Phaenocarpa masha Belokobylskij, 1998

Sohn, Ju-Hyeong, van Achterberg, Cornelis, Lee, Gyeonghyeon & Kim, Hyojoong, 2021, Three new species and two new records of the genus Phaenocarpa Foerster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae) from South Korea, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 86, pp. 1-17 : 1

Phaenocarpa masha Belokobylskij, 1998

Figure 5A-L

Examined material.

1♀ (KNA), South Korea, DMZ Botanical Garden , Mandae-ri , Haean-myeon , Yanggu-gun, Gangwon-do, 38°15'09.3"N, 128°06'40.6"E, 20.VI.-4.VII.2017, H.T. Shin, S.J. Kim. GenBank accession no. MW376066 for the barcoding sequence of the COI region .

Description.

♀; length of body in lateral view 2.8 mm (Fig. 5A ), length of antenna 4.7 mm and length of fore wing 3.3 mm.

Colour. Head (Fig. 5D ) entirely black; mandible orangish brown. Antenna entirely brown (third and fourth segments dark brown). First tergite reddish brown and mesonotum orangish brown.

Head. Width 1.7 times median length in dorsal view. Antenna (Fig. 5B ) 1.6 times longer than body, 27-segmented. Fourth segment 1.6 times longer than third segment and 1.2 times longer than fifth, third and fourth segments dark brown and slender. Eye slightly oval, 1.2 times as long as wide in lateral view. Width of face (Fig. 5E ) 1.5 times its height from ventral rim of antennal sockets to upper margin of clypeus. Face with dense setae. Eye in dorsal view 3.0 times as long as temple. Ocello-ocular line 4.1 times longer than diameter of anterior ocellus; OOL:AOL:POL = 21:5:7. Stemmaticum concave. Mandible with three teeth (Fig. 5L ) and first tooth separated from second tooth by incision; third tooth bent outside, middle tooth not widened dorsally. Labrum 2.4 times longer than wide. Maxillary palp 0.9 times longer than mesosoma.

Mesosoma. Mesosoma (Fig. 5G ) 1.9 times longer than wide in dorsal view, with medio-posterior depression and setae near it; notauli line-shape, reaching medio-posterior depression; scutellar sulcus with two carinae; metanotum more or less tooth-shaped protruding dorsally in lateral view; small bump on hind coxa adjacent to metapleuron. Propodeum (Fig. 5H ) 0.7 times longer than width, more extensively rugose medially; lateral view of propodeum not bent; precoxal sulcus (Fig. 5F ) completed with 11 crenulae; scutellum with setae partially. Fore wing (Fig. 5C ) 2.5 times as long as wide; pterostigma long and narrow, 4.2 times longer than wide; vein r of fore wing 3.0 times longer than wide; vein r-m not sclerotized; vein 2-SR:vein r:vein 3-SR = 10:2:14; first subdiscal cell of fore wing ca 0.7 times longer than wide; second submarginal cell robust.

Leg. Hind coxa compressed, grooved and 1.4 times longer than hind trochanter; hind femur 0.6 times longer than hind tibia; hind tibia 1.2 times longer than hind tarsus; tarsal claws slender.

Metasoma. First tergite robust, widened posteriorly, 1.2 times longer than apical width; T1:T2 = 32:30. Setose part of ovipositor sheath (Fig. 5I ) 1.2 times longer than mesosoma, 1.1 times longer than hind tibia and with long setae.

Male. Unknown.

Distribution.

Eastern Palaearctic; South Korea (new record).

Figures

Figure 5. Phaenocarpa masha Belokobylskij, 1998, ♀ A body B antennae C wings D head, dorsal E head, anterior F mesosoma, lateral G mesosoma, dorsal H propodeum and T 1 to T 3, dorsal I metasoma, ovipositor and its sheaths, lateral J tarsus, lateral K tarsus, dorsal L mandible, lateral.