Ectemnoplax Enderlein, 1920

Li, Yang, He, Jun-Hua & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2020, Review of six genera of Braconinae Nees (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) in China, with the description of eleven new species, Zootaxa 4818 (1), pp. 1-74 : 36

Genus Ectemnoplax Enderlein, 1920

Figs 27–30

Ectemnoplax Enderlein, 1920: 110 ; Quicke, 1987: 110; Wang et al., 2006: 132; Chen et Yang, 2006: 105. Type species: Ectemnoplax peruliventris Enderlein, 1920 .

Diagnosis. Body small to medium-sized; terminal flagellomere often acute or with a short spine apically; median flagellomeres longer than wide; scapus robust, truncate apically or nearly so, dorsally as long as ventrally or weakly longer; eye setose, weakly emarginate; face weakly granulate or rugose, often densely setose; clypeus moderately narrow and without dorsal carina; malar suture moderately developed; labio-maxillary complex normal, not elongate; frons shallowly impressed medially, with a deep median groove; mesosoma usually largely densely setose; notauli often relatively deeply impressed and complete; scutellar sulcus comparatively narrow and crenulate; propodeum largely smooth, without medio-longitudinal carina; metapleural flange present; angle between veins 1-SR and C+SC+R of fore wing more than 55°; fore wing vein 1-SR linear with vein 1-M; vein 1-SR+M of fore wing often more or less straight; second submarginal cell of fore wing parallel-sided; hind wing vein 1r-m usually shorter than vein SC+R1; claws with poorly developed basal lobe; median area of first metasomal tergite wide, and distinctly elevated posteriorly, lateral areas of first tergite reduced or narrow, and dorsal carinae absent; medio-basal area of second metasomal tergite often very small, and oblique lateral grooves present; third and fourth tergites often with antero-lateral areas; posterior margin of fifth tergite usually narrowly emarginated medially; ovipositor usually relatively robust, subapically upper valve without nodus, and its lower valve without tooth ventrally; ovipositor sheath relatively short, usually shorter than body.

Biology. Unknown.

Distribution. Oriental; Palaearctic.

Figures

FIGURE 27. Ectemnoplax bimaculosus sp. nov., ♀, holotype, habitus lateral.

FIGURE 28. Ectemnoplax bimaculosus sp. nov., ♀, holotype. a. fore wing; b. hind wing; c. mesosoma, lateral view; d. meso- soma, dorsal view; e. metasoma, dorsal view; f. hind leg, lateral view; g. head, front view; h. head, dorsal view; i. head, lateral view; j. first metasomal tergite, dorsal view; k. fifth metasomal tergite, dorsal view; l. apex of antenna; m. apex of ovipositor, lateral view.

FIGURE 29. Ectemnoplax peruliventris Enderlein, 1920, ♀, holotype of Ectemnoplax xizanginensis Wang, Chen et He, 2006, habitus lateral.

FIGURE 30. Ectemnoplax peruliventris Enderlein, 1920. ♀. Holotype of Ectemnoplax xizanginensis Wang, Chen et He, 2006. a. fore wing; b. hind wing; c. mesosoma, lateral view; d. mesosoma, dorsal view; e. metasoma, dorsal view; f. hind leg, lateral view; g. head, front view; h. head, dorsal view; i. head, lateral view; j. first metasomal tergite, dorsal view; k. fifth metasomal tergite, dorsal view.