Tanycarpa areolata Yao, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Yao, Junli
name: Kula, Robert R.
name: Wharton, Robert A.
name: Chen, Jiahua
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Tanycarpa
Tanycarpa areolata

description: Tanycarpa areolata Yao, sp. nov.
(Figs. 23–30)
Type material. Holotype: ♀ China, Ningxia: Liupanshan, Ningxia, 17–VIII–2001, Qinge Ji (FAFU). Paratypes: 1 ♂ China, Ningxia: Liupanshan, Jingyuan, 19–VIII–2001, Zhihui Lin; 1 ♂ same data except Longtan, Linfang, 15– VIII–2001 (FAFU).
Diagnosis. Eye 1.70× longer than temple length in dorsal view (Fig. 23); temple width less than head width (Fig. 23); face with pubescence, somewhat convex, 1.00× wider than high (Fig. 24); vertex with densely short pubescence (Fig. 23); mandible 2.30× longer than wide (Fig. 25); female mesoscutum with dense pubescence (Fig. 27), male mesoscutum not as dense as in females, setiferous laterally; scutellar disc strongly convex, smooth and setiferous (Fig. 27); T1 1.90× longer than apical width, apical width 1.88× longer than basal width (Fig. 29); ovipositor sheath 0.40× metasoma length, 1.40× longer than T1 (Fig. 30).
Female (Figs. 23–30). Head. Antenna with 20 flagellomeres, 1st flagellomere 1.50× longer than 2nd, 1st and 2nd flagellomeres 4.00× and 2.70× longer than their widths, respectively (Fig. 24); eye glabrous, 1.70× longer than temple length in dorsal view; temple width less than head width (Fig. 23); frons almost flat, pubescent; occipital tubercles completely absent; face with pubescence, somewhat convex, 1.00× wider than high; vertex with dense short pubescence (Fig. 23); anterior tentorial pits medium-sized, deep; clypeus convex, punctulate; apical margin of clypeus straight; head 1.95× wider than medial height (Fig. 23); mandible slightly expanded dorsally, dorsal margin upcurved, almost parallel, 2.30× longer than wide, 3rd tooth large, rounded, margin between 1st tooth and 2nd tooth nearly orthogonal, 2nd tooth 1.50× longer than wide, pointed, 1st tooth smaller than 3rd tooth, with shallow incision between 1st and 2nd tooth (Fig. 25).
Mesosoma. 1.27× longer than high; propleuron smooth (Fig. 26); mesoscutum 0.80× longer than wide (Fig. 27); notauli distinctly crenulate basally, obliterated posteriorly (Fig. 29); midpit short and elliptical; mesoscutum with dense pubescence (Fig. 29); scutellar sulcus deep and wide with 1 weak longitudinal carina (Fig. 27); subalar area almost smooth, with transverse and shallow smooth depression anteriorly, crenulate ventrally; precoxal sulcus shallow and as long curved line (Fig. 26); scutellar disc strongly convex, smooth and setiferous (Fig. 27); propodeum with longitudinal ridge in basal 1/4, then diverging into 2 oblique transverse ridges forming large areola with dense pubescence (Fig. 27).
Wings. Pterostigma linear, r arising from basal 1/4; 3RSb slightly sinuate; 1cu-a small, postfurcal; 1CU1:1CU2=1:5–1:8; 1st subdiscal cell closed; r:3RSa:3RSb:2RS:r-m=4:21:68:19:11; 2nd submarginal cell 1.70× longer than wide; 2CUb arising just below middle of 1st subdiscal cell (Fig. 28).
Legs. Hind leg almost smooth; tarsal claws slender, simple, and large; femur, tibia, and basitarsus of hind leg 5.00×, 9.50×, and 7.00× longer than wide, respectively.
Metasoma. T1 1.90× longer than apical width, apical width 1.88× wider than basal width, apical part medially protruding, longitudinally rugose in apical 1/3; spiracles small, not protruding (Fig. 29); dorsal carinae developed, not converging; laterope medium-sized and narrow; ovipositor sheath 0.40× longer than metasoma, 1.40× longer than T1, 0.73× length of hind tibia (Fig. 30).
Color and size. Body reddish brown; mandible yellow, tooth 2 reddish apically; antenna brown; legs yellow and smooth; pterostigma light brown; metasoma reddish brown; antenna length 2.60 mm, body length 2.60 mm.
Male. Head. Head 2.33–2.56× wider than high; antenna with 21–24 flagellomeres; eye 1.20–1.30× longer than temple length in dorsal view.
Mesosoma. 1.55× longer than high; mesoscutum 0.86× longer than wide; precoxal sulcus deep, short, wider posteriorly than anteriorly, crenulate and somewhat curving up posteriorly; mesoscutum medial lobe with sparse pubescence, lateral lobes almost entirely glabrous.
Wings. 3RSb straight; 1cu-a small, interstitial; r short and wide, as long as width of pterostigma; 2nd submarginal cell 1.55–1.75× longer than wide; 2CUb arising below middle of 1st subdiscal cell; 2CUa:2cu-a=2:1.
Metasoma. T1 2.20× longer than apical width, apical width 1.30–1.60× longer than basal width.
Etymology. This species is named after the very distinctive propodeal areola.
Distribution. China (Ningxia).
Remarks. Tanycarpa areolata is most similar morphologically to T. chors, particularly the vertex with dense short white pubescence. The two species are differentiated from one another in the remarks for T. chors.
description: Published as part of Yao, Junli, Kula, Robert R., Wharton, Robert A. & Chen, Jiahua, 2015, Four new species of Tanycarpa (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae) from the Palaearctic Region and new records of species from China, pp. 169-187 in Zootaxa 3957 (2) on pages 181-183, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/244890