Epimicta longicaudalis TOBIAS

Papp, J., 2007, Braconidae (Hymenoptera) From Korea Xxii. Subfamily Alysiinae, Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 53 (1), pp. 1-38 : 34-35

Epimicta longicaudalis TOBIAS , ♂

( Figs 112–121 )

Epimicta longicaudalis TOBIAS, 1998: 312 ♀♂, type locality: Primorski Krai, Novitzkoe (Asiatic Russia)

Material examined: Four male specimens: Korea, Kangwon , Mt. Solak Oknyotang , 27 May 1993, leg. D.-S. KU. – Two male specimens are in the Coll. KU (Sancheong, Republic of Korea), two male specimens in the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Department of Zoology), Budapest .

The species has been described on the basis of 26 female and 4 male specimens within the key to the two Epimicta species known so far in the Asiatic Russia. An extended redescription of the male form is presented subsequently.

Redescription of the male. – Body 2.5 mm long. Antenna as long as body and with 28 (3 ♂) and 29 (1 ♂) antennomeres. First flagellomere clearly three times, second flagellomere 2.3 times, median flagellomere twice to 1.8 times and penultimate flagellomere also 1.8 times as long as broad. First flagellomere 1.35 times longer than second flagellomere. – Head in dorsal view ( Fig. 112 ) transverse, 1.9 times (3 ♂) and twice (1 ♂) as broad as long, eye 1.4 times as long as temple, temple rounded, occiput excavated; head 1.5 times as broad as mesoscutum between tegulae; ocelli small, elliptic, OOL nearly three times as long as POL. Eye in lateral view 1.4 times as high as wide, temple somewhat less wide than eye. Mandible ( Fig. 113 ) as long medially as broad between upper and lower teeth, upper tooth widely rounded, middle tooth pointed, third and fourth teeth small. Face wide, 2.6 times wider (close above clypeus) than high medially, inner margin of eyes somewhat diverging ventrally. Head polished, face hairy; frons, vertex and occiput with fairly disperse hairs, hairs of frons shorter than hairs of vertex and occiput ( Fig. 112 ).

Mesosoma in lateral view 1.4 times as long as high. Pronope round, large and deep. Notaulix restricted to declivous fore part of mesoscutum.Mesoscutum and scutellum evenly hairy. Mesopleuron polished, precoxal suture present as a narrow and linearform furrow almost reaching fore margin of mesopleuron, sebcrenulate ( Fig. 114 ), or precoxal suture fairly wide, rugulose (2 ♂). Propodeum rugose, pair of spiracles small. – Hind femur 3.8 times as long as broad distally ( Fig. 115 ). Hind tarsus slightly shorter than hind tibia. Hind basitarsus just shorter than tarsomeres 2–3 combined.

Fore wing as long as body. Pterostigma ( Fig. 116 ) wide and narrowing distally, five times as long as wide and issuing r proximally from its middle; 1– R 1 0.75 times as long as pterostigma, 3–SR + SR1 ending before tip of wing, SR1 almost straight. Vein m–cu antefurcal (3 ♂, Fig. 116 , see arrow), or m–cu just antefurcal (1 ♂, Fig. 120 , see arrow). First subdiscal cell closed distally, CU1a issuing somewhat posteriorly from outer vein (3–CU1 + CU1b) of cell ( Fig. 117 , see arrows). – Hind wing: cu–a issuing somewhat distally from middle of M+CU + 1–M ( Fig. 118 ).

First tergite broad ( Fig. 119 ), one-fifth broader behind then long, pair of spiracles before middle of tergite, beyond spiracles tergite somewhat less broadening, pair of keels strong and posteriorly merging into longitudinal striation. Second tergite transverse, almost twice as broad behind as long, third tergite as long as second tergite and tergites 2–3 1.5 times length of first tergite, border between them hardly distinct, second tergite anteriorly with fine striation, further tergites polished and hairy ( Fig. 119 ), or second tergite entirely and third tergite basally striolate ( Fig. 121 ).

Head, mesosoma and first tergite dark brown to brown, metasoma brownish yellow. Scape yellowish, pedicel light brown, flagellum brownish. Mandible and clypeus yellow, palpi pale yellow. Tegula light yellow. Legs yellow, hind tibia and all tarsi faintly brownish, or hind tibia + tarsus dark brownish (1 ♂). Head, prosoma, mesopleuron and mesosternum brownish yellow (1 ♂). Tergites 2–3 hairy as in Fig. 121 . Wings hyaline, pterostigma brown, veins brownish.

Distribution: Asiatic Russia (Jewish Autonomous Region, Primorski Krai), Korea.

Figures

Figs 112–121. Epimicta longicaudalis TOBIAS: 112 = head in dorsal view, 113 = mandible, 114 = ventral half of mesopleuron with precoxal suture, 115 = hind femur, 116 = distal part of right fore wing, 117 = first subdiscal cell of right fore wing, 118 = subbasal cell of right hind wing with cu–a and M+CU + 1–M, 119 = tergites 1–3 with less striation, 120 = middle veins of right fore wing with m–cu (?), 121 = tergites 2–3 with more striations