taxonID	type	description	language	source
CE7387B3FFF5FA5BFF0AC2A0C1A3FE7F.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. Holotype: female (ICAR-NBAIR); India: Arunachal Pradesh: Hayuliang; 3. ix. 2025; light trap; coll. Ajay Kumara; Code — NIM / NBAIR / Brac / Macr / 31125 - H. Paratype: one female; same data as holotype; Code — NIM / NBAIR / Brac / Macr / 31125 - P.	en	Gupta, Ankita, Achterberg, Cornelis Van, Ajaykumara, K. M. (2026): An atypical new species of the genus Macrocentrus Curtis, 1833 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from India. Zootaxa 5845 (3): 596-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5845.3.10, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5845.3.10
CE7387B3FFF5FA5BFF0AC2A0C1A3FE7F.taxon	description	Holotype, female (Fig. 1), length of body 11.5 mm, of fore wing 8.8 mm. Head. Head 1.5 × as wide as long in frontal view; 57 antennomeres (Fig. 3 A), length of third antennomere 1.2 × fourth antennomere, length of third, fourth and penultimate antennomeres 5.9, 4.7, and 2.6 × their width, respectively, apical antenommere with spine at apex; maxillary and labial palpi with 6 and 4 segments, respectively; length of eye 4.6 × temple in dorsal view (Fig. 2 C); temples roundly narrowed behind eyes, roundly narrowed posteriorly (Fig. 2 C); OOL: diameter of posterior ocellus: POL = 30: 23: 14; frons largely convex; face rather transverse (Fig. 2 A), sparsely punctate; clypeus strongly convex, sparsely punctate; ventral margin of clypeus straight; length of malar space 0.9 × basal width of mandible; mandible medium-sized, distinctly twisted apically, two-toothed, longer tooth acute (Fig. 3 B). Mesosoma. Length of mesosoma 1.7 × its height; pronotum with prominent transverse rugae medially, sides comparatively smooth with few rugae posteriorly; prepectal carina complete, distinct; precoxal sulcus present; remainder of mesopleuron punctate; metapleuron punctate, posteriorly rugose; mesoscutal lobes sparsely punctate, lateral lobes setose near notauli and middle lobe rounded anteriorly (Fig. 2 E); side of scutellum setose; surface of propodeum coarsely and irregularly rugose, with prominent median carina in anterior one third (Fig. 3 I). Wings. Fore wing: Pterostigma about 4.0 × as long as wide; subbasal cell mostly glabrous with clear patch without setae (Fig. 2 F); r: 3 - SR: SR 1 = 5.1: 6.8: 24; 1 - CU 1: 2 - CU 1 = 1: 41; 1 - CU 1 widened and 0.6 × cu-a (Fig. 2 F); cu-a almost straight, not subparallel with 3 - CU 1 (Fig. 2 F); 2 - SR: 3 - SR: r - m = 5: 5.8: 3; 2 A present. Hind wing: SC + R 1 straight and R 1 evenly curved; 2 SC + R two × as long as wide; vein SR of hind wing distinctly curved basally (Fig. 2 G); marginal cell apically 1.2 × wider than its minimum width, its basal quarter of SR sclerotised and cell 1.1 × wider than its minimum width; 1 - M 1.4 × as long as 1 r-m. Legs. Hind coxa punctate; tarsal claws with long apical tooth and distinct ventral lobe (Fig. 3 G); length of fore spur 0.2 × fore basitarsus; length of femur, tibia and basitarsus of hind leg 6.7, 13.6 and 9.4 × their width, respectively; length of spurs of hind tibia 0.3 and 0.4 × hind basitarsus; all trochantelli with 4 medium-sized teeth. Metasoma. Median length of first tergite 3.3 × its apical width (Fig. 3 J), medio-basally rather concave and laterope deep (Fig. 3 K); dorsal surface coarsely longitudinally striate medially and basally, apical one third with fine and slightly converging striations; second tergite with fine longitudinal striations, anterior two third of third tergite finely striate, apical one third with fine diverging striations present laterally, smooth and shiny medially and submedially; remainder of metasoma smooth; length of ovipositor sheath 1.33 × fore wing; apex of ovipositor very slender, with minute notch subapically (Fig. 3 H). Colour. Head and mesosoma (including propodeum) and basal tip of first tergite reddish brown; palpi pale yellowish, tegula and humeral plate pale yellow with brown infuscation; ocellar region black; ocelli off-white with light brown infuscation; eyes greyish black; mandibles yellowish brown with dark brown tip; scape, pedicel, five basal and ten apical flagellomeres dark brown, middle flagellomeres yellowish brown with dark brown joints. Wing veins, parastigma and pterostigma brown. Subbasal cell with brownish yellow patch. Metasomal tergites black dorsally, hind coxa and femur (except base) black. Ventral half of metasoma light yellow and hypopygium brown. Fore and middle legs light yellowish brown. Hind tibia medially black (apically and basally light yellow), all tarsi light yellow. Ovipositor sheath and ovipositor dark brown.	en	Gupta, Ankita, Achterberg, Cornelis Van, Ajaykumara, K. M. (2026): An atypical new species of the genus Macrocentrus Curtis, 1833 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from India. Zootaxa 5845 (3): 596-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5845.3.10, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5845.3.10
CE7387B3FFF5FA5BFF0AC2A0C1A3FE7F.taxon	discussion	Comments. This species runs close to the East Palearctic species M. suni He & Chen, 2000, of which the description is based on a single male. Macrocentrus suni (male) shows similarity with the new species (female) in having comparatively long malar space, propodeum with distinct medio-longitudinal carina basally; large acute submedial tooth of tarsal claws, and basal quarter of vein SR of fore wing distinctly curved and sclerotised. The new species differs from M. suni in having 1 - CU 1 comparatively long and 0.6 × cu-a (vs short, 0.15 × cu-a in M. suni); OOL 2.1 × OOL (vs 0.9 × in M. suni); antennal segments 57 (vs 46 in in M. suni); scape, pedicel, five basal and ten apical segments of antenna dark brown, middle segments yellowish brown with dark brown joints (vs antenna blackish brown except scape and pedicel yellow in M. suni); head and mesosoma uniformly dark reddish brown (vs head and mesosoma yellow except middle lobe of mesoscutum medially, margin of lateral lobes, and propodeum medially light brown in M. suni).	en	Gupta, Ankita, Achterberg, Cornelis Van, Ajaykumara, K. M. (2026): An atypical new species of the genus Macrocentrus Curtis, 1833 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from India. Zootaxa 5845 (3): 596-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5845.3.10, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5845.3.10
