Leluthia Cameron
Creators: name: Li, Tao
name: Achterberg, Cornelis Van
name: Xu, Zhi-Chun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Leluthia

description: Key to East Palaearctic species of the genus Leluthia Cameron   
 1. Antescutal depression present; mesoscutum weakly and gradually elevated above pronotum (Figs 1, 6); mesosoma 2.0–3.6 × longer than high; vein 1-M of hind wing of ♀ 2.0–3.0 × vein 1r-m (Fig. 11); subgenus Leluthia Cameron................ 2   
 - Antescutal depression absent or weakly developed; mesoscutum steep anteriorly; mesosoma 1.6–2.0 × longer than high; vein 1-M of hind wing of ♀ 1.4–2.0 × vein 1r-m; subgenus Euhecabolodes Tobias..................................... 5   
 2. Mesosoma about 3.6 × longer than high; antenna 0.8 × as long as its body; penultimate antennal segment 2.7 × longer than its maximum width.....................................................  L. nagoyae  Belokobylskij & Maetô, 2006   
- Mesosoma 2.2–2.7 (rarely up to 3.0) × longer than high; antenna 0.9–1.0 × as long as its body; penultimate antennal segment 3.0–4.0 × longer than its maximum width.................................................................. 3  
 3. Second metasomal suture distinctly curved sublaterally; pterostigma of ♀ 2.7–3.0 × longer than its maximum width........................................................................  L. honshuensis  Belokobylskij & Maetô, 2006   
- Second metasomal suture weakly curved laterally; pterostigma of ♀ 3.0–4.0 × longer than its maximum width........... 4  
 4. Vein r-m of fore wing of ♀ present; hind telotarsus yellow; vein m-cu of hind wing of ♀ interstitial with vein 1r-m; hind leg light to dark reddish brown..................................................  L. disrupta  (Belokobylskij, 1994)   
 - Vein r-m of fore wing of ♀ absent (Fig. 11), but weakly developed in ♂ (Fig. 12); hind telotarsus dark brown; vein m-cu of hind wing of ♀ far antefurcal (Figs 11–12); hind leg yellowish brown..........  L. chinensis  Li & van Achterberg, sp. nov.   
 5. Mesopleuron striate below precoxal sulcus; vein m-cu of fore wing postfurcal..  L. postfurcalis  Belokobyskij & Maetô, 2006   
- Mesopleuron without striae below precoxal sulcus; vein m-cu of fore wing antefurcal............................... 6  
 6. Vein 3-SR+SR1 of fore wing distinctly curved basally and ends far removed from wing apex; (= Euhecabolodes minutus Tobias, 1962)............................................................... L. ruguloscolyti (Fischer, 1962)   
- Vein 3-SR+SR1 of fore wing straight basally and ends near apex of wing......................................... 7  
 7. Body pale reddish brown or yellowish brown; vein r of fore wing vertical....................  L. asiatica  (Tobias, 1980)   
 - Body dark reddish brown or black, at most with some reddish brown spots; vein r of fore wing distinctly oblique; (= Euhe- cabolodes ulmi Tobias, 1980)..................................................  L. transcaucasica  (Tobias, 1976)
description: Published as part of Li, Tao, Achterberg, Cornelis Van & Xu, Zhi-Chun, 2015, A new species of genus Leluthia Cameron (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) parasitizing Agrilus sp. (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from China with a key to the East Palaearctic species, pp. 594-600 in Zootaxa 4048 (4) on page 595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4048.4.10, http://zenodo.org/record/238627