Streblocera (Eutanycerus) kanpurensis Shamim & O 2013, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Shamim, Mohammad
name: O, Published
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Streblocera
Streblocera kanpurensis

description: 4.5. Streblocera (Eutanycerus) kanpurensis sp. nov. (Plate V; Figures 35 –44)
Body length: 7.4 mm, Forewing: 8.5 mm, Antenna: 8.8 mm.
Head: Width of head in dorsal view 1.6× its length, 1.7× its height; antennal segments 20; scape long, incrassate, 8× its width, 2× height of head, at basal less than one-third with a minute spine; ventrally carinate, flagellum geniculated at seventh flagellomere; first to seventh segments ventrally carinate, sixth and seventh flagellomere formed into a hook-like prominence apicoventrally, prominence on sixth segment smaller than on seventh segment; first flagellomere without sensillum, 2× as long as wide, almost as long as pedicel and 1.4× as long as second flagellomere; second flagellomere with 1 sensillum, 1.4× as long as wide, 0.8× as long as third flagellomere; third flagellomere with 2 sensilla; F 3 – F 6, F 7, F 8, F 9 – F 10, F 11 – F 17, and F 18 1.6×, 1.3×, 2.2×, 2×, 1.6×, and 2.5× their widths, respectively; length of scape: length of pedicel to seventh flagellomere: length of antenna from eighth flagellomere to apex = 80: 91: 101; occipital carina incomplete, dorsally shortly interrupted, ventrally separated from hypostomal carina; OOL: POL: OD = 16: 9: 4; length of eye in dorsal view 1.2× its width and 1.4× temple; temple smooth, sparsely setose; temple roundly narrowed behind eyes; vertex 2.3× its width, smooth, sparsely setose; frons 1.6× as wide as long, near eye margin and near antennal sockets striate, remaining wrinkled, sparsely setose; face 1.9× as wide as long, punctate, densely setose; intertentorial line 1.6× tentorio-ocular line, tentorial pit deep, oval-shaped; clypeus 2× its height, flat, punctate, densely setose; length of malar space as long as basal width of mandible.
Mesosoma: Length of mesosoma 2× its width and 2.2× its height; pronotal side medially largely crenulate, remaining smooth; precoxal sulcus wide, long, crenulate; mesopleuron anterodorsally finely crenulate, setose, remaining largely smooth; notauli wide, broad, deep, anteriorly crenulate, posteriorly reticulate, rugose, without median longitudinal carina; middle lobe of mesoscutum smooth, setose, lateral lobes smooth; scutellar sulcus wide, deep with 1 median longitudinal strong carina; scutellum flat, smooth; side of scutellum reticulate, rugose, densely setose; medioposterior depression wide, oval-shaped with median longitudinal carina; metapleuron finely crenulate; propodeum apically carinate, remaining largely reticulate, rugose.
Wings: Forewing 2.9× as long as wide; length of pterostigma 3.5× its width; length of vein 1 – R 1 0.67× length of pterostigma; r emitting at middle of pterostigma, its length 0.35× width of pterostigma; vein SR1 + 3 – SR evenly curved; m – cu interstitial; r: 2 – SR: SR1 + 3 – SR = 6: 20: 72; 1 – CU1: 2 – CU1: 3 – CU1 = 5: 22: 7; hindwing 4.5× as long as wide; 1 – M: 1 – r-m: 2 – SC + R = 8: 16: 13.
Legs: Hind coxa smooth, setose; lengths of hind femur, tibia, and basitarsus 5.8×, 12.5×, and 10× their widths, respectively; lengths of hind tibial spurs 0.17× hind basitarsus.
Metasoma: Length of metasoma 2.8× its width and height; first metasomal tergite 2.1× its apical width, its surface basally one-third smooth, remaining longitudinally striate; dorsope present; distance across spiracles 0.48× distance from spiracles to apex of first metasomal tergite; ovipositor sheath slender, setose, its length 0.17× forewing, as long as hind basitarsus, hypopygium setose; ovipositor long, strongly curved downward, apically pointed.
Color: Yellowish brown except face, clypeus, base of mandibles, legs yellow; stemmaticum brown; first metasomal tergite, ovipositor sheath, propodeum brownish yellow; eyes grayish; maxillary palp and labial palp pale yellow; ocelli transparent.
Variation: Length of body 7.5 mm, of forewing 9 mm, of antenna 8.6 mm; frons 1.7× as wide as long, near antennal sockets finely striate; face sparsely setose; tentorial pit round shaped; 1 – CU1: 2 – CU1: 3 – CU1 = 4: 23: 8; length of hind basitarsus 12.7× its width; length of first metasomal tergite 2.2× its apical width.
Type material: Holotype, female, INDIA: Uttar Pradesh, Kanpur, 26°28′N, 80°24′E, 21. iv. 20011, Coll. M. Shamim (ZDAMU). Deposited in Insect Collection, Department of Zoology, AMU, Aligarh (ZDAMU).
Paratypes, 4 females, same as holotypes. INDIA: Uttar Pradesh, Kanpur, 26°28′N, 80°24′E, 22. v. 2010. Coll. M. Shamim (ZDAMU). Deposited in Insect Collection, Department of Zoology, AMU, Aligarh (ZDAMU).
Etymology: The species name refers to its type locality.
Discussion: The new species Streblocera (Eutanycerus) kanpurensis sp. nov. is related to Streblocera (Eutanycerus) achterbergi sp. nov. However, it differs by having (1) scape 8× as long as wide (scape 9.4× as long as wide in achterbergi); (2) clypeus punctate, densely setose (clypeus smooth, setose in achterbergi); (3) first metasomal tergite basally one-third smooth, remaining longitudinally striate (first metasomal tergite apically and basally smooth, remaining longitudinally striate in achterbergi); (4) distance across spiracles 0.48× distance from spiracles to first metasomal tergite (distance across spiracles 0.62× distance from spiracles to first metasomal tergite in achterbergi); (5) hind coxa smooth (hind coxa sparsely punctate in achterbergi); (6) hindwing 4.5× as long as wide (hindwing 3.1× as long as wide in achterbergi).
The new species Streblocera (Eutanycerus) kanpurensis sp. nov. is also related to Streblocera (Eutanycerus) affinis Belokobylskij, 1987. However, it differs by having (1) face punctate, densely setose (face densely punctate, rugose in middle in affinis); (2) antennal segments 20 (antennal segments 24 in affinis); (3) surface of first metasomal tergite basally one-third smooth, remaining longitudinally striate (surface of first metasomal tergite wholly rugose in affinis).
description: Published as part of Shamim, Mohammad & O, Published, 2013, The genus Streblocera Westwood (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Euphorinae) from India, with descriptions of 9 new species, pp. 385-405 in Turkish Journal of Zoology 37 (4) on pages 394-396, DOI: 10.3906/zoo-1207-36, http://zenodo.org/record/10973680