Epimicta Foerster, 1862

Zheng, Min-Lin, Chen, Jia-Hua & Achterberg, C. Van, 2013, The discovery of the rare genus Epimicta Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in China, with a description of a new species, Zootaxa 3613 (2), pp. 190-194 : 190-191

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3613.2.7

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6159976

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scientific name

Epimicta Foerster, 1862
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Epimicta Foerster, 1862: 225 –288 (Type species: Alysia (Dacnusa) marginalis Haliday, 1839 ); Wharton, 1994: 633–635; Tobias, 1998: 312; Kula, 2005: 78–83.

Type species: Alysia (Dacnusa) marginalis Haliday, 1839 .

Diagnosis. Head short and transverse; antenna thick, third antennal segment longer than fourth segment; frons short; face punctuate; mandible broad, with four teeth, first tooth wide and obtuse, second tooth nearly equilateral triangle and pointed, third tooth lobe-shaped and round, fourth tooth small and located along ventral margin; pronotum with small pronope; notauli deep and crenulate; antescutellar depression deep, long and with several strongly longitudinally short carinae; precoxal sulcus complete, running along entire length of mesopleuron and crenulate-rugulose; metanotum with an well-developed dorsal flange; propodeum areolate rugose; metapleuron rugose to crenulate- rugose, setiferous (Fig. 5); vein r of fore wing arising basally midpoint of pterostigma, vein1- SR+M more or less weakly S-shaped, vein m-cu antefurcal; vein m-cu of hind wing absent; hind coxa relatively small; hind femur slender; claw simple; metasomal tergites mainly setose, second and usually part of third tergites sculptured (Fig.6).

Remarks: As noted by Nixon (1943), Griffiths (1964), Riegel (1982) and Wharton (1994) Epimicta Foerster is close to Trachionus Haliday. The most distinct difference between these two genera is that Trachionus has a more complete carapace-like metasoma.

Distribution. England, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Sweden, Czech Republic, Poland, Moldova, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Korea, China (Palaearctic, first record), Canada, U.S.A.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

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