Chelonus (Microchelonus) subpamiricus Farahani & van Achterberg, 2018

Mazhar, Alireza Rajabi, Goldasteh, Shila, Farahani, Samira & Van Achterberg, Cornelis, 2018, New species and new record of Chelonini (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from western Iran, Turkish Journal of Zoology 42 (4), pp. 416-421 : 418-419

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3906/zoo-1711-9

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5018743

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Chelonus (Microchelonus) subpamiricus Farahani & van Achterberg
status

sp. nov.

Chelonus (Microchelonus) subpamiricus Farahani & van Achterberg sp. nov. ( Figures 2A–2F View Figure 2 )

Material examined: Holotype: female, Iran: Hamadan Province: Asadabad, Galehbor (34°50′N, 48°10′E, 2150 m a.s.l.), 07.07.2015, 1♀ ( ICRIFR); leg.: A. Rajabi Mazhar. GoogleMaps Paratype: 1♀, same data as holotype ( ICRIFR) GoogleMaps .

Differential diagnosis: This species can be readily separated by the length of the hind femur (3.0 times its width) and the ratio of marginal cell/2nd submarginal cell from Chelonus (Microchelonus) pamiricus Vojnovskaja-Krieger, 1931. Moreover, metasomal carapace gradually narrowed from proximal third; longitudinal diameter of eye 1.7 times height of gena; width of face 2.1 times its height; POL 2.5 times diameter of ocellus.

Description: Female (holotype). Length of body 4.2 mm, length of forewing 3.0 mm.

Head: Antennae long and slender, 16-segmented, slightly shorter than body, granulate; scape elongate, pedicel small, 2.9 and 1.2 times their width respectively, length of the 1st flagellar segment 5.0 times its width, the 2nd flagellar segment as long as the 3rd, apical segments 2.5 times as long as their width; head transverse, 2.0 times as wide as its length in dorsal view, roundly contracted behind eyes, temple 1.2 timesaslongastransversediameter of eye in dorsal view ( Figure 2A View Figure 2 ), occiput concave, ocelli small, not on line, maximum diameter of the lateral ocellus: postocellar line: ocular-ocellar line as 9:23:35; vertex with transverse rugae behind ocelli, longitudinal diameter of eye 1.7 times height of gena; face transverse in frontal view, width of face 2.1 times its height, coarsely reticulate-punctate; clypeus protuberant, denticles absent ( Figure 2B View Figure 2 ); length of maxillary palp slightly longer than of length of face with clypeus together.

Mesosoma: mesoscutum punctate ( Figure 2C View Figure 2 ); mesoscutum with more distinct longitudinal of rugae before scutellum; propodeum coarsely sculpture, with small lateral teeth.

Wings: Anterior margin of marginal cell of forewing shorter than pterostigma ( Figure 2D View Figure 2 ); radial cell of forewing about as long as the 2nd submarginal cell.

Legs: Hind coxa coarsely rugose; length of hind femur 3.0 times its width, with minute punctures, hind tibia and tarsus equal in length.

Metasoma: Metasomal carapace gradually narrowed from proximal third, not bent apically; length of metasomal carapace 2.2 times its width in middle, densely and rather coarsely punctate, with longitudinal rugae in basal, becoming weaker toward its posterior part ( Figure 2E View Figure 2 ), in lateral view rather flat; apical sternites projecting from under carapace ( Figure 2F View Figure 2 ); ovipositor projecting beyond apical sternite.

Coloration: Body black; antenna black, except brownish basal segments ( Figure 2F View Figure 2 ); maxillary palp brownish, mandible brownish; wings slightly infuscate, basal half with pale yellowish veins ( Figure 2D View Figure 2 ); legs mostly brownish, coxae black, apices of hind femur and tibia infuscate.

Distribution: Iran.

Etymology. The Latin preposition “sub” indicates the close relation of this new species to C. pamiricus .

Male. Unknown.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

Genus

Chelonus

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