Stantonia spasskensis Belokobylskij, 1993

Achterberg, Cornelis van, Long, Khuat Dang & Chen, Xue-xin, 2017, Review of Stantonia Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Orgilinae) from Vietnam, China, Japan, and Russia, with descriptions of six new species, ZooKeys 723, pp. 61-119 : 91

Stantonia spasskensis Belokobylskij, 1993 Figs 74, 75-80

Stantonia spasskensis Belokobylskij, 1993: 97, 1998: 503.

Diagnosis.

Antenna of ♂ with approximately 8 white or ivory segments (Fig. 75); anterior tentorial pits dorsally distinctly above lower level of eyes and malar space comparatively short (Fig. 79); temple coarsely rugose ventrally and (except for spaced punctures) largely smooth dorsally; mesosoma largely dark brown, only metanotum, propodeum and metapleuron posteriorly yellowish brown (Figs 74, 77); tegulum dark brown; anterior half of propodeum punctulate and largely smooth; hind femur dark brown medially; hind tarsus (except basally) whitish or ivory and moderately bristly setose; base of hind basitarsus dark brown; infuscation of apex of fore wing mainly restricted to marginal cell and just below it (Fig. 75); length of first tergite approx. 4 times its apical width (Fig. 78); second tergite dark brown and with shiny triangular area basally, its epipleuron largely rather fuzzy dark brown (Fig. 74); length of fore wing approx. 7.5 mm.

Distribution.

Far East Russia.

Notes.

The scanty material does not allow a conclusion about the validity of the taxon; the holotype may concern the melanistic male of S. annulicornis Enderlein, 1921. The male of S. spasskensis reported from Vietnam ( Long and van Achterberg 2014) was re-examined and proved to belong to S. annulicornis Enderlein.