Gammabracon rugifrons ( Smith, 1858 )

Quicke, Donald L. J., Hogan, James E., Bennett, Andrew M. R., Broad, Gavin R. & Butcher, Buntika A., 2017, Partial revision of the Indo-Australian braconine wasp genus Gammabracon Quicke (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) with descriptions of new species from Indonesia (Mollucas), Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand, Journal of Natural History 51 (21 - 22), pp. 1249-1294 : 1285-1287

Gammabracon rugifrons ( Smith, 1858)

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Bracon rugifrons Smith (1857) 1858

Merinotus rugifrons: Roman (1913) 1914

Sigalphogastra rugifrons: Baltazar (1966)

Shelfordia rugifrons: Quicke (1981b) [through transfer of type species of Sigalphogastra ] Gammabracon rugifrons: Quicke 1985b

Material examined

HOLOTYPE: Female. MALAYSIA: SARAWAK ( OUMNH).

Additional features. Length of body 10.5 mm, of forewing 10.5 mm, of ovipositor approximately 11.5 mm. Antennae broken; width of head:width of face:height of eye = 2.05:1.0:1.1; forewing vein 1-M strongly expanding before junction with (Rs+M)a; forewing vein m-cu thickened and curved; vein 1cu-a interstitial, anterior junction swollen.

Comments. See remarks on G. abjectivus above.

Figures

Figure 28. Gammabracon rugifrons, holotype. (a) Habitus, dorsal view. (b) Face, frontal view. (c) Head and mesoscutum, dorsal view. (d) Central part of forewing. (e) Base of hind wing. (f) Metasoma, dorsal view.