Apronopa levis Papp 2007, sp. n.
Creators: name: Papp, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Apronopa
Apronopa levis

description: Apronopa levis sp. n. ♀
(Figs 21–32)
Material examined (1 ♀). – Korea, Kangwon, Kumgang-san, in the woods around Oe-Kumgang resthouse, 24 September 1978, leg. A. VOJNITS et L. ZOMBORI (loc. no. 396). – Holotype is deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Department of Zoology), Budapest, Hym. Typ. No. 10970.
Holotype is in good condition; left flagellum damaged and with nine flagellomeres, right middle leg glued separately close to first sternum, tarsus of right middle leg broken and partly merged into glue; specimen itself glued on a pointed card by its left middle and hind pair of coxae.
Etymology. – The species name “levis” refers to the entirely smooth second tergite.
Description of the female holotype. – Body 3 mm long. Antenna as long as body and with 30 antennomeres. Flagellomeres short, first flagellomere 1.7 times, second and further flagellomeres 1.2 times and ultimate 5–6 flagellomeres attenuating so that penultimate flagellomere 1.4 times as long as broad; both first flagellomeres concave (deformation of exsiccation?, Fig. 21). – Head in dorsal view (Fig. 22) transverse, just twice as broad as long, eye 1.2 times as long as temple, temple deeply rounded, occiput excavated. Ocelli middle sized, elliptic, OOL 2.5 times as long as POL. Eye in lateral view nearly round, somewhat higher than wide, temple one-third less wide than eye (Fig. 23, see arrows). Mandible 1.6 times as long below as broad between upper and lower teeth, middle tooth pointed, upper tooth less pointed, lower tooth widely rounded (Fig. 24), basal two-thirds of mandible rugulose.
Mesosoma in lateral view stout, as long as high, polished. Pronope missing. Notaulix present, evenly deep on fore half of mesoscutum, subcrenulate (Fig. 25). Mesoscutum anteriorly hairpunctured, here and along notaulix hairy. Precoxal suture short, crenulate, restricted to middle of mesopleuron. Propodeum: anterior quarter (or horizontal part) rugose, posterior three-quarters (or declivous) part almost smooth, above lunule with areola basalis, pair of spiracles small and close to lateral margin of propodeum (Fig. 26). – Hind femur 3.8 times as long as broad distally (Fig. 27). Hind tibia and tarsus equal in length; hind basitarsus just longer than tarsomeres 2–3 combined.
Fore wing somewhat longer than body. Pterostigma (Fig. 28) cuneiform, 12 times as long as wide basally, progressively narrowing and continueing in metacarpal (1– R 1) vein; issuing r basally. Vein r nearly twice as long as width of pterostigma; second submarginal cell fairly short: 3–SR 1.5 times length of 2–SR, SR1 2.7 times as long as 3–SR and reaching tip of wing; 1– R 1 half as long as pterostigma. Vein m–cu clearly postfurcal. First subdiscal cell closed distally, veins 3–CU1, CU1a and Cu1b as in Fig. 29. – Hind wing: cu–a issuing somewhat distally from middle of M + CU + 1M (Fig. 30).
First tergite broad (Fig. 31), somewhat longer than broad behind, pair of spiracles just before middle of tergite, dorsope missing, laterope narrow and deep; tergite anteriorly deepened, posteriorly rugose and dispersely hairy. Second tergite transverse, one-fourth shorter than first tergite, border between 2–3 distinct, tergites 2–3 combined 1.5 times as long as first tergite. Second and further tergites polished (i.e. second tergite not sculptured). Hypopygium retracted somewhat posteriorly from middle of metasoma (Fig. 32). Ovipositor sheath as long as hind tibia; ovipositor straight, its posterior end as in Fig. 32.
Body black, second and further tergites with faint brownish tint. Scape and pedicel yellow, flagellum greyish brownish. Mandible and clypeus yellow, palpi pale yellow. Tegula and parategula yellow. Legs vivid yellow. Wings hyaline, pterostigma and veins brown to brownish.
Male and host unknown.
Distribution: Korea.
The new species, Apronopa levis, is near to both species A. haeselbarthi VAN ACHTERBERG and A. ussuricola BELOKOBYLSKIJ and is differentiated from them by a few features keyed:
1 (2) Second tergite baso-medially longitudinally and finely striate (Fig. 22 in VAN ACHTERBERG 1980: 76; Fig. 87: 6 in BELOKOBYLSKIJ 1998: 218). Flagellum with long flagellomeres; first flagellomere 2.2 times, second and further flagellomeres 1.7 times as long as broad. Notaulix shallowing on fore half of mesoscutum (Fig. 21 in VAN ACHTERBERG l.c.). Propodeum rugo-rugulose without areola. Hypopygium clearly posteriorly on metasoma (Fig. 10 in VAN ACHTERBERG l.c.). Tegula brown, legs yellowish brown. ♀: 2.4–2.5 mm. – Germany, Slovakia (A. haeselbarthi); Asiatic Russia: Maritime Territory (A. ussuricola) A. haeselbarthi VAN ACHTERBERG, 1980, A. ussuricola BELOKOBYLSKIJ, 1998
2 (1) Second tergite entirely smooth (Fig. 31). Flagellum with short flagellomeres; first flagellomere 1.7 times, second and further flagellomeres 1.2 times as long as broad (Fig. 21). Notaulix evenly deep on fore half of mesoscutum (Fig. 25). Propodeum anteriorly rugose, posteriorly (or its long declivous part) almost smooth, above lunule with areola basalis (Fig. 26). Hypopygium retracted, somewhat posteriorly from middle of metasoma (Fig. 32). Tegula yellow, legs vivid yellow. ♀: 3 mm. – Korea A. levis sp. n.
description: Published as part of Papp, J., 2007, Braconidae (Hymenoptera) From Korea Xxii. Subfamily Alysiinae, pp. 1-38 in Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 53 (1) on pages 15-17, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5731826