Scutibracon sumodani ( Narendran & Madhavikutty, 1994 )

Samartsev, Konstantin G., Duong, Tran Dinh & Long, Khuat Dang, 2025, The genus Scutibracon Quicke & Walker (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in Vietnam, with new records and descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 5715 (1), pp. 407-418 : 414-416

Scutibracon sumodani ( Narendran & Madhavikutty, 1994)

Cassidibracon sumodani Narendran & Madhavikutty in Narendran et al. 1994: 129. Samartsev 2023: 390 (transferred to Scutibracon ).

Material. Vietnam, Hoa Binh Province, Kim Boi District, Hop Tien Commune, Khu Village , Thuong Tien Nature Reserve , 20°39’13”N 105°28’26”E, 306 m, 16.VII.2024, sweeping (Tran Dinh Duong), 1 female (IB KS0004489 ) . Vietnam, Vinh Phuc Province, Phuc Yen City, Ngoc Thanh Commune , fruit orchard, Malaise trap, 11–25.x.2000 (Khuat Dang Long), 1 female ( IB Bracn. 631) . Vietnam, Thai Nguyen Province, 20 km N Thai Nguyen, Cho Moi Commune, 16–23.iv.1986 (A. V. Sharkov ), 1 female ( ZISP KS0005537 ) .

Redescription (only those categorical characters that differ from the type specimen ( Samartsev 2023) are indicated. Character conditions of the holotype are given in parentheses).

Female. Body length (1.9) 2.5–2.6 mm; fore wing length (1.8) 2.5 mm.

Width of head (dorsal view) 1.8–1.9 (1.9) × its median length. Transverse diameter of eye (dorsal view) 2.3–2.4 (2.9) × as long as temple. POL 1.1–1.2 (1.2) × OD; OOL (2.1) 2.2–2.4 × POL. Vertex with very weak longitudinal impression (not impressed).Longitudinal diameter of eye in lateral view 1.2 (1.3) ×its transverse diameter.Transverse diameter of eye (lateral view) (2.8) 3.0–3.5 × minimum width of temple. Face width (1.2) 1.3 × combined height of face and clypeus, 2.3–2.5 (2.7) × width of hypoclypeal depression. Width of hypoclypeal depression (0.95) 1.0– 1.1 × distance from depression to eye. Intertentorial distance 1.2–1.4 × tentorio-ocular distance. Height of clypeus 0.3–0.4 (0.4) × width of hypoclypeal depression. Longitudinal diameter of eye (2.4) 2.6–2.7 × as long as malar space (front view).

Antenna with (23) 26 antennomeres. First flagellomere 2.6–2.8 (2.7) × as long as its apical width, middle and penultimate flagellomeres 2.0–2.2 (2.1) × and 1.9 (2.1) × as long as wide, respectively.

Mesosoma. Metapleural sulcus smooth (weakly crenulate). Mid-longitudinal keel on propodeum complete (incomplete), with branching rugae (weakly crenulate). Mid-longitudinal impression on propodeum deep, crenulate (absent).

Wings. Vein 1-R1 1.5–1.7 (1.7) × as long as pterostigma. Marginal cell about (4.7) 6.4 × as long as distance from its apex to apex of wing. Vein 3-SR (1.6) 1.8–1.9 × vein r, (0.3) 0.3–0.4 × vein SR1, (1.2) 1.2–1.4 × vein 2- SR. Vein 1-M 0.7 (0.8) × vein 1-SR+M, 1.5–1.8 (2.1) × vein m-cu, 2.2–2.3 (2.4) × vein cu-a. Vein 2-SR+M 0.2–0.3 (0.35) × vein 2-SR, 0.3–0.4 (0.5) × vein m-cu.

Legs. Hind femur (2.8) 2.9–3.1 × as long as wide. Hind tibia 6.8 × as long as wide. Hind tibia 1.4 (1.5) × as long as hind femur, its inner spur 0.4 (0.4) × as long as hind basitarsus. Hind tarsus about 1.0 (1.1) × as long as hind tibia. Hind tarsus about 0.7 (0.7) × as long as mesosoma. Fifth segment of hind tarsus 0.45–0.50 (0.50) × as long as hind basitarsus and 0.9 (0.9) × as long as second segment.

Metasoma. Median length of T1 0.5 (0.5) × its apical width. Posterior width of T1 (1.1) 1.2–1.3 × median length of T2. Median length of T1 (0.53) 0.57–0.64 × median length of T2. T2 medially 1.4–1.5 (1.5) × as long as T3. Anterior width of T2 1.2–1.3 (1.4) × its median length. Ovipositor sheath 0.67–0.69 (0.73) × as long as hind tibia and 0.18–0.19 (0.22) × as long as fore wing.

Sculpture. Face, genae, and coxae without granulate sculpture (face below toruli and near eyes and genae weakly granulate, coxae coriaceous); propodeum posteriorly rugose-punctate, medioposteriorly with wide tree-like rugosity (posteriorly coriaceous, with short rugae apically).

Male. Unknown.

Host. Unknown.

Distribution. India, Vietnam (new record).