identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
335087FFFF8AFFBCCDFCFF07141C2EC6.text	335087FFFF8AFFBCCDFCFF07141C2EC6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachyplatycerus De Santis 1972	<div><p>Genus Brachyplatycerus De Santis</p><p>Brachyplatycerus De Santis, 1972: 50 .</p><p>Type species: Brachyplatycerus minutus De Santis, by original designation.</p><p>Female. Overall length about 0.70–0.98mm. Body stout; head with frontofacial ridge; frontovertex very broad, with sparse long setae; occiput deeply cupped, with sharp edge; ocelli forming an obtuse triangle, the posterior ocellus very close to the eye margin and the occipital margin; mandible bidentate; palpal formula 4-3. Antenna with scape distinctly broadened; funicle 4-segmented, F1 and F2 distinctly shorter than last two funicular segments; clava 3- segmented, slightly longer than funicle, with apex obliquely truncate. Pronotum, mesoscutum and mesoscutellum with sparse long setae; mesoscutellum smooth, without sculpture or with very shallow sculpture; axillae narrow, meeting in the middle; propodeal spiracles large, circular. Fore wing with some infuscation; marginal vein punctiform, shorter than stigmal vein, postmarginal vein very short to absent; apex of stigmal vein and apex of postmarginal vein connected by a naked, hyaline streak. Mid tibial spur slightly shorter than mid basitarsus. Metasoma oval, equal in length to mesosoma; hypopygium extending to apex of gaster; ovipositor slightly exserted.</p><p>Male. Unknown.</p><p>The above description is based on the original description (De Santis 1972) and the newly described species.</p><p>Comments. Noyes &amp; 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.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/335087FFFF8AFFBCCDFCFF07141C2EC6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Zhen, Wenquan;Xue, Hao;Zu, Guohao;Zhang, Lianzhong	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.text	335087FFFF8AFFBECDFCFC6116C82FAB.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachyplatycerus chinensis Zhen & Xue & Zu & Zhang 2023	<div><p>Brachyplatycerus chinensis Zu, sp. nov.</p><p>(Figs. 1–5)</p><p>Type material. Holotype. ♀ [on slide], CHINA, Guangxi province, Qinzhou City, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=108.615555&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=21.898056" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 108.615555/lat 21.898056)">Beibu Gulf University</a>, 21° 53′ 53′′ N, 108° 36′ 56′′ E, 24m, 2019.3.18 –26, Wenquan Zhen, Malaise trapping. Deposited in TJAU.</p><p>Paratypes. 5 ♀ [1 ♀ on slide, 4 ♀ in 99% ethanol], same data as holotype (TJAU) .</p><p>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, F1-F2 obviously shorter than F3-F4; 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.</p><p>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 F4, 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.</p><p>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, F1 and F2 distinctly smaller than F3 or F4, and F2 smallest; linear sensilla on F3, F4 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); F1, 23 (28); F2, 20 (33); F3, 33 (35); F4, 35 (40); clava, 118 (68).</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Male. Unknown.</p><p>Variation. Length of female, excluding ovipositor, varies from 0.86–0.98 mm, otherwise very little variation in examined material.</p><p>Host. Unknown.</p><p>Etymology. The specific name refers to the new species being collected from China.</p><p>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).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/335087FFFF8AFFBECDFCFC6116C82FAB	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Zhen, Wenquan;Xue, Hao;Zu, Guohao;Zhang, Lianzhong	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
