Wroughtonia simulata Long &amp; Van Achterberg &amp; Carpenter &amp; Oanh 2020, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Long, Khuat Dang
name: Van Achterberg, Cornelis
name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Oanh, Nguyen Thi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Wroughtonia
Wroughtonia simulata

description: <i>Wroughtonia simulata</i>, sp. nov. Figures 92–103 TYPE MATERIAL: Holotype, &amp;female;, “Hel.064” (IEBR), NC Vietnam: Ha Tinh, Huong Son, 18°22′N 106°13′E, 450 m, May 5, 1998, Malaise trap, AMNH, K. Long. DISTRIBUTION: NC Vietnam: Ha Tinh (Huong Son). BIOLOGY: Unknown. DIAGNOSIS: Antenna with 36 segments; antennal segments 11–18 cream white; maxillary palp 1.45 <b>×</b> as long as head; in frontal view width of face 1.7 <i>×</i> length of face and clypeus combined; frontal protuberance lamelliform and without ledge halfway; in dorsal view width of head 1.9 <i>×</i> as long as median length; height of eye 1.7 <i>×</i> temple; in lateral view height of eye 1.3 <i>×</i> its transverse width; transverse width of eye 1.6 <i>×</i> temple. Mesosoma 1.9 <i>×</i> longer than high; notauli wide and shallow, coarsely rugose; scutellar sulcus wide, 0.6 <i>×</i> scutellum; scutellum rugose-punctate; propodeum with basal carina, areolate-rugose. Length of forewing 3.0 <i>×</i> its maximum width; vein 3-SR 0.9 <i>×</i> as long as vein r; vein 2-M 2.0 <b>×</b> as long as vein 3-SR; hind wing vein 1-M 0.4 <i>×</i> vein 1r-m; hind wing with 3 hamuli. Foretarsus 1.65 <i>×</i> foretibia; hind femur only with serrations; length of hind femur (without serrations) 3.3 <i>×</i> as long as its maximum width; outer side of hind coxa finely punctate; hind femur punctate laterally. First metasomal tergite 1.3 <i>×</i> as long as its apical width; dorsal carinae in basal 0.8 of tergite; first tergite almost smooth basally, foveolate-rugulose medially and apically; median length of second tergite 0.6 <i>×</i> its basal width, and 1.2 <i>×</i> third tergite; second tergite rugose medially, rugose-punctate laterally; third tergite smooth. NOTES: <i>W. simulata,</i> sp. nov., runs to <i>W. zhejiangensis</i> Yan and van Achterberg, 2017, from China in couplet 10a of the key by Yan et al. (2017), but differs as follows: (1) frontal protuberance narrowed from base to apex, blunt apically (with posterior protruding narrow lamella in <i>W. zhejiangensis</i>); (2) foretarsus 1.65 <b>×</b> as long as foretibia (1.1 <b>×</b> in <i>W. zhejiangensis</i>); (3) first metasomal tergite 1.3 <b>×</b> as long as apical width (1.1 <b>×</b> in <i>W. zhejiangensis</i>) and (4) antenna with 8 (11th–18th) cream white segments (6 [13th–18th] in <i>W. zhejiangensis</i>). The new species is also similar to <i>W. albobasalis</i> van Achterberg and Chen, 2017, from China, but differs as follows: (1) frontal protuberance acute (triangular in <i>W. albobasalis</i>); (2) hind femur more slender, 3.5 <b>×</b> longer than its maximum width (2.8 <b>×</b> in <i>W. albobasalis</i>); (3) vein 1-M of hind wing 0.7 <b>×</b> vein 1r-m (0.4 <b>×</b> in <i>W. albobasalis</i>); and (4) antenna dark brown with segments 11–20 cream white (3rd–11th in <i>W. albobasalis</i>). DESCRIPTION: Holotype, &amp;female;, body length 7.1 mm, forewing length 5.3 mm, ovipositor sheath 5.6 mm (fig. 92). <i>Head:</i> Antenna with 36 segments; third antennal segment slightly longer than fourth segment (15:12); in frontal view height of eye 1.9 <b>×</b> its transverse width (28:15); width of face 1.7 <b>×</b> length of face and clypeus combined (38:22); clypeus wide; malar space 1.3 <b>×</b> as long as mandible width (13:10) and 0.5 <b>×</b> height of eye (13:28) (fig. 94); maxillary palp 1.45 <b>×</b> as long as head (67:46); frontal protuberance lamelliform, without ledge halfway; in dorsal view width of head 1.9 <b>×</b> as long as its median length (65:34); height of eye 1.7 <b>×</b> as long as temple (22:13); ocelli in rather low triangle, POL:OD:OOL = 8:4:12 (fig. 93); distance between front and hind ocelli 0.3 <b>×</b> as long as OOL (4:12) <b>(</b> fig. 93); in lateral view height of eye 1.3 <b>×</b> its transverse width (28:22); transverse width of eye 1.6 <b>×</b> temple (22:14) (fig. 95); face longitudinally rugose; frons rugose; vertex and temple dorsally smooth; temple ventrally rugose. <i>Mesosoma:</i> Mesosoma 1.9 <b>×</b> longer than high (90:47); pronotal side largely crenulate medially, coarsely rugose dorsally and ventrally; mesopleuron shiny, smooth medially; rugose-punctate ventrally; metapleuron areolate-rugulose (fig. 97); median lobes of mesoscutum coriaceous anteriorly and rugose posteriorly; notauli wide and shallow, coarsely rugose (fig. 96); lateral lobes of mesoscutum rugose-punctate; scutellar sulcus wide, with three carinae, 0.6 <b>×</b> as long as scutellum (9:16); scutellum rugose-punctate; propodeum with basal carina and areolate-rugose (fig. 98). <i>Wings:</i> Forewing: length of forewing 3.0 <b>×</b> its maximum width (125:41); pterostigma 3.1 <b>×</b> as long as wide (40:13); vein 3-SR 0.9 <b>×</b> as long as vein r; r:2-SR:3-SR:SR1:r-m = 10:14:9:68; 1-CU1:cu-a:2-CU1 = 3:12:21; 1-M 2.2 <b>×</b> vein m-cu (26:12); vein 2-M almost 2.0 <b>×</b> as long as vein 3-SR (22:9) (fig. 102); hind wing vein 1-M 0.4 <b>×</b> vein 1r-m (11:27); hind wing with 3 hamuli. <i>Legs:</i> Foretarsus 1.65 <b>×</b> longer than foretibia (43:36); hind femur only with serrations (fig. 101); length of hind femur (without serrations), tibia, and basitarsus 3.3 (60:18), 10.2 (82:8), and 6.25 <b>×</b> (25:4) as long as their maximum width, respectively; hind basitarsus 0.3 <b>×</b> as long as hind tibia (25:82) (fig. 103), and 0.75 <b>×</b> as long as hind tarsal segments 2–5 (25:33); fourth hind tarsal segment 0.4 <b>×</b> as long as telotarsus (4:11); hind coxa finely punctate laterally (fig. 99); hind femur punctate laterally (fig. 101). <i>Metasoma:</i> Metasoma subequal to head and mesosoma combined (35:36); first tergite 1.3 <b>×</b> longer than its apical width (58:46) (fig. 100); dorsal carinae in basal 0.8 of tergite (48:58); first tergite largely smooth basally, foveolate-rugulose medially and apically (fig. 100); median length of second tergite 0.6 <b>×</b> its basal width (28:48), and 1.2 <b>×</b> third tergite (28:23); second tergite rugose medially, rugose-punctate laterally; third tergite smooth; ovipositor sheath 1.1 <b>×</b> as long as forewing (56:53). <i>Color:</i> Head and mesosoma dark brown to black; scapus brown; antenna brown, but with 11th–18th antennal segments cream white; palpi yellow; fore- and middle legs light yellow; hind leg yellow, hind femur yellow, but apical two thirds of hind femur and extreme apex of hind tibia infuscate; pterostigma and wing veins brown; wing membrane yellow; metasoma brown; ovipositor sheath dark brown. <i>Male:</i> Unknown. ETYMOLOGY: From <i>simulatus</i> (Latin for “imitated, copied because this species is similar to two species (<i>Wroughtonia albobasalis</i> van Achterberg and Chen and <i>W. zhejiangensis</i> Yan and van Achterberg) from China.
description: Published as part of <i>Long, Khuat Dang, Van Achterberg, Cornelis, Carpenter, James M. &amp; Oanh, Nguyen Thi, 2020, Review of the genus Wroughtonia Cameron, 1899 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Helconinae), with the description of 12 new species from Vietnam, pp. 1-56 in American Museum Novitates 2020 (3953)</i> on pages 32-34, DOI: 10.1206/3953.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5370347
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