Campyloneurus Szepligeti
Creators: name: Li, Yang
name: Achterberg, Cornelis Van
name: Chen, Xue-Xin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Campyloneurus

description: Key to Chinese species of the genus Campyloneurus Szépligeti
1. Ovipositor aberrant, its upper valve smooth and without nodus, and medium-sized to more or less enlarged, lower valve often without teeth and narrow (Figs 8m, 12l, 24l, 26m), rarely lower valve with very minute teeth (Fig. 22l)................. 2
- Ovipositor normal, its upper valve medium-sized and with distinct to small nodus and its lower valve with distinct to minute teeth (Figs 2l, 4l, 10l, 16l, 18l, 20l)....................................................................... 7
2. Body largely yellow including metasoma (Figs 11, 27); pterostigma largely yellow except for black apically (Figs 12a, 28a), and wing membrane at least basally yellow and with black spots (Figs 12a, 12b, 28a, 28b)........................... 3
- Body colour mainly black, at least metasoma largely black (Figs 7, 21, 23, 25); pterostigma blackish brown or brown (Figs 8a, 22a, 24a, 26a), and wing membrane largely smoky grey or nearly hyaline (Figs 8a, 8b, 22a, 22b, 24a, 24b, 26a, 26b)...... 4
3. Frons yellow and without black spot surrounding stemmaticum (Fig. 28h); vein 1-SR+M of fore wing bent basally (Fig. 28a); flagellomeres of antenna blackish brown, scapus and pedicel with a black brown stripe on outer side, respectively (Figs 27, 28k); ovipositor sheath 0.3–0.4 × as long as fore wing (Fig. 27)................................................................................................................................. C. tergipunctatus sp. nov.
- Frons medially up to area surrounding stemmaticum black (Fig. 12h); vein 1-SR+M of fore wing more or less straight (Fig. 12a); antenna entirely blackish brown (Figs 11, 12k); ovipositor sheath 0.8 × as long as fore wing (Fig. 11)............................................................................................. C. micromacularis sp. nov.
4. Head black, with some milk white spots at eye orbits dorsally, face laterally, and near malar suture (Figs 26g, 26h); metasomal tergites mainly black, but first metasomal tergite (expect median elevated area), second metasomal tergite laterally, anterolateral area of third metasomal tergite yellowish white (Fig. 26e); face crenulate near clypeus and near eye orbits, sculptured medially, and with dense punctures (Fig. 26g)............................................... C. stigmosus sp. nov.
- Head black or reddish yellow, without milk white spots (Figs 8g, 8h, 22g, 22h, 24g, 24h); metasomal tergites uniformly black or blackish brown, without yellowish white spots (Figs 8e, 22e, 24e); face without crenulae near clypeus, at most with fine crenulae laterally near eye orbits (Figs 8g, 22g, 24g), medially sculptured or smooth................................ 5
5. Face smooth (Fig. 8e) and moderately setose medially; first metasomal tergite slender, approx. 1.8 × as long as its apical width (Fig. 8j); head red (Fig. 8h)........................................................... C. longitergum sp. nov.
- Face coarsely rugose (Figs 22g, 24g) and densely setose medially; first tergite relatively robust, 1.2–1.3 × as long as its apical width (Figs 22j, 24j); head black (Figs 22h, 24h)............................................................ 6
6. Mesosoma reddish yellow (Fig. 22c); second submarginal cell of fore wing moderately short, vein SR1 1.4 × as long as vein 3-SR, and vein 3-SR approx. 2.5 × as long as vein r-m (Fig. 22a); fore wing membrane without brown spot near base of pterostigma (Fig. 22a); fore wing vein cu-a weakly postfurcal (Fig. 22a)........................... C. robusticella sp. nov.
- Mesosoma black (Fig. 24c); second submarginal cell of fore wing moderately elongate, vein SR1 1.2 × as long as vein 3-SR, and vein 3-SR approx. 3.4 × as long as vein r-m (Fig. 24a); fore wing with brown spot near base of pterostigma (Fig. 24a); fore wing vein cu-a interstitial (Fig. 24a).................................................... C. rugifacialis sp. nov.
7. Ovipositor sheath 0.2 × as long as fore wing (Figs 1, 15); third–seventh metasomal tergites largely smooth, only sparsely and finely punctate (Figs 2e, 16e)............................................................................ 8
- Ovipositor sheath 0.4–0.8 × as long as fore wing (Figs 3, 5, 9, 13, 17, 19); sculpture of third–seventh tergites varies from largely smooth to coarsely sculptured........................................................................... 9
8. Metasomal tergites entirely blackish brown (Fig. 16e); antennal scapus relatively robust, 1.3 × as long as its maximum width (Fig. 16k); mesopleuron, metonotum and metopleuron blackish brown (Figs 16c, 16d); transverse subposterior groove of fifth metasomal tergite with complete (Fig. 16e)................................................. C. pachypus sp. nov.
- Metasomal tergites with yellowish pattern, third–fifth metasomal tergites with yellow spots, and sixth–seventh metasomal tergites yellowish white (Fig. 2e); antennal scapus slender, 2.3 × as long as its maximum width (Fig. 2j); mesopleuron, metonotum and metopleuron reddish yellow (Figs 2c, 2d); transverse subposterior groove of fifth tergite absent medially (Fig. 2e)................................................................................... C. brachyurus sp. nov.
9. Fore wing membrane with black or brown spots (Figs 4a, 6a, 10a); first–fifth metasomal tergites densely striate (Figs 4e, 6e, 10e)............................................................................................... 10
- Fore wing membrane uniformly yellow or brown, and without dark spots (Figs 14a, 18a, 20a); sculpture of first–seventh tergites varies from largely smooth (Fig. 20e) to coarsely sculptured (Figs 14e, 18e)............................... 12
10. Basal half of fore wing membrane blackish gray and its apical half milky white (Figs 6a, 6b); third–fifth metasomal tergites without transverse subposterior groove (Fig. 6e)........................................... C. lasiofacialis sp. nov.
- Wing membrane pale yellow, subhyaline (Figs 10a, 10b) or yellow except for dark spots (Figs 4a, 4b); third–fifth tergites with transverse subposterior groove (Figs 4e, 10e).............................................................. 11
11. Wing membrane light yellow and subhyaline (Figs 10a, 10b), fore wing with one brown spot at vein 1-SR (Fig. 10a); lateral lobes and medio-anterior part of median lobe of mesoscutum with black spot (Fig. 10d); pterostigma yellow (Fig. 10a); metasomal tergites largely black, posterior margin of sixth and seventh metasomal tergites yellow (Fig. 10e); lateral grooves of first metasomal tergite strongly crenulate (Fig. 10e).......................................... C. longitudinalis sp. nov.
- Basal half of wing membrane yellow and apical half blackish brown (Figs 4a, 4b), stigmal spot of fore wing and apical half of pterostigma black (Fig. 4a); basal half of pterostigma yellow, area below it and spot near vein 2-SR+M subhyaline (Fig. 4a); mesoscutum yellow, and without spots (Fig. 4d); metasomal tergites yellow (Fig. 4e); lateral grooves of first tergite only anteriorly weakly crenulate (Fig. 4j)..................................................... C. kirbyi (Cameron, 1905)
12. Body uniformly black; notauli developed posteriorly; fifth metasomal tergite smooth....... C. gibbiventris Enderlein, 1920
- Body yellowish pattern (Figs 13, 17, 19), at least mesoscutum reddish yellow; notauli often posteriorly shallow or largely absent (Figs 14d, 18d, 20d); fifth tergite either smooth, punctate or striate......................................... 13
13. Third–fifth metasomal tergites largely smooth (Fig. 20e) or with coarse punctures, but without longitudinal striae (Fig. 18e); second tergite with glabrous sublateral triangular areas (Figs 18e, 20e).......................................... 14
- At least third and fourth metasomal tergites with longitudinal striae (Fig. 14e); second tergite with or without sublateral triangular areas.......................................................................................... 15
14. Metasomal tergites with yellowish white spots (Fig. 20e); vein 2-SC+R of hind wing relatively long, 0.8 × as long as vein 1r-m (Fig. 20b); hypoclypeal depression moderately wide, 1.6 × as wide as malar space (Fig. 20g); frons with blackish brown spot (Fig. 20h); posterior margin of second metasomal tergite smooth (Fig. 20e).................... C. quadraticeps sp. nov.
- Metasomal tergites uniformly blackish brown (Fig. 18e); vein 2-SC+R of hind wing short, 0.4 × as long as vein 1r-m (Fig. 18b); hypoclypeal depression 1.2 × as wide as malar space (Fig. 18g); frons without dark spot (Fig. 18h); second metasomal tergite densely sculptured including posterior margin, except medio-basal and sub-lateral triangular areas smooth (Fig. 18e)........................................................................................ C. promiscuus sp. nov.
15. Fifth metasomal tergites largely smooth, but with punctures laterally; head reddish yellow; mesoscutum largely reddish yellow, middle lobe with black spots.................................................. C. cingulicauda Enderlein, 1920
- Fifth metasomal tergites with longitudinal striate (Fig. 14e); head black (Figs 14g, 14h); mesoscutum reddish yellow, and without black spots (Fig. 14d)............................................................. C. nigriventris sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Li, Yang, Achterberg, Cornelis Van & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2020, Two genera Campyloneurus Szépligeti and Iphiaulax Foerster in China, with the descriptions of fourteen new species (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Braconinae), pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 4884 (1) on pages 6-7, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4884.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4296207