Streblocera (Eutanycerus) sharifi Shamim & O 2013, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Shamim, Mohammad
name: O, Published
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Streblocera
Streblocera sharifi

description: 4.7. Streblocera (Eutanycerus) sharifi sp. nov. (Plate VII; Figures 55 –64)
Body length: 9 mm, Forewing: 7.2 mm, Antenna: 8.5 mm.
Head: Width of head in dorsal view 1.7× its length and its height; antennal segments 22; scape long, incrassate, 8× its width and 2.4× height of head, at basal one-third with a minute spine; ventrally weakly carinate, flagellum geniculated at seventh flagellomere; first to seventh segments ventrally weakly carinate, sixth and seventh flagellomere formed into a hook-like prominence apicoventrally, prominence on sixth segments smaller than on seventh segment; first flagellomere without sensillum, 1.7× as long as wide, almost as long as pedicel and 1.5× as long as second flagellomere; second flagellomere with 1 sensillum, as long as wide, 0.9× as long as third flagellomere; third flagellomere with 2 sensilla, lengths of F 3 – F 5, F 6, F 7, F 8 – F 19, and F 20 1.1×, 1.2×, 1.1×, 1.6×, and 2.2× their widths, respectively; length of scape: length of pedicel to seventh flagellomere: length of antenna from eighth flagellomere to apex = 120: 96: 127; occipital carina incomplete, dorsally shortly interrupted, ventrally separated from hypostomal carina; OOL: POL: OD = 22: 8: 5; length of eye in dorsal view 1.1× its width and 1.6× temple; temple smooth, sparsely setose; temple roundly narrowed behind eyes; vertex 2.5× its width, smooth, sparsely setose; frons 1.5× as wide as long, medially smooth, remaining striate, near eye margin sparsely setose; face 2× as wide as long, punctate, densely setose; intertentorial line 1× tentorio-ocular line, tentorial pit deep, small; clypeus 2.3× its height, flat, smooth, sparsely setose; length of malar space 1.5× basal width of mandible.
Mesosoma: Length of mesosoma 2× its width, 2.1× its height; pronotal side medially crenulate, remaining largely smooth; precoxal sulcus narrow, crenulate, setose; mesopleuron dorsally reticulate, punctate, setose, remaining largely smooth; notauli wide, deep, anteriorly crenulate, posteriorly reticulate; middle lobe of mesoscutum smooth, setose, lateral lobes smooth; scutellar sulcus wide, deep, smooth, with 1 median longitudinal strong carina; scutellum almost flat, smooth; side of scutellum reticulate, setose; medioposterior depression wide, oval-shaped; propodeum irregularly reticulate, rugose.
Wings: Forewing 2.5× as long as wide; length of pterostigma 2.7× its width; length of vein 1 – R 1 0.73× length of pterostigma; r emitting at middle of pterostigma, its length 0.36× width of pterostigma; vein SR1 + 3-SR evenly curved; m – cu interstitial; r: 2 – SR: SR1 + 3 – SR = 9: 25: 85; 1 – CU1: 2 – CU1: 3 – CU1 = 5: 30: 10; hindwing 3.3× as long as wide; 1 – M: 1 – r-m: 2 – SC + R = 8: 17: 18.
Legs: Hind coxa smooth, setose; lengths of hind femur, tibia, and basitarsus 6.4×, 12.5×, and 10× their widths, respectively; lengths of hind tibial spurs 0.20× and 0.22× hind basitarsus.
Metasoma: Length of metasoma 2.6× its width, 3× its height; first metasomal tergite 2.2× its apical width, its surface longitudinally striate; dorsope present; distance across spiracles 0.48× distance from spiracles to apex of first metasomal tergite; ovipositor sheath slender, setose, its length 0.15× forewing, 0.88× hind basitarsus, hypopygium sparsely setose; ovipositor long, strongly curved downward, apically pointed.
Color: Yellow except stemmaticum black; first metasomal tergite, ovipositor sheath brown; propodeum, tarsus, basitarsus, telotarsus, temple yellowish brown; eyes grayish; maxillary palp and labial palp pale yellow; ocelli transparent; wing veins brown.
Variation: Length of body 9.1 – 9.4 mm, of forewing 7.4 mm; length of eye in dorsal view 1.5× temple; vertex 2.4× its width; F 8 – F 19 1.5× its width; length of mesosoma 1.9× its width; r emitting just middle of pterostigma; hind coxa sparsely setose.
Type material: Holotype, female, INDIA: Uttar Pradesh, Etawah, 26°47′N, 79°02′E, 14, 15. vi. 2007, Coll. M. Sharif (ZDAMU). Deposited in Insect Collection, Department of Zoology, AMU, Aligarh (ZDAMU).
Paratypes, 4 females, same as holotypes. INDIA: Uttar Pradesh, Etawah, 26°47′N, 79°02′E, 14, 22. v. 2007. Coll. M. Sharif & M. Shamim (ZDAMU). Deposited in Insect Collection, Department of Zoology, AMU, Aligarh (ZDAMU).
Etymology: The species is named in memory of my late father, Mohammad Sharif, who collected these braconid parasitoids.
Discussion: The new species Streblocera (Eutanycerus) sharifi sp. nov. resembles Streblocera (Eutanycerus) etawahiana sp. nov. However, it differs by having (1) antennal segments 22 (antennal segments 21 in etawahiana); (2) scape at basal one-third with a minute spine (scape at basal one-quarter with a minute horn in etawahiana); (3) first flagellomere without sensillum, 1.7× its width (first flagellomere with 1 sensillum, 2.5× its width in etawahiana); (4) second flagellomere with 1 sensillum (second flagellomere with 2 sensilla in etawahiana); (5) apical flagellomere 2.2× their width (apical flagellomere 3× its width in etawahiana); (6) face 2× as wide as long, punctulate, densely setose (face 1.66× as wide as long, uniformly granulate in etawahiana).
The new species Streblocera (Eutanycerus) sharifi sp. nov. also resembles Streblocera (E.) obtusa Chen and Achterberg, 1997. However, it differs by having (1) length of scape 8× its width and 2.4× height of head (length of scape 5× its width and 1.7× height of head in obtusa); (2) occipital carina incomplete, dorsally shortly interrupted (occipital carina complete in obtusa); (3) second flagellomere with 1 sensillum (second flagellomere with 2 sensilla in obtusa); (4) surface of first metasomal tergite longitudinally striate (surface of first metasomal tergite weakly longitudinally rugose in obtusa).
description: Published as part of Shamim, Mohammad & O, Published, 2013, The genus Streblocera Westwood (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Euphorinae) from India, with descriptions of 9 new species, pp. 385-405 in Turkish Journal of Zoology 37 (4) on pages 398-400, DOI: 10.3906/zoo-1207-36, http://zenodo.org/record/10973680