Phanerotomella fulgida, He & Achterberg & He & Tang & Chen, 2025

He, Jia-Yue, Achterberg, Cornelis Van, He, Jun-Hua, Tang, Pu & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2025, The genus Phanerotomella Szépligeti (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Cheloninae) from China, with descriptions of sixteen new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 1002, pp. 1-130 : 55-58

Phanerotomella fulgida sp. nov.

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Figs 35–36

Diagnosis

Basal carina of first metasomal tergite weakly developed ( Fig. 36J); first metasomal tergite finely reticulate ( Fig. 36J); apex of metasoma flatter ( Fig. 36J); temple smooth and with satin sheen ( Fig. 36C); mesopleuron irregularly reticulate ( Fig. 36I).

Etymology

Named after its shiny temple; ‘ fulgidus ’ is Latin for ‘shiny’.

Type material

Holotype

CHINA – Yunnan • ♀; Xishuangbanna Forest Park; 31 Jul. 2003; L. Hu leg.; ZJUH No. 20048119.

Paratypes ( 2 ♀♀, 1 ♂)

CHINA – Yunnan • 1 ♂; same data as for holotype; ZJUH No. 20048113 • 1 ♀; same data as for preceding; ZJUH No. 20048111 • 1 ♀; Nabanhe Reserve, Naban Tea Factory ; 22°9.514′ N, 100°39.917′ E; elev. 709 m; 30 Jul. 2007; Aweigel leg.; Malaise trap; IOZ(E) No. 2059955 .

Description

Female

MEASUREMENTS. Length of body 3.5 mm, fore wing 3.2 mm.

COLOURATION. Black; metasomal carapace black except first tergite and second tergite medio-anteriorly yellow; metasoma ventrally white or ivory; antenna dark brown except scapus and pedicellus yellowish; face and clypeus reddish black; mandible yellowish and with reddish teeth; fore and middle legs yellowish brown except coxa and trochanter white; hind leg dark brown except coxa, trochanter, and tibia basally white; wing veins and parastigma pale brown, pterostigma dark brown.

HEAD ( Fig. 36A–C). Width 1.4 × median length in anterior view ( Fig. 36B) and part of head above eye in lateral view 0.2× height of eye ( Fig. 36C); antenna with 40 segments and 1.6× as long as fore wing, slightly widened and shortened medially, gradually narrowing apically, subapical segments non-moniliform and longer than wide, third, fourth, tenth, fifteenth and penultimate segments 3.7, 3.6, 1.6, 1.1 and 3.0 × as long as wide in lateral view, respectively ( Fig. 36K–L); area of stemmaticum transversely striate; OOL: OD: POL=45: 12:15; length of eye 0.8 × temple in dorsal view ( Fig. 36A); frons transversely finely rugulose and with median carina; vertex finely rugulose-reticulate with short setae; temple smooth and shiny except very densely punctate; face finely rugulose and with distinct median ridge, dorsally connected to median carina; clypeus smooth except finely punctate, truncate medio-ventrally; eye width in lateral view 0.8× maximum width of temple ( Fig. 36C), eye height in anterior view 0.7× minimum width of face ( Fig. 36B); malar space smooth and 0.9 × as long as basal width of mandible; mandible somewhat robust, lower tooth of mandible 0.5× as long as apical tooth ( Fig. 36D); face width 1.1× height of face and clypeus together.

MESOSOMA ( Fig. 36H–I). Length 1.3× its width in lateral view ( Fig. 36I); side of pronotum superficially punctate; mesoscutum regularly and densely reticulate except medio-posteriorly slightly stronger than anteriorly; notauli absent; scutellar sulcus with five crenulae ( Fig. 36H); scutellum superficially reticulate and matt but posteriorly punctate and shiny; mesopleuron distinctly irregularly reticulate and without smooth and shiny area posteriorly, precoxal sulcus absent; propodeum reticulate, without median carina, with irregular transverse carina connected to four weak and blunt lateral tubercles.

WINGS ( Fig. 36G). Fore wing 3.1× as long as its maximum width; second submarginal cell weakly petiolate; vein m-cu distinctly postfurcal; vein r straight; vein 1-SR+M and SR1 somewhat curved; 1-R1 as long as pterostigma; vein r issued far beyond middle of pterostigma and as long as vein r-m; r: 2-SR: SR1= 13:35: 56; vein 1-CU1 0.4 × as long as vein 2-CU1. Hind wing: M+CU: 1-M: 1r-m =32: 35: 15.

LEGS ( Fig. 36F). Hind femur 3.7× as long as wide; longest spur of hind tibia 0.5×as long as its basitarsus; hind leg smooth and shiny except fine and superficial punctation; middle tibia without ivory blister.

METASOMA ( Fig. 36E, J). Oval in dorsal view ( Fig. 36J), carapace 1.6× as long as wide and 1.1 × as long as mesosoma; first to third tergites densely reticulate-rugose; third tergite 1.2 × as long as second tergite, medial length of third tergite 0.6× its maximum width; lamella of third tergite not protruding medio-apically and with pair of small and blunt tubercles latero-apically ( Fig. 36E).

VARIATION. None observed.

Male

Very similar to female, but antenna slender medially, second metasomal tergite largely black except medio-anteriorly with small yellow patch, hind femur yellow.

Host

Unknown.

Distribution

China ( Yunnan).

Remarks

Phanerotomella fulgida sp. nov. is similar to P. bicolorata He & Chen, 1995 because the head in dorsal view is rather transverse, the temple in dorsal view parallel-sided behind the eye, the antenna slender, and the scapus and pedicellus yellow, contrasting with the brown flagellum. However, P. fulgida can be distinguished from P. bicolorata by having the basal carina of the first metasomal tergite weakly developed (distinctly developed in the latter), the first metasomal tergite finely reticulate (distinctly longitudinally striate in the latter), the apex of the metasoma flatter (less flat in the latter), the temple smooth and with a satin sheen (distinctly finely punctate and shiny in the latter), and the mesopleuron irregularly reticulate (mesopleuron coarsely rugose).