Coeloides changbaiensis Wang et Chen, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Wang, Yi-Ping
name: Chen, Xue-Xin
name: Wu, Hong
name: He, Jun-Hua
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Coeloides
Coeloides changbaiensis

description: Coeloides changbaiensis Wang et Chen, sp. nov. (Figs. 6–11)
Material studied. Holotype female: CHINA, Jilin, Changbai Mountain, 9.vii.1977, He Junhua, No. 770746 (ZJUH).
Description (Female). Length of body 3.5 mm, fore wing 3.8 mm, ovipositor 3.3 mm. Head: Antennae incomplete, with 30 segments remaining; scapus suboblique, dorsally longer than ventrally and 1.9 times as long as its apical width; pedicel 0.4 times as long as scapus; first flagellomere longer than pedicel, its apex ventro­lateral rather flared, 1.3 times as long as wide; second flagellomere 1.2 times as long as first one, ventrolaterally slightly flared apically; third flagellomere not flared, 1.3 times longer than second one; face largely smooth and shiny, sparsely setose medially and densely setose laterally; malar suture deep; height of clypeus: distance inter­tentorial: distance tentorial­ ocular= 3: 8: 5; length of maxillary palp 0.6 times height of head; length of eye in dorsal view 1.1 times temple; temple smooth and densely setose; frons between antennal sockets and ocelli distinctly impressed; shortest distance between posterior ocelli: minimum diameter of posterior ocelli: minimum distance between posterior ocellus and eyes= 2: 4: 13.
Mesosoma: Length of mesosoma 1.5 times its maximum height; pronotum and propleuron smooth; mesoscutum setose; notauli deep anteriorly, and shallow posteriorly, with sparse setae along its entirely length; scutellum flattened, densely pubescent; scutellar sulcus deep and moderately wide, crenulate; metanotum with distinct medio­longitudinal carina; propodeum sparsely setose, without mid­longitudinal carina or furrow.
Wing: Fore wing: length of veins r: 3­SR: SR1 = 5: 10: 35; vein 1­SR+M weakly curved; length of veins 2­SR: 3­SR: r­m = 8: 10: 6; vein cu­a weakly postfurcal. Hind wing: length of veins SC+R: 1r­m = 13: 7, vein 2­SC+R longitudinal, short and about 0.3 times as long as vein 1r­m.
Leg: Length of femur, tibia and tarsus of fore leg = 19: 22: 33; length of femur, tibia and basitarsus of hind leg = 24: 39: 14, and 3.3, 7.8 and 4.4 times their maximum width, respectively; tibia of hind leg without lateral furrow.
Metasoma: Metasomal tergites smooth. First metasomal tergite slightly narrowed apically, largely smooth and shiny, and with strongly raised carina medially and areolate laterally, 1.2 times as long as its apical width; second metasomal tergite smooth except for a striolate medio­basal area, with lateral diverging grooves and raised carina sublateraly; the suture between second and third metasomal tergites narrow, curved medially, deep and weakly crenulate; remainder of metasomal tergites smooth and sparsely setose, without antero­lateral carina or grooves; hypopygium rounded apically, not protruding beyond the apex of apical metasomal tergite; length of ovipositor 1.1 times length of metasoma, and 0.8 times fore wing.
Color: Body largely yellowish­brown but head yellowish.
Diagnostic characters: This species is similar to Coeloides abdominalis (Zetterstedt), but can be separated from the latter by the combination of the following characters: the rounded temple, the weakly curved vein 1­SR+M, the postfurcal vein cu­a of fore wing, the reddish yellow mesosoma and metasoma, and the second metasomal tergite without lateral raised areas.
Biology: Unknown.
Etymology: From Changbai, referring to the location of type specimen.
description: Published as part of Wang, Yi-Ping, Chen, Xue-Xin, Wu, Hong & He, Jun-Hua, 2006, The genus Coeloides Wesmael of subfamily Braconinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in China, pp. 1-17 in Zootaxa 1239 on pages 6-7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.273456