Abstract
Pseudofornicia gen. n. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) is described (type species: Pseudofornicia nigrisoma sp. n. from Vietnam) including three Oriental (type species, Pseudofornicia flavoabdominis (He & Chen, 1994), comb. n. and Pseudofornicia vanachterbergi Long, (nom. n. for Fornicia achterbergi Long, 2007; not Fornicia achterbergi Yang & Chen, 2006) and one Australian species (Pseudofornicia commoni (Austin & Dangerfield, 1992), comb. n.). Keys to genera with similar metasomal carapace and to species of the new genus are provided. The new genus shares the curved inner middle tibial spur, the comparatively small head, the median carina of the first metasomal tergite and the metasomal carapace with Fornicia Brullé, 1846, but has the first tergite movably joined to the second tergite and the third tergite 1.1–1.6 × as long as the second tergite medially and is flattened in lateral view. One of the included species is a primary homonym and is renamed in this paper.
Highlights
During the review of the genus Fornicia Brullé, 1846 (Braconidae: Microgastrinae) by the first two authors, it was discovered that some of its Indo-Australian species and a new species from Vietnam did not fit in Fornicia because the first tergite of the carapace is movably connected to the second tergite
For identification of the subfamily Microgastrinae, see van Achterberg (1990, 1993), for identification of the genus Fornicia, see Mason (1981), for references to the genus Fornicia and other genera mentioned in this paper, see Yu et al (2012)
Photographic images were made with the Keyence VHX-5000 digital microscope and processed with Adobe Photoshop CS5, mostly to adjust the size and background
Summary
During the review of the genus Fornicia Brullé, 1846 (Braconidae: Microgastrinae) by the first two authors (van Achterberg and Long, in prep.), it was discovered that some of its Indo-Australian species and a new species from Vietnam did not fit in Fornicia because the first tergite of the carapace is movably connected to the second tergite.
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