Orientocardiochiles nigrofasciatus Long, 2020

Kang, Ilgoo, Long, Khuat Dang, Sharkey, Michael J., Whitfield, James B. & Lord, Nathan P., 2020, Orientocardiochiles, a new genus of Cardiochilinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), with descriptions of two new species from Malaysia and Vietnam, ZooKeys 971, pp. 1-15 : 3-5

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scientific name

Orientocardiochiles nigrofasciatus Long
status

sp. nov.

Orientocardiochiles nigrofasciatus Long sp. nov. Fig. 5A-O View Figure 5

Material examined.

Holotype, Vietnam • ♀; female, " Card.101 " (IEBR), S. Vietnam: Lam Dong, Cat Tien NP, forest; 11°18'N, 107°26'E, 100 m; 8.iv.2007; MP Quy.

Description.

Body length 9.7 mm. Length of forewing 9.0 mm. Antenna 7.0 mm, ovipositor sheath 4.7 mm. Head. Antenna with 43 segments; length of scape 1.4 × longer than its width (18:13); third segment 1.5 × longer than second segment (15:10); apical segment 2.25 × longer than subapical segment (4:10). Clypeal suture distinct; ventral margin of clypeus evenly convex with indistinct tubercles (Fig. 5C View Figure 5 ); width of clypeus 1.8 × longer than its height (35:19); face width 0.9 × length of face and clypeus combined (28:32); distance between tentorial pits 1.9 × distance between pit and eye margin (15:8) (Fig. 5C View Figure 5 ). Mandible angularly bent ventrally (Fig. 5C View Figure 5 ); basal width of mandible 0.8 × distance from mandible to eye margin (8:10). Frons depressed laterally, with tubercle anteriorly, almost smooth; in dorsal view. Head transverse; median length of head 0.45 × its width (25:56) in dorsal view. Eye length 1.9 × length of temple (17:9). Ocelli rather large; POL:OD:OOL=3:4:13 (Fig. 5B View Figure 5 ). Vertex sparsely punctate anteriorly, rugose-punctate posteriorly; in lateral view. Length of eye 1.3 × temple (18:14); temple sparsely punctate (Fig. 5D View Figure 5 ). Mesosoma. Mesosoma robust; length of mesosoma 1.6 × height (55:35) (Fig. 5F View Figure 5 ). Pronotal side large, almost smooth. Notauli evenly deep, crenulate, meeting deep smooth area posteriorly (Fig. 5E View Figure 5 ). Lobes of mesoscutum shiny, sparsely punctate. Scutellum slightly convex medially, densely and finely punctate. Scutellar sulcus rather narrow, curved, with 5+ crenulae, median length of scutellar sulcus 0.3 × longer than median length of scutellum (7:24) (Fig. 5E View Figure 5 ). Propodeal areola length 1.8 × longer than its width (27:15). Epicnemial carina absent (Fig. 5M View Figure 5 ). Precoxal sulcus wide, shallow, crenulate (Fig. 5F View Figure 5 ). Mesopleuron sparsely and finely punctate. Subalar space crenulate. Metapleuron smooth anteriorly, foveate anteriorly. Propodeum with short basal carina; propodeal areola complete, almost occupying whole length of propodeum, areola with two median transverse carinae (Fig. 5J View Figure 5 ); propodeum coarsely rugose laterobasally. Legs. Fore tibial spur 0.6 × longer than basitarsus (21:35). Length of hind femur, tibia and basitarsus 3.0, 7.0 and 8.0 × longer than their maximum width, respectively. Hind coxa shiny, smooth. Hind femur sparsely punctate. Hind tibia without apical projection; inner hind tibial spur 1.6 × longer than outer spur (16:10) and 0.5 × longer than hind basitarsus (16:32). Hind basitarsus 0.5 × longer than hind tibia (32:63), 0.9 × longer than hind tarsus 2-5 (32:37). Hind tarsal claw pectinate, with 4 teeth (Fig. 5L View Figure 5 ). Wings. Length of forewing 3.1 × longer than its maximum width (90:29). Pterostigma elongate; length of pterostigma 5.0 × longer than its width (45:9) (Fig. 5H View Figure 5 ). r:3-SR:2-SR=6:33:18. 1-M 2.4 × as long as m-cu (17:7). 2-SR+M 1.7 × as long as m-cu (22:13). 1-CU1 0.14 × 2-CU1 (4:29) and 0.22 × cu-a (4:18). 1a present as a spectral short trace. Second submarginal cell long, maximum length 3.1 × longer than its maximum width (90:29) (Fig. 5H View Figure 5 ). Subdiscal cell broad. Length of hind wing 5.3 × longer than its maximum width (101:19). M+CU of hind wing distinctly shorter 1-M, and 0.65 × longer than 1-M (15:23). 1-M 4.6 × 1r-m (23:5). 2-SC+R horizontal to the longitudinal axis of hind wing (Fig. 5I View Figure 5 ). Hind wing with six hamuli (Fig. 5K View Figure 5 ). Metasoma. T1 widened apically, 0.96 × longer than it is wide (28:29) (Fig. 5G View Figure 5 ); coriaceous smooth basally, almost punctate-reticulate medially, rugose apically. T2 transverse, without emarginate basal area, largely rugose (Fig. 5G View Figure 5 ); median length of T2 0.3 × longer than its apical width (10:32), and 0.6 × longer than median length of T3 (10:16). T3 sparsely and finely punctate. Remaining tergites almost smooth (Fig. 5G View Figure 5 ). Hypopygium sharply pointed at apex, median longitudinal area largely desclerotized and folded inwards throughout (Fig. 5N View Figure 5 ). Ovipositor sheath slender, pointed at apex and shortly setose (Fig. 5O View Figure 5 ); setose part of ovipositor sheath 1.4 × longer than length of metasoma (64:47), 2.0 × longer than length of hind tibia (64:32), and 0.7 × longer than length of forewing (64:90).

Color. Pale yellow; antenna black, except scape yellow; stemmaticum and vertex posteriorly black (Fig. 5B View Figure 5 ); lobes of mesoscutum largely black medially; scutellum black, pale yellow laterally and apically (Fig. 5E View Figure 5 ); propodeum black medio-basally (Fig. 5J View Figure 5 ); propleuron posteriorly, mesopleuron medio-dorsally and mesosternum black (Fig. 5F View Figure 5 ); fore and middle legs pale yellow, except middle trochanters, trochantellus, and tarsus yellowish-brown; hind coxa dorso-basally and ventrally, trochanters, trochantellus, femur basally and apically, hind tibia at base and apically, hind tarsus brown; wing veins brown; wing membrane hyaline, apex of forewing blackish-brown (Fig. 5H View Figure 5 ); first metasomal tergite with large median black patch; second tergite black, except basal small round yellow area; third tergite pale yellow; fourth-sixth tergites with basal black stripes (Fig. 5G View Figure 5 ); seventh tergite black apically.

Male. Unknown.

Etymology.

From “nigro” (Latin for “black”), and “fascia” (Latin for “band”, “zone”, “stripe”), because of black stripes basally on metasomal tergites 4-6.

Host(s).

Unknown.

Distribution.

Orientocardiochiles nigrofasciatus sp. nov., is known from only one female specimen collected from Cat Tien NP, S. Vietnam. (Fig. 6A, B View Figure 6 ).

Notes.

Orientocardiochiles nigrofasciatus sp. nov., from Vietnam can be separated from Orientocardiochiles joeburrowi sp. nov., from Malaysia by the following characters: i) forewing apically strongly infuscate; ii) propodeum with short longitudinal carina anteriorly; iii) propodeal areola pentagonal; iv) hind tarsal claw pectinate with four teeth; v) hypopygium with median longitudinal fold; vi) scape mostly yellow, except for the dorso-apical region.