Published February 28, 2015 | Version v1

Cyranorogas depardieui Quicke and Butcher 2015, sp. nov.

Description

C. depardieui Quicke and Butcher sp. nov.

(Figures 1–3)

Holotype ♀, Papua-New-Guinea, Province Madang, Mt Wilhelm 1700 m (−5.759269,145.2356), 28–29/10/2012, leg Valeba, Tulei, Novotny, Leponce, Plot 4, understorey; Malaise – MAL-MW1700D-04/16-d04.

Length of body 3 mm. Antenna with 25 flagellomeres. Median flagellomeres approximately 1.9× longer than wide. Length of fore wing 3 mm. Precoxal sulcus, deep, rather short, crenulate, located rather low down side of mesopleuron. Scutellar sulcus wide, deep, curved, with six strong carinae between outer ones. Mesopleuron largely smooth and shiny. Propodeum with midlongitudinal carina on anterior 0.7, where it divides to form a weak transverse carina, and posteror to this propodeum irregularly rugose. Body largely honey-yellow, posterior of propodeum, base of hind coxa narrowly, metasomal tergites 1 and 2 and basal part of tergum 3 white. Wings hyaline with brown venation.

Etymology. Named in honour of the actor Gérard Depardieu who played Cyrano de Bergerac in the 1990 film adaptation.

Notes

Published as part of Butcher, Buntika A. & Quicke, Donald L. J., 2015, A remarkable new genus and species of Rogadinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) of uncertain tribal placement, from Papua New Guinea, resembling Betylobraconini stat. nov., pp. 2045-2054 in Journal of Natural History 49 (33) on page 2047, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1009405, http://zenodo.org/record/3998009

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Biodiversity

Event date
2012-10-28
Verbatim event date
2012-10-28/29
Scientific name authorship
Quicke and Butcher
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Braconidae
Genus
Cyranorogas
Species
depardieui
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Cyranorogas depardieui Butcher & Quicke, 2015