Choeras Mason 1981
Creators: name: Moghaddam, Mostafa Ghafouri
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Achterberg, Cornelis Van
name: Mokhtari, Azizollah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Choeras

description: Key to the Iranian species of Choeras Mason, 1981
1 Subapical antennal flagellomeres longer than wide, with especially 16th flagellomere aberrant, smooth and shiny surface (Fig. 7B); T1 hardly narrowed posteriorly and completely strongly rugose (Figs 8C–8D); T2 transversely narrowed, rectangular, with a shortly and weakly sloping sides, its width posteriorly 3.5 × its length (Figs 8C–8D)........ C. tiro (Reinhard, 1880)
- Subapical antennal flagellomeres moniliform and about as long as wide, if longer than wide then normal and densely setose (Figs 2B, 4B, 6A); T1 more and less narrowed posteriorly and with some sculpture (Figs 3A–3B, 5A–5B, 6F); T2 transversely narrowed, subtriangular, with longer and strongly sloping sides, posteriorly more than 3.5 × wider than its length (Figs 3A–3B, 5A–5B, 6F).......................................................................................... 2
2 Tarsal claws slender and only bristly setose; vein r-m variable, if present then vein r-m less than 1.5 × as long as vein 3RSa (Fig. 3F); T1 narrowed and anterior half rather depressed, concave, smooth and shiny, anteriorly more than 1.5 × wider than posteriorly (Figs 3C–3D); T2 posteriorly 3.5–4.0 × wider than long (Figs 3C–3D), T3 variable, sometimes with sandglassshaped (Figs 3C–3D).................................................................................. 3
- Tarsal claws less slender and with two teeth; vein r-m about twice as long as vein 3RSa (Fig. 5F); T1 slightly narrowed and anterior half convex, coarsely punctate and shiny, anteriorly about as long as wide posteriorly (Figs 5C–5D); T2 posteriorly more than 5.2 × wider than long (Figs 5C–5D), T3 only with a shape of inverse triangle anteriorly (Figs 5C–5D)............................................................................................... C. taftanensis sp. n.
3 Vein r-m present and 1.4 × as long as 3RSa (Fig. 3F); T1 anteriorly 1.6 × wider than posteriorly (Figs 3C–3D); T2 with strong rugae laterally, smooth and shiny medially, posteriorly more than 3.9 × wider than long (Figs 3C–3D); T3 with sandglassshaped (Figs 3C–3D); propodeum with an irregular medio-longitudinal carina, and with some rugae instead of transverse carina (Fig. 3B).................................................................. C. dorsalis (Spinola, 1808)
- Vein r-m absent; T1 anteriorly 1.9 × wider than posteriorly; T2 transverse with smooth median surface, posteriorly more than 3.2 × wider than long; T3 without sandglass-shaped; propodeum largely smooth and shiny except for a few rugae posteriorly, and no medio-longitudinal carina..................................................... C. tedellae (Nixon, 1961)
description: Published as part of Moghaddam, Mostafa Ghafouri, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Achterberg, Cornelis Van & Mokhtari, Azizollah, 2018, A study of the Iranian species of Choeras Mason (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae), with the description of a new species, pp. 455-476 in Zootaxa 4446 (4) on page 458, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4446.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/1444404