Pentapleura savva Belokobylskij, 1998

Zhu, Jiachen, Achterberg, Cornelis Van & Chen, Xuexin, 2025, A revision of five genera of Alysiini (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae) from China, with description of five new species, Zootaxa 5569 (3), pp. 401-438 : 430

Pentapleura savva Belokobylskij, 1998

Figs 23–24

Pentapleura savva Belokobylskij, 1998: 195 .

Material examined. 1♀ (ZJUH), “ [W. China:], Xinjiang, Yongkuxian, Shuikuxiang, 11.viii.2002, Zhang Hongying, No. 20037091”; 1♂ (ZJUH), “ [S. China:], Sichuan, Pingwu , 25.vii.2006, Zhang Hongying, No. 200615148”.

Short redescription. Body black; body length of ♀ 1.9 mm (1), of ♂ 1.8 mm (1); length of fore wing of ♀ 2.3 mm (1), of ♂ 2.3 mm (1); antenna blackish, with 25 antennomeres (♀: Figs 24E–F ); mandible brownish, with fourth tooth distinctly visible ( Fig. 24L ); pronope shallow and small, side of pronotum partly granulate posteriorly ( Figs 23A , 24C, 24I ); mesoscutum smooth and glabrous; notauli absent; medio-posterior depression shallow, rather long ( Fig. 24B ); precoxal sulcus absent ( Fig. 24C ); pterostigma and other veins brownish yellow, pterostigma moderately developed, its maximum width 1.5 × length of vein r of fore wing; vein m-cu of fore wing postfurcal, vein 2-SR of fore wing 3 × as long as vein r; vein r shorter than width of pterostigma ( Fig. 24A ); legs dark brown, hind femur more robust, widened apically ( Fig. 23A ); setose part of ovipositor sheath 0.27 × as long as fore wing and 0.3 × body ( Fig. 24G ).

Distribution. Russia, China.

Figures

FIGURE 23. Pentapleura savva (Belokobylskij), ♀, China, Xinjiang. A, habitus, lateral aspect; B, head, lateral aspect.

FIGURE 24. Pentapleura savva (Belokobylskij), ♀, China, Xinjiang. A, wings; B, mesosoma, dorsal aspect; C, mesosoma, lateral aspect; D, propodeum and metasoma, dorsal aspect; E, basal antennomeres of antenna, lateral aspect; F, antenna, lateral aspect; G, apex of ovipositor, lateral aspect; H, mandible, full view of first tooth; I, head, dorsal aspect; J, head, anterior aspect; K, mandible, full view of second tooth; K, mandible, full view of third tooth.