Streblocera (Streblocera) necurvata Mai & Long & Hiep & Hoa & Duong 2025, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Mai, Pham Quynh
name: Long, Khuat Dang
name: Hiep, Nguyen Duc
name: Hoa, Dang Thi
name: Duong, Tran Dinh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Streblocera
Streblocera necurvata

description: Streblocera (Streblocera) necurvata Long, sp. nov.
Figures 15, 16, 21
Type material. Holotype, ♀, labelled “Euph. 391 ”, (IEBR), NE Vietnam: Lang Son, Huu Lung, Huu Lien NR, forest, MT, 21°38’43’’N 106°21’41’E, 187 m, 15.ii.2024, PQ Mai, TD Duong.
Diagnosis. Small wasp, scapus without basal tooth-like; S. (S.) necurvata, sp. nov., is similar to S. (S.) curvata Belokobylskij, from Nepal, but differs from the latter by having: 1) Occipital carina incomplete medio-dorsally (vs occipital carina complete medio-dorsally in S. (S.) curvata); 2) First metasomal tergite 1.8 × as long as its apical width [vs 2.3 × in S. (S.) curvata]; 3) Length of scapus 6.6 × its maximum width [vs 9.0 × in S. (S.) curvata]; and 4) Antenna with 16 antennomeres [vs 17–18 antennomeres in S. (S.) curvata].
Description. Holotype, ♀; body length 2.0 mm, fore wing length 2.3 mm, ovipositor 0.3 mm (Fig. 15).
Head. Antenna with 16 antennomeres; length of scapus 6.6 × its maximum width (Fig. 16E); scapus 1.8 × of head height; first flagellomere strongly curved, with hook apically, 5.5 × as long as its width medially and 2.75 × second flagellomere (Fig. 16E); in dorsal view, occipital carina incomplete medio-dorsally (Fig. 16A), width of head 1.55 × its median length, and 1.4 × width of mesoscutum (without tegulae); temple roundly narrowed behind eye; length of eye 1.3 × as long as temple; POL: OD: OOL= 3: 2.5: 6 (Fig. 16A); eye 1.8 × as high as broad; in lateral view, transverse diameter of eye 1.1 × temple; in frontal view, diameter of antennal socket as long as distance between sockets; face width as long as length of face and clypeus combined, and 1.25 × height of eye; clypeus margin straight (Fig. 16B); malar space 0.9 × as long as basal width of mandible, and 0.3 × as long as eye height; distance between tentorial pits 1.75 × distance from pit to eye margin; face and clypeus densely setose (Fig. 16B); frons flat, smooth; temple and vertex polished smooth (Figs 16A, C).
Mesosoma. In lateral view, length of mesosoma 1.6 × as long as its height; notauli narrow, punctate anteriorly, sparsely crenulated posteriorly (Fig. 16D); prescutellar sulcus narrow, with one carina, 0.5 × as long as scutellum; mesoscutal lobes and scutellum smooth; pronotal side sparsely crenulate medially; smooth dorsally and ventrally; precoxal sulcus short, oblique, densely punctate (Fig. 16F); mesopleuron smooth highly smooth; metapleuron sparsely rugose; propodeum without basal carina, smooth antero-laterally, with two sinuate-divergent rugosities baso-medially and sparse rugosities posteriorly (Fig. 16G).
Wings. Length of fore wing 3.0 × its width; length of pterostigma 3.2 × its width, and 1.9 × vein 1-R1 (Fig. 16I); vein r arising distinctly behind middle of pterostigma, 0.3 × as long as width of pterostigma, and 0.2 × vein 1-R1; vein 1-CU1: cu-a: 2-CU1 = 2.0: 2.5: 8.0; length of hind wing 4.2 × its width; 1-M: 1r-m: 2-SC+R = 3: 5: 5.
Legs. Length of hind femur, tibia and basitarsus 5.6, 11.7 and 8.7 × as long as their maximum width, respectively; hind basitarsus 0.4 × hind tibia, and 0.8 × second-fifth tarsus combined; fourth hind tarsus 0.75 × as long as fifth tarsus (without pretarsus).
Metasoma. Length of first tergite 1.8 × its apical width, apical width of first tergite 2.5 × its minimum width (Fig. 16H); ovipositor 0.1 × fore wing, and 0.7 × first tergite; ovipositor flat, slightly curved upwards; first metasomal tergite sparsely rugose basally, striate medially, largely smooth apically (Fig. 16H); the rest tergites highly smooth.
Colour. Head yellow; stemmaticum dark brown; eyes silver-grey; scapus and pedicel yellow; flagellum yellowish brown; all legs yellow; propleuron, mesopleuron and metapleuron yellow; mesoscutal lobes yellowish brown to brown; scutellum yellow; propodeum yellowish brown basally, yellow apically; first metasomal tergite brown, the remainder brownish yellow; ovipositor sheath brown; pterostigma pale yellow, darker ventrally; wing veins pale yellow; wing membrane hyaline.
Male. Unknown.
Host: Unknown.
Etymology. “ ne ” Latin meaning “not” and “curvata ”, in reference to it being close to but different from S. (S.) curvata Belokobylskij, 2000, from Nepal.
Distribution. NE Vietnam: Lang Son province (Huu Lien NR) (Fig. 21).
description: Published as part of Mai, Pham Quynh, Long, Khuat Dang, Hiep, Nguyen Duc, Hoa, Dang Thi & Duong, Tran Dinh, 2025, Review of the genus Streblocera Westwood, 1883 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Euphorinae) in Vietnam, with descriptions of nine new species, pp. 59-92 in Zootaxa 5627 (1) on pages 81-83, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5627.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/15324979