Chorebus longiarticulis Fischer, Lashkari Bod, Rakhshani & Talebi, 2011

Ravandi, Shima Ghotbi, Madjdzadeh, Seyed Massoud, Felipo, Francisco Javier Peris, Hesni, Majid Askari & Rakhshani, Ehsan, 2015, A contribution to the Alysiinae of southeastern Iran, with description of the male of Chorebus longiarticulis, Turkish Journal of Zoology 39 (3), pp. 836-841 : 838-839

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https://doi.org/ 10.3906/zoo-1408-9

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scientific name

Chorebus longiarticulis Fischer, Lashkari Bod, Rakhshani & Talebi, 2011
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8. Chorebus longiarticulis Fischer, Lashkari Bod, Rakhshani & Talebi, 2011

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Material examined: Iran: 1 female (holotype), Zarghan, 27.iv.2008, swept on alfalfa (Lashkari) ( NHMW) .

Material captured: Iran: 1 female and 1 male, Kerman Province, Qal-eh-Askar , 32°67′639″N, 046°78′74″E, 2617 m, 05.vi.2013, swept on Medicago sativa L., leg.: S. Ghotbi ; 2 females, Kerman Province, Qal-eh-Askar , 32°66′149″N, 046°50′51″E, 2633 m, 05.vi.2013, swept on Medicago sativa L., leg.: S. Ghotbi; 6 females and 2 males, Kerman Province, Negar, 33°03′949″N, 047°94′27″E, 2093 m, 16.v.2013, swept on Medicago sativa L., leg.: S. Ghotbi; 1 male, Kerman Province, Negar, 33°04′130″N, 047°90′07″E, 2087 m, 17.v.2013, swept on Medicago sativa L., leg.: S. Ghotbi.

Description of the male

Head entirely smooth; in dorsal view twice as wide as median length, 1.6 times as wide as mesoscutum, with rounded temples behind eye. Eye in lateral view 1.6 times as high as wide and as wide as temple medially. POL twice OD; OOL 3.0 times OD. Face 1.7 times as wide as high; inner margins of eyes subparallel. Clypeus slightly curved ventrally, 3.3 times as wide as high. Mandible as long as its maximum width. First mandibular tooth broad, rounded, deflected sideward; second tooth pointed; third and fourth teeth in a straight row and clearly separated from each other. Antenna thick, 23-segmented. Scape 1.65 times as long as pedicel. First flagellar segment 5.0 times as long as its apical width, 1.3 times as long as second segment; second segment 3.0 times as long as its maximum width. Third to 20th flagellar segments 2.4–2.7 times and 21st segment 2.2 times as long as their maximum widths, respectively.

Mesosoma 1.25 times as long as high (lateral view). Mesoscutum 0.9 times as long as maximum width. Notauli mainly absent. Mesoscutal pit present, rounded. Prescutellar depression with lateral carinae. Metascutum with white hairs over the lateral fields. Pronotum covered with dirty-white hairs.Precoxal sulcus present, not reaching anterior or posterior margins of mesopleuron. Posterior mesopleural furrow entirely smooth. Metapleuron densely covered with dirty-white hairs hiding the surface, a rosette of radiating hairs around a central swelling. Propodeum densely covered with dirty-white hairs hiding the surface, the hairs tending to radiate around the lateral spiracles.

Wings. Length of forewing 2.4 times its maximum width. Radial cell ending far to the apex of wing, 4.8 times as long as its maximum width. Nervulus postfurcal. Brachial cell closed, widened apically, 2.8 times as long as its maximum width. Hind wing 4.6 times as long as its maximum width.

Legs. Hind coxae with a few longer white hairs, without tuft of hairs. Hind femur 4.75 times as long as its maximum width. Hind tibia weakly widened towards apex, about 9.5 times as long as its maximum subapical width, 1.2 times as long as hind tarsus. First segment of hind tarsus 1.85 times as long as second segment.

Metasoma distinctly compressed. First tergite mainly smooth, very slightly granulated, weakly widened towards apex, 1.75 times as long as its apical width and covered with sparse hairs; dense white hairs at hind corners.

Color. Body dark brown. Legs and pterostigma brownyellowish. Wings hyaline.

Body length 1.4 mm; forewing length 1.75 mm; antenna length 1.6 times as long as body length.

Female (original description in Fischer et al., 2011). Body length 1.5 mm. Antenna length 1.1 times as long as body length. Antenna 21-segmented. First flagellar segment 4.5 times as long its maximum width; middle segments 3.0 times as long as their maximum width. Hind femur 5.0 times as long as its maximum width. First metasomal tergite 1.6 times as long as its apical width. Face 1.6 times as long as high. Clypeus 3.0 times as wide as high.

Distribution in Iran: Fars Province: Zarghan ( Fischer et al., 2011; Khajeh et al., 2014); Kerman Province.

General distribution: Iran.

NHMW

Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

Genus

Chorebus

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