Aerophilus brevicaudis Wu & Tang, 2025

Wu, Qiong, Tang, Pu, Fang, Yu, van Achterberg, Cornelis & Chen, Xue-xin, 2025, The genus Aerophilus Szépligeti, 1902 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Agathidinae) in China, Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 157012-e 157012 : e157012-

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e157012
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15657091
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scientific name	Aerophilus brevicaudis Wu & Tang
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Aerophilus brevicaudis Wu & Tang sp. nov.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 200614937 (ZJUH) ; recordedBy: Zhang Hongying; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 4F4BDE06-9929-5E6C-B154-AEA421476243; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Sichuan; county: Pingwu; locality: Baimazhai ; Event: verbatimEventDate: 25.VII.2006; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 200612454, 200614933, 200615100, 200615084, 200612448, 200612498, 200615056, 200615067, 200615141, 200614805, 200614313, 200614765, 200614931, 200615000, 200615057, 200615194, 20061486 (ZJUH) ; recordedBy: Zhang Hongying; individualCount: 17; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: CA219E10-4B65-5975-A1DB-EAB4400898B0; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Sichuan; county: Pingwu; locality: Baimazhai ; Event: verbatimEventDate: 25.VII.2006; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 200612482, 200615039, 200612599, 200614988, 200614800, 200614848 (ZJUH) ; recordedBy: Zhang Hongying; individualCount: 6; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 63D0F218-F51B-5B2B-AE7E-B496330E3EB8; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Sichuan; county: Pingwu; locality: Baimazhai ; Event: verbatimEventDate: 25.VII.2006; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 200614143, 200614138, 200612570, 200614373, 200612686, 200614206 (ZJUH) ; recordedBy: Gao Zhilei; individualCount: 6; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 1AC64E95-5BB6-5A2C-A23E-B15B7F748648; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Sichuan; county: Pingwu; locality: Baimazhai ; Event: verbatimEventDate: 25.VII.2006; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 200612645, 200612634, 200614278, 200614245, 200612601, 200612537, 200613516 (ZJUH) ; recordedBy: Gao Zhilei; individualCount: 7; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 3F8447BA-A9FB-5126-873A-148F7E6DEB8A; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Sichuan; county: Pingwu; locality: Baimazhai ; Event: verbatimEventDate: 25.VII.2006; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Description

Holotype, female, length of body 6.7 mm, of fore wing 4.0 mm.

Head. Antennal segments 33, length of third flagellomere 1.2 times fourth flagellomere, length of third, fourth and penultimate flagellomere 4.0, 3.3 and 2.3 times their width, respectively; length of apical antennal flagellomere 1.4 times as long as penultimate flagellomere; maxillary palp 0.6 times height of head; malar space 2.5 times as long as basal width of mandible; in dorsal view, length of eye 2.5 times temple; ocelli in low triangle, POL: OD: OOL = 7: 6: 11 (Fig. 1 View Figure 1 ); face shiny and distinctly rather finely punctate (Fig. 2 View Figure 2 ); frons with weak medial ridge, shiny with sparse fine punctures; vertex and temple shiny with sparse fine punctures (Fig. 3 View Figure 3 ).

Mesosoma. Length of mesosoma 1.5 times its height; pronotum smooth with carinae anteriorly, finely densely punctate dorso-posteriorly and posterior groove almost smooth; area near lateral carina of mesoscutum crenulate; mesoscutum shiny, sparsely punctate and setose; notauli complete and narrowly crenulate; scutellar sulcus 0.5 times as long as scutellum with 3 carinae; scutellum without subposterior crest, sparsely, but distinctly punctate (Fig. 4 View Figure 4 ); precoxal sulcus weakly crenulate and narrow; mesopleuron below precoxal sulcus with sparse fine punctures; mesopleuron above precoxal sulcus smooth; metapleuron densely setose, spaced moderately punctate and ventrally rugose (Fig. 5 View Figure 5 ); propodeum reticulate-rugose with a median longitudinal carina in basal half.

Wings. Fore wing: second submarginal medium-sized and triangular; marginal cell narrow; vein SR 1 straight; r: 3 - SR + SR 1 = 3: 35. Hind wing: vein M + CU 0.7 times as long as vein 1 - M (13: 19) (Fig. 6 View Figure 6 ).

Legs. Length of hind femur, tibia and basitarsus 3.2, 5.2 and 6.5 times their width, respectively; hind femur (as remainder of legs) with short setae (Fig. 7 View Figure 7 l); length of outer and inner spur of middle tibia 0.4 and 0.6 times middle basitarsus, respectively; outer side of middle tibia with 8 pegs; length of outer and inner spur of hind tibia 0.3 and 0.5 times hind basitarsus, respectively; tarsal claws with lobe.

Metasoma. Length of first tergite 1.2 times its apical width; first tergite coarsely longitudinally striate; second tergite 1.1 times as long as third tergite, coarsely longitudinally striate with transverse groove; third tergite coarsely longitudinally striate in basal 0.7, smooth in apical 0.3; remainder of metasoma smooth (Fig. 8 View Figure 8 ); Setose portion of the ovipositor sheath 0.5 times as long as fore wing (Fig. 9 View Figure 9 ).

Colour. Black; fore leg (but coxa, trochanter, femur partly dark brown), middle tarsus and base of hind tarsus brownish-yellow; pterostigma dark brown; wing membrane hyaline, very faintly infuscate in apical fifth (Fig. 9 View Figure 9 ).

Variation. Antennal segments 30–34; outer side of middle tibia with row of 5–7 pegs; length of hind femur 3.0–3.2 times as long as wide; length of body 6.2–7.1 mm, of fore wing 3.9–4.3 mm; fore and middle legs, hind tarsus from brownish-yellow to dark brown in most part.

Diagnosis

From “ brev ” (Latin for “ short ”) and “ caud ” (Latin for “ tail ”), because of the short ovipositor sheath.

Etymology

This new species is very similar to L. romani ( Shestakov, 1940) , but differs in having the ovipositor sheath distinctly shorter, 0.5 times as long as fore wing; wing membrane almost hyaline; and vein 1 - R 1 of fore wing distinctly longer than 2 - R 1.

Distribution

China (Sichuan)

Biology

Unknown.