Alysia sirin Belokobylskij 1998
Creators: name: Zhu, Jia-Chen
name: Achterberg, Cornelis Van
name: Chen, Xue-Xin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Alysia
Alysia sirin

description: Alysia sirin Belokobylskij, 1998   
Figs 23–24  
 Alysia sirin Belokobylskij, 1998: 178.   
 Material. 1♀ (ZJUH), “ [NE. China:] Shaanxi, Baoji, Fengxian, Huangniupu, 26.?.2013, Tu Binbin, No. 201308628”.   
 Diagnosis. Body black (Fig. 23); eye in dorsal view 2.7 × as long as temple (Fig. 24I); eye in lateral view 1.1 × higher than wide (Fig. 24K); frons smooth posteriorly, but rugose between antennal sockets (Fig. 24I); vertex and temple smooth; face densely granulate, 1.8 × wider than high, rather convex medially and with a longitudinal ridge (Fig. 24J); clypeus small, semi-elliptical and with some punctures (Fig. 24J); precoxal sulcus widely crenulate, reaching middle coxa and anterior edge of epicnemial area (Fig. 24B); notauli incomplete, absent on disc (Fig. 24C); surface of propodeum densely reticulate-rugose, areola absent posteriorly (Fig. 24D); pterostigma 3.3 × longer than its maximum width (Fig. 24A); hind coxa smooth; length of first tergite 2.4 × its apical width, its surface longitudinally striate, its dorsal carinae parallel posteriorly (Fig. 24D); setose part of ovipositor sheath 0.38 × as long as fore wing (total visible sheath 0.4 times), and 1.2 × as long as hind tibia (Fig. 24H); two basal segments of antenna and mandible yellowish brown; palpi yellow; subapically antenna with 5–10 whitish segments; metasoma (except first tergite black and posterior part of second to six tergites brownish) and legs (except apical part of hind femur, hind tbia and hind tarsus dark brown) yellowish (Fig. 23).   
 Description. ♀, Length of body 3.8 mm, of fore wing 3.8 mm.   
Head. Transverse, width of head twice its lateral length, and 1.4 × wider than mesoscutum (Fig. 24I); antenna with 36 antennomere, third antennomere (including annellus) 1.5 × longer than fourth antennomere, length of third, fourth and penultimate antennomere5.0, 3.5 and 2.0 × their width, respectively (Fig. 24F); length of maxillary palp 0.8 × height of head (Fig. 23); eye in dorsal view 2.7 × as long as temple (Fig. 24I); eye in lateral view 1.1 × higher than wide; frons smooth posteriorly, but rugose between antennal sockets (Fig. 24K); vertex and temple smooth; OOL:diameter of ocellus:POL= 8:3:3; face densely granulate, 1.8 × wider than high, rather convex medially and with a longitudinal ridge (Fig. 24J); clypeus small, semi-elliptical and with some punctures (Fig. 24J); mandible enlarged apically, dorsal tooth enlarged, lobe-shaped (Fig. 24L), ventral tooth medium-sized and lobe-shaped (Fig. 24M), middle tooth curved and acute, with no incision between first and second tooth (Fig. 24L), medial length of mandible 1.7 × its maximum width.  
Mesosoma. Length of mesosoma 1.4 × its height (Fig. 24B); pronope absent; medio-anteriorly pronotum crenulate, remainder of pronotum smooth; epicnemial area crenulated; precoxal sulcus widely crenulate, reaching middle coxa and anterior edge of epicnemial area (Fig. 24B); pleural sulcus narrowly crenulated; episternal scrobe linear and deep; metapleuron densely reticulate-rugose; middle lobe of mesoscutum densely setose (Fig. 24C); notauli incomplete, absent on disc (Fig. 24C); medio-posterior depression deep and droplet-shaped, not extending to middle of mesoscutum, scutellar sulcus deep, with three longitudinal carinae, sulcus 3.0 × wider than its maximum length (Fig. 24C); scutellum smooth; surface of propodeum densely reticulate-rugose, areola absent posteriorly (Fig. 24D).  
Wings (Fig. 24A). Pterostigma wide, 3.3 × longer than its maximum width. r:3-SR:SR1 = 5:20:52; 1-SR+M nearly straight; SR1 straight; r 0.4 × as long as width of pterostigma; cu-a postfurcal; 1-CU1:2-CU1 = 3: 20; 3-CU1 as long as CU1b; 2-SR:3-SR:r-m = 9:9:5; m-cu interstitial, converging to 1-M posteriorly; first subdiscal cell 4.0 × as long as wide; M+CU1 largely unsclerotized. Hind wing: M+CU: 1-M: 1r-m = 20:15:13; m-cu antefurcal.  
Legs. Hind coxa smooth, without ventro-basal tubercle; tarsal claws slender, longer than arolium (Fig. 24N); length of femur, tibia and basitarsus of hind leg 5.0, 9.0 and 6.7 × their width, respectively; apical appendages of hind tarsal segments absent, segments ventrally with dense bristles (Fig. 24N).  
Metasoma. Length of first tergite 2.4 × its apical width, its surface longitudinally striate, its dorsal carinae parallel posteriorly (Fig. 24D); dorsope distinct; convexity of upper valve of ovipositor rather steep basally (Fig. 24H); setose part of ovipositor sheath 0.38 × as long as fore wing (total visible sheath 0.4 times), and 1.2 × as long as hind tibia (Fig. 24H).  
Colour. Black (Fig. 23); two basal segments of antenna and mandible yellowish brown; palpi yellow; subapically antenna with 5–10 whitish segments (Fig. 24G); metasoma and legs yellow, but first tergite black, posterior part of second–sixth tergite brownish, and apical part of hind femur, hind tibia and tarsus dark brown; pterostigma and veins brown; wing membrane hyaline.
description: Published as part of Zhu, Jia-Chen, Achterberg, Cornelis Van & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2018, Review of the genus Alysia Latreille (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae), with description of six new species from China, pp. 1-42 in Zootaxa 4500 (1) on pages 33-35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4500.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5755225