Hartemita maculata, Long, Khuat Dang & van Achterberg, Cornelis, 2011

Long, Khuat Dang & van Achterberg, Cornelis, 2011, Review of the genus Hartemita Cameron, 1910 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Cardiochilinae), with the description of six new species from Vietnam, ZooKeys 102, pp. 13-40 : 24-27

Hartemita maculata sp. n. Figs 29-349194

Type material.

Holotype, female (IEBR), “Card.026”, "[C.N.Vietnam:] Nghe An, Con Cuong, Pu Mat NP, 250 m, 12.ix.2005, P. Th. Nhi". Paratypes: 2 males (IEBR, RMNH), “Card.052”, “Card.053”, "[N.E. Vietnam:] Thai Nguyen, Dai Tu, Minh Tien, MT, 21°43'N 105°34'E, 350 m, 10-15.ix.2007, K. D. Long"; 1 female (IEBR), “Card.054”, id., but tea farm, 31.v.2008, K. D. Long; 1 female (RMNH), “Card.066”, "[N.E. Vietnam:] Vinh Phuc,Tam DaoNP, 100 m, MT, 30.iv.2008, P. H. Thai"; 1 male (IEBR), “Card.032”, "[C. Vietnam:] Thua Thien-Hue, Nam Dong, MT, 2-6.v.2005, N. Q. Truong"; 2 females (IEBR, RMNH), “Card.067”, “Card.068”, 6 males (IEBR, RMNH), “Card.069”, “Card.070”, "[N.E. Vietnam:] Phu Tho (Xuan Son NP), garden, MT, 20-25.v.2010, K.D. Long, N. H. Thao"; “Card.071”, “Card.072”, id., but 19-21.vi.2009; “Card.073”, id., but 29.vi-05.vii.2009; “Card.074”, id. but 25-30.vii.2009; 1 female (RMNH) "N. Vietnam: Ninh Binh, Cuc Phuong N.P., nr entrance, [Mal. trap], c 225 m, 14.iv.-1.v.2000, Mai Phu Quy, RMNH’00”; 1 female (RMNH) "[China:], Hunan, Lianyun Mt., cotton-shelter, 2.vii.2007, 28°30.203'N 113°48.619'E, altitude 590 m, Li Ze-jan"; 1 male (RMNH), [China:] Hunan, Mufu Mt., Yanziping, altitude 1330 m, 29.vi. 2007, 28°58.524'N 113°49.638'E, Li Ze-jan"; 1 female (RMNH), "China: Fujian, Nanjin, 30.v.1991, no. 96 9320, Liu Changmin, RMNH’99”.

Diagnosis.

The new species is similar to Hartemita latipes Cameron, but differs by having the mesoscutum brownish-yellow near the notauli (Fig. 93) (completely black near the notauli in Hartemita latipes ; Fig. 89); OOL yellow (Fig. 91) (black in Hartemita latipes ; Fig. 87); the ovipositor sheath yellowish-brown (dark brown in Hartemita latipes ); the anterior transverse carina of the propodeum coarsely developed (moderately to weakly developed in Hartemita latipes ); the mesosternum and the mesopleuron of female yellowish-brown (largely black in Hartemita latipes ) and the tarsal claws with 4-5 large teeth (Fig. 32) and 0-2 small teeth (2-3 (rarely 4) large teeth and 3-4 small teeth in Hartemita latipes ).

Description. Holotype, female, body length 8.0 mm, fore wing length 7.6 mm, antenna 7.8 mm.

Head. Antennal segments: 43 (paratypes: 41, 42 (2) or 43); third antennal segment 1.4 times as long as fourth; length of third, fourth and penultimate segments 1.9, 1.6, 2.0 times their width respectively; clypeal margin convex medio-ventrally (Fig. 29); epistomial suture distinct, curved; width of face 1.3 times height of eye; malar space equal to basal width of mandible; in dorsal view head width 2.3 times its median length; occiput weakly concave (fig. 30); temple behind eyes almost perpendicular posteriorly (Figs 30, 97); length of temple 0.9 times as long as transverse diameter of eye; OOL:POL:OD = 16:8:6; frons concave; eye glabrous; laterally length of eye twice its width and 0.75 times temple.

Mesosoma. Length of mesosoma 1.3 times its height; pronotal trough shiny and smooth as surroundings; notauli shallow and smooth; scutellar sulcus with 3 cross-carinae; scutellum, mesopleuron and mesosternum shiny and smooth; precoxal sulcus crenulate anteriorly and smooth posteriorly; metapleuron smooth anteriorly and rugose posteriorly; median arch of metanotum with lateral cross-carinae (Fig. 33); propodeum largely rugose.

Wings. Length of fore wing 2.7 times its maximum width; pterostigma length 3.2 times its median width; vein r arising near middle of pterostigma; r:2-SR:3-SR = 13:20:35; length of second submarginal cell of fore wing 3.5 times its width; vein 1-CU1 0.4 times vein 2-CU1; vein 3-SR joining vein SR1 at 100° (Fig. 31). Length of hind wing 4.3 times its width; vein M+CU 0.3 times vein 1-M.

Legs. Length of hind femur 4.2 times its width; hind basitarsus flattened, not broadly laminate and not produced apically, its width 0.9 times distal width of hind tibia; length of hind basitarsus 3.75 times as long as its width (Figs 34, 100); hind tarsal segments 2-5 not shortened, 0.8 times as long as hind basitarsus (Fig. 100); inner hind tibial spur 0.7 times as long as hind basitarsus; outer side of hind tibia with long sparse spines; hind claw with 5 large teeth and 1 small tooth (Fig. 32).

Metasoma. Metasoma 1.2 times length of mesosoma dorsally; second tergite 0.8 times as long as third segment; ovipositor sheath very short, round apically; ovipositor curved.

Colour. Body yellow; antenna brown; scapus dark brown laterally; frons, stemmaticum black; vertex black posteriorly; lateral and middle lobes of mesoscutum, mesosternum black; wings brown, but parastigma yellow; apex of fore wing (behind vein r-m) darker; near apex of hind coxa with a large black spot; trochantellus, basal ring of hind tibia, apex of hind basitarsus and remainder of hind tarsus dark brown; basal corner of second metasomal tergite and fourth and fifth tergites black apically.

Male. Body length 7.0-7.8 mm, fore wing length 6.8-8.3 mm, antenna 7.8-8.4 mm; antennal segments 40-44.

Distribution.

N Vietnam: Ninh Binh, Vinh Phuc, Thai Nguyen and Phu Tho and C Vietnam: Nghe An and Thua Thien-Hue; Oriental China and Nepal.

Etymology.

The species is named “maculata”, because of the distinctly maculate mesoscutum.

Notes.

Specimens from Vietnam have the hind claws with 5-6 teeth and the propodeum rugose with a faint transverse carina anteriorly. Most common species in North and Central Vietnam. Runs in the key by Dangerfield and Austin (1990) to Hartemita latipes Cameron, but this species has a Sundaland distribution and differs as indicated above. The only specimen reported as Hartemita chapini (Mao) from Malaysia has been examined and belongs to Hartemita latipes . As a result, Hartemita chapini is a species only known from the Philippines.