Eodendrus conspicuus (Granger) Belokobylskij & Chen & Long, 2005

Belokobylskij, Sergey A., Chen, Xuexin & Long, Khuat Dang, 2005, Revision of the genus Eodendrus Belokobylskij (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Doryctinae), Journal of Natural History 39 (29), pp. 2715-2743 : 2722-2725

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930500114459
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/014587A8-FFC2-FF9A-2904-FC301D8A4E29
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Eodendrus conspicuus (Granger)
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Eodendrus conspicuus (Granger) View in CoL , comb. nov.

( Figures 12–20 View Figures 12–20 )

Doryctes conspicuus Granger 1949, p 122 .

Dendrosotinus conspicuus: Shenefelt and Marsh 1976, p 1277 .

Type material

Lectotype (designated here for stability of nomenclature): female, ‘‘ Madagascar, Behara’’, ‘‘Museum Paris, XI-38, A. Seyrig’ ’, ‘‘40’’, ‘‘Type’’, ‘‘ Doryctes conspicuus Gr. , det. P. Marsh’ ’ ( MNHN) . Paralectotypes: two females, one male, ‘‘ Madagascar, Behara’ ’, ‘‘ Museum Paris, I-38, A. Seyrig’ ’ ( MNHN) ; one female, ‘‘ Madagascar, Behara’ ’, ‘‘Museum Paris, XI-38, A. Seyrig’ ’ ( MNHN) ; two females, ‘‘ Madagascar, Bekily , Reg. sud de l’ile’’, ‘‘ Museum Paris, VIII-36, A. Seyrig’ ’ ( MNHN) ; one female, ‘‘ Madagascar, Bekily , Reg. sud de l’ile’’, ‘‘Museum Paris, VIII-36, A. Seyrig’ ’, ‘‘36’’ ( MNHN) .

Description

Female. Body length 4.1–5.7 mm.

Head width 1.4–1.5× its median length. Temple behind eye (dorsal view) weakly convex anteriorly, distinctly roundly narrowed posteriorly; transverse diameter of eye 1.5–1.6× as long as temple ( Figure 13 View Figures 12–20 ). Ocelli rather small, in triangle with base 1.3× its sides. POL 1.5–2.0× Od, 0.7–0.9× OOL. Eye glabrous, 1.1–1.2× as high as broad. Malar space height 0.4–0.45× height of eye, 0.75–0.9× basal width of mandible. Face width almost equal to height of eye and 1.2–1.3× height of face and clypeus combined. Clypeal suture distinct and complete. Hypoclypeal depression round, its width 0.7× distance from edge of depression to eye ( Figure 12 View Figures 12–20 ). Antennae ( Figure 14 View Figures 12–20 ) slender, filiform, 39-segmented. First flagellar segment weakly curved outside, not flattened, 5.3–6.0× as long as its apical width, almost equal to second segment. Penultimate segment about 4.0× as long as wide, slightly shorter than apical segment; the latter without apical spine.

Mesosoma . Length 2.0–2.2× its height. Mesoscutum highly and almost perpendicularly raised above pronotum. Notauli complete, deep in anterior half and shallow in posterior half, distinctly crenulate. Prescutellar depression rather shallow, with five to seven distinct carinae, almost smooth, 0.2–0.25× as long as weakly convex scutellum. Sternauli deep, straight, finely granulate, running along almost entire length of lower part of mesopleura.

Wings. Fore wing (Figure 115) 3.7× as long as its maximum width. Radial vein arising shortly after middle of pterostigma. Metacarpus 1.1× as long as pterostigma. Second radial abscissa 3.0–3.8× first abscissa, 0.7× the straight third abscissa, 1.2–1.4× first radiomedial vein. Second radiomedial cell 3.0–3.5× as long as its maximum width, 1.2× as long as brachial cell. First abscissa of medial vein distinctly S-shaped. Recurrent vein about 6.0× second abscissa of medial vein. Distance from nervulus to basal vein about 1.5× nervulus length. Brachial cell closed apically almost on level of recurrent vein. Hind wing ( Figure 16 View Figures 12–20 ) 5.0× as long as wide. First abscissa of costal vein 0.5× second abscissa. First abscissa of mediocubital vein 0.55–0.65× second abscissa. Recurrent vein rather long, curved toward base of wing, unsclerotized, shortly antefurcal.

Legs. Hind coxa without basoventral tooth ( Figure 17 View Figures 12–20 ), its length 1.8× maximum width. Hind femur 3.0–3.2× as long as wide ( Figure 18 View Figures 12–20 ). Hind tarsus almost as long as hind tibia. Basitarsus 0.6× as long as second to fifth segments combined. Second tarsal segment 0.7– 0.8× as long as basitarsus, 1.6× as long as fifth segment (without pretarsus).

Metasoma. Metasoma ( Figure 20 View Figures 12–20 ) 1.1–1.2× as long as head and mesosoma combined. First tergite distinctly and linearly widened from base to apex, with small spiracular tubercles. Acrosternite of first tergite about 0.4× as long as tergite ( Figure 19 View Figures 12–20 ). Maximum width of first tergite 1.8–2.0× its minimum width; length about 1.5× its apical width. Second tergite with rather distinct, straight, weakly posteriorly convergent lateral longitudinal light furrows; length of tergite 0.8–0.9× its basal width, 1.1–1.2× length of third tergite. Second suture shallow and complete, with very weak lateral bends. Ovipositor sheath almost as long as mesosoma and metasoma combined.

Sculpture. Vertex and temple with very thin and dense striation, with granulation between striae. Frons transversely and partly obliquely striate. Face distinctly and densely transversely striate. Mesoscutum densely granulate, with undulate striae in medioposterior part. Scutellum densely granulate. Mesopleura rather finely granulate for most part, very finely granulate below. Propodeum rather finely and irregularly rugulose, finely and small reticulate in basolateral parts, without marginate areas and carinae. Hind legs very weakly granulate. First tergite densely punctulate with rugulosity. Second tergite entirely and third in basal 0.3–0.7 striate-rugose, third tergite laterally rugulose-granulate. Remaining tergites smooth.

Colour. Body light brown, vertex medially, mesonotum and mesopleura entirely, metapleura partly, first tergite entirely and other tergites medially distinctly infuscate; rarely body almost entirely dark reddish brown. Antenna light brown, infuscate apically. Palpi yellowish brown. Legs yellow or yellowish brown, weakly infuscate distally. Ovipositor sheath black. Fore wings faintly infuscate. Pterostigma brown, yellow in basal 0.3–0.5 and apically.

Male. Body length 4.0 mm. First metasomal tergite 1.7× as long as apical width. Propodeum with rather distinct carina in basal 0.3. Otherwise similar to female.

Discussion

This new species is similar to E. eous (Belokobylskij) but differs in the long second radial abscissa ( Figure 15 View Figures 12–20 cf. Figure 48 View Figures 44–54 ), the brachial cell apically closed almost at the level of the recurrent vein ( Figure 15 View Figures 12–20 cf. Figure 48 View Figures 44–54 ), the relatively short second tergite ( Figure 20 View Figures 12–20 cf. Figure 54 View Figures 44–54 ), and the larger and paler body.