Stantonia gracilis van Achterberg, 1987

Achterberg, Cornelis van, Long, Khuat Dang & Chen, Xue-xin, 2017, Review of Stantonia Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Orgilinae) from Vietnam, China, Japan, and Russia, with descriptions of six new species, ZooKeys 723, pp. 61-119 : 78-79

Stantonia gracilis van Achterberg, 1987 Fig. 36

Stantonia gracilis van Achterberg, 1987: 31-33; Braet and Quicke 2004: 1547.

Material.

2 ♀ (RMNH, IEBR), "S. Vietnam: Dông Nai, Cát Tiên N.P., c. 100 m, 9.iv.-13.v.2007, Mal. traps, Mai Phu Quy & Nguyen Thanh Manh RMNH’07”; 1 ♀ + 1 ♂ (RMNH), id., but 13-20.v.2007, C. v. Achterberg & R. de Vries.

Diagnosis.

Antenna of ♀ dark brown basally followed by pale brownish or ivory segments, resulting in a pale submedial band (Fig. 36; less clearly defined in ♂); vertex rather coarsely and densely punctate and largely dark brown or black; anteriorly precoxal sulcus below crenulae sparsely punctulate or spaced punctate; mesosoma yellow with black spots; tegulum blackish; mesopleuron yellowish ventrally and finely punctate; propodeum rugose medially but anteriorly largely smooth; hind tarsus pale yellow or white but base of basitarsus and telotarsus dark brown; ventrally hind femur coarsely reticulate-rugose, densely sculptured and rather matt; ventrally basal 0.6 of hind femur yellow; hind femur 6 times longer than wide; ventrally basal 0.2-0.4 of hind femur yellow; epipleuron of second tergite with elongate triangular dark brown patch; second metasomal tergite with weak triangular basal elevation length of ovipositor sheath 0.4-0.5 times as long as fore wing and approximately as long as metasoma or slightly shorter; length of fore wing 3.7-5.2 mm.

Distribution.

Indonesia (Sulawesi), Philippines (Luzon; Mindanao; Braet and Quicke 2004), *Vietnam (* Dông Nai, Cát Tiên N.P.). New record for Vietnam.