Halycaea (Halycaea) ruficeps ( Smith, 1858 )

Tang, Pu, Belokobylskij, Sergey A., Achterberg, Cornelis Van & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2012, Halycaea Cameron, 1903 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Doryctinae) from China with a key to world species, Zootaxa 3218, pp. 18-30 : 26

Halycaea (Halycaea) ruficeps ( Smith, 1858)

( Figs. 21–30 )

Megaproctus ruficeps Smith, 1858: 119 .

Halycaea ruficeps : van Achterberg & O’Toole, 1993: 34. Halycaea erythrocephala Cameron, 1903: 127 . Syn. nov.

Material examined. Holotype of H. ruficeps : female ( OUMNH) “Sing[apore].”, “ Megaproctus ruficeps Smith ” and two type labels.

Note. The holotype from Singapore is identical with H. erythrocephala Cameron, 1903 , from East Malaysia ( Sarawak). It has five hamuli on the hind wing, the frons is finely striate, the third metasomal tergite is finely granulate, the triangular area of the second tergite is densely punctate-rugulose, the hind femur is 3.7 times as long as its maximum width, and the base of the hind coxa is chestnut brown.

Figures

FIGURES 21 – 30. Halycaea (Halycaea) ruficeps (Smith) 21, mesosoma, lateral aspect; 22, mesosoma and propodeum, dorsal aspect; 23, metasoma, dorsal aspect; 24, wings; 25, head, lateral aspect; 26, head, frontal aspect; 27, head, dorsal aspect; 28, hind leg; 29, antennae; 30, hind tarsus.