Chelonus (Mirachelonus) miraventris Zhou & Achterberg & Tang & Chen 2022, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Zhou, Jin-Jin
name: Achterberg, Kees Van
name: Tang, Pu
name: Chen, Xue-Xin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Chelonus
Chelonus miraventris

description: Chelonus (Mirachelonus) miraventris sp. nov.
Material examined. Holotype: ♀, China, Yunnan Prov., Yingjiang, 1.X.2004, Jinxian Liu, No. 20059097 (ZJUH). Paratypes: (ZJUH): 1♀, China, Yunnan Prov., Yingjiang, 23. VI.2005, Jinxian Liu, No. 200609601; 2♀♀, China, Hainan, Mt. Wuzhi, 16-18. V.2007, Jie Zeng, Nos. 200807590, 200705120; 1♂, China, Hainan, Mt. Wuzhi, 6- 18. V.2007, Jie Zeng, No. 200807647; 1♀, China, Hainan, Mt. Wuzhi, 16-20. V.2007, Liqiong Wen, No. 200705135; 1♀, China, Hainan, Yinggeling, 25. V.2007, Jinxian Liu, No. 200702332; 2♂♂, China, Taiwan, Kaohsiung, Mt. Wugong, 31. V.2011, Pu Tang, Nos. 201104855, 201104842; 15♂♂, China, Taiwan, Kenting National Park, 31. V.2011, Pu Tang, Nos. 201104822, 201104823, 201104830, 201104833, 201104906, 201104908, 201104910, 201104913, 201104916, 201104918, 201104919, 201104922, 201104924, 201104928, 201104935.
Description. Holotype, female, length of body 3.83 mm, of fore wing 3 mm.
Head. Antennomeres 16, distinctly shorter than body, average length of 3 rd –7 th segments 3.2 × their width, 8 th –11 th segments 1.6 × longer than wide; head transverse, width of head 2.2 × its dorsal length, roundly contracted behind eyes, length of eyes 15.2 × temple in dorsal view, OOL: OD: POL= 16: 5: 14, longitudinal diameter of eye 2.3 × height of gena; vertex evenly convex and with transverse rugae behind ocelli, temple finely and longitudinally striate-rugose, frons concave, striate-rugose around antennal sockets (Fig. 2G); length maxillary palp 0.5 × height of head in anterior view, face striate-rugose, clypeus shiny, finely punctate, length of malar space 2.2 × basal width of mandible (Fig. 2F).
Mesosoma. Length of mesosoma 1.3 × its height; pronotum finely reticulate-rugose; mesoscutum evenly convex, reticulate-rugose, more strongly and coarsely rugose postero-medially; scutellum punctate medially, rugose laterally, more or less protruding above level of mesoscutum; scutellar suture comparatively deep and with 4 carinae; mesopleuron coarsely reticulate-rugose; propodeum coarsely reticulate-rugose with transversal carina and four blunt tubercles (Fig. 2B).
Wings. Length of fore wing 2.5 × its width; length of marginal cell 0.9 × pterostigma; vein 2-Rl short (Fig. 1); r: 3-SR: SRl = 1: 1: 6; SRl complete and straight; parastigma not or weakly swollen; 1-CUl: 2-CUl = 3: 7; vein CUlb short (Fig. 2A).
Legs. Hind соха completely smooth and setose; hind femur robust, length of hind femur, tibia and basitarsus 3.2, 4.5 and 6.4 × their maximum width, respectively; length of hind tibial spurs 0.5 × hind basitarsus (Fig.2I).
Metasoma. Length of carapace 2.5 × its maximum width in dorsal view (Fig. 2E); third tergite of carapace almost straightly narrowed, longitudinally densely reticulate-rugose; apex of carapace truncate and narrow in dorsal view, with a wide ventral lamella in lateral view (Fig. 2D); apex of carapace deeply incurved, about one fourth of total length of carapace.
Colour. Black; six basal antennomeres yellowish-brown, remainder of antennomeres dark brown; palpi light yellow; mandible brown except black basally; pterostigma and most of veins blackish brown, veins of basal half of wing light yellow; parastigma light yellow; carapace yellowish in basal 1/3; legs mainly yellowish-brown except dark brown apex of hind tibia and all telotarsi black.
Male. Length of body 3.0 mm, similar to female, but differs in having 23–26 antennomeres; length of metasoma 2.7 × its maximum width in dorsal view (Fig. 3E); carapace with a small apical opening filled by white setae (Fig. 3J).
Biology. Unknown.
Distribution. Oriental China (Yunnan, Taiwan, Hainan).
Etymology. Named after its special metasoma: mirabilis is Latin for wonderful and strange, venter is Latin for belly.
description: Published as part of Zhou, Jin-Jin, Achterberg, Kees Van, Tang, Pu & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2022, A new subgenus of Chelonus Panzer, 1806 (Braconidae: Cheloninae) from China, pp. 288-294 in Zootaxa 5115 (2) on pages 292-294, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5115.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/6352481