Nomosphecia Gupta, 1962

Pham, Nhi Thi, Broad, Gavin R. & Wägele, Wolfgang J., 2013, A review of the Theronia genus-group (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) from Vietnam with descriptions of five new species, Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) 47 (23 - 24), pp. 1501-1538 : 1513

Nomosphecia Gupta, 1962

Theronia (Nomosphecia) Gupta, 1962 . Pac. Ins. Mon. 4: 68. Type: Theronia (Nomosphecia) zebroides zebroides Krieger , original designation.

Nomosphecia Gupta : Gupta (1987).

Diagnosis

Mandible very strongly tapered, not twisted, lower tooth longer and broader than upper; clypeal margin thin, truncate to weakly concave; occipital carina complete, weakly concave mediodorsally; pronotum moderately long, epomia discernible on upper part of pronotum as an oblique ridge; mesoscutum smooth with notaulus strongly impressed anteriorly; propodeum with posterior transverse carina complete or reduced medially; metasoma moderately stout though first tergite quite slender; female with ovipositor projecting beyond apex of subgenital plate usually by more than hind tibia length; apex of ovipositor depressed with lower valve expanded to partially enclose upper.

Previously, 19 species were recognized, of which eight species occur in the Oriental region ( Gupta 1962; Yu et al. 2005). However, N. brevicauda ( Cushman 1933) was transferred to Augerella (see discussion for the genus Augerella ). Gupta (1962) erected two species groups for the Indo-Australian Nomosphecia species : the zebroides and pyramida groups. The zebroides group is distinguished by the more strongly developed lower mandibular tooth, the longer ovipositor and the moderately convex scutellum (versus a more or less pyramidal scutellum). Of the Vietnamese species, Nomosphecia zebroides belongs in the zebroides group, N. carinicurvata sp. nov. and N. scutellata belong in the pyramida group.