Apanteles gracilicorne Song & Chen, 2004

Liu, Zhen, He, Jun-Hua, Chen, Xue-Xin & Gupta, Ankita, 2020, The ater-group of the genus Apanteles Foerster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from China with the descriptions of forty-eight new species, Zootaxa 4807 (1), pp. 1-205 : 95

Apanteles gracilicorne Song & Chen, 2004

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Apanteles gracilicorne Song & Chen, 2004: 51 . Holotype ♀ — Fujian, China [FAFU].

Diagnosis. Body length 2.7 mm, fore wing length 3.1 mm. Body black, hind femur black. Ocelli small, posterior tangent to anterior ocellus touching posterior ocelli, distance between fore and hind ocellus slightly longer than diameter of hind ocellus. Antenna about as long as body length, penultimate flagellomere 1.6× longer than wide. Pronotum without longitudinal striation, interspaces between punctures on disc of mesonotum shorter than its diameter. Areola on propodeum V-shaped apically, closed with strong costulae, posterio-lateral parts smooth. Pterostigma 2.5× as long as its widest part, vein 1-R1 1.1× longer than pterostigma, vein r and 2-SR curved at junction. T1 nearly parallel-sided, 2.3× longer than hind width, turned-over part slightly shiny, with longitudinal striation laterally, longitudinal channel narrow with strong rugosity; T2 shiny and nearly polished, except a few weak punctures, 2.5× wider than long in the middle; T3 3.0× longer than T2. Ovipositor sheath as long as hind tibia.

Material examined. 4♀♀, Yangjiaping, Mt. Xiaowutai , Hebei, 2005.VIII.20, Zhang Hongying, Nos. 200611707, 200611849, 200611852, 200611851 ; 1♀, Dalian , Liaoning, 1992.IX.5, Lou Juxian, No. 976222 ; 1♀, Xiaguan , Yunnan, 1981.V.14, He Junhua, No. 810897 ; 1♀, Hangzhou , Zhejiang, 1991.VI.8, Lv Zhongxian, No. 911518 ; 1♀, Mt. Longwang, Anji , Zhejiang, 1996.VI.25, He Junhua, No. 982931 ; 1♀, Mt. Tianmu , Zhejiang, 1987. VII.20, Chen Xuexin, No. 872057 .

Distribution. China (Fujian, Hebei, Liaoning, Yunnan, Zhejiang).

Remarks. Characters of the examined specimens mostly agree with the published descriptions except posterior tangent to anterior ocellus actually touching posterior ocelli.

Figures

FIGURE 44. Apanteles gracilicorne Song & Chen, 2004, a. propodeum; b. fore wing; c. head, dorsal view; d. mesonotum and scutellum, dorsal view; e. habitus, dorsal view; f. hind wing; g. metasoma, dorsal view; h. head, frontal view. Scale line = 0.5 mm.

FIGURE 100. 33–47: Distribution map of ater-group of the genus Apanteles Foerster, 1862. 33: A. dissimile Nixon, 1965; 34: A. distributa Liu & Chen, sp. nov.; 35: A. dryas Nixon, 1965; 36: A. expansus Liu & Chen, sp. nov.; 37: A. flavibasalis Liu & Chen, sp. nov.; 38: A. florus Nixon, 1965; 39: A. folia Nixon, 1965; 40: A. fraxinus Liu & Chen, sp. nov.; 41: A. fundum Liu & Chen, sp. nov.; 42: A. fuscidentalis Liu & Chen, sp. nov.; 43: A. galleriae Wilkinson, 1932; 44: A. gracilicorne Song & Chen, 2004; 45: A. Apanteles importunus Wilkinson, 1928; 46: A. jasmine Liu & Chen, sp. nov.; 47: A. javensis Rohwer, 1919.