Paraplatylabus vietnamensis, Riedel, 2011

Riedel, M., 2011, Contribution to the Ichneumoninae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of Southeastern Asia: 1. Tribes Clypeodromini, Listrodromini, Goedartini, Compsophorini, and Platylabini, Linzer biologische Beiträge 43 (2), pp. 1549-1572 : 1570

Paraplatylabus vietnamensis nov.sp.

H o l o t y p u s (): Vietnam: Lan Dong Khan Khoa border, 18- 24.4.2010, leg. A. Prokofiev (Coll. Riedel).

D e s c r i p t i o n:

: Body length 9 mm. Flagellum long and slender, slightly attenuated beyond the middle, with 37 flagellomeres, first flagellomere (without anellus) about 5.5 times as long as wide, the second 4.0 times, first and second flagellomeres combined about 1.1 times as long as the eyes. Temples strongly narrowd behind the eyes. Ocelli large, the lateral ones about 1.0 times as long as their distance to the eyes, frons smooth and shining, temples with fine puncture, face and clypeus with dense and coarse puncture, shining, epistoma dull. Clypeus moderately convex, its apical border almost straight. Malar space 0.6 times as long as the width of the mandibular base. Mandibles as in Platylabus WESMAEL.

Mesosomal and metasomal structures and wings as described for the genus.

Colour black with extensive ivory coloration. Ivory are flagellomeres 8-13, face and clypeus, mandibles except teeth, labrum, palps, wide frontal orbits up to the vertex, lower 3/4 of genae, lower margin of propleurae, frontal and upper margins of pronotum, subalar prominene and longitudinal stripe on the lower half of mesopleurae, scutellum and postscutellum, carinal triangle and distal half of metapleura and propodeum except the black area posteromedia, hind margins of all tergites and sternites, frontal margins of tergites 2 and 3, frontal and middle coxae, trochanters and trochantelli, anterolateral spot and apical margin of hind coxa, hind trochanter, basal half of hind trochantellus, subbasal ring of hind tibia, hind tarsus except the darkened apical segment. Frontal and middle femora, tibiae and tarsi reddish, the tibiae on the external sides and tarsi completely darkened. Pterostigma black.

unknown.