Neurogoniella crassinervis Oanh & Long & Achterberg & Nghiep & Hiep 2024, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Oanh, Nguyen Thi
name: Long, Khuat Dang
name: Achterberg, Cornelis Van
name: Nghiep, Hoang Thi
name: Hiep, Nguyen Duc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Neurogoniella
Neurogoniella crassinervis

description: Neurogoniella crassinervis (Nixon, 1950) comb. nov.
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Macrocentrus crassinervis Nixon, 1950: 457. Holotype in Natural History Museum, London and examined by CvA.
Material examined: 1 ♀, labelled “Macr. 080 ” (IEBR), South Vietnam: Dong Nai, Vinh Cuu, Bu Dang, forest, light trap, 11.vi.2020, PT Nhi; 1 ♂, labelled “Macr. 081” (IEBR), South Vietnam: Dong Nai, Vinh Cuu, Phu Ly, forest, light trap, 07.vi.2020, PT Nhi; 1 ♀ (RMNH), CH Vietnam: Chu Yang Su N.P., at light, c. 500 m, 2.vi.2007, near river and edge of forest, E. Gasso Miracle & C. v. Achterberg.
Redescription. Female from Vietnam (“Macr. 080 ”, IEBR), body length 6.7 mm, fore wing length 6.3 mm, ovipositor 4.8 mm (setose part of sheath: 4.4 mm) (Fig. 3).
Head. Antenna with 29 flagellomeres remaining (in holotype 46); length of first and second flagellomeres 4.0 and 3.0 × their width, respectively; length of subapical antennomere 2.5 × its width; in frontal view, width of face 1.3 × its length and 0.8 × eye height (Fig. 4C); length of maxillary palp 1.6 × height of head; face flattened, transversely rugose, triangular area upper clypeus smooth (Fig. 4C); malar space 0.9 × as long as basal width of mandible; clypeus convex medio-medially, depressed laterally, its apical margin concave and with distinct lamella (Fig. 4C); distance between tentorial pits 2.5 × distance from pit to eye margin; temple narrow, in lateral view eye 3.7 × temple; head transverse, 2.7 × as wide as long and eye 5.7 × as long as temple in dorsal view; ocelli large, POL: OD: OOL = 9: 7: 5 (Fig. 4A).
Mesosoma. Length of mesosoma 1.4. × its height; propleuron shallow, finely crenulate medially (Fig. 4B); middle lobe of mesoscutum without impressions anteriorly; notauli deeper anteriorly, wider and flat posteriorly, almost smooth with faint median carina; median lobe of mesoscutum without groove; mesoscutal lobes shiny, almost smooth; prescutellar sulcus narrow, crenulate; scutellum shiny, nearly smooth; mesopleuron with sparse fine punctures dorsally, with large and discrete punctures medially (Fig. 4B); metapleuron punctate; propodeum nearly coriaceous anteriorly, with distinct curved rugae posteriorly (Figs 4E, F).
Wings. Length of fore wing 3.1 × its maximum width; length of pterostigma 3.45 × its width; fore wing vein SR1 2.8 × as long as vein 3-SR; r: 3-SR: SR1 = 12: 17: 48; cu-a postfurcal, strongly swollen basally (Fig. 4G), cu-a: 2-CU1 = 10: 8; 2-SR: 3-SR: r-m = 12: 17: 7; second submarginal cell of fore wing less robust (Fig. 4G); hind wing vein 1-M weakly curved basally (Fig. 4G); vein SC+R1 abruptly bent basally; vein SR curved basally, that marginal cell strongly widened basally, narrowly medially and widened apically; vein 1-SC+R horizontal (longitudinal) (Fig. 4I).
Legs. Hind coxa shiny, smooth; length of femur, tibia and basitarsus of hind leg 7.5, 10.7 and 6.5 × their width, respectively; outer side of mid and hind trochantellus with cluster of 9–10 teeth apically (Figs 4J, K); length of hind inner and outer tibial spurs 0.7 and 0.6 × hind basitarsus, respectively; length of hind basitarsus 0.33 × hind tibia and 0.9 × second-fifth tarsus combined; tarsal claw with large lobe, with conspicuous pecten basally (Fig. 4D).
Metasoma. Length of first metasomal tergite widened from base to apex, with narrow and deep excavation basally, and 1.8 × its apical width, (Fig. 4H); antero-lateral groove shallow, sparsely crenulate; median length of second tergite 1.1 × third tergite (Fig. 4H); first metasomal tergite shiny, with sparse fine punctures and setae (Fig. 4H); second-sixth metasomal tergites entirely shiny, with sparse fine punctures and setae as in first tergite (Fig. 4H); ovipositor straight, length of ovipositor 0.8 × fore wing (Fig. 3).
Colour. Body light yellow; scape and pedicel yellow, except scape brown apically; flagellum dark brown, yellow apically; stemmaticum, vertex and occiput black; all legs pale yellow, except hind tibia largely dark brown, yellow basally (Fig. 3); wing veins brown, except vein 1-R1 yellow; parastigma yellow; pterostigma yellow basally, brown apically (Fig. 4G); ovipositor sheath and ovipositor brownish yellow.
Variations. Male, labelled “Macr. 081” (IEBR), body smaller, length of body 5.7 mm, of fore wing 5.4 mm; has 48 antennomeres and the same colour as female; the female from Chu Yang Su N.P. has 47 antennomeres and apical third of antenna yellowish brown; length of body 6.4 mm, of fore wing 6.1 mm; vein 2-SR+M of fore wing 0.6–0.9 × as long as vein 2-SR.
Biology. Parasitoid of Symitha nolalella Walker, 1866 (Noctuidae) on Lagerstroemia parviflora Roxburgh (Nixon 1950).
Distribution. Oriental: India; Vietnam (new record).
description: Published as part of Oanh, Nguyen Thi, Long, Khuat Dang, Achterberg, Cornelis Van, Nghiep, Hoang Thi & Hiep, Nguyen Duc, 2024, A new genus and rare genera of Macrocentrinae from the Oriental region (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), pp. 580-590 in Zootaxa 5551 (3) on pages 584-586, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5551.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/14443413