taxonID	type	description	language	source
335087FFFF8AFFBCCDFCFF07141C2EC6.taxon	type_taxon	Type species: Brachyplatycerus minutus De Santis, by original designation.	en	Zhen, Wenquan, Xue, Hao, Zu, Guohao, Zhang, Lianzhong (2023): First report of Brachyplatycerus De Santis (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae) from China, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 5231 (2): 179-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5231.2.4, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5231.2.4
335087FFFF8AFFBCCDFCFF07141C2EC6.taxon	description	Male. Unknown. The above description is based on the original description (De Santis 1972) and the newly described species.	en	Zhen, Wenquan, Xue, Hao, Zu, Guohao, Zhang, Lianzhong (2023): First report of Brachyplatycerus De Santis (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae) from China, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 5231 (2): 179-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5231.2.4, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5231.2.4
335087FFFF8AFFBCCDFCFF07141C2EC6.taxon	discussion	Comments. Noyes & Hayat 1984 stated Brachyplatycerus is related to Pentelicus, but did not discuss the reason. We suspect this is based on a shared carinate facial impression, similar fore wing venation and a characteristic naked streak from the apex of the postmarginal vein to the apex of the stigmal vein. In addition, Brachyplatycerus can be distinguished from Pentelicus by the 4 - segmented funicle, the absence of a very shallow median longitudinal ridge or carina along the mesoscutellum, and also the absence of deep piliferous punctures on the head and dorsum of the mesosoma.	en	Zhen, Wenquan, Xue, Hao, Zu, Guohao, Zhang, Lianzhong (2023): First report of Brachyplatycerus De Santis (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae) from China, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 5231 (2): 179-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5231.2.4, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5231.2.4
335087FFFF8AFFBECDFCFC6116C82FAB.taxon	description	(Figs. 1 – 5)	en	Zhen, Wenquan, Xue, Hao, Zu, Guohao, Zhang, Lianzhong (2023): First report of Brachyplatycerus De Santis (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae) from China, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 5231 (2): 179-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5231.2.4, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5231.2.4
335087FFFF8AFFBECDFCFC6116C82FAB.taxon	materials_examined	Type material. Holotype. ♀ [on slide], CHINA, Guangxi province, Qinzhou City, Beibu Gulf University, 21 ° 53 ′ 53 ′′ N, 108 ° 36 ′ 56 ′′ E, 24 m, 2019.3.18 – 26, Wenquan Zhen, Malaise trapping. Deposited in TJAU. Paratypes. 5 ♀ [1 ♀ on slide, 4 ♀ in 99 % ethanol], same data as holotype (TJAU).	en	Zhen, Wenquan, Xue, Hao, Zu, Guohao, Zhang, Lianzhong (2023): First report of Brachyplatycerus De Santis (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae) from China, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 5231 (2): 179-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5231.2.4, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5231.2.4
335087FFFF8AFFBECDFCFC6116C82FAB.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Female. Length, excluding ovipositor, 0.86 – 0.98 mm. Body generally dark brown with bluepurple metallic luster; scape apically and most of flagellum yellowish; fore wing infuscate in basal half. Head with frontovertex very wide, 0.45 × head width; malar space 0.64 × as long as eye height; ocelli forming an obtuse triangle; antenna with scape broadened and flattened, 2 × as long as broad; funicle 4 - segmented, F 1 - F 2 obviously shorter than F 3 - F 4; clava 3 - segment, slightly longer than funicle. Fore wing 2.09 × as long as broad; mid tibial spur shorter than mid basitarsus; ovipositor 0.52 × as long as mid tibia.	en	Zhen, Wenquan, Xue, Hao, Zu, Guohao, Zhang, Lianzhong (2023): First report of Brachyplatycerus De Santis (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae) from China, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 5231 (2): 179-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5231.2.4, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5231.2.4
335087FFFF8AFFBECDFCFC6116C82FAB.taxon	description	Description. Female. Holotype. Length, 0.93 mm (excluding ovipositor). Body generally dark brown; head, mesonotum and mesoscutellum with blue-purple metallic luster; scape and pedicel apically yellowish, flagellum yellowish except F 4, first segment basally and third segments of clava light brown; fore wing infuscate in basal half; legs dark brown except all tibiae apically and all tarsi yellowish. Head with frontovertex (Fig. 1) sparsely setose, each about as long as the diameter of median ocellus; eyes densely setose, setae dark brown, and each seta 2 × as long as the diameter of an eye facet. Head in frontal view 0.79 × as broad as high; frontovertex 0.45 × head width, smooth without sculpture; ocelli forming an angle of 120 °; posterior ocellus nearly touching eye margins and also very close to occipital margin; eye height 1.66 × as long as malar space; occipital margin carinate; antennal toruli with their dorsal margins below ventral eye margins, and separated from mouth margin by about their own length; mandible with two sharp teeth; palpal formula 4 – 3. Antenna (Fig. 2) with scape broadened and flattened, 2 × as long as broad; pedicel 1.43 × as long as wide, longer than first two funicle segments combined; funicle 4 - segment, F 1 and F 2 distinctly smaller than F 3 or F 4, and F 2 smallest; linear sensilla on F 3, F 4 and clava; clava 3 - segment, 1.74 × as long as broad and slightly longer than funicle, sensory area small, forming an oblique apical truncation. Measurements (holotype, μm): head height, 300; head width, 380; frontovertex width, 170; eye height, 188; malar space, 113; OD, 30; AOL, 65; OOL, 3; OCL, 8; POL, 133; length and (width) — scape, 123 (61); pedicel, 50 (35); F 1, 23 (28); F 2, 20 (33); F 3, 33 (35); F 4, 35 (40); clava, 118 (68). Mesosoma (Fig. 3) with sparse conspicuous long setae on pronotum, mesoscutum and mesoscutellum. Mesoscutum with 30 – 35 setae; mesoscutellum with 16 – 18 setae; mesoscutum with shallow polygonal sculpture, and the same on mesoscutellum but shallower, and the apex nearly smooth; mesoscutum 0.45 × as long as broad; mesoscutellum 0.95 × as long as broad. Fore wing (Fig. 4) 2.09 × as long as broad; linea calva not interrupted and open posteriorly; costal cell with one complete row of setae; marginal vein punctiform, shorter than stigmal vein; postmarginal very short, nearly absent; hind wing 4.58 × as long as broad. Mid tibial spur (Fig. 5) 0.28 × as long as mid tibia and shorter than mid basitarsus. Measurements (holotype, μm): fore wing length, 710; fore wing width, 340; submarginal vein, 260; marginal vein, 20; postmarginal vein, 3; stigmal vein, 23; hind wing length, 550; hind wing width, 120; mid tibia, 230; mid tibial spur, 65; mid basitarsus, 73. Metasoma about as long as mesosoma (in 99 % ethanol); ovipositor 0.80 × as long as mid tibia, slightly exserted; hypopygium extending to apex of gaster. Measurements (holotype, μm): ovipositor length, 185. Male. Unknown. Variation. Length of female, excluding ovipositor, varies from 0.86 – 0.98 mm, otherwise very little variation in examined material.	en	Zhen, Wenquan, Xue, Hao, Zu, Guohao, Zhang, Lianzhong (2023): First report of Brachyplatycerus De Santis (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae) from China, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 5231 (2): 179-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5231.2.4, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5231.2.4
335087FFFF8AFFBECDFCFC6116C82FAB.taxon	biology_ecology	Host. Unknown.	en	Zhen, Wenquan, Xue, Hao, Zu, Guohao, Zhang, Lianzhong (2023): First report of Brachyplatycerus De Santis (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae) from China, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 5231 (2): 179-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5231.2.4, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5231.2.4
335087FFFF8AFFBECDFCFC6116C82FAB.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The specific name refers to the new species being collected from China.	en	Zhen, Wenquan, Xue, Hao, Zu, Guohao, Zhang, Lianzhong (2023): First report of Brachyplatycerus De Santis (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae) from China, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 5231 (2): 179-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5231.2.4, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5231.2.4
335087FFFF8AFFBECDFCFC6116C82FAB.taxon	discussion	Comments. Based on the original description (De Santis 1972), the new species can be easily separated from B. minutus as follows: fore wing 2.09 × as long as broad and only infuscate at the base (almost 3 × and uniformly infuscate in minutus); postmarginal vein nearly absent (postmarginal vein as long as marginal vein in minutus); scape dark brown, only apically light (scape with a median longitudinal light band in minutus); gena dark brown, the same as the rest of head (lighter than other parts of head in minutus).	en	Zhen, Wenquan, Xue, Hao, Zu, Guohao, Zhang, Lianzhong (2023): First report of Brachyplatycerus De Santis (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae) from China, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 5231 (2): 179-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5231.2.4, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5231.2.4
