Stenope Achterberg & Ang & Reshchikov & Yue 2018, gen. nov.
Creators: name: Achterberg, Cornelis Van
name: Ang, Yuchen
name: Reshchikov, Alexey
name: Yue, Qi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Stenope

description: Stenope van Achterberg & Reshchikov, gen. nov.
(Figs 1–16)
Type species: Allophrys falcatus Reshchikov, 2017: 190.
Etymology. Stenope is derived from “stenos” (Greek for “narrow”) and “enope” (Greek for “face”), because of the extremely narrow face. Gender feminine.
Diagnosis. Antenna situated between eyes and not on a protuberance (Fig. 2), scapus short and cylindrical, slightly longer than third flagellomere, not reaching top level of vertex in lateral view (Fig. 2), flagellar segments with long setae apically, third flagellomere (including annellus) longer than fourth flagellomere, and apical flagellomere without apical spine (Fig. 10); eyes large, converging dorsally and strongly protruding anteriorly in respect to anterior level of frons, with remotely placed and rather long setae (Figs 11–13); face 2.5 x higher than its minimum width and narrowed dorsally (Fig. 11); clypeus distinctly convex, nearly twice as wide as high and strongly narrowed dorsally, and anterior tentorial pits large (Figs 2, 11); frons strongly narrowed anteriorly, without distinct carinae and concave (Fig. 12); maxillary and labial palpi with 4 and 2 segments, respectively (Figs 2, 13); occipital carina present laterally and medio-dorsally absent (Figs 1, 2); mandible wide basally and narrow apically, sickle-shaped, with 2 teeth but second tooth minute (Fig. 13); malar suture distinct and narrow (Fig. 11); head about 1.5 x wider than mesosoma; notauli complete and wide; mesoscutum twice wider than long and largely smooth (Fig. 7); precoxal sulcus distinct and coarsely crenulate; mesosternum of ♀♀ largely glabrous and convex (Fig. 6); propodeum medio-posteriorly with normal ventral petiolar condylus, near level of bases of hind coxae and without V-shaped carina; postpectal carina absent; scutellum without distinct depression medio-posteriorly (Fig. 3); propodeum areolate and postero-medially depressed (Fig. 3); marginal cell of fore wing long and closed (Fig. 4); vein M+CU1 of fore wing largely unsclerotized (except distally; Fig. 4); veins r-m and 1-SR+M of fore wing absent; vein 2-1A of fore wing unsclerotized; marginal cell of hind wing strongly narrowed apically; vein 1r-m of hind wing 0.2 x vein 2-SC+R and 1.3 x vein 1-M (Fig. 5); vein cu-a of hind wing reduced, unsclerotized (except basally; Figs 4, 5); vein 1-1A of hind wing absent distally; vein 1-SC+R of hind wing completely sclerotized; hind femur approx. 6 x longer than wide; middle and hind tibiae and tarsi very long and slender (Figs 1, 9); tarsi (including telotarsi) simple and slender, weakly and evenly curved, ventrally mainly glabrous (Fig. 15); first tergite petiolate, its apical half widened, slightly narrowed near apex and flattened, about 5 x as long as its maximum width, and 0.3 x length of metasoma (Fig. 1); spiracles of first tergite situated behind middle of tergite (Fig. 8) and dorsope and laterope absent, segment ventrally angulate, its sternite strongly sclerotized but separated from tergite (Fig. 16); metasoma of ♀ strongly compressed from middle of third tergite onwards, 0.7 x width of propodeum or less (Fig. 8); fifth sternite truncate apically; hypopygium of female with medium-sized setae apically (Fig. 14); ovipositor laterally compressed, its basal half widened in lateral view (Fig. 14) and rounded dorsally, widened in lateral view (Fig. 14), in exserted position about 1.2 x as long as hind basitarsus and straight; ovipositor sheath slender, about 4 x as long as wide, shorter than apical height of metasoma and about 0.2 x length of first tergite (Fig. 1).
description: Published as part of Achterberg, Cornelis Van, Ang, Yuchen, Reshchikov, Alexey & Yue, Qi, 2018, Stenope, a new euphorine genus from the Philippines (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), pp. 479-484 in Zootaxa 4442 (3) on page 481, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4442.3.9, http://zenodo.org/record/1303785