Tanycarpa broadi Peris-Felipo & Belokobylskij 2019, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier
name: Belokobylskij, Sergey A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Tanycarpa
Tanycarpa broadi

description: Tanycarpa broadi Peris-Felipo, sp. nov.
(Figs 1, 2)
Type material. Holotype: female, Brazil, Nova Teutonia, viii.1935, 27 °11’B 52°23’ L, F. Plaumann leg. (BMNH: B.M. 1937–47).
Paratypes: 1 female, same data as holotype (ZISP); 2 males, same data as holotype but, viii.1935 and 10.x.1935 (BNHM); 2 males, same data as holotype but, 10.vii.1937 (B.M. 1937–656) (BNHM).
Description. Female (holotype). Head. In dorsal view, 1.8× as wide as long, 1.4× as wide as mesoscutum, smooth, with temple rounded behind eyes (Fig. 1F). Eye in lateral view 1.3× as high as wide and 2.0× as wide as temple medially (Fig. 1B). POL 1.3× to OD; OOL 2.5× OD (Fig. 1F). Face 1.4× as wide as high, with sparse setae; inner margins of eyes subparallel (Fig. 1E). Clypeus 1.8× as wide as high, slightly concave ventrally (Fig. 1E). Paraclypeal fovea short, not reaching half distance between clypeus and inner border of eye (Fig. 1E). Mandible almost parallel-sided, 1.5× as long as its maximum width (Fig. 1C). Upper tooth very small; middle tooth rather narrow, directed weakly upwards; lower tooth wide, with a few long outstanding curved setae (Fig. 1C). Antenna 24-segmented, 1.4× as long as body (Fig. 1D). Scape 1.8× as long as pedicel. First flagellomere 6.8× as long as its apical width, 1.3× as long as second segment. Second flagellomere 4.8×, third flagellomere 3.6×, fourth to sixth flagellomeres 3.4×, seventh to 23 rd flagellomere 2.6–2.8× and 24th (apical) flagellomere 2.8× as long as their maximum width (Fig. 1D).
Mesosoma. In lateral view 1.3× as long as high (Fig. 2A). Mesoscutum (dorsal view) about as long as its maximum width, smooth (Fig. 2B). Notauli in horizontal surface of mesonotum mainly absent (Fig. 2B). Mesoscutal pit present, subround (Fig. 2B). Prescutellar depression smooth, without lateral carinae, 1.3× as long as its maximum width (Fig. 2B). Precoxal sulcus, crenulate, not reaching anterior and posterior margins of mesopleuron (Fig. 2A). Posterior mesopleural furrow smooth (Fig. 2A). Propodeum mainly smooth, with pentagonal areola (Fig. 2C). Propodeal spiracles small, its diameter 0.3× as large as distance from spiracle to anterior margin of propodeum (Fig. 2C).
Wings (Fig. 2F). Length of fore wing 2.7× its maximum width. Marginal cell ending on apex of wing, 3.7× as long as its maximum width. Vein r longer than pterostigma width. Vein SR1 3.7× as long as vein 2-SR. Vein 3-SR 1.1× as long as vein 2-SR and 3.9× as long as vein r. Second submarginal cell 1.8× as long as its maximum width. First subdiscal cell 4.4× as long as its maximum width. Hind wing 4.3× as long as its maximum width.
Legs (Fig. 2E). Hind femur 4.8× as long as its maximum width. Hind tibia weakly widened to apex, 10.0× as long as its maximum subapical width, about as long as hind tarsus. First segment of hind tarsus 2.2× as long as second segment.
Metasoma. First tergite roundly widened towards apex, 1.5× as long as its maximum subapical width, almost smooth basally and apically, rugulose medially (Fig. 2D). Ovipositor 2.3× as long as first tergite, 0.7× as long as metasoma, 1.1× as long as hind femur (Fig. 2E).
Colour. Body, flagellomeres and pterostigma brown to dark brown. Mandible, legs, first metasomal tergite, scapus and pedicel light yellow. First metasomal tergite paler than other tergites. Wings almost hyaline.
Length. Body 2.0 mm, fore wing 2.4 mm, hind wing 1.7 mm.
Variation. Body 1.9–2.1 mm, fore wing 2.3–2.5 mm, hind wing 1.6–1.7 mm. Head in dorsal view 1.7–1.8× as wide as long. Mandible 1.4–1.5× as long as its maximum width. First metasomal tergite 1.5–1.6× as long as its apical width.
Male. Body length 1.7–1.8 mm; length of fore wing 2.0– 2.2 mm; length of hind wing 1.3–1.4 mm. Antenna 24–25 antennomeres. First flagellomere 7.0× and second flagellomere 5.0× as long as their maximum width respectively. Hind femur 5.0× as long as its maximum width. Otherwise similar to female.
Etymology. Named in honor Dr Gavin Broad, curator of Hymenoptera collection in the Natural History Museum of London (UK) for his great help during our study of Braconidae.
Comparative diagnosis. This new species is similar to T. edithate Dix, 2010 from Colombia (Dix 2010) and T. itatiaia Cerantola, Souza-Gessner and Penteado-Dias, 2016 from Brazil (Cerantola et al. 2016). Tanycarpa broadi sp. nov. differs from their in having the first flagellomere 6.8–7.0× as long as its maximum width (5.3–5.5× in T. edithae and T. itatiaia) and second flagellomere 4.8–5.0× (3.2–4.0× in T. edithae and T. itatiaia), vein 3-SR about 4.0× as long as vein r (5.4 and 2.5× in T. edithae and T. itatiaia, respectively), vein SR1 3.7× as long as vein 2-SR (3.3 and 3.2× in T. edithae and T. itatiaia, respectively), clypeus 1.8× as wide as high (2.4 and 2.9× in T. edithae and T. itatiaia, respectively), eye in lateral view 2.0× as wide as temple medially (1.5× in T. itatiaia) and hind femur 4.8× as long as its maximum width (4.1–4.3× in T. itatiaia).
description: Published as part of Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier & Belokobylskij, Sergey A., 2019, Tanycarpa broadi sp. nov., a new Neotropical species of the genus Tanycarpa Foerster, 1863 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae), with a key to the New World taxa, pp. 295-300 in Zootaxa 4586 (2) on pages 296-299, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4586.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/2644494