Pseudofornicia vanachterbergi Long

Achterberg, Cornelis van, Long, Khuat Dang, Chen, Xue-xin & You, Lan-shao, 2015, Pseudofornicia gen. n. (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae), a new Indo-Australian genus and one new species from Vietnam, ZooKeys 524, pp. 89-102 : 94-96

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.524.6158

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3F27F8E1-59FE-4430-AAFD-E770DC54E39E

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EFF26D75-8EFE-7499-F865-FB140A8EBB65

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scientific name

Pseudofornicia vanachterbergi Long
status

nom. n.

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Braconidae

Pseudofornicia vanachterbergi Long nom. n. Figs 21, 22-30

Fornicia achterbergi Long, 2007: 37-38, 41-42, figs 7-15 (not Fornicia achterbergi Yang & Chen, 2006).

Type material.

Holotype, ♀ (IEBR), "VN [= Vietnam]: Hà Tây, Thach Thât, vuòn chè, M[alaise]T[rap], 25. v– 5.vi.2002, K.D. Long".

Diagnosis.

Head 0.9 × as wide as mesoscutum in dorsal view and height of head 0.6 × height of mesosoma in lateral view (Fig. 21); scutellum medially distinctly rugose (Fig. 28), its apical rim nearly reaching upper level of scutellum (Fig. 29); first discal cell less setose than apical third of fore wing; vein m-cu of fore wing shorter than vein 2-SR+M (Fig. 22); vein cu-a of hind wing moderately sinuate (Fig. 24); apical half of hind tibia yellowish brown (Fig. 25); metasoma brownish yellow dorsally and roundly narrowed posteriorly (Fig. 23); first tergite near median carina depressed (Fig. 23); propodeum with small elevated medio-basal area (Fig. 28); medial area of second tergite largely subparallel-sided and only anteriorly widened (Fig. 23), its anterior half largely smooth, except some punctures laterally and area rather abruptly narrowed posteriorly (Fig. 23); second and third tergites brownish yellow medially (Fig. 23); third tergite rather coarsely reticulate medially, its median length 1.3 × second tergite (Fig. 23).

Distribution.

Vietnam.

Biology.

Unknown, but reared from a host on a litchi tree.

Notes.

Dr Khuat Dang Long renames here his Fornicia achterbergi Long, 2007, into Pseudofornicia vanachterbergi nom. n., because it is a primary homonym of Fornicia achterbergi Yang & Chen, 2006.