Stenobracon ( Stenobracon ) oculatus Szépligeti, 1901

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Stenobracon ( Stenobracon) oculatus Szépligeti, 1901

Figs 45–46

Stenobracon oculatus Szépligeti, 1901: 360 ; Shenefelt, 1978: 1727; Quicke, 1991: 184; Chishti et Quicke, 1996: 242.

Stenobracon ( Stenobracon) oculatus Szépligeti : van Achterberg et Polaszek, 1996: 47.

Elphea lutea Cameron, 1903: 122 ; Roman 1914: 22, as synonym of trifasciatus Szépligeti.

Stenobracon lutea (Cameron) : Fahringer, 1928: 25.

Stenobracon trifasciatus Szépligeti, 1908: 214 ; van Achterberg, 1974: 80; Quicke, 1991: 184. Synonymized by Watanabe, 1943 with nicevillei (Bingham) ; synonymized by Chishti et Quicke, 1996: 242.

Phanaulax fusciornis Cameron, 1910: 42 ; Roman 1914: 22 (as synonym of trifasciatus Szépligeti ).

Stenobracon fusciornis (Cameron) : Fahringer, 1928: 25; Quicke et Koch, 1990: 223.

Stenobracon maculata Matsumura, 1910: 150 ; Shiraki, 1917: 135. Synonymized by Watanabe, 1932 with trifasciatus Szépligeti and 1943 with nicevillei (Bingham) .

Macrocentrus javanicus Ishida, 1915: 109 . Synonymized by Sonan, 1929 with maculata Matsumura and synonymized by Watanabe, 1932 with trifasciatus Szepligeti.

Hemibracon elegantulus Enderlein, 1920: 62 . Synonymized by Watanabe, 1932 with trifasciatus Szepligeti.

Material. 1♀, China, Guizhou Prov., Fenggou ,?. VIII.1989, Du Yuzhou, No. 940439 ( ZJUH) .

Biology. The hosts are mostly species of Pyralidae (Lepidoptera) , including: Chilo infuscatellus Snellen, 1890 , Chilo suppressalis (Walker, 1863) , Scirpophaga incertulas (Walker, 1863) and Scirpophaga nivella (Fabricius, 1794) ; and one species of Brachodidae (Lepidoptera) : Procerata sacchariphaga (Bojer, 1856) ( Chen et al. 2009) .

Distribution. China (* Guizhou, Hongkong, Taiwan); India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam.

Note. Matsumura (1911) first reported this species from Taiwan (SE. China) and Watanabe (1932) from Hongkong and Taiwan (SE. China).

Figures

FIGURE 45. Stenobracon (Stenobracon) oculatus Szépligeti, 1901, ♀, habitus lateral.

FIGURE 46. Stenobracon (Stenobracon) oculatus Szépligeti, 1901. ♀. a. fore wing; b. hind wing; c. mesosoma, lateral view; d. mesosoma, dorsal view; e. metasoma, dorsal view; f. hind leg, lateral view; g. head, front view; h. head, dorsal view; i. head, lateral view; j. sacpus outer side, lateral view; k. apex of ovipositor, lateral view.