Stantonia xiangqianensis Chen, He & Ma, 2004

Achterberg, Cornelis van, Long, Khuat Dang & Chen, Xue-xin, 2017, Review of Stantonia Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Orgilinae) from Vietnam, China, Japan, and Russia, with descriptions of six new species, ZooKeys 723, pp. 61-119 : 105-106

Stantonia xiangqianensis Chen, He & Ma, 2004 Fig. 123

Stantonia sp. B Braet & Quicke, 2004: 1522.

Stantonia xiangqianensis Chen, He & Ma, 2004: 365-367, 532; Long and van Achterberg 2014: 408.

Material.

1 ♂ (RMNH), "S. China: Hunan, n[ea]r Zhangjiajie, Badagong Mts, Bamaoxi, 2-3.vi.2009, 540 m, X.-Y. Li, RMNH’09”.

Diagnosis.

Basal half of antenna yellowish and apical half darkened, antenna 1.6 times as long as fore wing; vertex finely spaced punctate and interspaces distinctly wider than punctures and yellowish brown; mesosoma entirely yellowish brown; inner half of humeral plate dark brown, remainder of plate and tegulum yellowish brown; propodeum medio-anteriorly sparsely punctate anteriorly; fore wing moderately infuscated apically; vein 3-SR+SR1 approx. 3.7 times as long as vein r; hind femur partly smooth and shiny ventrally, slender and apically yellowish brown; hind tarsus (except telotarsus) ivory or white; length of first metasomal tergite approx. 3.7 times its apical width; epipleuron of second tergite partly darkened (Fig. 123); apices of first and third metasomal tergites brownish yellow; length of ovipositor sheath 0.5-0.6 times as long as fore wing and somewhat longer than metasoma; length of fore wing approximately 7 mm.

Distribution.

China (Hunan, Guizhou).

Notes.

Very similar to S. issikii Watanabe, 1932, and differs mainly by the colour and shape of the tergites and the longer vein 3-SR+SR1 of fore wing.