Neopius citrinus Sheng & Chen, 2019

Han, Yunjong, van Achterberg, Cornelis & Kim, Hyojoong, 2024, Four genera of the subfamily Opiinae Blanchard (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) new for Japan, with the description of two new species, ZooKeys 1206, pp. 207-229 : 207-229

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.1206.125662

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12689228

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scientific name

Neopius citrinus Sheng & Chen, 2019
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Neopius citrinus Sheng & Chen, 2019

Figs 26 View Figure 26 , 27–36 View Figures 27–36

Neopius citrinus Sheng & Chen, 2019: 592–595.

Material.

1 ♀ ( OMNH), “ Japan (Honshu): Nakaikemi Wetlands, Kashimagari, Tsuruga, Fukui, 35.6594 ° N, 136.0884 ° E, 24. v. – 17. vi. 2016, MT [= Malaise trap], Asato Noishiki leg., OMNH ”.

Diagnosis.

Face yellow (Fig. 31 View Figures 27–36 ); notauli nearly complete, gradually reduced posteriorly; occiput comparatively straight in dorsal view (Fig. 32 View Figures 27–36 ); head largely granulate; scutellar sulcus comparatively robust (Fig. 29 View Figures 27–36 ); propodeum reticulate-rugose with a medio-longitudinal carina; second and third tergites granulate.

Re-description.

Female; length of body 2.8 mm, of fore wing 3.0 mm.

Head. Antenna with 29 segments (Fig. 25 View Figures 15–25 ; broken and lost); third segment 2.3 × longer than its width, 1.2 × longer than fourth segment; eye 1.5 × longer than temple in dorsal view (Fig. 23 View Figures 15–25 ); vertex granulate and sparsely setose; frons and occiput shiny and granulate; face densely punctate and setose (Fig. 21 View Figures 15–25 ); clypeus 2.5 × wider than its maximum height; clypeus densely setose, its ventral margin slightly protruding downward; hypoclypeal depression distinct; maxillary palpi nearly 0.7 × as long as height of head; malar sulcus absent; occipital carina completely present and crenulate, (Figs 29 View Figures 27–36 , 32 View Figures 27–36 ); mandible gradually widened basally, moderately setose and hardly twisted in lateral view without acute basal lamella (Fig. 33 View Figures 27–36 ).

Mesosoma. Mesosoma 1.3 × longer than its height (Fig. 29 View Figures 27–36 ); pronope absent but transverse crenulated groove and sparsely setose along lateral margin (Fig. 30 View Figures 27–36 ); pronotal side granulate with ventral crenulated groove; propleuron granulate (Fig. 29 View Figures 27–36 ); mesopleuron largely coriaceous, but precoxal sulcus crenulate, wide, oblique and reaching anterior area (converging epicnemial area and dorsal crenulate carina); epicnemial area crenulate; mesopleural sulcus crenulate; mesosternum densely setose; anterior groove of metapleuron crenulate, remaining area reticulate-rugose, shiny and densely setose; notauli distinctly crenulate antero-medially, but gradually obsolescent posteriorly (Fig. 29 View Figures 27–36 ); medio-posterior depression of mesoscutum large, elliptical and deep; mesoscutum coriaceous with few setae along the notaulic course; scutellar sulcus medium-sized, moderately crenulate and gradually narrowed laterally; scutellum granulate and rather flat in lateral view; propodeum entirely reticulate-rugose and densely setose with a short medio-longitudinal carina.

Wings. Fore wing (Fig. 27 View Figures 27–36 ): Pterostigma triangular and gradually narrowed apically; vein r sublinear with vein 3 - SR; vein 1 - M nearly straight; vein 1 - SR + M straight; vein 2 - SR slightly sinuate and oblique; vein 3 - SR 1.5 × longer than vein 2 - SR; r: 3 - SR: SR 1 = 5: 18: 37; vein SR 1 straight; vein m-cu distinctly postfurcal; first subdiscal cell open; vein CU 1 b short and incomplete. Hind wing (Fig. 28 View Figures 27–36 ): vein m-cu absent; vein 2 - M absent.

Legs. Length of hind femur 4.4 × its maximum width (Fig. 36 View Figures 27–36 ).

Metasoma. First metasomal tergite 0.9 × as long as its apical width, its surface striate-rugose and slightly convex medio-basally in lateral view (Figs 26 View Figure 26 , 30 View Figures 27–36 ); dorsope absent; second metasomal suture obsolescent (Fig. 30 View Figures 27–36 ); second tergite shiny and granulate, with shallow pair of depressions medio-basally; third tergite granulate medially and following tergites shiny and smooth, with band of setae posteriorly; setose part of ovipositor sheath 0.5 × longer than first tergite (Fig. 34 View Figures 27–36 ).

Colour. Body generally black (Fig. 26 View Figure 26 ); head yellowish-brown but frons and vertex black medially (Fig. 32 View Figures 27–36 ); legs and ovipositor, light brown; second and half of basal third tergites, brown; pterostigma and vein of wings, light brown; wings, subhyaline.

Distribution.

Japan (Honshu; new record), China (Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning).

Biology.

Unknown.

OMNH

Osaka Museum of Natural History

MT

Mus. Tinro, Vladyvostok

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

Genus

Neopius

Loc

Neopius citrinus Sheng & Chen, 2019

Han, Yunjong, van Achterberg, Cornelis & Kim, Hyojoong 2024
2024
Loc

Neopius citrinus

Sheng Y-Y & Wu Q & van Achterberg C & Chen X-X 2019: 595
2019