Trigastrotheca acroceropsis Ranjith & Quicke, 2024

Quicke, Donald L. J., Van Noort, Simon, Ranjith, Avunjikkattu Parambil, Friedman, Ariel L. L., Mejlon, Hans & Butcher, Buntika A., 2024, Revision of Trigastrotheca Cameron (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Braconinae) with descriptions of 13 new species, ZooKeys 1205, pp. 115-167 : 115-167

Trigastrotheca acroceropsis Ranjith & Quicke nom. nov.

Figs 27 , 28

Acrocerilia tricolor Quicke & Ingram, 1993: 302, 306.

Diagnosis.

Tricolourous, orange-red, black, and ivory white. Mesoscutum orange-red without dark marks as in T. griffini Quicke , sp. nov. but differs in the black central area of T 2 being far larger and widening posteriorly. Basal lobe of claw largely rounded with small distal tooth (Fig. 28 D ). In addition, see Quicke and Ingram (1993: 304, 306).

Notes.

After re-examining images of the male holotype Acrocerilia tricolor , we found that it is not conspecific with the type species of Acrocerilia , viz. A. pachynervis van Achterberg, 1989 , also based on a male specimen, and we hereby formally transfer it to Trigastrotheca . The species name tricolor is preoccupied in the genus Trigastrotheca ( T. tricolor Quicke & Ingram, 1993 ). Trigastrotheca tricolor is therefore a secondary homonym. Here we propose T. acroceropsis Ranjith & Quicke as a replacement name.

Figures

Figure 27. Trigastrotheca sublobata sp. nov. ♀ holotype A habitus, lateral view B head, anterior view C head and mesosoma, dorsal view D head and mesosoma, lateral view E TT 4 and 5, dorsal view.

Figure 28. Trigastrotheca sublobata sp. nov. ♀ holotype A metasoma, lateral view B fore wing.