Pristaulacus matteinii Turrisi & Smith 2020

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Pristaulacus matteinii Turrisi & Smith, 2020 Fig. 10 Material examined. Laos: Holotype • ♀, Hua Phan Province, Phou Pan mountain, Ban Saleui village, 20°13.9300'N, 103°59.9260'E, 1350–1900 m, 10.vi.2009, C. Holzschuh leg. (OLML). Thailand: • 3 ♂ Paratypes, Loei, Phu Ruea National Park, nature trail, 17°30.749'N, 101°20.659'E, 1353 m, 12–19.iii.2007, Patikhom Tumtip leg., T 2308 (QSBG); 2 ♂, same data as previous, except: 23.iii.2007, T 2314 (QSBG, USNM). Diagnosis. Medium-sized species, body length around 10.0 mm, excluding ovipositor; color mostly black, fore and mid legs extensively reddish orange; hind tarsus dark reddish to blackish; wings hyaline; fore wing only slightly infuscate at extreme apex, with a moderately wide subquadrate substigmal dark brown spot; metasoma with small patch subapically in T 1 + T 2 dark reddish orange; setae goldish on mandible, whitish otherwise; head, from above, 1.1 × wider than long, shiny, vertex with fine, deep and moderately dense punctures; gena well developed, fairly convergent and very weakly rounded posteriorly; occipital margin straight; occipital carina moderately broad, lamelliform; mesosoma coarsely sculptured, transverse-carinate to areolate-rugose; lateroventral margin of pronotum with one anterior moderately long, acute, forwarded tooth-like process; anterior margin of mesonotum, in lateral view, squared, not overhanging pronotum; hind coxa moderately elongate, 2.3 × longer than wide, transverse-carinate dorsally, transverse-carinulate to polished punctate ventrally; tarsal claw pectinate with four tooth-like processes; metasoma pyriform, slightly compressed laterally; petiole elongate, slender, 2.8 × longer than wide; ovipositor length 1.1 × fore wing length. Distribution. Bhutan (Timphu Province), Laos (Houaphan, Bolikhamsai, Xieng Khouang Provinces), Thailand (Loei Province) (Turrisi and Smith 2020). Host. Unknown. Remark. The species-group assignment of P. matteinii remains uncertain.

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