Wushenia nana Zettel

Kittel, Rebecca N. & Austin, Andrew D., 2013, Remarkable range extension of the previously monotypic braconid genus Wushenia Zettel (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Cheloninae), with description of a second species from Australia, Zootaxa 3694 (5), pp. 486-492 : 488-489

Wushenia nana Zettel

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Wushenia nana Zettel, 1990: 186 .

Types. TAIWAN: Holotype: ♀, Wushe, 1150 m, 15.5.1983, Townes (AEI). Paratypes: 4♀, 1♂, 19.– 29.5.1983, same locality as holotype (AEI).

Diagnosis. Length of body 2.1–2.3 mm; clypeus without teeth; female with 23 antennomeres, male with 25 antennomeres, notauli present, sternaulaus present; mesopleuron smooth and shiny; surface of propodeum smooth with strongly developed longitudinal and transverse carinae; 2-SR+M antefurcal, longitudinal keels of first tergite segment long; metasomal carapace more convex in cross section and more obvious in lateral view; head, distal half of antenna and metasomal carapace except anterior part of first tergite black, rest of body yellow.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 4. Holotype female of Wushenia nana Zettel: (1), lateral habitus, (2), fore wings, (3), head, anterior view, (4), mesosoma and metasoma, dorsal view.