Utetes stenotus Tan & Achterberg & Zhang & Wu 2018, sp. n.
Creators: name: Tan, Jiang-Li
name: Achterberg, Cornelis Van
name: Zhang, Ruo-Nan
name: Wu, Jia-Xuan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Utetes
Utetes stenotus

description: Utetes stenotus Tan & van Achterberg, sp. n.
(Figs 40–50)
Type material. Holotype, ♀ (NWUX) “NW China: Shaanxi, Mt. Nangong Nat. Park, Langao, Ankiang, swept, N32.29°, E109.06°, 9.vi.2016, 1000–2000 m, Qingqing Tan, NWUX”.
Comperative diagnosis. The new species runs in Tobias (1998) to Opius [= Utetes] rotundiventris Thomson, 1895, sharing the narrow flat lateral areas of the first metasomal tergite, the nearly parallel-sided first tergite and its longitudinal sculpture medially. Utetes stenotus differs because the first tergite is about 1.1 × as long as its apical width (Fig. 43; 1.5–1.8 × in U. rotundiventris), antennomeres of ♀ with medium-sized setae (Fig. 45; with long setae), length of malar space about 0.7 × basal width of mandible (Fig. 50; about as long), scutellum convex, protruding above level of mesoscutum (Figs 42, 43; flat), and hind femur approx. 4 × wider than long (Figs 40, 48; approx. 5 ×).
Description. Holotype, ♀, length of body 2.3 mm, of fore wing 3.0 mm.
Head. Antenna incomplete, with 24 antennomeres remaining, antennomeres with medium-sized setae; third antennomere 1.3 × as long as fourth antennomere, length of third and fourth antennomeres 2.6 and 2.0 × their width, respectively (Figs 40, 45); length of maxillary palp equal to height of head; labial palp segments rather slender; occipital carina far separated from hypostomal carina and carina dorsally largely absent; hypostomal carina rather wide; length of eye in dorsal view 2.6 × temple (Fig. 47); frons shallowly depressed behind scapus, smooth and glabrous; face twice as wide as high medially, finely and remotely punctate, medially smooth and elevated (Fig. 46) and connected to median elevation of frons; width of clypeus 3.0 × its maximum height and 0.6 × width of face; clypeus moderately convex, with few rather coarse punctures and with long ventral setae, distinctly protruding and thin ventrally (Fig. 46); hypoclypeal depression wide (Figs 46, 50); malar suture distinct, nearly complete; length of malar space 0.7 × basal width of mandible and malar space weakly convex (Fig. 50); mandible triangular, robust apically, basal half regularly widened and with medium–sized ventral carina (Figs 42, 50).
Mesosoma. Length of mesosoma 1.2 × its height; dorsal pronope large, narrow elliptical (Fig. 47); pronotal side antero-medially and posteriorly moderately crenulate and remainder smooth; epicnemial area smooth; precoxal sulcus medium-sized and finely crenulate, remaining far from anterior and posterior margins of mesopleuron; remainder of mesopleuron convex, strongly shiny and smooth; pleural sulcus smooth; anterior groove of metapleuron distinctly crenulated (Fig. 42); notauli absent on disc, only anteriorly deeply impressed and largely smooth (but finely rugose anteriorly) and no lateral carina in front of tegulae; mesoscutum rounded anteriorly (without “shoulders”), strongly shiny and largely glabrous (Fig. 43); its medio–posterior depression deep, wide droplet-shaped; scutellar sulcus rather wide and finely crenulate; scutellum convex, protruding above level of mesoscutum medially, smooth and largely glabrous (but laterally setose; Fig. 43); propodeum with short and indistinct medio-longitudinal carina connected to indistinct transverse carina and remainder rather coarsely rugose (Figs 43, 44).
Wings. Fore wing (Fig. 41): pterostigma elliptical; 1-R1 ending at wing apex and 1.2 × as long as pterostigma; r:3-SR:SR1 = 5:46:84; 2-SR:3-SR:r-m = 14:23:7; r widened; 1-M slightly curved and 1-SR 0.45 × as long as 1-M; SR1 slightly curved; m-cu and cu-a narrowly postfurcal; first subdiscal cell closed, CU1b medium-sized; apical 0.1 of M+CU1 sclerotized. Hind wing: M+CU:1-M:1r-m = 22:20:11; cu-a straight; m-cu completely absent.
Legs. Length of femur, tibia and basitarsus of hind leg 3.9, 7.5 and 4.5 × as long as wide, respectively; hind femur with long setae and of hind tibia medium-sized (Fig. 48); carinula of hind tibia long and curved (Fig. 49).
Metasoma. Length of first tergite 1.1 × its apical width, flat and smooth lateral areas of first metasomal tergite narrow, distinctly narrower than sculptured medial part (Figs 43, 44); medially its surface distinctly convex and obliquely rugose, apical half subparallel-sided (Figs 43, 44); second tergite smooth, with pair of small triangular basal depressions (Fig. 44); following tergites smooth; length of setose part of ovipositor sheath 0.07 × fore wing, 0.2 × metasoma and 0.2 × hind tibia (Fig. 48); ovipositor robust (Figs 40, 48).
Colour. Black; palpi, coxae and trochanters ivory; clypeus, mandible, tegulae, remainder of legs (but telotarsi dark brown) and metasoma (but first tergite black and fourth–sixth tergites anteriorly and laterally rather dark brown) brownish yellow or yellow; scapus and pedicellus partly ventrally, head anteriorly, vertex and frons laterally, temple anteriorly, yellowish brown; wing membrane subhyaline; pterostigma and most veins dark brown.
Distribution. China (Shaanxi).
Biology. Unknown.
Etymology. From “stenotes” (Greek for “narrow”) because of narrow first metasomal tergite.
description: Published as part of Tan, Jiang-Li, Achterberg, Cornelis Van, Zhang, Ruo-Nan & Wu, Jia-Xuan, 2018, Five new species of Utetes Foerster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Opiinae) from NW China, pp. 525-541 in Zootaxa 4402 (3) on pages 535-537, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4402.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/1209750