Therophilus rufobrunneus
Creators: name: Stevens, Nicholas B.
name: Austin, Andrew D.
name: Jennings, John T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Therophilus
Therophilus rufobrunneus

description: <i>Therophilus rufobrunneus</i> (Turner). (Figs 16E, 20B) <i>Microdus rufobrunneus</i> Turner, 1918a:106 [examined]. Holotype BMNH &amp;female;; Type locality: Townsville, Queensland. <i>Agathis rufobrunneus</i> (Turner); Parrot, 1953: 199 [catalogue, generic transfer]; Shenefelt, 1970b: 353 [catalogue]. <i>Agathis rufobrunnea</i> (Turner); Yu <i>et al.</i>, 2005 [catalogue]. <i>Therophilus rufobrunneus</i> (Turner); Stevens <i>et al.</i>, 2010: 21 [catalogue, generic transfer]. <b>Diagnosis.</b> Parallel paired carina between antennae; labial palpomere 3 greater than half length of labial palpomere 4; notauli deep and scrobiculate; propodeum extensively rugose-carinate; T1 mostly longitudinally striate. <b>Description (female).</b> Body length 6.5 (5.2–6.5) mm; ovipositor 3.9 (3.3–3.9) mm; head black to dark brown including antenna (head and palps sometimes yellow); mesosoma orange; fore and mid legs orange, hind leg dark brown except for pale band around basal tibia; metasoma orange (sometimes brown to dark brown dorsally); terminal sternite and ovipositor sheaths dark brown. Head width 1.6 (1.4–1.6) mm, length 0.8 (0.6–0.8) mm, height 1.1 mm; eye width 0.3 mm, length 0.5 mm, height 0.7 mm; inter-orbital distance 0.9 mm; median ocellus diameter 0.13 mm; distance between lateral ocelli and median ocellus 0.08 mm; distance between lateral ocelli 0.13 mm; parallel paired carina between antennae; ante-ocular pit absent; antenna with 34 flagellomeres; clypeus width 0.5 mm, height 0.2 mm; malar space height 0.3 mm; distance from ventral eye margin to latero-ventral mouth margin 0.4 mm; labial palpomere 3 long, length 0.6x labial palpomere 4 length (lengths 0.07 and 0.12 mm, respectively); labial palpomere 2 length 0.1 mm; posterior margin of head, when viewed dorsally, broadly and deeply excavated (incursion 0.13 mm). Mesosomal width 1.5 mm, length 2.7 (2.0–2.7) mm, height 1.9 mm; pilosity mostly short (0.05–0.07 mm) and sparse, except on propleuron and setal field on mesepimeron and metapleuron where setae 2x as long (0.1–0.17 mm), stouter and denser; subpronope large and distinct, bordered posteriorly by carina that extends to anterior margin of pronotum; notauli scrobiculate; scutellar sulcus distinct, divided into 4 pits by prominent longitudinal carinae, both anterior and posterior margins curved, anterior wall steeply sloped, nearly vertical, posterior wall vertical; propodeal surface coarsely sculptured, rugose-areolate, longitudinal medial carinae forming spindleshaped areola with 4 complete transverse carinae and one incomplete transverse carina; suture line between metapleuron and propodeum delineated by scrobiculate groove; propodeal spiracle D-shaped (length 0.1, width 0.04 mm); hind coxal cavities separated from metasomal foramen by wide hind coxal bridge (minimum width 0.14 mm); sternalus curved and scrobiculate; metapleural surface difficult to see because of dense setal field, but is extensively punctate. Legs with basal lobe of all claws large and quadrate; mid tibia with 2 apical and 2 preapical spines; preapical spines placed singularly at intervals in distal one-third; hind tibia with 4 apical and 6 preapical spines; preapical spines clumped just basal to apical spines. Both fore and hind wings moderately infuscate; fore wings maximum width 1.9 (1.5–1.9) mm, length 6.2 (4.8– 6.2) mm; cell 1–Rs reduced, triangular and petiolate, maximum length 0.09 mm, petiole of cell 0.1 mm long; basal third of M+Cu not pigmented; hind wing maximum width 1.1 (0.8–1.1) mm, length 4.6 (4.0–4.6) mm. Metasomal length 3.0 (2.4–3.0) mm, maximum width 1.2 (1.0–1.2) mm; T1 mostly longitudinally striate, with pair of lateral carinae and medial carina, smooth glabrous band along posterior margin; T1 median area length 1.0 mm, anterior width 0.5 mm, posterior width (maximum) 1.1 mm; T2+3 smooth; both T2 medial groove and T2–T3 boundary groove faint; anterior margin of median T2 broad and straight. <b>Male</b>. As for female except for genitalia. <i>Holotype</i>: &amp;female;, ‘ Townsville, N. Queensland, F.P.Dodd. ’ ‘ R.E. Turner, 191?–111’ (BMNH). Other material examined. <b>Queensland:</b> 1 &amp;female;, Box Creek, 16 km N. Proserpine, dry sclerophyll, 13.IV.1975, G.A. Holloway (AMSA); 1 &amp;female;, Lake Broadwater, nr Dalby, 27°21’S 151°06’E, 2V.1987, UV lamp, G. &amp; A. Daniels (UQIC); 1 &amp;male;, Carr Creek, 18 km NNW Mareeba, 21.V.1980, I.D. Naumann &amp; J.C. Cardale (ANIC); 1 &amp;female;, 15.03S 145.09E, 3 km NE Mount Webb, 1–3.X.1980, collected at light, 1980 (ANIC). <b>Comments.</b> <i>Therophilus rufobrunneus</i> is readily distinguished from other Australian species by the presence of paired carina between the antennae, scrobiculate notauli, and relatively long labial palpomere 3. It is distributed in north-eastern Australia (Fig. 20B) and has been collected at light traps. The holotype is damaged as follows: both hind legs incomplete, left leg missing all segements except coxa and trochantellus, right leg missing tarsomeres only; left antenna incomplete with only 20 flagellomeres.
description: Published as part of <i>Stevens, Nicholas B., Austin, Andrew D. &amp; Jennings, John T., 2011, Diversity, distribution and taxonomy of the Australian agathidine genera Camptothlipsis Enderlein, Lytopylus Foerster and Therophilus Wesmael (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Agathidinae), pp. 1-49 in Zootaxa 2887 (1)</i> on pages 37-38, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2887.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5285497
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