Iporhogas simulatus, Long, Khuat Dang, 2014

Long, Khuat Dang, 2014, New records of the genus Iporhogas Granger (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Rogadinae) from Vietnam, with description of four new species, ZooKeys 428, pp. 79-96 : 86-87

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Braconidae

Iporhogas simulatus sp. n. Figs 17-23

Material.

Holotype, female (VNMN), ‘Rog.798’, "[C Vietnam:] Thua Thien-Hue, A Luoi, A Roang, forest, 700m, 28.v.2006, HV Tru".

Description.

Holotype, female, body length 7.5 mm, fore wing length 5.8 mm.

Head. Antenna broken, with 19 segments remaining; middle segments 1.75 times longer than wide (7:4); third antennal segment 1.4 times fourth (10:7); width of face 1.1 times length of face and clypeus combined (22:20); malar space 0.8 times as long as mandible width (7:9); mandible rugose, mandible width 0.9 times as long as hypoclypeal depression (9:10); malar suture present; in dorsal view height of eye 2.85 times as long as temple (20:7), occipital carina in dorsal view angularly concave (Fig. 17); in lateral view width of eye 2.25 times as long as temple (18:8); ocelli large, POL:Od:OOL=3:7:5; distance between anterior and posterior ocelli 0.8 as long as OOL (4:5) (Fig. 17); face transversely rugose (Fig. 18); frons transversely rugose; vertex and temple smooth.

Mesosoma. Length of mesosoma 1.5 times as long as high (98:66); propleuron wide and deep, crenulate; mesoscutum almost smooth, with sparse fine punctures; notauli deep and crenulate anteriorly, flat posteriorly; mesoscutum with deep smooth medial depression between notauli (Fig. 19); scutellar sulcus 0.5 times as long as scutellum (8:15); scutellum with sparse fine punctures; precoxal sulcus wide and shallow, sparsely rugose-punctate; mesopleuron and mesosternum smooth; metapleuron sparsely rugose; propodeum with small triangular areola and without basal carina, sparsely rugose laterally (Fig. 20).

Wings. Fore wing: pterostigma 4.1 times as long as wide (53:13); r:2-SR:3-SR:SR1=12:20:31:58; vein r arising from middle of pterostigma; vein 1-SR+M slightly curved; vein cu-a slightly postfurcal; vein 1-CU1 very short and nearly quadrate (Fig. 22); cu-a:2-CU1=9:31; basal length of second submarginal 3.6 times as long as its apical width (47:13). Hind wing: vein M+CU 1.3 times as long as vein 1-M (39:29); M+CU:1-M: 1r-m=39:29:16; vein 2-SC+R quadrate (Fig. 23).

Legs. Hind coxa largely smooth dorsally, sparsely and finely punctate ventrally; length of hind femur, tibia and basitarsus 5.3, 8.8 and 9.0 times as long as their width, respectively; inner hind tibial spur 0.3 times as long as basitarsus (14:45); hind tarsal claw simple.

Metasoma. First tergite 1.1 times as long as its apical width (47:44) (Fig. 21); medial length of second tergite 1.9 times third tergite (36:24); first-second tergites with medial longitudinal carina; ovipositor sheath 0.6 times as long as hind basitarsus (9:14).

Colour. Yellow; scapus and pedicel yellow; eyes and antennal segments brown; palpi yellow; first-third metasomal tergites yellow, fourth-sixth tergites pale yellow; wing vein yellow; pterostigma yellow, brownish apically.

Male.

Unknown.

Distribution.

NC Vietnam: Thua Thien-Hue (A Luoi, A Roang).

Biology.

Unknown.

Etymology.

Named from “simulo” (Latin for "imitate, copy"), because this species is similar to Iporhogas guangxiensis Chen & He, 1997.