Paroplitis

Fernández-Triana, J., Ward, D. F., Cardinal, S. & Achterberg, C. Van, 2013, A review of Paroplitis (Braconidae, Microgastrinae), and description of a new genus from New Zealand, Shireplitis, with convergent morphological traits, Zootaxa 3722 (4), pp. 549-568 : 553

Key to world species of Paroplitis

1 T2 partially and slightly sculptured; propodeum evenly rugose on its entire surface, without distinctive carination [western Palaearctic region: Austria (Tirol, 2400m)]......................................... Paroplitis rugosus Papp, 1991

- T2 mostly smooth and shiny ( Figs 8 , 15 , 19 ); propodeum only partially rugose, with median carina visible on at least anterior 0.5, and sometimes with complete or partial transverse carina ( Figs 7, 8 , 15 , 19 )................................... 2

2(1) Fore wing areolet quadrangular and relatively large, its maximum height 1.1 x vein r length ( Fig 5 ); fore wing with vein 2CUa tubular on its anterior 0.3–0.5 [Nearctic region: Canada (British Columbia, Yukon) and United States (Alaska)]................................................................................... Paroplitis beringianus Mason, 1981

- Fore wing with areolet triangular and relatively small, its maximum height at most 0.7 x vein r length, usually much less ( Figs 10, 12 , 17 ); fore wing with vein 2CUa entirely nebulous [western Palaearctic or Oriental regions]..................... 3

3(2) Propodeum usually without trace of transverse carina ( Fig. 19 ); fore wing with areolet very small, its maximum height 0.2 x vein r length, its maximum width 0.2 x vein r length ( Fig. 17 ) [western Palaearctic region: Azerbaijan, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia (Krasnodar Kray), Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom]........................................................................... Paroplitis wesmaeli (Ruther, 1860)

- Propodeum with a more or less complete and defined transverse carina ( Fig 15 ); fore wing with areolet larger, its maximum height 0.5–0.7 x vein r length, its maximum width 0.6–0.7 x vein r length ( Figs 10, 12 ) [Oriental region, between 1700–2400 m]................................................................................................ 4

4(3) Scape, tegula, humeral complex, and legs entirely yellow (except for anterior 0.5–0.7 of metacoxa which is brown) ( Fig. 9); fore wing with vein R1 as long as or longer than pterostigma length, and much longer than distance delimited between end of vein R1 and end of vein 3RSb ( Fig. 10) [Oriental region: Philippines (Luzon Island) and southern Vietnam (Lam Dong)]............................................................................. Paroplitis luzonicus Mason, 1981

- Scape, tegula, humeral complex, and most of legs entirely brown to dark brown ( Figs 11–15 ); fore wing with vein R1 shorter than pterostigma length and same length (at most slightly larger) than distance delimited between end of vein R1 and end of vein 3RSb ( Fig. 12 ) [Oriental region: northern Vietnam ( Tonkin)]........................................................................................ Paroplitis vietnamensis van Achterberg and Fernández-Triana new species

Figures

FIGURES 4 – 8. Paroplitis beringianus. 4 - Habitus. 5 - Fore wing. 6 - Hypopygium. 7 - Dorsal view of mesosoma and part of metasoma. 8 - Details of mesoscutellar disc, propodeum and meditergites 1 - 2.

FIGURES 11 – 15. Paroplitis vietnamensis. 11 - Habitus. 12 - Fore wing. 13 - Hypopygium, legs, and latero-ventral side of mesosoma (partially). 14 - Head, antennae, and anteromesoscutum. 15 - Anteromesoscutum, propodeum and mediotergites 1 – 3.

FIGURES 16 – 19. Paroplitis wesmaeli. 16 - Habitus. 17 - Fore wing. 18 - Lateral side of meso and metasoma, including hypopygium. 19 - Dorsal view of scutellar disc, propodeum, and mediotergites.