Alysia umbrata Stelfox 1941
Creators: name: Zhu, Jia-Chen
name: Achterberg, Cornelis Van
name: Chen, Xue-Xin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Alysia
Alysia umbrata

description: Alysia umbrata Stelfox, 1941   
Figs 25–26  
 Alysia sophia var. umbrata Stelfox, 1941: 12.   
 Alysia umbrata; Fischer, 1967: 132; Wharton, 1986: 463; 1988: 47.   
 Alysia (Anarcha) umbrata; Wharton, 1986: 463, 1988: 47.   
 Material. 1♀ (ZJUH), “ [NE. China:] Jilin, Mt. Changbai, 6.?.1999, Lin Naiquan, No. 20035591”.   
 Diagnosis. Body black (Fig. 25); eye in dorsal view 1.3 × as long as temple (Fig. 26I); eye in lateral view 1.3 × higher than wide (Fig. 26K); frons with some rugae around antennal sockets and setae near antennal sockets (Fig. 26I); vertex and temple smooth; face rugose and with some punctures, 1.5 × wider than high, rather convex medially and with a longitudinal ridge (Fig. 26J); clypeus small, semi-elliptical and some punctures (Fig. 26J); precoxal sulcus widely crenulate, reaching middle coxa and anterior edge of epicnemial area (Fig. 26C); notauli incomplete and short, only present anteriorly; medio-posterior depression deep and droplet-shaped, not extending to middle of mesoscutum (Fig. 26D); surface of propodeum densely reticulate-rugose, areola absent posteriorly; pterostigma wide, 4.2 × longer than its maximum width (Fig. 26A); hind coxa smooth (Fig. 25); length of first tergite 1.4 × its apical width, its surface longitudinally striate, its dorsal carinae separated posteriorly (Fig. 26E); setose part of ovipositor sheath 0.2 × as long as fore wing (total visible sheath 0.3 times), and 0.7 × as long as hind tibia (Fig. 26H); antenna and metasoma except first tergite dark brown; palpi yellow; mandible, ventral side of coxa and femur yellowish brown; dorsal side of coxa, femur, apex of hind tibia and whole tarsus reddish brown (Fig. 25).   
 Description. ♀, Length of body 3.3 mm, of fore wing 4.1 mm..   
Head. Transverse, width of head 1.9 × its lateral length, and 1.3 × wider than mesoscutum (Fig. 26I); antenna with 38 antennomere, third antennomere (including annellus) 1.4 × longer than fourth antennomere, length of third, fourth and penultimate antennomere4.0, 2.2 and 2.5 × their width, respectively (Fig. 26G); length of maxillary palp 1.6 × height of head (Fig. 25); eye in dorsal view 1.3 × as long as temple; eye in lateral view 1.3 × higher than wide (Fig. 26I); frons with some rugae around antennal sockets and setae near antennal sockets (Fig. 26I); vertex and temple smooth; OOL:diameter of ocellus:POL= 10:3:4; face rugose and with some punctures, 1.5 × wider than high, rather convex medially and with a longitudinal ridge (Fig. 26J); clypeus small, semi-elliptical and with some punctures (Fig. 26J); mandible enlarged apically, dorsal tooth enlarged, lobe-shaped (Fig. 26L), ventral tooth medium-sized and lobe-shaped (Fig. 26M), middle tooth curved and acute, with incision between first and second tooth (Fig. 26L), medial length of mandible 1.6 × its maximum width.  
Mesosoma. Length of mesosoma 1.4 × its height (Fig. 26C); pronope absent; medio-anteriorly pronotum widely crenulate, remainder of pronotum weakly rugose; epicnemial area crenulated; precoxal sulcus widely crenulate, reaching middle coxa and anterior edge of epicnemial area (Fig. 26C); pleural sulcus narrowly crenulated; episternal scrobe linear and deep; metapleuron largely smooth, but reticulate-rugose ventrally (Fig. 26C); middle lobe of mesoscutum densely setose (Fig. 26D); notauli incomplete and short, only present anteriorly (Fig. 26D); medio-posterior depression deep and droplet-shaped, not extending to middle of mesoscutum, scutellar sulcus deep and rugose, with three short carinae, sulcus 3.0 × wider than its maximum length (Fig. 26D); scutellum smooth; surface of propodeum densely reticulate-rugose, areola absent posteriorly (Fig. 26E).  
Wings (Figs 26A–B). Pterostigma wide, 4.2 × longer than its maximum width. r:3-SR:SR1 = 1:4:14; 1-SR+M slightly sinuate; SR1 straight; r 0.5 × as long as width of pterostigma; cu-a postfurcal; 1-CU1:2-CU1 = 3: 20; 3- CU1 as long as CU1b; 2-SR:3-SR:r-m = 21:19:11; m-cu postfurcal, converging to 1-M posteriorly; first subdiscal cell 3.3 × as long as wide; M+CU1 largely unsclerotized. Hind wing: M+CU: 1-M: 1r-m = 4:3:2; m-cu weakly postfurcal.  
Legs. Hind coxa smooth (Fig. 26E), without ventro-basal tubercle, densely setose; tarsal claws moderately slender, as long as arolium (Fig. 26N); length of femur, tibia and basitarsus of hind leg 3.8, 7.8 and 3.3 × their width, respectively; apical appendages of hind tarsal segments absent, but segments ventrally with dense bristles (Fig. 26N).  
Metasoma. Length of first tergite 1.4 × its apical width, its surface longitudinally striate, its dorsal carinae separated posteriorly (Fig. 26E); dorsope distinct; setose part of ovipositor sheath 0.2 × as long as fore wing (total visible sheath 0.3 times), and 0.7 × as long as hind tibia (Fig. 26H).  
Colour. Black (Fig. 25); antenna and metasoma except first tergite dark brown; palpi yellow; mandible, ventral side of coxa and femur yellowish brown; dorsal side of coxa, femur and apical hind tibia and whole tarsus reddish brown; pterostigma and veins brown; wing membrane hyaline.
description: Published as part of Zhu, Jia-Chen, Achterberg, Cornelis Van & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2018, Review of the genus Alysia Latreille (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae), with description of six new species from China, pp. 1-42 in Zootaxa 4500 (1) on pages 35-38, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4500.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5755225