Phanerotomella aurantisoma, He & Achterberg & He & Tang & Chen, 2025

He, Jia-Yue, Achterberg, Cornelis Van, He, Jun-Hua, Tang, Pu & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2025, The genus Phanerotomella Szépligeti (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Cheloninae) from China, with descriptions of sixteen new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 1002, pp. 1-130 : 15-18

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.1002.2949

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scientific name

Phanerotomella aurantisoma
status

sp. nov.

Phanerotomella aurantisoma sp. nov.

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Figs 9–10 View Fig View Fig

Diagnosis

Propodeum with pair of small tubercles latero-posteriorly ( Fig. 10I View Fig ); vein 1-SR+M slightly concave ( Fig. 10G View Fig ); vein r 1.3 × as long as vein r-m ( Fig. 10G View Fig ); mandible slender and inner tooth of mandible reduced, 0.4× apical tooth ( Fig. 10D View Fig ); length of fore wing 4.6 mm ( Fig. 10G View Fig ); scutellum largely punctate except basal reticulation and shiny ( Fig. 10H View Fig ); temple punctate and shiny ( Fig. 10C View Fig ); hind tarsus dark brown ( Fig. 10F View Fig ).

Etymology

Named after the orange mesosoma; ‘ aurantium ’ is Latin for ‘orange’ and ‘soma’ is Greek for ‘body’.

Type material

Holotype

CHINA – Guangdong • ♀; Huizhou, Xiangtou Mt. ; 11 Mar. 2004; Z.F. Xu leg.; ZJUH No. 20048095.

Paratypes (2 ♀♀)

CHINA – Guangxi • 1 ♀; Daming Mt., Chaoyanggou ; 10 Aug. 2011; H. Dong leg.; ZJUH No. 201100511 . – Fujian • 1 ♀; Jiangle, Longqi Mt. ; 1 Jul. 1991; C.M. Liu leg.; ZJUH No. 969636 .

Description

Female

MEASUREMENTS. Length of body 5.1 mm, fore wing 4.6 mm.

COLOURATION. Head and metasoma black, mesosoma orange brown; metasoma ventrally white or ivory; antenna black except 3 rd –5 th segments white; mandible basal half dark brown and apical half yellowish and with reddish teeth; fore and middle legs black except coxa, trochanter, basally femur and tibia white; hind leg black except base of coxa, trochanter, base of femur and of tibia white; pterostigma brown, parastigma and wing veins pale brown.

HEAD ( Fig. 10A–C View Fig ). Width 1.3 × median length in anterior view ( Fig. 10B View Fig ) and part of head above eye in lateral view 0.3× height of eye ( Fig. 10C View Fig ); antenna with 52 segments and 1.7× as long as fore wing, not widened but shortened medially, gradually narrowing apically, subapical segments non-moniliform and longer than wide, third, fourth, tenth, fifteenth and penultimate segments 4.0, 3.8, 1.6, 1.3 and 1.8× as long as wide in lateral view, respectively ( Fig. 10K–L View Fig ); area of stemmaticum transversely striate; OOL: OD: POL= 36: 13:11; length of eye 1.0× temple in dorsal view ( Fig. 10A View Fig ); frons transversely rugulose and with median carina; vertex rugulose-reticulate with short setae; temple densely punctate and shiny; face densely punctate-rugulose and with distinct median ridge, dorsally connected to median carina; clypeus finely and superficially punctate and with shiny interspaces, truncate medio-ventrally; eye width in lateral view 0.8× maximum width of temple ( Fig. 10C View Fig ), eye height in anterior view 0.7× minimum width of face ( Fig. 10B View Fig ); malar space rugulose and 1.1× as long as basal width of mandible; mandible rather slender, lower tooth of mandible 0.4× as long as apical tooth ( Fig. 10D View Fig ); face width 0.9× height of face and clypeus together.

MESOSOMA ( Fig. 10H–I View Fig ). Length 1.5 × its width in lateral view ( Fig. 10I View Fig ); side of pronotum rugulose except for finely punctation; mesoscutum regularly and densely reticulate; notauli absent; scutellar sulcus with five short crenulae ( Fig. 10H View Fig ); scutellum largely finely punctate except basally reticulate; mesopleuron densely and regularly reticulate without smooth and shiny area posteriorly, with weak and incomplete precoxal sulcus basally; propodeum reticulate, without median carina, with irregular transverse carina connected to four weak and blunt lateral tubercles.

WINGS ( Fig. 10G View Fig ). Fore wing 3.2× as long as its maximum width; second submarginal cell sessile; vein m-cu distinctly postfurcal; veins r and SR1 straight; vein 1-SR+M slightly concave; length of 1-R1 1.2 × pterostigma; vein r issued far beyond middle of pterostigma, 1.5 × vein r-m; r: 2-SR: SR1 =17: 42: 79; vein 1-CU1 0.3× as long as vein 2-CU1. Hind wing: M+CU:1-M:1r-m =30: 50:17.

LEGS ( Fig. 10F View Fig ). Hind femur 4.4 × as long as wide; longest spur of hind tibia 0.4 × its basitarsus; hind leg smooth and shiny except fine and superficial punctation; hind tibia slender; middle tibia without ivory blister.

METASOMA ( Fig. 10E, J View Fig ). Oval in dorsal view ( Fig. 10J View Fig ), carapace 1.7 × as long as wide and as long as mesosoma; first to third tergites densely reticulate-rugose; third tergite 1.0× as long as second tergite, medial length of third tergite 0.5× its maximum width; lamella of third tergite not protruding medio-apically and with pair of medium-sized and blunt tubercles latero-apically ( Fig. 10E View Fig ).

VARIATION. Length of fore wing of female 4.0– 4.6 mm.

Male

Unknown.

Host

Unknown.

Distribution

China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi).

Remarks

Phanerotomella aurantisoma sp. nov. is similar to P. digitata sp. nov. because of its having the antenna with a white band on 3 rd –5 th segments, mesosoma orange-brown and eye in dorsal view as long as temple. However, Phanerotomella aurantisoma can be distinguished from P. digitata by having the propodeum with a pair of small and blunt tubercles latero-posteriorly (distinctly larger and finger-shaped tubercles in the latter), a punctate and shiny scutellum (reticulate and matt in the latter), a punctate and shiny temple and face (rugulose and matt in the latter), a comparatively slender mandible and the inner tooth 0.4× as long as apical tooth (more robust and 0.5× in the latter).

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