Scabagathis Sharkey

Sharkey, Michael J. & Chapman, Eric, 2017, Ten new genera of Agathidini (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Agathidinae) from Southeast Asia, ZooKeys 660, pp. 107-150 : 121-122

Scabagathis Sharkey gen. n.

Type species.

Scabagathis emilynadeauae Sharkey, sp. n.

Etymology.

Scaber is Latin for rough, scabby, mangy; here it refers to the rough (rugose) sculpture on the vertex of the head. Feminine.

Diagnosis.

Vertex of head with rugose sculpture. Head and mesosoma both black and orange; metasomal terga mostly black; base of first median tergite whitish; basal half of second median tergite whitish yellow. Fore wing hyaline, not more infuscate in distal half. Antennal sockets not margined with carinae. Interantennal space with a flat triangular elevation that narrows to a short ridge posteriorly. Temple rounded in dorsal view. Third labial palpomere absent, palpus 3-segmented. Notauli depressed and partly or entirely pitted. Scutellar triangle rugose. Dorsal margin of hind coxal cavities situated above ventral-most margin of metasomal foramen. Pegs on anterior surface of fore tibia absent. Hind trochantellus lacking longitudinal carinae. Second submarginal cell of fore wing minute, cell about the same diameter as wing veins. First median tergite entirely, finely, irregularly striate; lateral carina weak. Second median tergite longer than wide. Second median tergite entirely, finely, irregularly striate, with striae ending evenly near apex of tergite.

Distribution and diversity.

Known only from the type species from Thailand.

Biology.

Unknown.