Phanerotoma tegularis, Luo & Achterberg & He & Tang & Chen, 2025

Luo, Wen-Juan, Achterberg, Cornelis Van, He, Jun-Hua, Tang, Pu & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2025, Revision of the genus Phanerotoma Wesmael (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Cheloninae) from China, with descriptions of twenty-four new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 1003, pp. 1-110 : 75-79

Phanerotoma tegularis sp. nov.

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Diagnosis

Eye large, in lateral view 2.1× as wide as temple ( Fig. 31D ); vein 2-SR of fore wing strongly bent and subparallel with posterior margin of pterostigma ( Fig. 31G ); first and second tergites of metasoma coarsely and sparsely rugose ( Fig. 31I ); hypopygium apically truncate ( Fig. 31M ); clypeus rather protruding ventrally ( Fig. 31E ); lower tooth of mandible indistinct and very small ( Fig. 31L ); third tergite in dorsal view densely rugose and truncate ( Fig. 31I ); vein 1-M of fore wing brown, darker than yellowish vein M+CU ( Fig. 31G ); hind tibia with brownish yellow patch subbasally and apically ( Fig. 31K ).

Etymology

Named after its conspicuous tegulae, from the Latin ‘ tegula ’ for ‘shingle’.

Type material

Holotype

CHINA – Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu • ♀; Longzhou, Nonggang; 20–21 May 1982; Junhua He leg.; ZJUH No. 824397.

Paratypes (4 ♀♀, 3 ♂♂)

CHINA – Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu • 2 ♂♂; same data as for holotype; ZJUH Nos 821671, 822223 • 3 ♀♀; same data as for preceding; ZJUH Nos 824396, 824398, 924396 . – Guizhou • 1 ♂; Chishui , [on] Alsophila spinulosa ; 21–22 Sep. 2000; Yun Ma leg.; ZJUH No. 200102957 • 1 ♀; same data as for preceding; ZJUH No. 200103050 .

Description

Female

MEASUREMENTS. Length of body 3.8 mm, of fore wing 3.1 mm.

COLOURATION. Yellow; stemmaticum dark brown; vein M+CU of fore wing, legs (thus hind tibia lacking brown patch), and first and second tergites medially pale-yellow.

HEAD. Width 1.3 × median length in anterior view ( Fig. 31E ) and part of head above eye in lateral view 0.2× height of eye ( Fig. 31D ); antenna with 23 segments, almost as long as fore wing, six subapical segments moniliform ( Fig. 31F ); area of stemmaticum mainly granulate; OOL: diameter of posterior ocellus: POL=25: 10:5; eye 1.8 × as long as temple in dorsal view ( Fig. 31C ); frons punctate-rugose medially, rugose laterally and with weak median ridge; vertex granulate-rugose and with satin sheen; temple largely striate and with satin sheen; face with oblique rugae laterally and transversely rugose medially, without median ridge; clypeus smooth and shiny, 0.9 × minimum width of face, intertentorial distance 3.1 × minimum width between clypeus and eye, clypeus long erect setose and with 3 small teeth medio-ventrally ( Fig. 31E ); eye large, in lateral view 2.1 × as wide as temple ( Fig. 31D ), in anterior view its height 0.9 × minimum width of face; upper condyle of mandible close to lower level of eyes ( Fig. 31E ); malar space narrow, 0.4× as long as basal width of mandible; lower tooth of mandible indistinct and very small ( Fig. 31L ).

MESOSOMA ( Fig. 31H ). Length 1.5× its width in lateral view; side of pronotum mainly rugose, but dorsally nearly smooth; mesoscutum densely rugose and rather shiny, densely setose; notauli hardly indicated; scutellar sulcus wide ( Fig. 31H ); scutellum triangular, flat, granulate-rugose and rather shiny; metanotum without median carina and tooth; propodeum coarsely reticulate-rugose, latero-posteriorly tuberculate and no transverse or median carinae.

WINGS. Fore wing 2.5× as long as its maximum width; 1-R1 1.4× as long as pterostigma; r of fore wing 0.3 × as long as 3-SR; distance between 1-R1 and wing apex 0.4 × 1-R1; 2-SR distinctly bent and distally parallel with posterior margin of pterostigma ( Fig. 31G ); SR1 slightly bent; 2-SR+M present; pterostigma and parastigma large; 1-CU1 0.4× as long as vein 2-CU1, cu-a oblique and 0.8× as long as 1-CU1; r: 3-SR: SR1=8: 29:82; 2-SR: 3-SR: r-m=42: 29: 14; 2-M straight posteriorly and bent anteriorly ( Fig. 31G ).

LEGS ( Fig. 31K ). Hind femur with satin sheen, 3.8× as long as wide and widened submedially; hind tibia swollen and with brown patch ( Fig. 31A ); middle tibia with large yellowish blister; hind coxa smooth and shiny.

METASOMA ( Fig. 31I–J, M ). Carapace elliptical in dorsal view, 1.7 × as long as wide and as long as mesosoma; first and second tergites coarsely rugose; second suture normal; third tergite 1.5 × as long as second tergite and laterally weakly curved, in dorsal view densely rugose and truncate ( Fig. 31I ), lateral lamella wide, weakly emarginate; ovipositor sheath narrow ( Fig. 31J ), with some long and erect setae; hypopygium apically truncate and without triangular protuberance ( Fig. 31M ).

VARIATION. Third tergite in dorsal view truncate to nearly rounded.

Male

Very similar to female, but six subapical segments cylindrical and longer, and hind tibia without brown patch ( Fig. 31B ).

Host

Unknown.

Distribution

China (Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu, Guizhou).

Figures

Fig. 31. Phanerotoma tegularis sp. nov. A, C–M. Holotype, ♀ (ZJUH No. 824397). B. Paratype, ♂ (ZJUH No 821671). A. Habitus, lateral view. B. Apical antenna, lateral view. C. Head, dorsal view. D. Head, lateral view. E. Head, anterior view. F. Antenna, lateral view. G. Fore wing. H. Mesosoma, dorsal view. I. First third of metasomal tergites, dorsal view. J. Metasoma, lateral view. K. Hind leg. L. Mandible, ventral view. M. Hypopygium, ventral view. Scale bars: A–K =1 mm; L–M=0.2 mm.