Coccygidium mastigion
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Braconidae
Genus: Coccygidium
Name
Coccygidium mastigion Sharkey sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Diagnosis
Fore wing weakly melanic distally with a basal transverse melanic band posterad parastigma. Scape half melanic (laterally) and half yellow (medially).
Description
Holotype female.
Body length. 6.12 mm
Head. OOL 0.13; POD 0.15; IOL 0.09; EH 0.88; MS 0.16; 38 (38–40) flagellomeres.
Mesosoma. Mesoscutum punctate; notauli well impressed and crenulate; scutellum with apical carina and subapical transverse depression; sternaulus well impressed and crenulate, extending about ¾ length of mesopleuron; metapleuron rugose in ventral 1/3, punctate dorsally; fore tibial spur as long as basitarsus.
Metasoma. Median tergite 1 about twice as long as wide apically (length = 0.94mm, width = 0.48mm).
Color. Yellow, except as follows: flagellum melanic, scape melanic in lateral half, yellow in medial half, pedicel melanic; tip of hind tibia black, hind tarsomeres mostly black but each paler basally, hind tibial spurs yellow to pale brown. Fore wing weakly infumate in distal half and in a longitudinal stripe basad stigma, veins yellow basally, melanic where the membrane is weakly melanic; stigma yellow in basal half, vein R pale from stigma to union with RS. Hind wing hyaline with yellow veins.
Male. Eyes smaller than those of female. OOL 0.17; POD 0.15; IOL 0.11; EH 0.79; MS 0.23; 40 flagellomeres.
GenBank accessions
H102: #HQ667977. H680: #HQ667962.
Distribution
Known only from Thailand. Distribution map can be found at http://purl.org/thaimaps/mastigion.
Etymology
Mastigion is the diminutive form of the Greek word mastix; it is a reference to the short flagellum of this species.
Material examined
Holotype female: H102, Thailand, Chaiyaphum, Tat Tone NP, lawn near Sab Somboon forest unit, 16.013°N, 101.975°E, 648m, MT, 26.xi-3.xii.2006, Tawit Jaruphan [QSBG], Paratype male: H680, Thailand, Chaiyaphum, Tat Tone NP, 15.9586°N, 101.9073°E, MT, 12–19.iv.2007, Tawit Jaruphan & Orawan Budsawong [HIC].
Original Description
- Sharkey, M; Clutts, S; 2011: A revision of Thai Agathidinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), with descriptions of six new species of hymenoptera research/ Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 22: 69-132. doi
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