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5E023ACA3F075720A2C7057BF65C9B9D.text	5E023ACA3F075720A2C7057BF65C9B9D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Nesaulax protuberator Li & van Achterberg & Yan & Zhu & Chen 2026	<div><p>Nesaulax protuberator Li &amp; van Achterberg sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 3, 4</p><p>Type material.</p><p>Holotype. ♀, China, • Hainan Prov., <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=109.898415&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=18.6677" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 109.898415/lat 18.6677)">Mt. Diaoluo</a>, 18 ° 40 ' 3.72 " N, 109 ° 53 ' 54.3 " E, 31. X- 30. XI. 2020, Chen Longlong, No. HN 17, LSX 953, 2022001 (CDNU).</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Details are in the key to the species of Nesaulax Roman, 1914 .</p><p>Description.</p><p>Holotype, ♀, length of body 13.0 mm, of fore wing 11.0 mm, of ovipositor sheath 23.5 mm.</p><p>Head. Antenna incomplete, with 59 segments remaining; median segments 1.5 times longer than wide; third segment 1.3 and 1.4 times longer than fourth and fifth, respectively, the latter 1.8 times longer than wide; clypeus height: inter-tentorial distance: tentorio-ocular distance = 6: 19: 11; face coarsely punctate and sparsely setose (Fig. 4 g); eye height: shortest distance between eyes: head width = 18: 17: 34; frons smooth, strongly concave behind antennal sockets (Fig. 4 h); vertex smooth and with few setae; minimum distance between posterior ocelli: minimum diameter of elliptical posterior ocellus: minimum distance between posterior ocellus and eye = 1: 1: 3; in dorsal view length of eye 1.4 times temple; temples gradually narrowed behind eyes, rounded posteriorly, largely smooth and with few short setae (Fig. 4 h).</p><p>Mesosoma. Length of mesosoma 2.1 times its height (Fig. 4 c); propleuron and pronotum densely setose anteriorly (Fig. 4 c); mesopleuron and metapleuron smooth and glabrous (Fig. 4 c); notauli impressed on disc anteriorly, becoming rather shallow posteriorly (Fig. 4 d); mesoscutum smooth and glabrous, middle lobe weakly convex (Fig. 4 d); scutellar sulcus moderately wide and deep, with short crenulae (Fig. 4 d); scutellum largely smooth, sparsely punctate and setose posteriorly; metanotum convex medially, without median carina anteriorly; propodeum smooth except with two short carinae latero-posteriorly, with some short setae medially, and densely setose laterally (Fig. 4 d).</p><p>Wings. Fore wing (Fig. 4 a): pterostigma slender, 4.4 times longer than wide; SR 1: 3 - SR: r = 31: 19: 3; 1 - SR + M evenly curved; second submarginal cell parallel-sided apically; 2 - SR: 3 - SR: r-m = 8: 17: 5; m-cu 2.6 times as long as 2 - SR + M; cu-a weakly postfurcal. Hind wing (Fig. 4 b): 1 r-m straight; SC + R 1: 2 - SC + R: 1 r-m = 30: 8: 19.</p><p>Legs. Length of fore femur: tibia: tarsus = 11: 12: 21; length of hind femur: tibia: basitarsus = 27: 51: 24; length of femur, tibia and basitarsus of hind leg 6.0, 14.6 and 13.3 times their maximum width, respectively; hind tibial spurs 0.2 and 0.3 times as long as hind basitarsus; hind tibia and tarsus densely bristly dark brown setose (Fig. 4 f).</p><p>Metasoma. First tergite relatively slender, 1.9 times longer than its apical width, nearly parallel-sided, median area rather developed, coarsely sculptured (Fig. 4 j); first tergite with six long longitudinal rugae on median area, and with developed lateral carinae, lateral grooves narrow (but widened anteriorly) and weakly crenulate (Fig. 4 j); apical width of second tergite 1.1 times its median length; triangular medio-basal area of second tergite rather large, apex acute and almost reaching posterior margin of tergite, but not attached to a medio-longitudinal carina, grooves of medio-basal area strongly crenulate, lateral longitudinal grooves deep, widened and crenulate; second tergite coarsely sculptured, largely with longitudinal and oblique striae including medio-basal area (Fig. 4 e); second suture rather deep and wide, crenulate, slightly curved upward laterally, nearly straight medially; antero-lateral areas of third tergite convex and distinct; third tergite largely with longitudinal and oblique striae except for posteriorly; antero-lateral areas of fourth tergite rather convex, fourth tergite largely smooth but with longitudinal and oblique striae anteriorly and medially (Fig. 4 e); fifth – seventh tergites smooth (Fig. 4 e); hypopygium acute apically; ovipositor sheath 2.1 × as long as fore wing.</p><p>Colour. Head and mesosoma mostly reddish yellow (Fig. 3); antenna largely black, except for scapus yellowish brown with a black longitudinal stripe laterally (Fig. 4 i), and apical segments yellowish (Fig. 3); mandible apically black; hind leg and claws black (Fig. 4 f); metasomal tergites and ovipositor sheath black (Figs 3, 4 e); wing membrane brown, fore wing with irregular pale brown stigmal spot, pterostigma yellowish brown, and veins blackish brown (Figs 4 a, b).</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>China (Hainan), Thailand, Malaysia, India.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>Named after the apico-ventrally protruding scapus: “ protuberator ” is Latin for “ protruding ”.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5E023ACA3F075720A2C7057BF65C9B9D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Li, Yang;van Achterberg, Cornelis;Yan, Cheng-Jin;Zhu, Jia-Chen;Chen, Xue-Xin	Li, Yang, van Achterberg, Cornelis, Yan, Cheng-Jin, Zhu, Jia-Chen, Chen, Xue-Xin (2026): Revisiting Nesaulax Roman (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Braconinae), with description of a new species from China. ZooKeys 1267: 273-282, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1267.137062
3D9CDFBA0FBB51D19AE3FA23CBDAD904.text	3D9CDFBA0FBB51D19AE3FA23CBDAD904.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Nesaulax Roman 1914	<div><p>Nesaulax Roman, 1914</p><p>Figs 3, 4</p><p>Nesaulax Roman, 1914: 2 . Type species: lpobracon (Nesaulax) flagellaris Roman, 1914 .</p><p>Antidiolcus Enderlein, 1920: 95. Type species: Antidiolcus excisus Enderlein, 1920 . Synonymized by Quicke 1984: 44.</p><p>Plagiozina Enderlein, 1920: 94. Type species: Plagiozina pravivena Enderlein, 1920 . Synonymized by Quicke 1984: 44.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Middle flagellar segments of antenna distinctly longer than wide (Fig. 2 m), with densely short setae, in lateral view scapus often protruding apico-ventrally (Fig. 4 i), but in type species not protruding (Fig. 2 k); eye glabrous, weakly or not emarginated (Figs 2 d, 4 g); face usually coarsely punctate (Fig. 4 g); clypeus relatively wide; with (Fig. 4 g) or without (Fig. 2 d) dorsal carina; malar suture present; labio-maxillary complex normal, not elongate; frons with deep median groove, smooth (Fig. 4 i); labrum concave; pronotum slightly protruding and horizontal anteriorly (Fig. 4 c); mesoscutum smooth; notauli impressed on disc anteriorly, becoming rather shallow posteriorly; propleuron largely glabrous except with a row of dense long setae (Fig. 4 d); mesopleuron sparsely setose posteriorly; pleural sulcus smooth; metapleural flange distinct (Fig. 4 c) or absent (Fig. 2 n); scutellar sulcus comparatively wide, and sparsely (Fig. 4 d) or densely (Fig. 2 f) crenulate; metanotum convex medially, without median carina anteriorly (Fig. 4 d); propodeum smooth, at most with few short carinae latero-posteriorly, medio-longitudinal carina or groove absent (Fig. 4 d); propodeum spiracles ovoid (Fig. 4 c); angle between veins 1 - SR and C + SC + R of fore wing about 80 ° (Fig. 4 a) or less (Fig. 2 j); pterostigma relatively slender (Fig. 4 a); vein 1 - M of fore wing straight; vein 1 - SR + M of fore wing evenly curved; fore wing vein CU 1 b shorter than vein 3 - CU 1; fore wing second submarginal cell slender and parallel-sided apically (Fig. 4 a); fore wing vein 3 - SR of fore wing distinctly shorter than vein SR 1 (Fig. 4 a); fore wing vein 3 - CU 1 normal, not widened apically (Fig. 4 a); fore wing vein cu-a weakly postfurcal or interstitial; hind wing vein SC + R 1 rather long, vein 1 r-m shorter than vein SC + R 1; vein 2 - SC + R of hind wing longitudinal, rather short; hind wing glabrous around vein cu-a (Fig. 4 b); claws simple (Fig. 4 f); fore tarsus elongate, legs more or less with dense and long setae (Fig. 3); metasomal tergites entirely sclerotized and exposed; first metasomal tergite relatively slender, about 1.4 times longer than its apical width or longer, nearly parallel-sided; median area of first tergite developed, with some long longitudinal rugae on it (Fig. 4 j); second metasomal tergite coarsely sculptured, largely with longitudinal and oblique striae including large medio-basal area (Figs 2 g, 4 e); second suture deep and rather wide, crenulate, slightly curved upward laterally, straight medially (Fig. 4 e); third-fourth metasomal tergites largely smooth or with longitudinal striae except for posterior border, and with convex antero-lateral areas and transverse subposterior groove (Figs 2 g, 4 e); fifth – seventh metasomal tergites smooth; hypopygium acute apically, reaching beyond level of apex of metasoma; ovipositor sheath more than 1.5 times as long as fore wing; ovipositor aberrant, its upper valve strongly enlarged and without nodus, lower valve without teeth and needle-shaped (Fig. 4 k).</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>Oriental: China (Hainan) *; India; Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines; Sri Lanka. This genus is new to China.</p><p>Notes.</p><p>Merinotus gracilis Enderlein, 1920 is a new synonym of Plagiozina pravivena Enderlein, 1920 (syn. nov.), as no differences were found after examining photographs of the types kindly provided by Konstantin Samartsev.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3D9CDFBA0FBB51D19AE3FA23CBDAD904	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Li, Yang;van Achterberg, Cornelis;Yan, Cheng-Jin;Zhu, Jia-Chen;Chen, Xue-Xin	Li, Yang, van Achterberg, Cornelis, Yan, Cheng-Jin, Zhu, Jia-Chen, Chen, Xue-Xin (2026): Revisiting Nesaulax Roman (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Braconinae), with description of a new species from China. ZooKeys 1267: 273-282, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1267.137062
