identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03D57A3C6D59FF89B1A844AB749B5A49.text	03D57A3C6D59FF89B1A844AB749B5A49.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Leiophron indefinita Gupta & van Achterberg 2022	<div><p>Leiophron indefinita Gupta &amp; van Achterberg, sp. nov.</p> <p>Figs 1, 2</p> <p>Type material. Holotype. ♀; India, Tripura, Agartala, <a href="http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=91.28187&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=23.862194" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 91.28187/lat 23.862194)">Khejurbagan</a>, 23°51’43.9”N 91°16’54.7”E, yellow pan trap, 5.iii.2022; leg G. Mahendiran and Omprakash Navik. code— NBAIR / Brac / Euph / Leio /5322A (NIM). Paratype, female, same data as holotype, code— NBAIR /Brac/Euph/Leio/5322B (NIM).</p> <p>Etymology. The species epithet refers to the comparatively vague fore wing venation; “indefinitus” is Latin for vague.</p> <p>Holotype. Female, body length 2.7 mm (Fig. 1); fore wing length 2.0 mm.</p> <p>Head. Antenna 16 antennomeres and as long as body; scape as long as wide, F1 3.3 × as long as wide and as long as F2; head transverse, ca. 1.4 × as wide as long in dorsal view, temple smooth; eye length 1.9 × temple in dorsal view (Fig. 2B); POL: OOL: OD (relative) = 16: 29: 9; POL 0.5 × OOL; malar space slightly longer than basal width of mandible and malar suture present; occipital carina ventrally straight; mandible two-toothed; face smooth and setose (Fig. 2A), minimum width of face 0.6 × as long as F1−F3, clypeus smooth and intertentorial line 2.5 × longer than tentorio-ocular line; vertex smooth around ocelli, with shallow punctations near temple and occiput. F1 subequal to F 2 in length; ratio of length and width of F1, F2, F3 and penultimate flagellomere 3.3, 3.3, 2.6, 1.3, respectively.</p> <p>Mesosoma. Mesosoma 1.8 × as long as high in lateral view, median and lateral lobes of mesoscutum smooth except for faint notaulic impression with shallow crenulae (Fig. 2E). Propodeum irregularly reticulate-rugose and no median carina (Fig. 2F). Fore wing 3.4 × as long as wide (Fig. 2D), shorter than body and basal cell glabrous; pterostigma 2.4 × as long as wide; 1- R 1 0.2 × length of pterostigma; marginal cell short; pterostigma 6.1 × longer than marginal cell; veins r, 3-SR+SR1 and 1-M sclerotized; veins 1-SR+M and 2-CU1 present but weakly sclerotized; vein m-cu absent and vein cu-a sclerotized. Hind wing: veins 1-1A (except basally) and cu-a absent and subbasal cell open. Hind femur 4.6 × as long as wide medially; hind tarsus a little longer than hind tibia; hind basitarsus slightly longer than combined length of second to fourth tarsomeres and 2.6 × as long as second tarsomere.</p> <p>Metasoma. Metasoma shorter than mesosoma; first tergite longitudinally striate (Fig. 2G) but basal quarter irregularly rugose, 3.3 × as long as its apical width, hardly widened posteriorly, its spiracles situated in front of middle of tergite and ventral 0.6 closed (medially) (Fig. 2H); remaining tergites smooth (Fig. 2I).</p> <p>Colour. Body mainly yellowish; antennomeres yellowish but 4 apical antennomeres dark brown; legs in general yellowish except light brown hind tibia in apical half; wings faintly infuscate, fore wing with pterostigma dark brown in apical half and remainder pale yellowish; first tergite pale yellowish and following tergites brown or dark brown.</p> <p>Variation. The topotypic paratype is very similar to the holotype but differs in having 17 antennomeres.</p> <p>Distribution. India (Tripura).</p> <p>Comments. This species comes near to L. topali Papp, 1997 according to Papp (1997) because of the weakly developed notauli and the pterostigma being 2.4 × as long as wide, however differs in the following set of characters: head yellowish and transverse, ca. 1.4 × as wide as long in dorsal view; antenna with 16 antennomeres; scape, pedicel and F1 yellow, F2 onwards dark brown; F1 1.3 × as long as F2; face 0.6 × as long as F1−F3; propodeum transversely rugulose (vs head blackish brown; head 1.55 × as wide as long in dorsal view; antenna with 15 antennomeres; scape, pedicel and F1−F12 yellow, F13 onwards dark brown including apex, F1 subequal to F2; face as wide as flagellomeres 1−3; propodeum irregularly reticulate-rugose in L. topali).</p> <p>This species also differs from other species described by Papp (1997) in the following characters: from L. mutila in the absence of the mutilated vein r+3-SR of the fore wing and from L. cacuminata in lacking the pair of latero-apical teeth of the clypeus. The new species can be separated from other Indian species described in Shamim et al. (2009) in having the notauli faintly impressed and from L. sharifi in having F1 and F2 length and width ratio subequal (vs 4.6 and 3.1, respectively). In the key to Chinese species of Leiophron (Chen, He and Ma 2001) it runs to L. ruficephala Chen &amp; van Achterberg, 1997 from Oriental China (Yunnan) because of similar venation and shape of clypeus. The new species differs by having the notauli shallowly impressed (entirely absent in L. ruficephala), smaller eyes and malar space slightly longer than basal width of mandible (0.9 × basal width of mandible), malar suture present (absent), eye 1.9 × longer than temple in dorsal view (1.5 ×), mesosoma yellowish (dark brown) and marginal cell of fore wing shorter (longer, see Fig. 265 in Chen and van Achterberg 1997).</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D57A3C6D59FF89B1A844AB749B5A49	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Gupta, Ankita;Achterberg, Cornelis Van;Pattar, Rohit;Navik, Omprakash;Mahendiran, G.	Gupta, Ankita, Achterberg, Cornelis Van, Pattar, Rohit, Navik, Omprakash, Mahendiran, G. (2022): Two new species of the genera Leiophron Nees and Paroligoneurus Muesebeck (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from northern India. Zootaxa 5175 (5): 593-599, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5175.5.8
03D57A3C6D5BFF8CB1A841D271545DD1.text	03D57A3C6D5BFF8CB1A841D271545DD1.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Paroligoneurus indicus Gupta & van Achterberg 2022	<div><p>Paroligoneurus indicus Gupta &amp; van Achterberg, sp. nov.</p> <p>Figs 3, 4</p> <p>Type material. Holotype. India. ♀; Himachal Pradesh, Chamba District, <a href="http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=76.06558&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=32.555794" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 76.06558/lat 32.555794)">Khajjiar</a>, 32.555795° N, 76.0655834° E, 24.ix.2014; Ankita Gupta leg; (NIM). code— NBAIR / Brac / Ichn / Para /24914- (NIM).</p> <p>Holotype. Female, body length 3.1 mm, fore wing 3.6 mm (Fig. 3), ovipositor sheath 0.3 mm.</p> <p>Head. Width of head 1.7 × its length in dorsal view (Fig. 4B); antenna with 20 antennomeres, segments filamentous; length of first flagellomere subequal to second flagellomere; length of first, second and penultimate flagellomeres 7.0, 7.0 and 2.2 × as long as wide respectively; length of scape 1.2 × as long as pedicel; vertex and temple densely setose; length of eye 2.4 × as long as temple in dorsal view; POL:OD:OOL= 44:21:84; face smooth, polished, sparsely setose and shallowly punctate (Fig. 4A); width 1.3 × as long as its medial length (frontal view); anterior tentorial pits slightly enlarged; intertentorial distance 4.3 × as long as tentorio-ocular distance; width of clypeus 1.4 × its length; clypeus smooth, convex ventrally and with apical row of setae; length of malar space subequal to basal width of mandible.</p> <p>Mesosoma. Mesosoma 1.6 × as long as high; mesoscutum flat, smooth, polished, setose; notauli absent (Fig. 4C); scutellum smooth, setose; propodeum smooth, sparsely setose and shallowly punctate with no visible carinae (Fig. 4D). Wings. Fore wing: pterostigma 3.0 × as long as wide (Fig. 4E); 1- R 1 0.24 × as long as pterostigma; r issuing a little behind middle of pterostigma; length of r 0.7 × pterostigmal width; cu-a prominent; 2-CU1 absent. Hind wing: M+CU: 1-M: 0.4: 0.3; 1-1A faintly sclerotised. Legs. Hind coxa smooth, sparsely punctate dorsally and setose; length of hind femur, tibia, basitarsus 3.6, 9.7 and 6.7 × as long as wide respectively; length of hind tibia 1.1 × hind tarsus; length of hind basitarsus 1.5 × combined length of second and third tarsal segments.</p> <p>Metasoma. Length of metasoma 1.3 × as long as mesosoma; length of first tergite 4.6 × its apical width; first tergite smooth without longitudinal groove, narrowing basally, gradually narrowing apically (Fig. 4D), width at spiracle 1.9 × width at apex, first tergite length 2.4 × width at level of spiracles; second and following tergite smooth; length of second tergite 0.9 × its apical width; second tergite trapezoidal, oblique lateral grooves of medial area of distinct (Fig. 4D); hypopygium distinctly pointed apically; length of hypopygium 1.8 × first tergite; length of ovipositor sheath 0.8 × first tergite; ovipositor sheath setose apically.</p> <p>Colour. Body brownish including antenna, eye, pterostigma, and ovipositor sheath.</p> <p>Distribution. India (Himachal Pradesh).</p> <p>Etymology. The species epithet is derived from the collection locality.</p> <p>Comments. The new species differs from P. harishi Ranjith &amp; van Achterberg, 2020 (Ranjith et al. 2020) in the following set of characters: antenna with 20 antennomeres, length of first flagellomere subequal to second flagellomere; length of first, second and penultimate flagellomeres 7.0, 7.0 and 2.2 × as long as wide respectively (vs 18 antennomeres; 1.1 ×; 3.0, 2.6 and 1.6 × as long as wide, respectively in P. harishi); length of eye 2.4 × as long as temple in dorsal view (vs 1.5 ×); intertentorial distance 4.3 × as long as tentorio-ocular distance (vs 3.25 ×); length of hind femur, tibia, basitarsus 3.6, 9.7 and 6.7 × as long as wide, respectively (vs 2.6, 10.25 and 6.5 ×); length of first tergite 4.6 × its apical width (vs 1.5 ×); length of second tergite 0.9 × its apical width (vs 0.5 ×); length of ovipositor sheath 0.8 × first tergite (vs 1.4 ×).</p> <p>The new species also differs from P. songyangensis (He, 2000) mainly by having fewer antennal antennomeres (20 vs 24 in P. songyangensis) and largely smooth propodeum (vs medio-posteriorly propodeum longitudinally rugulose). The new species differs from P. pallidus Austin &amp; Wharton, 1992 in having the pterostigma 3.0 × as long as wide (vs 2.0 × as long as wide in P. pallidus) and hypopygium 1.8 × as long as first tergite (vs 2.4–2.5 × as long as first tergite).</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D57A3C6D5BFF8CB1A841D271545DD1	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Gupta, Ankita;Achterberg, Cornelis Van;Pattar, Rohit;Navik, Omprakash;Mahendiran, G.	Gupta, Ankita, Achterberg, Cornelis Van, Pattar, Rohit, Navik, Omprakash, Mahendiran, G. (2022): Two new species of the genera Leiophron Nees and Paroligoneurus Muesebeck (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from northern India. Zootaxa 5175 (5): 593-599, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5175.5.8
