Cyanotiphia breviclypeola Feng, Chen & Li 2025, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Feng, Zi-Yan
name: Chen, Bin
name: Li, Ting-Jing
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Cyanotiphia
Cyanotiphia breviclypeola

description: Cyanotiphia breviclypeola Feng, Chen & Li, sp. nov.
(Figs 1–8)
Type material. Holotype, ♂, China, Chongqing City, Wuxi County, Hongchiba Town, Chashan Village, 31°31’26”N, 108°57’4”E, 731 m, 18.VIII.2019, Xun-Dong Li (CNU).
Diagnosis. The male of this species is similar to that of Cyanotiphia fenchihuensis (Tsuneki, 1986), comb. nov. in body color, the angle on transverse carina of anterior T1, and the distribution of punctures on body, but distinctly differs in the following characters: anterior margin of clypeus almost straight (Fig. 2); lower frons without medial longitudinal carina (Figs 2, 3); dorsal pronotum posteriorly with impunctate margin (Fig. 1); mesopleuron anteriorly with vertical carina not extending to ventral side; lateral longitudinal carina of disc of propodeum oblique outward, with short oblique and straight wrinkles between longitudinal carina and propodeal areola, propodeal areola short and wide (Fig. 4); and punctures on T1 denser, almost reticulate, and laterally even denser (Fig. 1); S1 with few deep punctures along lateral carina, and without wrinkles (Fig. 5); pygidium of T7 present, with lateral carina (Fig. 8).
It also can be distinguished from the type species Cyanotiphia ruficauda Cameron, 1907 by the following characters: body black, without metallic blue (Fig. 1); punctures shallower on head and mesosoma, but deeper and denser on metasoma; anterior margin of clypeus almost straight (Fig. 2); propodeal areola shorter, APWL = 2.2: 1.4: 1.4 (Fig. 4); lateral longitudinal carina of disc of propodeum oblique outward (Fig. 4); transverse carina on anterior T1 angled distinctly backward in the middle (Fig. 1); the glossy cambered area on posterior T1 with a distinct anterior edge (Fig. 1); and pygidium of T7 present, with lateral carina (Fig. 8).
Description. Male, holotype (Fig. 1). Body length 9.5 mm, forewing length 7 mm.
Color. Body almost entirely black; spur of fore leg brown (Figs 1–3); wings semitransparent, and marginal cell of forewing dark (Fig. 1); setae of head and mesosoma brown mixed with white dorsally and white ventrally; metasomal setae brown mixed white (Fig. 7).
Head. Mandible with preapical denticle, and without distinct medial transverse groove; clypeus short, its length subequal to WAS, slightly raised in the middle, anterior margin almost straight and with punctures and dense setae (Fig. 2); W: OW: L: IOD=8.5: 3.9: 3.5: 4.6; OOD: POD: Od= 10: 9: 9; AOD: WAS: IAD: CL= 5: 7: 2: 8.5; lower frons with dense and reticulate punctures, and without medial longitudinal narrow carina (Fig. 2); upper frons and vertex with moderate punctures, interspaces between punctures more or less polished (Figs 2, 3).
Mesosoma. Pronotal antero-dorsal carina distinct, medially sinuate backward triangularly; dorsal and lateral pronotum with dense punctures and with an impunctate posterior margin; mesoscutum, mesopleuron, scutellum and metanotum with dense punctures similar to reticulation; mesopleuron with anterior vertical carina extending from superior margin to lower margin of lateral side; propodeal areola highly raised and trapezoidal, APWL= 2.2: 1.4: 1.4, medial longitudinal carina reaching posterior 1/3 of areola (Fig. 4); lateral longitudinal carina of disc of propodeum oblique outward, with short oblique and straight wrinkles between longitudinal carina and propodeal areola, propodeal areola short and wide, almost as long as wide (Fig. 4); lateral surface of propodeum dorsally with distinct, long and oblique wrinkles, ventrally impunctate (Fig. 6); posterior surface of propodeum with radial wrinkles; tegula large, reaching posterior 1/3 of mesoscutellum, opaque with shallow and dense punctures on anterior margin and interior half, and impunctate on external half (Fig. 1); marginal cell of fore wing completely closed, the first submarginal cell incompletely separated by incomplete vein 2RS (Fig. 1); fore tibia with one serrated spur apically; mid and hind tibiae with two spurs apically.
Metasoma. T1 separated by distinct transverse carina followed by short longitudinal wrinkles and angled backward in the middle (Figs 1); punctures on T1 dense, almost reticulate, and even denser on lateral side (Fig. 1); T1 with impunctate margin posteriorly (Fig. 1); S1 with few deep punctures along lateral carina, and without wrinkles (Fig. 5); T2 anteriorly with row of short longitudinal wrinkles; posterior margin of T2 with narrow impunctate cambered area; other part of T2 distinctly punctate, punctures in the middle much sparser than laterally (Fig. 1); T3–T6 with dense punctures, anteriorly smaller and sparser; S2–S5 with sparse punctures and denser on posterior margin (Fig. 7); S5 without lateral denticle; S6 with moderate punctures denser on posterior margin; pygidium of T7 present, with lateral carina; T7 densely puncto-reticulate and medially with longitudinal narrow carina (Fig. 8).
Female. Unknown.
Distribution. China (Chongqing).
Etymology. The specific name of this species breviclypeola is derived from two Latin words: brevis (= short) + clypeolus (= clypeus), referring to the characteristic short clypeus.
description: Published as part of Feng, Zi-Yan, Chen, Bin & Li, Ting-Jing, 2025, A taxonomic review of the newly recorded genus Cyanotiphia Cameron, 1907 (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Tiphiinae) from China, with a key to all known species, pp. 592-598 in Zootaxa 5584 (4) on pages 593-595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.10, http://zenodo.org/record/14853712