Pristaulacus iosephi Turrisi & Madl 2013

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Pristaulacus iosephi Turrisi & Madl, 2013 Fig. 7 Material examined. Thailand: Holotype • ♀, North West Chiang Mai, Fang, 500 m. 12–19.iv.1958, T. C. Maa leg., No. 388 (BPBM). Diagnosis. Large species, body length around 17.0 mm, excluding ovipositor; mandible blackish with dark reddish tones on teeth; color mainly black, except maxillo-labial complex dark reddish brown; A 1 dark reddish, remaining antennomeres blackish; legs mostly dark reddish, with fore and mid tibiae and tarsi lighter; wings hyaline, with a yellowish background tint, with base of fore wing extensively brownish infuscated (cells C, B, SB, P and base SD 1) and a wide brownish substigmal spot, wider than stigma, posteriorly extended to D 2; metasoma black to blackish, segments 1–2 with dark reddish orange marks; valvula 3 of ovipositor brownish; setae whitish on head and mesosoma, partly goldish on mandible, brownish on metasoma head, from above, 1.3 × wider than long, shiny, vertex with fine to coarse, deep and dense punctures; gena well developed, slightly convergent and regularly rounded posteriorly; occipital margin with a shallow V-shaped medial groove; occipital carina narrow, rim-like; mesosoma coarsely sculptured, areolate-rugose, mesoscutum anterior to notauli transverse-carinate; lateroventral margin of pronotum with two well-developed anterior and posterior tooth-like processes; anterior margin of mesonotum, in lateral view, anterior to notauli, strongly elevated dorsally and anteriorly distinctly overhanging pronotum, strongly angulated, producing two well developed anterior lobes; hind coxa stout, 2.0 × longer than wide, transverse-carinate dorsally, mostly polished-punctate ventrally; tarsal claw pectinate with six tooth-like processes; metasoma pyriform, moderately compressed laterally; petiole elongate, slender, 2.4 × longer than wide; ovipositor length equal to fore wing length. Distribution. China (Yunnan) (Chen et al. 2016), Thailand (Chiang Mai province) (Turrisi and Madl 2013; Pham et al. 2024). Host. Unknown. Remark. The species belongs to the Pristaulacus comptipennis species-group (Turrisi and Madl 2013).

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