Ischnobracon feliciae Quicke and Butcher, 2010

Butcher, Buntika Areekul & Quicke, Donald L. J., 2010, Revision of the Indo-Australian braconine wasp genus Ischnobracon Baltazar (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) with description of six new species from Thailand, Laos and Sri Lanka, Journal of Natural History 44 (35 - 36), pp. 2187-2212 : 2196

Ischnobracon feliciae Quicke and Butcher sp. nov.

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Material examined

Holotype. Female , “ Thailand, 300 m; Chiangmai; 18 47 N, 98 59 E; 4 VII 1986; leg. R. Hensen.” ( RMNH).

Morphology

Length of body 12.3 mm, of fore wing 11.2 mm and of ovipositor 8.0 mm. Antenna with 94 flagellomeres. Raised median area of first tergite not depressed medially. Fore wing vein cu-a distinctly postfurcal by approximately the width of a wing vein. Second submarginal cell not especially elongate, vein 2-M 3.1 times length of 2-SR. Hind wing sub-basal cell with posterior half glabrous, and with narrow glabrous line distal to vein cu-a.

Colouration

Largely yellow. Antenna and scapus entirely black. Head cream-yellow; face with the differentiated medial triangle and a narrow line above it reaching antennal sockets, top of head with black mark across occiput reaching eyes, and extending across ocellar triangle and median part of frons to reach the antennal sockets, black. Mesoscutum with lateral lobes largely and anterior third of middle lobe, black; wings yellow on basal half, dark brown on distal half, with a narrow transverse yellow band below the basal half of the pterostigma. Legs yellow except small postero-lateral mark on hind tibia, hind tibial spurs and hind tarsus which are black. Metasoma orange, tergites 6 and 7 medio-dorsally piceous.

Etymology

Named after Felicia, the senior author’s daughter.

Figures

Figure 5. Automontage® photomicrographs of features of Ischnobracon feliciae sp. nov. (A) Habitus dorsal view, showing general colour pattern; (B) fore wing second submarginal cell; (C) apex of metasoma, lateral aspect; (D) metasoma, dorsal view.