Pristaulacus gusenleitneri Turrisi & Smith 2011

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Pristaulacus gusenleitneri Turrisi & Smith, 2011 Fig. 6 Material examined. Thailand: Holotype • ♀, Phetchabun, Nam Nao National Park, Check point, 16°43.695'N, 101°33.797'E, 921 m, Malaise trap, 5–12.v.2007, Leng Janteab leg., T 2657 (QSBG). Diagnosis. Medium-sized species, body length around 11.0 mm, excluding ovipositor; color mostly black, clypeus, most of mandible, A 1 yellowish orange, legs extensively yellowish orange to orange, including hind tarsus; wings hyaline; fore wing only slightly infuscate at apex, with a wide subquadrate substigmal dark brown spot and irregular spots at base; metasoma with T 2 and sides of tergites reddish orange; setae whitish otherwise, goldish on mandible; head, from above, 1.2 × wider than long, shiny, vertex with fine, deep and dense punctures; gena moderately developed, slightly convergent and regularly rounded posteriorly; occipital margin straight with a moderately wide and deep U-shaped medial groove; occipital carina narrow, rim-like; mesosoma coarsely sculptured, transverse-carinate to areolate-rugose; lateroventral margin of pronotum with one well developed and acute tooth-like process; anterior margin of mesonotum, in lateral view, squared, not overhanging pronotum; hind coxa elongate, 2.7 × longer than wide, transverse-carinate on dorsal surface, mostly polished-punctate on ventral surface; tarsal claw pectinate with four tooth-like processes; metasoma pyriform, slightly compressed laterally; petiole very elongate, slender, about 5.0 × longer than wide; ovipositor length 1.2 × fore wing length. Distribution. Thailand (Phetchabun province) (Turrisi and Smith 2011; Pham et al. 2024). Host. Unknown. Remark. The species belongs to the Pristaulacus comptipennis species-group (Turrisi and Smith 2011).

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