia Kieffer based on the medially spinose metascutellum and its similarity to H. bharatensis Saraswat, with which it may be conspecific. When images of H. dagavia were compared to the holotype of H. bharatensis , the first author found only a slight variation in the size of the median projection on the propodeum and difference in setation to separate the species. The lack of setation in the holotype of H. dagavia may be a preservation artifact, but we consider it prudent not to make a formal decision about the species-level fate of H. dagavia without examining more specimens.

Figures

Figures 5 - 10. Habroteleia dagavia, female holotype (IEBR 0143). 5 head, mesosoma, metasoma, lateral view 6 head and mesosoma, dorsal view 7 head, anterior view 8 mesoscutellum, metascutellum, propodeum, T 1, dorsolateral view 9 metasoma, dorsal view 10 metasoma, ventrolateral view. Scale bars in millimeters.