Canalirogas cucphuongensis, Long, Khuat Dang & van Achterberg, Cornelis, 2015

Long, Khuat Dang & van Achterberg, Cornelis, 2015, Review of the genus Canalirogas van Achterberg & Chen (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Rogadinae) from Vietnam, with description of ten new species, ZooKeys 506, pp. 27-59 : 31

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Braconidae

Canalirogas cucphuongensis sp. n. Figs 11, 17-21

Material.

Holotype, female (VNMN), ‘Rog.202’, "[NW Vietnam:] Hoa Binh, Yen Thuy, secondary forest close to Cuc Phuong NP, 20°28'N, 105°34'E, 315 m, M[alaise] T[rap], 10-20.vi.2002, KD Long".

Description.

Holotype, female, body length 5.7 mm, fore wing length 4.0 mm, antenna 6.7 mm, ovipositor sheath 0.4 mm.

Head. Antenna with 47 segments, 1.2 times longer than body; third antennal segment 1.14 times fourth one (8:7); middle segments 3.0 times as long as wide (6:2), penultimate antennal segment 0.6 times apical segment; apical segment with spine; width of face 0.9 times length of face and clypeus combined (15:16); malar space 0.8 times as long as mandible width (4:5), mandible width 0.6 times as long as hypoclypeal depression (5:9); malar suture present; distance between tentorial pits 2.3 times distance between pits and eyes (7:3; Fig. 19); in dorsal view height of eye 3.5 times as long as temple (14:4); in lateral view width of eye 2.4 times as long as temple (12:5); ocelli in high triangle, POL:Od:OOL = 4:6:5, distance between front and hind ocelli as long as OOL (Fig. 20); face rugose laterally, smooth medially; frons, vertex and temple smooth.

Mesosoma. Length of mesosoma 1.4 times as long as high (57:41); pronotal trough smooth dorsally, crenulate medially, finely granulate ventrally; precoxal sulcus short, narrow and crenulate (Fig. 17); mesopleuron and metapleuron shiny and smooth; notauli deep and crenulate, united posteriorly in a deep groove; mesoscutum with sparse fine punctures; scutellum almost smooth; scutellar sulcus 0.9 times as long as scutellum (10:11); propodeum punctate basally, rugose apically, medial areola crenulate.

Wings. Fore wing: pterostigma 4.4 times as long as wide (35:8); r:2-SR:3-SR:SR1 = 7:9:21:36; vein r before middle of pterostigma; vein cu-a short and vertical, vein 1-CU1 quadrate; posterior length of second submarginal cell 3.3 times its apical width (30:9). Hind wing: vein M+CU:1-M:1r-m = 22:18:10.

Legs. Hind coxa smooth; length of hind femur:tibia:basitarsus:tarsus = 51:63:34:85; length of hind femur, tibia and basitarsus 5.7, 10.5 and 11.3 times their width, respectively; inner hind tibial spur 0.2 times as long as basitarsus (7:34).

Metasoma. First tergite 1.5 times longer than apical width (32:21) (Figs 11, 18); second suture more or less crenulate; medial length of metasomal second tergite 2.2 times as long as third tergite medially (29:13); second-third tergites with comparatively less divergent striation (Fig. 18); fourth-fifth tergites with curved striation; sixth tergite granulate; ovipositor sheath 0.8 times as long as hind basitarsus (28:34); ovipositor slightly curved (Fig. 21).

Colour. Brown; head and antenna yellow; palpi yellow; stemmaticum brown; fore and middle legs yellow; hind coxa, hind femur subapically and hind telotarsus brownish; metasoma ventrally yellow; wings subhyaline, with veins brownish, but parastigma yellow; mesosternum dark brown and mesopleuron dark or reddish brown (Fig. 17).

Male.

Unknown.

Etymology.

Named after the famous national park near its type locality: Cuc Phuong National Park.