taxonID	type	description	language	source
636887C0F142FFA84AC6FD17FC3EFCB7.taxon	materials_examined	Type species: Proclithrophorus mandibularis Tobias & Belokobylskij, 1981: 80.	en	Yu, Haiyue, Peng, Yanqiong, Yao, Junli (2025): A new species for euphorine genus Proclithrophorus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Euphorinae) from China. Zootaxa 5723 (4): 595-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5723.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5723.4.9
636887C0F141FFAD4AC6FE3DFC65FB60.taxon	description	Fig. 1	en	Yu, Haiyue, Peng, Yanqiong, Yao, Junli (2025): A new species for euphorine genus Proclithrophorus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Euphorinae) from China. Zootaxa 5723 (4): 595-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5723.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5723.4.9
636887C0F141FFAD4AC6FE3DFC65FB60.taxon	materials_examined	Material Examined. Holotype, ♀ (BIIC), China, Yunnan, Mt Gaoligong, Gangfang, 25 ° 17 ' 57.26 '' N, 98 ° 46 ' 11.35 '' E, elevation 2390 m, Malaise trap, 30. IV – 15. V, 2020, Lang Yi (PYQ 605).	en	Yu, Haiyue, Peng, Yanqiong, Yao, Junli (2025): A new species for euphorine genus Proclithrophorus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Euphorinae) from China. Zootaxa 5723 (4): 595-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5723.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5723.4.9
636887C0F141FFAD4AC6FE3DFC65FB60.taxon	description	Description (Fig. 1). Holotype, ♀, length of body ca. 2.9 mm, of fore wing 3.2 mm. Head. Transverse strongly, 0.5 × as long as wide (without clypeus) and 1.6 × as wide as mesoscutum in dorsal view; clypeus smooth, sub-horizontally protruding forwards and semicircular (Fig. 1 H); longitudinal diameter of eye approximately 1.6 × height of gena; head slightly narrower at temples than at eyes (Fig. 1 H); head 0.60 × as high as wide in anterior view (Fig. 1 C); mandibles enormously enlarged, with deep curved incision between tooth 1 and tooth 2, maximum length 3.0 × as long as width (Fig. 1 D), 1.7 × as long as height of head (Fig. 1 C); malar space present, malar suture absent (Fig. 1 E); maxillar palpus with 3 segments, labial palpus with 2 segments (Fig. 1 A 1); OOL / POL = 3.4, POL / LOL = 5.0, POL / OD = 4.0; occipital carina not complete, absent dorso-medially and with sparse setae, strongly protruding below POL and eyes (Fig. 1 F), lower part degraded and not joining with hypostomal carina, with sparse setae (Fig. 1 G); antenna inserted near clypeus (Fig. 1 C), with 17 antennomeres (right one, broken) and 24 antennomeres (left one, complete), scape 2.1 × as long as wide, broadened apically and with rather sharp anterior margin (Fig. 1 E), F 2 2.1 × as long as wide and narrower than F 1 and F 3, F 2 longest, 1.2 × as long as F 1 and F 3 respectively, apical antennomeres becoming gradually smaller, penultimate 0.59 × as long as the apical first and 2.0 × as long as wide. Mesosoma. 1.7 × as long as wide and 1.3 × as high as wide; propleuron smooth ventrally, the remaining with transverse ridges; prepectal carina absent (Fig. 1 I); precoxal sulcus complete and broader medially (Fig. 1 I); pronotum with a mid-pit and irregularly ridges (Fig. 1 H); notauli complete, strongly crenulate, crenulation getting wider to apex and with a short longitudinal ridge apically (Fig. 1 L); median lobe densely punctured and with dense setae, lateral robes smooth and with sparse setae; scutellar sulcus wide, with a median carina (Fig. 1 L); scutellum sub-triangle and smooth, lateral sides of scutellum rugose with dense longitudinal ridges (Fig. 1 L); metanotum rugose with dense longitudinal ridges (Fig. 1 L); propodeum anteriorly with short median carina, length of median carina 0.9 × as long as length of areola, areola 1.4 × as long as wide, irregularly triangular and wrinkled, two oblique ridges connected with areola laterally, basal 2 / 3 of propodeum except median carina and areola smooth, the remaining irregularly wrinkled and medio-posteriorly concave (Fig. 1 L). Wings. Fore wing (Fig. 1 B): pterostigma oval-shape, slightly wider than vein r length, vein r arising behind middle of pterostigma; length of vein 1 - R 1 and SR 1 complete, marginal cell short, length of vein 1 - R 1 slightly shorter than pterostigma; vein 1 - SR + M and r-m absent; 2 - SR not complete, m-cu interstitital; first subdiscal cell open, vein cu-a postfurcal and not complete, vein CU 1 b absent, connection of CU 1 a and 3 - CU 1 curved. Hind wing (Fig. 1 B): vein cu-a nearly complete, antefurcal and forming a right angle with 1 - M, vein M + CU about 6.0 × as long as 1 - M. Legs. Hind femur (without trochantellus) 6.3 × as long as wide; hind tibia 1.1 × as long as hind tarsus, hind tibial spurs slender, subequal, inner spur 0.3 × as long as basitarsus (Fig. 1 A). Metasoma. T 1 lateral compressed strongly (Fig. 1 J), 3.6 × as long as basal width, 2.0 × as long as apical width, 8.7 × as long as narrowest width (slightly before spiracles), 7.6 × as long as width at spiracles, spiracles around at apical 2 / 5 (Fig. 1 M); tergum and sternum entirely separate, chitinized sternum ending in middle of spiracle (Fig. 1 J); fused terga 2 – 3 1.0 × as long as wide in dorsal view (Fig. 1 M); ovipositor sheath shorter than metasoma, hairy apically, 0.33 × as long as fore wing (Fig. 1 N, 1 K). Colour. Head dark brown; antennomeres mostly dark brown, scape and pedicel yellow, F 1 and F 2 yellowish brown, getting darker toward apex, apical antennomere light brown; mandible yellowish white, apically (teeth) brownish yellow; labrum and mouth parts including palpi yellowish white, clypeus brown; malar space yellowish brown; mesosoma dark brown; propleuron and pronotum brownish yellow, flange of propleuron whitish brown, mesosternum yellowish brown; tegula, pterostigma brown, fore wing venation mostly yellowish white, hind wing venation white; legs yellow, fore and middle coxa, trochanter whitish yellow, hind trochanter whitish yellow and hind tibia slightly infuscate; metasoma reddish brown, T 1 darker; basal and apical T 1, basal T 2 and apical metasoma yellowish brown laterally; ovipositor sheath brownish black basally, black apically, ovipositor yellow. Male. Unknown.	en	Yu, Haiyue, Peng, Yanqiong, Yao, Junli (2025): A new species for euphorine genus Proclithrophorus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Euphorinae) from China. Zootaxa 5723 (4): 595-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5723.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5723.4.9
636887C0F141FFAD4AC6FE3DFC65FB60.taxon	distribution	Distribution. China (Yunnan).	en	Yu, Haiyue, Peng, Yanqiong, Yao, Junli (2025): A new species for euphorine genus Proclithrophorus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Euphorinae) from China. Zootaxa 5723 (4): 595-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5723.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5723.4.9
636887C0F141FFAD4AC6FE3DFC65FB60.taxon	biology_ecology	Biology. Unknown.	en	Yu, Haiyue, Peng, Yanqiong, Yao, Junli (2025): A new species for euphorine genus Proclithrophorus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Euphorinae) from China. Zootaxa 5723 (4): 595-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5723.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5723.4.9
636887C0F141FFAD4AC6FE3DFC65FB60.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species is named after the location, Mt Gaoligong National Nature Reserve, Yunnan, SW China, where the type species was collected. Phylogeny. Tobias & Belokobylskij (1981) noted that there is no close relationship between Proclithrophorus and Cosmophorus and they suggested that Proclithrophorus is more closely related to Microctonus and Streblocera, which agrees with Shaw (1985), although both Proclithrophorus and Cosmophorus have enlarged mandibles which are not homologous. Shaw (1985) also indicated that the monophyly of Proclithrophorus is evidenced by the apomorphic condition of the clypeus, mandible and mouth opening. Stigenberg et al. (2015) investigated the phylogenetic relationships of the Euphorinae based on molecular data, they reinstated the tribe Townesilitini with the following genera included: Heia, Marshiella, Townesilitus, Streblocera (transferred from Microctonini) and Proclithrophorus (placed in Microctonini by Shaw, 1985 and later placed in its own tribe Proclithrophorini by Tobias, 1986).	en	Yu, Haiyue, Peng, Yanqiong, Yao, Junli (2025): A new species for euphorine genus Proclithrophorus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Euphorinae) from China. Zootaxa 5723 (4): 595-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5723.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5723.4.9
636887C0F141FFAD4AC6FE3DFC65FB60.taxon	discussion	Discussion. The specimens for P. mandibularis are described from Spassk, the Russian Far East and from Jilin, NE China, are geographically relatively close, but the locality for P. genalis, Pudasjärvi, Finland, is geographically isolated (Fig. 2). The new species P. gaoligongensis, was collected from Mt Gaoligong National Nature Reserve, Yunnan (SW China), and is geographically isolated from the other two species (Fig. 2). Further collection is necessary to gain a more concise understanding of the biogeography of the genus.	en	Yu, Haiyue, Peng, Yanqiong, Yao, Junli (2025): A new species for euphorine genus Proclithrophorus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Euphorinae) from China. Zootaxa 5723 (4): 595-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5723.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5723.4.9
