Chimaeragathis
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Braconidae
Name
Chimaeragathis Sharkey gen. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Type species
Chimaeragathis eurysoma Sharkey, sp. n.
Etymology
Chimaera is a mythological Greek monster with a goat’s body, lion’s head, and serpent’s tail. In this case, the name is a reference to the many diagnostic characters of the genus which are a combination of features each of which diagnoses other agathidine genera, e.g., crest between antennae, fore tibia with thickened spines. Feminine.
Diagnosis
Metapleuron, scutellum, and all but median cell of propodeum thickly setose. Head, including orbits of eye, black; mesosoma black; metasoma variable. Fore wing slightly infuscate in apical half or entirely clear/hyaline. Antennal sockets not margined with carinae. Interantennal space with a high crest that is sharply declivous posteriorly; between the crest and the median ocellus there is a triangular depression flanked by weak smooth carinae. Temple rounded in dorsal view. Third labial palpomere small, less than 1/3 length of apical palpomere. Notauli depressed and partly or entirely pitted. Scutellar triangle rugose. Ventral margin of hind coxal cavities situated below dorsal margin of metasomal foramen. Pegs on anterior surface of fore tibia present. Hind trochantellus lacking longitudinal carinae. Second submarginal cell of fore wing varying from minute, cell about the same diameter as wing veins, to petiolate with petiole longer than cell diameter. First median tergite partly or mostly irregularly striate to rugosostriate, otherwise smooth; lateral carina present, sometimes weak; median carina present, sometimes weak. Second median tergite wider than long and smooth or mostly smooth with some irregular striae.
Distribution and diversity
Undescribed species are found in other Southeast Asian countries.
Biology
Unknown.
Key to Thai species of Chimaeragathis
Original Description
- Sharkey, M; Chapman, E; 2017: Ten new genera of Agathidini (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Agathidinae) from Southeast Asia ZooKeys, (660): 107-150. doi
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