Phanerotoma aequidentata, 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 : 8-11

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.1003.2953

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E8E612-FFD6-FFC4-8105-F97D3078FF99

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Phanerotoma aequidentata
status

sp. nov.

Phanerotoma aequidentata sp. nov.

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Fig. 3 View Fig

Diagnosis

Both teeth of mandible blunt and of subequal length ( Fig. 3K View Fig ); first discal cell of fore wing comparatively wide ( Fig. 3F View Fig ); second submarginal cell of fore wing large and wide; metasomal carapace coarsely rugose ( Fig. 3H View Fig ); temple as long as eye in dorsal view ( Fig. 3B View Fig ); hind tibia weakly swollen ( Fig. 3E View Fig ); mesosternum with satiny sheen and superficially coriaceous; parastigma dark brown and vein 1-M of fore wing brown.

Etymology

Named after the blunt and subequal mandibular teeth, from the Latin ‘ aequoreus ’ for ‘same level’ and ‘ dens ’ for ‘tooth’.

Type material

Holotype CHINA – Yunnan • ♀; Bao Mt., Gaoligong Range ; 16–17 Jul. 2006; Jie Zeng leg.; ZJUH No. 200611348 .

Description

Female

MEASUREMENTS. Length of body 5.5 mm, of fore wing 4.4 mm.

COLOURATION. Yellow; stemmaticum, pterostigma, parastigma, veins 1-CU1, cu-a, 3-SR, SR1 and 2-M of fore wing dark brown; antenna, teeth of mandible and hind tibia apically brown.

HEAD. Width 1.3 × median length in anterior view ( Fig. 3D View Fig ) and part of head above eye in lateral view 0.4× height of eye ( Fig. 3C View Fig ); antenna with 23 segments, five subapical segments moniliform, and narrow and slender ( Fig. 3J View Fig ); area of stemmaticum mainly granulate; OOL: diameter of posterior ocellus: POL=35: 11:9; eye 1.1× as long as temple in dorsal view ( Fig. 3B View Fig ); frons with oblique rugae medially, rugose laterally and with median ridge; vertex and temple granulate-rugose and with satin sheen; face obliquely rugose laterally and transversely rugose medially, with short median ridge medially; clypeus 0.9 × minimum width of face, intertentorial distance 2.0× minimum width between clypeus and eye, clypeus long erect setose and with 3 robust and long teeth medio-ventrally ( Fig. 3D View Fig ); temple large, in lateral view 1.1× as wide as eye ( Fig. 3C View Fig ), in anterior view height of eye 0.7× minimum width of face; upper condyle of mandible far below lower level of eyes ( Fig. 3D View Fig ); malar space 1.1 × as long as basal width of mandible; lower tooth of mandible 0.3 × length of apical tooth, both teeth apically truncate ( Fig. 3K View Fig ).

MESOSOMA ( Fig. 3G View Fig ). 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. 3G View Fig ); scutellum triangular, wide and flat, granulate-rugose and rather shiny; metanotum with indistinct short median carina anteriorly and small tooth protruding posteriorly; propodeum coarsely reticulate-rugose, weakly latero-posteriorly tuberculate, no transverse carina or median carina.

WINGS. Length of 1-R1 1.6× as long as pterostigma; r of fore wing 0.2 × as long as 3-SR; distance between 1-R1 and wing apex 0.3 × 1-R1; 2-SR strongly bent ( Fig. 3F View Fig ); SR1 distinctly curved; 2-SR+M present; pterostigma large, parastigma medium-sized; 1-CU1 0.4× as long as vein 2-CU1, cu-a oblique and 0.9 × as long as 1-CU1; r: 3-SR: SR1 =1:5: 12; 2-SR:3-SR: r-m =3: 3: 1; 2-M bent; marginal cell and second submarginal cell large ( Fig. 3F View Fig ).

LEGS ( Fig. 3E View Fig ). Hind femur with satin sheen, 5.0 × as long as wide and widened submedially; hind tibia slender ( Fig. 3E View Fig ); middle tibia with large pale-yellow blister; hind coxa smooth and shiny.

METASOMA ( Fig. 3H–I View Fig ). Carapace elliptical in dorsal view, 1.8 × as long as wide and 1.2× as long as mesosoma; first and second tergites coarsely and densely rugose; second suture wide; third tergite 1.7× as long as second tergite and laterally weakly curved, in lateral view concave posteriorly, in dorsal view densely rugose and rounded ( Fig. 3H View Fig ), lateral lamella wide, narrowly emarginated; ovipositor sheath narrow, with some long and erect setae; hypopygium apically acute and with up-curved short triangular protuberance ( Fig. 3I View Fig ).

Male

Unknown.

Host

Unknown.

Distribution

China (Yunnan).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

Genus

Phanerotoma

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