Calobrachium salum Gobbi & Azevedo 2016, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Gobbi, Fernanda T.
name: Azevedo, Celso O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Calobrachium
Calobrachium salum

description: Calobrachium salum Gobbi & Azevedo, sp. nov.
(Figs 6, 14, 22, 27, 40, 41)
Description. MALE. Body length 2.4 mm. LFW 2.1 mm. Color. Head dark castaneous; mandible, clypeus, antenna and mesosoma castaneous; metasoma and legs light castaneous; wings hyaline.
Head (Fig. 6). Mandible with two upper teeth small, two lower ones largest. Apical margin of median clypeal lobe angularly concave. Flagellomeres long; four first antennomeres in ratio about 18:5:11:8; pedicel 1.3 × as long as wide; F1 long, 2.2 × as long as wide; F9 1.7 × as long as wide; flagellar setae suberect and erect. Frontal carina absent. WH 0.9 × LH. WF 0.6 × WH. WF 1.1 × HE. Eye median-sized, very salient. Ocellus small. DAO 0.2 × WF. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute. WOT 2.4 × DAO. OOL 0.9 × WOT. Distance of posterior ocellus to vertex crest 0.7 × DAO. VOL 0.7 × HE. Temple parallel or almost this. Vertex straight.
Mesosoma (Fig. 14, 22). Pronotal disc and mesonotum sparsely punctate. Pronotal collar long. Pronotal declivity long. Pronotal disc 0.4 × as long as wide; anterior region 0.4× as long as wide; rounded. Notauli conspicuous, occupying one third of mesoscutum. Scutellar furrow wide, deep, not scrobiculate; corner straight. Median region of scutellum coriaceous, punctate. Median region of metanotum short, wide; inner fovea of metanotal furrow delimited. Propodeal disc 1.2 × as long as wide; 0.5 × as high as long; areolate-polished; lateral carina conspicuous; propodeal declivity slightly imbricate; side of propodeum slightly coriaceous. Mesopleuron slightly coriaceous; transversal furrow conspicuous, slightly scrobiculate. Discoidal vein slightly pigmented.
Metasoma. Petiole short, 0.3 × as long as propodeal disc. Hypopygium (Fig. 27) 1.1 × as long as wide; posterior margin strongly trilobate; median lobe angulate, wide; posterior projection short; lateral lobe angulate; lateral margin slightly convex; anterior pigmented line strongly pigmented, slender; lateral stalk absent. Genitalia (Figs 39–40): aedeagus slightly mesoconvex; projection of apical region ventrad absent; dorsal paramere slightly longer than ventral paramere, almost as wide as ventral paramere, inner margin straight, outer margin straight; membranous region of basiparamere with apical corner strongly developed; sclerite on volsella base present.
FEMALE unknown.
Material examined. Holotype, ♂. THAILAND, Chiang Mai, Doi Chiang Dao WS Nature trail, 19°24.278’N 98°55.311’E, 491 m, MT, 3–10.III.2008, Songkran & Apichart leg., T3154. Paratypes. THAILAND, MT, 1 ♂, Loei, Phu Ruea NP, Subhnonghin, 17°28.772’N 101°21.308’E, 860 m, 12–19.VII.2006, Patikhom Tamtip leg., T313; Phitsanulok, Thung Salaeng Luang NP, Moist evergreen, 1–8.IX.2006, Pongpitak Pranee leg., 1 ♂, 16°50.641’N 100°52.894’E, 557m, T575; 1 ♂, 16°50.319’N 100°51.792’E, 479 m, T577; 1 ♂, Kanchanaburi, Khuean Srinagarindra NP, Huai Mae Kamint / 50 m /SW of Tourist center, 14°29.972’N 98°53.035’E, 18– 25.IX.2008, Somboon & Daorueng leg., T3443 (QSBG).
Distribution. Thailand (Chiang Mai, Kanchanaburi, Loei, Phitsanulok).
Remarks. See remarks of C. pongum sp. nov. and C. thanum sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Gobbi, Fernanda T. & Azevedo, Celso O., 2016, Revision of Calobrachium Gobbi & Azevedo, gen. nov. (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), with description of seven new Oriental species, pp. 221-238 in Zootaxa 4083 (2) on page 233, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4083.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/1050897