Streblocera (Eutanycerus) shujauddini Shamim & O 2013, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Shamim, Mohammad
name: O, Published
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Streblocera
Streblocera shujauddini

description: 4.9. Streblocera (Eutanycerus) shujauddini sp. nov. (Plate IX; Figures 71–79)
Body length: 7 mm, Forewing: 7 mm, Antenna: 8 mm.
Head: Width of head in dorsal view 1.7× its length, 1.4× its height; antennal segments 21; scape long, incrassate, 7.6× its width and 2× height of head, at basal third with a minute spine; ventrally without carina, flagellum geniculated at seventh flagellomere; first to seventh flagellomere ventrally deeply serrate, sixth and seventh flagellomere formed into a hook-like prominence apicoventrally, prominence on sixth segments smaller than on seventh segment; first flagellomere with 1 sensillum, 2.7× as long as wide, as long as pedicel, and 1.6× second flagellomere; second flagellomere with 2 sensilla, 1.2× its width, equal to third flagellomere; third flagellomere with 3 sensilla, F 3 – F 5, F 6, F 7, F 8 – F 9, F 10 – F 18, and F 19 1.2×, 1.1×, 1×, 2.4×, 2×, and 2.7× their widths, respectively; length of scape: length of pedicel to seventh flagellomere: length of antenna from eighth flagellomere to apex = 115: 87: 118; occipital carina incomplete, dorsally shortly interrupted, ventrally separated from hypostomal carina; OOL: POL: OD = 20: 10: 4; length of eye in dorsal view 1.2× its width, 1.6× temple; temple smooth, sparsely setose; posteriorly roundly narrowed behind eyes; vertex 2.3× its width, smooth, sparsely setose; frons 1.6× as wide as long, medially roughly granulated, remaining striate, near eye margin smooth, sparsely setose; face 1.8× as wide as long, medially depressed, uniformly granulate, densely setose; intertentorial line 1.2× tentorio-ocular line, tentorial pit deep, small; clypeus 2.9× its height, slightly convex, smooth, setose; length of malar space 1.3× basal width of mandible.
Mesosoma: Length of mesosoma 1.9× its width, 2× its height; pronotal side medially largely crenulate, remaining smooth; precoxal sulcus narrow, crenulate; mesopleuron anterodorsally rugose, remaining largely smooth; notauli wide, deep, anteriorly crenulate, posteriorly reticulate, rugose with small, weak median longitudinal carina; middle lobe of mesoscutum smooth, setose, lateral lobes smooth, glabrous; scutellar sulcus wide, deep, smooth with 1 strong median longitudinal carina; scutellum slightly convex, smooth, sparsely setose; side of scutellum alutaceous, setose; medioposterior depression wide, oval-shaped; propodeum apically and medially reticulate, rugose, basally narrowly smooth with carina.
Wings: Forewing 2.8× as long as wide; length of pterostigma 3× its width; length of vein 1 – R 1 0.78× length of pterostigma; r emitting just behind middle of pterostigma, its length 0.33× width of pterostigma; vein SR1 + 3 – SR evenly curved; m – cu slightly interstitial; r: 2 – SR: SR1 + 3-SR = 7: 25: 78; 1 – CU1: 2 – CU1: 3 – CU1 = 6: 28: 10; hindwing 3.7× as long as wide; 1 – M: 1 – r-m: 2 – SC + R = 10: 13: 15.
Legs: Hind coxa smooth, setose; lengths of hind femur, tibia, and basitarsus 7×, 15.3×, and 11.5× their widths, respectively; lengths of hind tibial spurs 0.21× hind basitarsus.
Metasoma: Length of metasoma 2.3× its width, 2.6× its height; first metasomal tergite 2.2× its apical width, its surface longitudinally striate; dorsope present; distance across spiracles 0.93× distance from spiracles to apex of first metasomal tergite; ovipositor sheath slender, setose, its length 0.17× forewing, 0.17× hind basitarsus, hypopygium glabrous; ovipositor long, strongly curved downward, apically pointed.
Color: Yellow except temple yellowish brown; ovipositor brownish yellow; stemmaticum black; ocelli transparent; eyes grayish.
Variation: Length of body 6.8 mm, of forewing 6.9 mm, of antenna 7.8 – 7.9 mm; OOL: POL: OD = 19: 9: 4; pronotal side dorsally crenulate, remaining smooth; length of mesosoma 2.1 – 2.2× its width and 2.3× its height; r: 2 – SR: SR1 + 3 _ SR = 6: 24: 76; ovipositor sheath 0.16× hind basitarsus; hypopygium sparsely setose.
Type material: Holotype, female, INDIA: Uttar Pradesh, Etawah, 26°47′N, 79°02′E, 14, 23. iv. 2010, Coll. M. Shamim (ZDAMU). Deposited in Insect Collection, Department of Zoology, AMU, Aligarh (ZDAMU).
Paratypes, 3 females, same as holotypes. INDIA: Uttar Pradesh, Etawah, 26°47′N, 79°02′E, 14, 22. v. 2007. Coll. M. Sharif & M. Shamim (ZDAMU). Deposited in Insect Collection, Department of Zoology, AMU, Aligarh (ZDAMU).
Etymology: The new species is named after the Indian entomologist Professor Shujauddin, in recognition of his great contribution to the taxonomy of parasitic Hymenoptera.
Discussion: The new species Streblocera (Eutanycerus) shujauddini sp. nov. is related to Streblocera (Eutanycerus) aurrayyus sp. nov. However, it differs by having (1) face 1.8× as wide as long, uniformly granulate, densely setose (face 1.2× as wide as long, punctate in aurrayyus); (2) first metasomal tergite 2.2× its apical width, its surface longitudinally striate (first metasomal tergite 1.8× its apical width, its surface apically one-third smooth, remaining longitudinally striate in aurrayyus); (3) distance across spiracles 0.93× distance from spiracles to apex of first metasomal tergite (distance across spiracles 0.57× distance from spiracles to apex of first metasomal tergite in aurrayyus); (4) ovipositor sheaths 0.17× hind basitarsus (ovipositor sheath 0.84× hind basitarsus in aurrayyus; (5) scape 7.6× its width (scape 8.8× its width in aurrayyus).
The new species Streblocera (Eutanycerus) shujauddini sp. nov. is also related to Streblocera (Eutanycerus) linearata Chen and Achterberg, 1997. However, it differs by having (1) flagellum geniculated at seventh flagellar segments (flagellum not geniculated in linearata); (2) antennal segments 21 (antennal segments 23 in linearata); (3) first flagellomere with 1 sensillum (first flagellar segment with 3 sensilla in linearata); (4) face medially depressed, uniformly granulate, densely setose (face densely punctate and setose in linearata).
description: Published as part of Shamim, Mohammad & O, Published, 2013, The genus Streblocera Westwood (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Euphorinae) from India, with descriptions of 9 new species, pp. 385-405 in Turkish Journal of Zoology 37 (4) on pages 402-404, DOI: 10.3906/zoo-1207-36, http://zenodo.org/record/10973680