Pseudospinaria Enderlein, 1905

Li, Yang, Achterberg, Cornelis van & Chen, Xue-xin, 2020, A new genus and eight newly recorded genera of Braconinae Nees (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from China, with descriptions of fourteen new species, ZooKeys 1038, pp. 105-178 : 105

Genus Pseudospinaria Enderlein, 1905 Figures 29 , 30

Pseudospinaria Enderlein, 1905: 229; Quicke 1987: 127. Type species: Spinaria attenuata Westwood, 1882 (Monobasic and original designation).

Diagnosis.

Body medium-sized to large; terminal antennomere slender, strongly acute apically; scapus in lateral view basally rounded and at inner side usually with narrow apical ledge, concave apico-laterally, ventrally shorter than dorsally; eye glabrous, weakly emarginate; face coarsely sculptured; clypeus narrow and without dorsal carina; malar suture moderately developed, often with long and dense setae; labio-maxillary complex normal, not elongate; frons broadly impressed, with some setae and median groove; vertex and temples transversely rugose; notauli complete; mesoscutum with deep punctures near the notauli; metanotum with median carina protruding over propodeum posteriorly, and with a complete mid-longitudinal carina; propodeum coarsely punctate; angle between veins 1-SR and C+SC+R of fore wing ca. 60°; vein r of fore wing long, (nearly) ca. as long as vein 2-SR; fore wing vein 2-SR sinuate; vein 1-R1 of fore wing distinctly longer than pterostigma; fore wing vein cu-a slightly postfurcal; second submarginal cell of fore wing slender, but somewhat widened apically; tarsal claws with an additional tooth; basal lobes of claws rounded; T I without a media-longitudinal carina; T II with wide triangular medio-basal area, area reaching apex of tergite or nearly so; T IV-VI with lateral teeth; T VII of female with medio-apical tooth (absent in male); ovipositor with dorsal nodus and ventral serrations subapically; ovipositor sheath 0.1-0.3 × as long as fore wing.

Biology.

Unknown.

Distribution.

Oriental.

Note.

This genus is newly recorded from China. Of the two described species, only one species is recorded from China.

Figures

Figure 29. Pseudospinaria attenuata (Westwood, 1882), ♀, habitus, lateral view.

Figure 30. Pseudospinaria attenuata (Westwood, 1882). ♀ a fore wing b hind wing c mesosoma, lateral view d mesosoma, dorsal view e first to third metasomal tergites, dorsal view f fourth to seventh metasomal tergites, dorsal view g hind leg, lateral view h head, anterior view i head, dorsal view j head, lateral view k scapus outer side, lateral view l apex of antenna m apex of ovipositor, lateral view n claws, oblique view.