Pristaulacus vietnamensis Turrisi & Smith 2011

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Pristaulacus vietnamensis Turrisi & Smith, 2011 Fig. 17 Material examined. Vietnam: Holotype • ♀, Ha Tinh, Huong Son, 18°22'N, 105°13'E, 900 m, Malaise trap, 18–28.v.1998, L. Herman leg., MT / USNM 2046975 (AMNH) [image examined]. Thailand: • 1 ♀, Loei, Phu Ruea National Park Nature tail, 17°30.74'N, 101°20.65'E, 1353 m Malaisetrap, 12–19.iii.2007 Patikhom Tumtip leg., T 2314 (QSBG); • 1 ♀, same data as previous, except data of collection: 26.iii–2.iv.2007 (QSBG); • 1 ♀, Thailand, Loei, Phu Ruea National Park Rong Huay Maklaow, 17°29'N, 101°20'E, 1167 m Litter Sample 5–8.v.2007, Patikhom Tumtip leg., T 2623 (QSBG); • 1 ♀, Thailand, Lampang, Chae Son National Park, Mae Paan unit lavat. 18°49.505'N, 99°24.63'E, 956 m Malaise trap 1–7.iii.2008, B. Kwannui & A. Sukpeng leg., T 5407 (QSBG); • 3 ♀, Thailand, Chaiyaphum, Pa Hin Ngam National Park, Mix deciduous forest, 15°34.686'N, 101°26.082'E, 419 m, Malaise trap, 1–7.v.2007, Katae Sa-nog & Buakaw Adnafai leg., T 2592 (QSBG); • 1 ♀, Thailand, Chaiyaphum, Pa Hin Ngam National Park, Dry evergreen forest at waterfall area, 15°34.802'N, 101°25.99'E, 430 m, Malaise trap, 13–19.v.2007, Katae Sa-nog & Buakaw Adnafai leg., T 2597 (QSBG). Diagnosis. Medium-sized species, body length 9.0–10.0 mm, excluding ovipositor; color mostly black, base of mandible, A 1, most of fore and mid legs reddish orange, mid femur darker, hind tibia and tarsus yellowish orange; wings hyaline; fore wing infuscate at apex, with a wide subquadrate substigmal dark brown spot; metasoma blackish; setae goldish on part of mandible, whitish otherwise; head, from above, 1.3 × wider than long, shiny, vertex with fine, deep and scattered to dense punctures; gena well developed, fairly convergent and very weakly rounded posteriorly; occipital margin with a moderately wide and deep U-shaped medial occipital groove; occipital carina moderately broad, lamelliform; mesosoma coarsely sculptured, transverse-carinate to areolate-rugose; lateroventral margin of pronotum with one anterior well developed long, acute, forwarded tooth-like process; anterior margin of mesonotum, in lateral view, rounded, not overhanging pronotum; hind coxa elongate, 2.7 × longer than wide, transverse-carinate; tarsal claw pectinate with four tooth-like processes; metasoma, in lateral view, pyriform, strongly compressed; petiole very elongate, slender, 5.0 × longer than wide; ovipositor length 1.3 × fore wing length. Distribution. Thailand (Loei, Lampang, and Chaiyaphum provinces) (Turrisi and Smith 2011), Vietnam (Ha Tinh province). Host. Unknown. Remark. The species belongs to the Pristaulacus comptipennis species-group (Turrisi and Smith 2011).

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