Mahinda bo Kimsey, Mita & Pham

Kimsey, Lynn S., Mita, Toshiharu & Pham, Hong Thai, 2016, New species of the genus Mahinda Krombein, 1983 (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae, Amiseginae), ZooKeys 551, pp. 145-154 : 148

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Mahinda bo Kimsey, Mita & Pham sp. n. Figs 1, 3, 4, 9, 12

Diagnosis.

This species can be distinguished from all other species of Mahinda by the short, wide, anteromedially indented pronotum and long, spine-like lateral propodeal angles.

Female description.

Body length 5.8 mm. Head: face (Fig. 9); scapal basin densely transversely ridged, zone of ridging separated from midocellus by about one midocellar diameter; malar space two midocellar diameters long; subantennal distance 0.5 midocellar diameter long; least interocular distance 0.5 × as broad as facial length between midocellus and clypeal apex; eyes slightly converging above in front view; midocellar to ocular margin distance two midocellar diameters; hindocellus one diameter from ocular margin; vertex least interocular distance 0.9 × ocular width in dorsal view (Fig. 12); flagellomere I 2.8 × as long as broad; flagellomere II 0.7 × as long as broad; flagellomere III 0.6 × as long as broad; flagellomere XI 0.6 × as long as broad; Mesosoma: dorsum and mesopleural punctures separated by 0.5 puncture diameters, polished between; pronotum anteromedially indented, twice as wide as long, 0.7 × as long as scutum plus scutellum; metanotum 1.9 × as long as broad, with small apicomedial angle on either side of midline; propodeum with lateral tooth long, spike-like, posterior surface coarsely, transversely ridged. Metasoma: terga polished and impunctate. Color (Figs 3, 4): head black, clypeus pale brown medially, mandible dark brown; antenna black except pedicel, flagellomere I and dorsal surface of II whitish; mesosoma black, with pale brown tegula and reddish black lateral propodeal spine; forecoxa whitish, anteriorly black; foretrochanter whitish, ventrally blackish; fore and midfemora black with anterior whitish stripe; tibiae brown, becoming darker laterally; tarsi brown; midcoxa and inner surface of hindfemur entirely whitish; metasoma dark brown becoming blackish dorsally.

Male.

Unknown.

Type material.

Holotype female: VIETNAM, Bac Giang Province, Tay Yen Tu National park, 21°10'52.33"N 106°43'24.30"E, 176 m, 8/VII/2014, T. Mita leg. (VNMN).

Etymology.

The name is derived from the Vietnamese word “bò” for cow, referring to the stout horn-like spines on the propodeum.