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03D787AF1513FFE0FF23FE14FCDAF8ED.text	03D787AF1513FFE0FF23FE14FCDAF8ED.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Sericobracon Shaw 1985	<div><p>Genus Sericobracon Shaw, 1985</p><p>(Figs 2–6).</p><p>Diagnosis. Vertex striate. Clypeus concave exposing labrum. Maxillary and labial palpi 6-4 segmented. Mandibles bidentate. Occipital carinae present and complete. Occipital carina complete, reaching hypostomal carina before the base of mandible. Mesoscutal lobes mostly coriaceous, with median mesoscutal lobe slightly projected upwards from lateral lobes. Notauli complete and scrobiuculate. Prepectal carina present. Propodeum with a basal longitudinal carina followed by a distinct areola. Fore tibia without visible spines or pegs. Hind coxa with a distinct, small basoventral tubercle. Fore wing vein 2-SR complete. Hind wing vein m-cu usually slightly curved towards wing apex. First and second metasomal tergites sculptured, remaining tergites smooth and mostly polished; suture between second and third tergite distinct, straight or slightly curved; third tergite with a transverse straight furrow. Ovipositor usually long, 0.7–1.2 × as along as metasoma.</p><p>Distribution. The two already named species of Sericobracon which were originally described for the genus occur in Trinidad and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea. The three new species of the genus described in this study occur in Costa Rica, extending the known geographic distribution of this genus to Central America.</p><p>Remarks. Species of Sericobracon can be morphologically distinguished from those belonging to the remaining New World doryctine genera by having the third and following metasomal tergites unsculptured and polished, presence of a transverse furrow on the third metasomal tergite, lacking pegs or stout spines on the foretibia, presence of a propodeal areola, lacking dorsal nodes at the ovipositor tip, and hind wing m-cu being slightly curved towards the wing apex.</p><p>Sericobracon specimens seem to be only rarely encountered in museum collections for a couple of reasons. They are small wasps that occur only in tropical forest areas, and only (so far as is known) in close association with Embioptera, which themselves are cryptic insects living hidden under sheets of spun silk. They probably spend most of their time living close to webspinners and do not disperse widely, and therefore are seldom seen, netted, or trapped. However, as it was previously noted (Shaw &amp; Edgerly 1985), these wasps are superficially similar in size and appearance to small doryctines such as Heterospilus, which are vastly more common, more diverse, and more widely dispersing species. Therefore, other specimens of Sericobracon that may already exist in museum collections are likely to be still unidentified and hidden among the vast numbers of unidentified Heterospilus and other small doryctines that are accumulating in collections.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D787AF1513FFE0FF23FE14FCDAF8ED	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.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Zaldívar-Riverón, Alejandro;Castañeda-Osorio, Rubén;Shaw, Scott R.	Zaldívar-Riverón, Alejandro, Castañeda-Osorio, Rubén, Shaw, Scott R. (2025): Three new species and phylogenetic affinity of the neotropical genus Sericobracon Shaw (Braconidae: Doryctinae). Zootaxa 5613 (1): 171-185, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5613.1.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5613.1.9
03D787AF1511FFE2FF23FF7DFB20FAD0.text	03D787AF1511FFE2FF23FF7DFB20FAD0.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Sericobracon paulmarshi Zaldivar-Riveron & Shaw 2025	<div><p>Sericobracon paulmarshi Zaldívar-Riverón &amp; Shaw, new species</p><p>(Figs 4 A-E)</p><p>Diagnosis. Sericobracon paulmarshi sp. nov. can be morphologically distinguished from the remaining described species of its genus by having: 1) the posterior margin of the longitudinally striate of the second metasomal tergite ending in a broad “V” shape (striate area shortest medially) (Fig. 4E) (striate area ending with a straight border in the remaining species) (Figs 3D, 5E, 6E); 2) notauli obscuring before end of mesoscutum in a median longitudinally striate area (Fig. 4B) (similar in S. zunigai sp. nov. (Fig. 6C); in a slightly rugose area in the remaining species (Figs 2C, 3C, 4B, 5C)); and 3) mesosoma and first metasomal tergite dark brown to black (4A, B, D, E) (brown or lighter in the remaining species; Figs 2A, C, D, 3 A-D; 5A, C, D,E; 6A, C, E).</p><p>Description. Holotype female. Body size 3.7 mm, fore wing 3.1 mm. Colour: vertex, frons and temple brown, face honey yellow, mesosoma and first metasomal tergites dark brown to black, remaining tergites brown to dark brown. Wings hyaline, pterostigma and veins brown. Legs pale yellow. Ovipositor honey yellow, strongly sclerotised at apex; sheaths brown.</p><p>Head: transverse in dorsal view, 1.75 × wider than its median length. Eye 1.2 × longer than wide; eye width.0 × longer than temple in dorsal view. Malar space 0.3 × eye height and 0.9 as long as width of hypoclypeal depression. Inner margins of posterior ocelli (POL) as long as the ocellar diameter (OD), 2.0 × shorter than distance between outer margin of posterior ocellus and eye (OOL). Vertex striate; temple, frons, and face smooth, frons with short sparse setae. Antennae broken, with 15 flagellomeres; first flagellomere about 3.0 × longer than wide, 1.2 × longer than second flagellomere.</p><p>Mesosoma: 1.7 × longer than high and 1.6 × longer than wide. Pronotal collar short but visible in dorsal view, slightly rugose, sparsely setose; pronotal furrow wide, deep and scrobiculate. Median length of mesoscutum 1.7 × its width (dorsal view); mesoscutal lobes coriaceous, with median mesoscutal lobe slightly projected upwards from lateral lobes; notauli wide, deep, scrobiculate, not joining, obscuring before the endo of mesoscutum in a median longitudinally striate area. Scutellar disc smooth and polished, prescutellar furrow with eight transverse carinae. Mesopleuron smooth and polished; precoxal sulcus wide, deep, slightly scrobiculate, about 0.6 × as long as mesopleuron; mesopleural sulcus wide, deep and scrobiculate, subalar sulcus narrower but deep and scrobiculate. Metapleuron strongly rugose-areolate. Propodeum smooth-slightly coriaceous on median basal half, basal two thirds rugose-areolate, with a median longitudinal carina running along basal third, areola almost indistinct, complete.</p><p>Wings: fore wing 3.6 × longer than wide. Pterostigma 3.7 × longer than wide and 0.6 × as long as R. Vein r X0.8 × as long as 3RSa, 0.2 × as long as 3RSb, and 0.7 × as long as vein r-m. Vein m-cu antefurcal to 2RS, vein RS+Mb present. First subdiscal cell open. Hind wing vein M+CU 0.8 × as long as 1M, m-cu slightly curved towards wing apex.</p><p>Legs: fore tibia without row of spines along anterior margin. Hind femur 3.4 × longer than wide.</p><p>Metasoma: first tergite short, 0.9 × as long as apical width, longitudinally striate. Second tergite with longitudinally striate area ending with a “V” shaped border, striae shortest medially; suture between second and third tergites distinct, slightly curved; remaining tergites smooth, polished to slightly acinose. Ovipositor length as long as metasoma.</p><p>Variation. Body size 3.7–3.9 mm. Thirty-one flagellomeres. Fore wing length 3.1-3.2 mm.</p><p>Male. Unknown.</p><p>Biology. Unknown.</p><p>Etymology. We name this species in honour of our late colleague Dr. Paul Malcolm Marsh, who devoted his life to the taxonomic study of the braconid subfamily Doryctinae for over 50 years.</p><p>Material examined. Holotype: (CNIN IBUNAM) Female. Costa Rica: Guanacaste, Est. Cacao, 1000-1150 m, ix 1996, I Villegas, Malaise, L. N. 323150-375500 #4759. DNA voucher no. CNIN 4977, GenBank accession no. PV157332 (COI) . Paratypes: one female, same data as holotype; one female, same locality data as holotype except 1100-1200 meters, 2 km. SW de Cerro Cacao, vi 1990, A. Solis, Interseccion, L.N. 323300-375700 #8556 ; one female, same locality data as holotype except collected vii 1996, A. Masis, Malaise trap, #47555 .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D787AF1511FFE2FF23FF7DFB20FAD0	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.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Zaldívar-Riverón, Alejandro;Castañeda-Osorio, Rubén;Shaw, Scott R.	Zaldívar-Riverón, Alejandro, Castañeda-Osorio, Rubén, Shaw, Scott R. (2025): Three new species and phylogenetic affinity of the neotropical genus Sericobracon Shaw (Braconidae: Doryctinae). Zootaxa 5613 (1): 171-185, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5613.1.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5613.1.9
03D787AF1510FFECFF23FAB4FD3CFD74.text	03D787AF1510FFECFF23FAB4FD3CFD74.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Sericobracon puravida Zaldivar-Riveron & Shaw 2025	<div><p>Sericobracon puravida Zaldívar-Riverón &amp; Shaw, new species</p><p>(Figs 5A–F).</p><p>Diagnosis. Sericobracon puravida sp. nov. can be distinguished from S. paulmarshi by the diagnostic features mentioned above for the latter species. It can be also distinguished from S. arimaensis, S. evansi and S. zunigai by having a mostly smooth mesopleuron (Figure 5D) (mostly coriaceous in the latter three species Figs 2D, 3B, 4D, 6D).</p><p>Description. Holotype female. Body size 2.9 mm, fore wing 2.5 mm. Colour: vertex and frons brown, area surrounding eyes honey yellow; temple gena and face brown to honey yellow; mesosoma mostly brown to dark brown; first metasomal tergite brown; second tergite brown medially, remaining area pale yellow; third to fifth tergites mostly brown, lateral area pale yellow; remaining tergites mostly pale yellow with median small, brown diffused patches. Wings hyaline, pterostigma and veins honey yellow. Legs pale yellow to honey yellow. Ovipositor honey yellow, strongly sclerotised at apex; sheaths brown.</p><p>Head: transverse in dorsal view, 2.5 × wider than its median length. Eye 1.3 × longer than wide; eye width 1.8 × longer than temple in dorsal view. Malar space 0.4 × eye height and as long as width of hypoclypeal depression; mandibles bidentate. Occipital carina complete and reaching hypostomal carina before the base of mandible; inner margins of posterior ocelli (POL) as long as the ocellar diameter (OD), 0.4 × shorter than distance between outer margin of posterior ocellus and eye (OOL). Vertex slightly striate, frons and temple smooth, frons slightly excavated, face slightly rugose, setose. Antennae broken, with 11 flagellomeres or less; first flagellomere about 4.0 × longer than wide, 1.3 × longer than second flagellomere.</p><p>Mesosoma: 1.7 × longer than high and 2.2 × longer than wide. Pronotal collar distinct, visible in dorsal view, smooth to slightly rugose, sparsely setose; pronotal furrow wide, deep and scrobiculate. Median length of mesoscutum 1.2 × its width (dorsal view); mesoscutal lobes coriaceous, with median mesoscutal lobe slightly projected upwards from lateral lobes; notauli wide, deep, scrobiculate, not joining, obscuring before the endo of mesoscutum in a longitudinally rugose area. Scutellar disc smooth to slightly acinose, prescutellar furrow with six transverse carinae. Mesopleuron mostly smooth; precoxal sulcus wide, deep, slightly scrobiculate, 0.6 × as long as mesopleuron; mesopleural sulcus wide, relatively shallow and scrobiculate, subalar sulcus deep and scrobiculate. Metapleuron rugose-areolate. Propodeum slightly rugose-smooth on median basal half, rugose-areolate on apical half, with a median longitudinal carina running along basal third, areola distinct and complete.</p><p>Wings: fore wing 2.9 × longer than wide. Pterostigma 3.2 × longer than wide and 1.5 × as long as R. Vein r 0.9 × as long as 3RSa, 0.2 × as long as 3RSb, and as long as vein r-m. Vein m-cu antefurcal to 2RS, vein RS+Mb present. First subdiscal cell open. Hind wing vein M+CU 0.8 × as long as 1M, m-cu slightly curved towards wing apex.</p><p>Legs: one missing, remaining fore tibia without row of spines along anterior margin. Legs mostly smooth to slightly acinose; hind coxa slightly striate ventrally.</p><p>Metasoma: first tergite short, 0.9 × as long as apical width, longitudinally costate. Second tergite longitudinally costate; suture between second and third tergites straight, distinct; remaining tergites mostly smooth and polished, slightly acinose apically. Ovipositor length 0.7 as long as metasoma.</p><p>Male. Unknown.</p><p>Biology. Unknown.</p><p>Etymology. The name of this species is formed as an arbitrary combination of letters and refers to the popular Costa Rican expression “¡pura vida!”, meaning “this is life!”, which originally comes from the mid-twentieth century Mexican film comedian “Clavillazo”.</p><p>Material examined. Holotype (CNIN IBUNAM). Female. Costa Rica: Puntarenas, Pen. Osa, 5 km Npto. Jiménez, 10, m. Malaise, vii, viii 1993. P. Hanson.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D787AF1510FFECFF23FAB4FD3CFD74	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.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Zaldívar-Riverón, Alejandro;Castañeda-Osorio, Rubén;Shaw, Scott R.	Zaldívar-Riverón, Alejandro, Castañeda-Osorio, Rubén, Shaw, Scott R. (2025): Three new species and phylogenetic affinity of the neotropical genus Sericobracon Shaw (Braconidae: Doryctinae). Zootaxa 5613 (1): 171-185, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5613.1.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5613.1.9
03D787AF151EFFEFFF23FD05FD17F84D.text	03D787AF151EFFEFFF23FD05FD17F84D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Sericobracon zunigai Zaldivar-Riveron & Shaw 2025	<div><p>Sericobracon zunigai Zaldívar-Riverón &amp; Shaw, new species</p><p>(Figs 6 A-F)</p><p>Diagnosis. Sericobracon zunigai sp. nov. can be distinguished from the remaining described species of Sericobracon by having: 1) propleuron, pronotum and most part of mesopleuron whitish yellow to honey yellow (Figs 6A, D) (mostly dark brown or black in the remaining species Figs 2A, D, 3A, B, 4A, D, 5A, D); 3) notauli obscuring before the end of mesoscutum in a longitudinally striate- mostly smooth area (Fig. 6C) (slightly rugose in the remaining species except S. paulmarshi; Figs 3C, 4B, 5C); and 4) mesopleuron mostly coriaceous (Fig.6D) (similar in S. arimaensis and S. evansi (Figs 2D, 3A, B; mostly smooth in S. paulmarshi and S. puravida; Figs 4D, 5D).</p><p>Description. Holotype female. Body size 4.4 mm, fore wing 3.2 mm. Colour: vertex, scapus, pedicel and flaggellomeres, mesoscutum, scutellum, propodeum, first, basal and apical median edges of second, and median areas of third to sixth metasimal tergites, and tarsi dark brown to black; frons, area surrounding eyes and temple, propleuron and pronotum, hind and middle coxae, femora and tibiae, most of second, lateral areas of third to sixth, and last three metasomal tergites, and coxae, femora, and tibiae whitish yellow; median and posterior part of mesopleuron whitish to honey yellow; wings hyaline, pterostigma and veins brown; ovipositor and sheaths honey yellow; ovipositor strongly sclerotised at apex.</p><p>Head: transverse in dorsal view, 1.7 × wider than its median length. Eye 1.3 × longer than wide; eye width 2.4 × longer than temple in dorsal view. Malar space 0.3 × eye height and 0.8 × as long as width of hypoclypeal depression; mandibles bidentate. Occipital carina complete and reaching hypostomal carina before the base of mandible; inner margins of posterior ocelli (POL) 1.6 longer than ocellar diameter (OD), 0.6 × shorter than distance between outer margin of posterior ocellus and eye (OOL). Vertex striate, frons slightly excavated and glabrous, face transversally striate, with small, sparse setae. One antenna (left) with 32 flagellomeres, second antennae broken (right); first flagellomere about 2.6 × longer than wide, 1.2 × longer than second flagellomere.</p><p>Mesosoma: 1.4 × longer than high and 1.8 × longer than wide. Pronotal collar distinct, visible in dorsal view, acinose to slightly coriaceous, sparsely setose; pronotal furrow wide, deep and scrobiculate. Median length of mesoscutum as long as its width (dorsal view); mesoscutal lobes coriaceous, with median mesoscutal lobe slightly projected upwards from lateral lobes; notauli wide, deep, scrobiculate, not joining, obscuring before the endo of mesoscutum in a longitudinally striate-mostly smooth area. Scutellar disc smooth to slightly acinose, prescutellar furrow with six transverse carinae. Mesopleuron mostly coriaceous; precoxal sulcus wide, deep, scrobiculate and slightly coriaceous, about 0.6 × as long as mesopleuron; subalar sulcus wide, deep and scrobiculate. Metapleuron mostly coriaceous, slightly rugose anteriorly. Propodeum mostly coriaceous, rugose apically, with a median longitudinal carina running along basal third, areola distinct and complete.</p><p>Wings: fore wing 4.2 × longer than wide. Pterostigma 2.0 × longer than wide and 0.6 × as long as R. Vein r as long as 3RSa, 0.2 × as long as 3RSb, and 1.1 × longer than vein r-m. Vein m-cu antefurcal to 2RS, vein RS+Mb present. First subdiscal cell open. Hind wing vein M+CU 0.6 × as long as 1M, m-cu slightly curved towards wing apex.</p><p>Legs: fore tibia without row of spines along anterior margin. Legs mostly smooth to slightly coriaceous. Hind coxa slightly coriaceous ventrally.</p><p>Metasoma: first tergite short, 0.8 × as long as apical width, longitudinally costate. Second tergite longitudinally costate; suture between second and third tergites straight, distinct; remaining tergites mostly smooth and polished, slightly acinose in some areas. Ovipositor length 0.9 × as long as metasoma.</p><p>Male. Unknown.</p><p>Etymology. The name of this species is an honorary patronym for the collector of the holotype, C. Zuniga.</p><p>Biology. Unknown.</p><p>Material examined. Holotype (CNIN IBUNAM). Female. Costa Rica: Guanacaste, Est. Biol. Maritza, 600 m, xi, 1996, C. Zuniga, Malaise. L. N. 326900-373000.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D787AF151EFFEFFF23FD05FD17F84D	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.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Zaldívar-Riverón, Alejandro;Castañeda-Osorio, Rubén;Shaw, Scott R.	Zaldívar-Riverón, Alejandro, Castañeda-Osorio, Rubén, Shaw, Scott R. (2025): Three new species and phylogenetic affinity of the neotropical genus Sericobracon Shaw (Braconidae: Doryctinae). Zootaxa 5613 (1): 171-185, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5613.1.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5613.1.9
03D787AF151CFFEEFF23FF7DFA6BFD8F.text	03D787AF151CFFEEFF23FF7DFA6BFD8F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Sericobracon Shaw 1985	<div><p>Key to described species of Sericobracon</p><p>1. Mesopleuron mostly smooth (as in Fig. 5D)................................................................ 2</p><p>- Mesopleuron mostly coriaceous (as in Fig. 3B)............................................................. 3</p><p>2. Second metasomal tergite with posterior border of longitudinally striate area broadly “V” shaped and shortest medially (Fig. 4E); notauli becoming obscure before end of mesoscutum in a median longitudinally striate area (Fig. 4B)................................................................................................. S. paulmarshi sp. nov.</p><p>- Second metasomal tergite with posterior border of longitudinally striate area linear, running straight across the segment, not “V” shaped (Fig. 5E); notauli becoming obscure before end of mesoscutum in a slightly rugose area (Fig. 5C)................................................................................................ S. puravida sp. nov.</p><p>3. Propleuron, pronotum and most part of mesopleuron whitish yellow to honey yellow (Fig. 6D)......... S. zunigai sp. nov.</p><p>- Propleuron, pronotum and most part of mesopleuron mostly dark brown or black (as in Fig. 3B)...................... 4</p><p>4. First metasomal tergite longitudinally striate; metapleuron mostly strongly rugose-areolate (Fig. 2D)... S. arimaensis Shaw</p><p>- First metasomal tergite smooth to slightly longitudinally striate (Fig. 3D); metapleuron coriaceous-slightly rugose (Figs. 3A, B)...................................................................................... S. evansi Shaw</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D787AF151CFFEEFF23FF7DFA6BFD8F	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.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Zaldívar-Riverón, Alejandro;Castañeda-Osorio, Rubén;Shaw, Scott R.	Zaldívar-Riverón, Alejandro, Castañeda-Osorio, Rubén, Shaw, Scott R. (2025): Three new species and phylogenetic affinity of the neotropical genus Sericobracon Shaw (Braconidae: Doryctinae). Zootaxa 5613 (1): 171-185, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5613.1.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5613.1.9
