Bracodoryctes
A small genus with less than 10 species described [1].
References
- , “Taxapad 2012, Ichneumonoidea 2011. Database on flash-drive.”. www.taxapad.com, Ottawa, Canada., 2012.
Unknown.
Head. Head subcubical, 1.4-1.5 times wider than long medially. Scapus rather wide and short, without any lobes; 1.7-2.0 times longer than maximum width. First flagellar segment longer than 2nd segment. Palpi rather long; maxillary palpi 6-segmented, labial palp long. Malar suture absent. Hypoclypeal depression rather great and round. Clypeal suture narrow and complete. Face with two small, but usually distinct submedian oval depression above clypeal suture. Eyes shortly setose. Frons not concave and without median keel. Ocelli almost in equilateral trinagle. Occipital carina absent. Postgenal bridge very narrow.
Mesosoma. Neck of pro-mesosoma rather long and short, with more or less distinct dorsal lobe. Pronotal keel present. Propleural lobe distinct and wide. Mesonotum rather strongly and roundly raised above promesosoma. Median lobe lobe of mesoscutum without anterolateral angulations (corners). Notauli usually smooth, deep in anterior half, sometimes entirely absent. Prescutellar depression rather long or short, smooth. Scuto-scutellar suture distinct. Scutellum weakly convex, without lateral carinae, its length nearly equal to its maximum width. Postscutellum without median tooth. Subalar depression deep, rather narrow and smooth. Mesopleural pit very shallow and long. Sternauli shallow, long, straight and smooth. Prepectal carina absent. Prepectus simple. Metapleural flange rather long, narrow and pointed apically. Propodeum without marginate areas; lateral tubercles absent; propodeal bridge absent, rarely present but very narrow. Propodeal spiracles rather small and round or oval.
Wings. Pterostigma of fore wing rather narrow; vein r arising before middle of pterostigma. Marginal cell not shortened or only slightly shortened. Veins 2RS and r-m present. Vein m-cu usually antefurcal, rarely postfurcal (Fig. 74). Vein m-cu postfurcal. Discoidal cell petiolate. Vein 2CUb arising from middle or posterior third of apical side of 1st subdiscal cell. First subdiscal cell closed. Vein M + CU not curved to vein 1A. Hind wing with 4-5 hamuli on vein R1. Vein cu-a present. Subbasal cell short. Vein M + CU 0.3-0.5 times length of 1M. Vein m-cu present, slightly curved toward base of wing. Basal cell narrow, nearly 0.5 times as long as hind wing. Vein RS arising from vein R1. Marginal cell almost parallel-sided, weakly narrowed near apex, without additional transverse vein. Vein C + SC + R 0.4-0.6 times length of SC + R.
Legs. All tibiae slender. Fore and middle tibiae with sparse large spines arranged in single longitudinal row. Hind tibia with 3 spines on outer side and with area of dense white setae on inner distal edge. Hind coxa with distinct basoventral tooth in females, but not in males. Femora without anterodorsal protuberances. Hind femur 3.0-3.5 times as long as wide. Hind tibial spurs entirely or partly setose, rather short and slender, inner spur 0.2-0.3 times as long as hind basitarsus. Hind basitarsus 0.7-0.9 times as long as 2nd-5th segments combined, rarely equal to its.
Metasoma. First tergite not petiolate, wide. Acrosternite nearly 0.2 times as long as 1st tergite, its apical margin located anterior to spiracles. Dorsope of 1st tergite very large; basolateral lobes absent. Spiracular tubercles indistinct, spiracles placed in basal third of 1st tergite; dorsal carinae present. Second suture present, distinctly curved laterally; sometimes very fine. Second tergite with lateral, shallow, parallel or oblique furrows. Second to 4th tergites with separate laterotergites. Hypopygium medium-sized, with short or long obtuse process medioposteriorly. Ovipositor longer or shorter than metasoma [1].
References
- , “Seven new genera of the subfamily Doryctinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from the old world.”, Journal of Hymenoptera Research, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 111-141, 2000.
Loss of both the occipital and prepectal carinae is one of the main characteristics of the subfamily Braconinae and is a character used in many older keys for separating the Braconinae from the Doryctinae. The new genus Bracodoryctes is the second known doryctine genus without these carinae, the first one being Siragra Cameron which was correspondingly separated from other doryctines in the tribe Siragrini (from [1]).
References
- , “Seven new genera of the subfamily Doryctinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from the old world.”, Journal of Hymenoptera Research, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 111-141, 2000.
Australasian.