Bracon (Habrobracon) nigricans (Szepligeti, 1901)

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Material.

South Korea (2 females, 1 male). - Gyeonggi-do • 1 female; Suwon-si, [38] Gwonseon-gu, Seodun-dong; 12 May 1983; Y.I. Lee leg.; NIBR 568 . - Gyeongsangbuk-do • 1 female; Gyeongju-si, [48] Hyeongok-myeon, Geumjang-ri, Bridge Geumjang; 20 Jun. 1992; D.-S. Ku leg.; ZISP 567 . - Chungcheongnam-do • 1 male; Geumsan-gun, [53] Chubu-myeon, Seongdang-ri, Gaedeoksa Temple; 22 May 1993; D.-S. Ku leg.; SMNE 569 .

Additional material.

China - Qinghai • 2 females (lectotype and paralectotype of Habrobracon mongolicus Telenga, 1936); Eastern Tsaidam, Keluke Lake, Bayingoule River; 21 May 1895; V.I. Roborovsky and P.K. Kozlov leg.; ZISP • 2 females (paralectotypes of H. mongolicus Telenga); same data as for preceding; 28 May 1895; ZISP .

Hungary • 1 male (lectotype of Habrobracon nigricans Szépligeti, 1901); Budapest; 5 Jul. 1899; HNHM Hym.Typ.No. 995 .

Distribution.

Caucasus. Central Asia. China: Fujian, Ningxia Hui, Qinghai (Samartsev 2019), Shaanxi, Xinjiang. Europe: Eastern, Northern, Southern, and Western Europe. Iran. Kazakhstan. Mongolia. North Africa: Tunisia. Russia: Eastern Siberia: Tyva Republic (Samartsev 2019); European part; Far East: Chukotka Autonomous Area (Samartsev 2019), Khabarovsk Territory, Primorskiy Territory, Sakhalin Island; Ural (Kostromina 2010). South Korea (new record). Turkey.

Description.

Female. Fore wing length 2.5-2.6 mm. Width of head (dorsal view) 1.8-1.9 × its median length. Transverse diameter of eye (dorsal view) 1.5-2.0 × longer than temple. OOL 3.0-3.6 × Od; POL 1.9-2.1 × Od; OOL 1.6-1.7 × POL. Longitudinal diameter of eye (lateral view) 1.6 × larger than its transverse diameter; hind margins of eye and temple broadened downwards. Face width ca. 1.7 × combined height of face and clypeus. Longitudinal diameter of eye 2.4-2.7 × longer than malar space (anterior view). Malar suture absent. Width of hypoclypeal depression about 1.4 × distance from depression to eye. Antenna 0.70-0.85 × as long as fore wing, with 21-23 antennomeres. First, middle and penultimate flagellomeres 1.8-2.0 ×, 1.6-1.8 ×, and 1.5 × longer than wide, respectively. Mesosoma 1.4-1.5 × longer than its maximum height. Mesoscutum evenly setose. Notauli not impressed. Fore wing vein r arising from basal 0.47-0.50 × of pterostigma; vein 1-R1 1.3 × longer than pterostigma; marginal cell 1.5-2.1 × longer than distance from its apex to apex of wing; vein 3-SR 0.75-0.90 × vein r, 0.25-0.30 × vein SR1, 0.73-0.88 × vein 2-SR. Hind femur 3.8-3.9 × longer than wide. Fifth segment of hind tarsus 0.5 × as long as hind basitarsus, about 0.75 × as long as second segment. Claws with small rectangular basal lobe. First metasomal tergite without dorsal and dorsolateral carinae, its median length 0.9 × its apical width. Second metasomal tergite without median area and dorsolateral impressions; medially 1.1 × longer than third tergite; its basal width about 1.8 × its median length. Ovipositor sheath about 0.9 × as long as hind tibia, about 0.3 × as long as fore wing. Apex of ovipositor with developed nodus and ventral serration. Body mostly granulate, second metasomal tergite medially rugulose-punctate. Body mainly brownish black with reddish yellow to yellowish brown maxillary palp, tegula, pattern on legs, patches along eye and on latero-posterior corners of second metasomal tergite; wing membrane weakly darkened, pterostigma and veins yellowish brown.

Diagnosis.

The diagnosis of the species and its taxonomic literature were presented by Samartsev (2019: 62).