Yelicones Cameron, 1887

Gupta, Ankita, Pattar, Rohit, Hemanth Kumar, H. M. & Sushil, S. N., 2024, A taxonomic revision of the genus Yelicones Cameron (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from India with description of two new species, Zootaxa 5512 (1), pp. 35-52 : 37

Genus Yelicones Cameron, 1887

Yelicones Cameron 1887: 387 ; van Achterberg, 1995: 147; Quicke et al. 1997.

Type species. Yelicones violaceipennis Cameron , designated by Viereck (1914).

Rhopalotoma Cameron 1911: 318 . Type species, Rhopalotoma crassitarsis Cameron , monotypic.

Pectenopius Fischer 1961: 156 . Type species, Pectenopius paradoxus Fischer , original designation.

Diagnosis. Following van Achterberg,1995 and Quicke et al., 1997, the genus Yelicones can be recognized by the following combination of characters—mandibles with a small accessory third tooth; hind wing with vein 2m-cu ( Figs 3B , 5B, 5C , 6 , 7D , 10D , 11 , 12C ); shortened fore tarsi ( Figs 6 , 7D , 10A ); second, third and fourth tarsal segments very short, telotarsus enlarged ( Fig. 10D ); hind basitarsus laterally compressed ( Fig. 10D ); claws pectinate; ovipositor not or hardly exserted ( Figs 3A , 5G , 10D ).

Figures

FIGURE 3. Yelicones andamanensis sp. nov. A. Female (holotype, habitus, lateral view); B Male (paratype, habitus, dorsal view).

FIGURE 5. Yelicones andamanensis sp. nov. (female) A. Antenna; B. Wings; C. Hind wing in part; D. Propodeum; E. First tergite (T1) and second tergite (T2) in part; F. T2 and T3; G. Metasoma in lateral view.

FIGURE 6. Yelicones elaeodendronicus sp. nov. (holotype, habitus, dorsal view).

FIGURE 7. Yelicones elaeodendronicus sp. nov. (male) A. Head in anterior view; B. Vertex in dorsal view; C. Mesoscutum; D. Wings; E. Propodeum; F. First tergite.

FIGURE 10. Yelicones contractus Papp, 1991 (NHMUK010635798). A. Head, antennae and legs in anterior view; B. Head, antennae, pronotum and mesoscutum in dorsal view; C. Propodeum and metasoma in dorsal view; D. Female (habitus, lateral view) with labels.

FIGURE 11. Yelicones belokobylskiji Quicke, Chishti and Chen, 1997 (holotype, NHMUK010635792). Female (habitus, dorsal view) with labels.

FIGURE 12. Yelicones belokobylskiji Quicke, Chishti and Chen, 1997 (holotype, NHMUK 010635792).A. Head and antennae in anterior view; B. Body in lateral view with fore wing; C. Body in lateral view with hind wing; D. Metasoma in part.