Streblocera (Streblocera) setosa Mai & Long & Hiep & Hoa & Duong 2025, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Mai, Pham Quynh
name: Long, Khuat Dang
name: Hiep, Nguyen Duc
name: Hoa, Dang Thi
name: Duong, Tran Dinh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Streblocera
Streblocera setosa

description: Streblocera (Streblocera) setosa Long, sp. nov.
(Figs 17, 18, 21)
Type material. Holotype, ♀, labelled “Euph. 068 ” (IEBR), N Vietnam: Ninh Binh, Cuc Phuong NP, forest, 20°23’N 105°34’E, 300 m, MT, 20–30.vii.2002, KD Long. Paratype, 1♀, labelled “Euph. 400 ”, (IEBR), NE Lang Son, Huu Lung, Huu Lien NR, forest, MT, 21°39’4’’N 106°21’51’E, 200 m, 15.ii.2024, PQ Mai, TD Duong.
Diagnosis. The new species is close to Streblocera (S.) hikoensis Belokobylskij, from Japan but differs by having 1) First metasomal tergite 2.6 × its apical width [vs 3.0× in S. (S.) hikoensis] and apical width of first metasomal tergite 2.6 × its minimum width [vs 2.0 × in S. (S.) hikoensis]; 2) Antenna with 15 antennomeres [vs 19 antennomeres in S. (S.) hikoensis]; and 3) First–second flagellomeres with dense sensillae ventrally.
Description. Holotype, ♀; body length 2.3 mm, fore wing length 2.2 mm, ovipositor 0.6 mm (Fig. 17).
Head. Antenna with 15 antennomeres; length of scapus 8.75 × its maximum width (Fig. 18H); scapus long and slender, 1.9 × of head height; first flagellomere straight, 6.5 × as long as its width medially (Fig. 18F), and 3.25 × second flagellomere; and first flagellomere 0.4 × scapus; in dorsal view, occipital carina incomplete medio-dorsally (Fig. 18A), width of head 1.6 × its median length, and 1.6 × width of mesoscutum (without tegulae); temple roundly narrowed behind eye; length of eye 2.4 × as long as temple; ocelli small, POL: OD: OOL = 2.5: 2.0: 6.0 (Fig. 18A); eye 2.4 × as high as broad; in lateral view, transverse diameter of eye twice length of temple; in frontal view, diameter of antennal socket 2.0 × between sockets (Fig. 18B); face width 0.9 × length of face and clypeus combined, and 1.1 × height of eye; clypeus margin straight; malar space as long as basal width of mandible, and 0.3 × as long as eye height; distance between tentorial pits 1.75 × distance from pit to eye margin; face smooth, with sparse fine punctures; clypeus smooth (Fig. 18B); frons flat and smooth; temple and vertex polished smooth (Fig. 18A).
Mesosoma. In lateral view, length of mesosoma 1.7 × as long as its height; notauli deep, evenly crenulated, divided posteriorly by a smooth groove (Fig. 18D); prescutellar sulcus wide, deep, 0.5 × as long as scutellum, with one carina (Fig. 18D); pronotal side crenulate medially, smooth dorsally and ventrally (Fig. 18G); mesoscutal lobes and scutellum smooth; precoxal sulcus straight, in 0.7 posterior mesopleuron, and crenulate (Fig. 18G); mesopleuron smooth; metapleuron reticulate-rugose; propodeum with short basal carina and areola medially, coriaceous basolaterally, with sparse transverse and convergent rugosities medially and laterally, finely rugose medio-posteriorly (Fig. 18E).
Wings. Length of fore wing 2.0 × its width; length of pterostigma 3.1 × its width, and 3.6 × vein 1-R1 (Fig. 18I); vein r arising far behind middle of pterostigma, 0.25 × as long as width of pterostigma, and 0.2 × vein 1-R1; vein 1-CU1: cu-a: 2-CU1 = 1.5: 2.0: 9.0; length of hind wing 4.0 × its width; 1-M: 1r-m: 2-SC+R = 2.5: 4.0: 4.0 (Fig. 18J).
Legs. Length of hind femur, tibia and basitarsus 6.75, 12.70 and 8.70 × as long as their maximum width, respectively; hind basitarsus 0.3 × hind tibia, and 0.7 × second-fifth tarsus combined; fourth hind tarsus 0.8 × as long as fifth tarsus (without pretarsus).
Metasoma. First metasomal tergite elongate, slightly widened posteriorly, 2.6 × of its apical width (Fig. 18C); and apical width 2.6 × minimum width of the tergite; dorsal carinae of first tergite uniting posteriorly in the middle of the tergite (Fig. 18C), first metasomal tergite striate medially and apically, smooth apically (Fig. 18C); the remaining tergites highly smooth; ovipositor 0.3 × fore wing, and 1.25 × first tergite; ovipositor strongly curved upwards (Fig. 17).
Colour. Body yellow; eyes silver-grey; palpi and glossa pale yellow; all legs yellow, except coxae, fore and middle tarsus paler; wing veins pale yellow; wing membrane hyaline; first metasomal tergite darker; ovipositor and ovipositor sheath pale yellow.
Male. Unknown.
Host: Unknown.
Etymology. (P.699): “ seta ” Latin for “bristle”; reference to first–second flagellomeres with dense sensillae ventrally.
Distribution. N Vietnam: Ninh Binh province (Cuc Phuong NP). (Fig. 21).
description: Published as part of Mai, Pham Quynh, Long, Khuat Dang, Hiep, Nguyen Duc, Hoa, Dang Thi & Duong, Tran Dinh, 2025, Review of the genus Streblocera Westwood, 1883 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Euphorinae) in Vietnam, with descriptions of nine new species, pp. 59-92 in Zootaxa 5627 (1) on pages 83-84, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5627.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/15324979