Phaenocarpa tacitoides Sohn & van Achterberg 2024, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Sohn, Ju-Hyeong
name: van Achterberg, Cornelis
name: Kim, Sangjin
name: Kim, Hyojoong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Phaenocarpa
Phaenocarpa tacitoides

description: Phaenocarpa tacitoides Sohn & van Achterberg sp. nov.
Fig. 2
Type material.
Holotype • ♀ (NIBR), South Korea, Mt. Kalbong, Gyeongban-ri, Gapyeong-eup, Gapyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do, 37°51'10.9"N, 127°26'27.4"E, 11.V.2020, Sohn. GenBank accession no. PP 587251.
Comparative diagnosis.
Differs from the other Phaenocarpa species by vein r of fore wing being much more distal (1.4 × longer than wide). This species similar with P. tacita Stelfox, 1941, but easily distinguish by apical antennal segments paler than subbasal segments, and first tooth of mandible lobe-shaped, widened dorsally, 1.7 × as long as third (first tooth of mandible acute and as long as third tooth in P. tacita).
Description.
Holotype, ♀, body 1.7 mm in lateral view, fore wing 2.0 mm, ovipositor sheath 0.5 mm, antenna 1.5 mm.
Head: Width of head 1.7 × its median length in dorsal view (Fig. 2 D). Antenna with 18 antennomeres, first flagellomere slender, 4.9 × longer than wide (Fig. 2 K), second flagellomere 1.2 × longer than first and 6.1 × longer than wide. Medial antennal segments 4.1 × longer than wide. Apical antennal segments paler than subbasal segments. Eye slightly oval, in lateral view 1.1 × as long as wide. Minimum width of face (Fig. 2 E) 1.4 × its height; face rugose with setose. Eye in dorsal view 2.5 × as long as temple. Ocello-ocular line (OOL) 5.3 × longer than diameter of anterior ocellus; OOL: antero-posterior ocellar line (AOL): postero-ocellar line (POL) = 21: 5: 6. Vertex smooth and glabrous. Width of clypeus 2.2 × its maximum length. Mandible (Fig. 2 L) 1.6 × longer than wide, wide with first tooth slightly curved upward; second tooth narrow and long, 1.2 × longer than first tooth, tip of second tooth reddish brown; third tooth as long as first tooth, carina on third tooth distinct.
Mesosoma: In dorsal view mesosoma 1.8 × longer than wide and 1.4 × longer than high in lateral view. Mesoscutum (Fig. 2 F) with small and round medio-posterior depression and glabrous; notauli impressed anteriorly, not reaching medio-posterior depression; mesoscutum without setae; scutellar sulcus with one carina; apical part of mesopleuron and metapleuron without setae, posterior mesopleuron groove smooth. Precoxal sulcus distinct, but not reaching anterior and posterior edge of mesopleuron. Maximum length of propodeum (Fig. 2 F) 0.6 × its width; medio – longitudinal carina present on half of propodeum, posterior part of propodeum with areola, reaching middle of propodeum. In lateral view metanotum with acute protuberance medio-dorsally (Fig. 2 G). Fore wing (Fig. 2 C) 2.3 × as long as wide; pterostigma widened medially 6.2 × longer than wide; vein r of fore wing 1.4 × longer than wide; vein SR 1 2.1 × longer than vein 3 - SR; vein 3 - SR 1.8 × longer than 2 - SR; second submarginal cell long and narrow, 2.8 × longer than its medium length; 3 - SR: r: SR 1 = 15: 2: 33; first discal cell of fore wing ~ 1.1 × as long medially as wide. Hind wing: vein M + CU + 1 - M: vein 1 r-m = 5: 1.
Leg: Hind femur slender, 5.6 × longer than wide and 0.6 × as long as hind tibia; hind tibia 19 × longer than wide; hind tibia as long as hind tarsus.
Metasoma: First tergite (Fig. 2 H) medially rugose and 1.5 × longer than its apical width. Setose part of ovipositor sheath (Fig. 2 I) as long as than mesosoma and as long as hind tibia.
Color: Body (Fig. 2 A) brown; head dark brown; first tergite yellowish brown, metasoma brown; antenna dark brown; legs yellowish brown.
Male. Unknown.
Biology.
Unknown.
Host.
Unknown.
Distribution.
South Korea.
Etymology.
The specific name tacitoides is an adjective, named after P. tacita and - oides added a suffix because of its similarity to this species (“ oides ” is Latin for “ resembling ”).
description: Published as part of Sohn, Ju-Hyeong, van Achterberg, Cornelis, Kim, Sangjin & Kim, Hyojoong, 2024, Five new species and one new record of the genus Phaenocarpa Foerster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae) from South Korea, pp. 173-193 in ZooKeys 1217 on pages 173-193, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1217.129916