Habropoda sutepensis Cockerell, 1929

Habropoda sutepensis Cockerell, 1929 View in CoL

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Habropoda sutepensis Cockerell, 1929: 132–133 View in CoL .

Material examined. VIETNAM: 6 females, 2 males, Lai Châu Province, MƯ ờng Tè District , Tà T ổng Commune, 22°23ʹ30ʺN, 102°39ʹ23ʺE, alt. 1250 m, coll. Ngát Th ị Tr ần, 8.iii.2023 [5 females, 1 male in IEBR; 1 female, 1 male in AMNH] GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis. In both sexes, head with subtriangular shape, labrum with semicircular medio-apical emargination. In females, clypeus with a shining vertical keel baso-medially and a triangular creamy-white mark medio-apically; labrum with prominent dark yellow tubercles baso-laterally and plumose setae laterally; metasoma with dense, light copper red to red setae except apical bands with lighter setae; pygidial plate with lateral margins straight and gradually converging to nearly pointed apex. In males, sternum VII with strong, thickened, nearly complete lateral ridges separating proximal portion from disc, the disc with lateral margins parallel in proximal half, then sloping concavely to paramedial angles separated by broad medial concavity with a prominent lanceolate process medially, disc if thickened, short, curved setae laterally and to subapically on paramedial points, elongate setae at apex of lanceolate process ( Fig. 12D View Fig ); sternum VIII with disc broadly rounded laterally then converging to shallow, broadly rounded, paramedial lobes separated by broad, shallow concavity medially ( Fig. 12E View Fig ). Male gonostylus with the dorsal process long, slender, acutely rounded to nearly pointed apically with long setal tuft and the ventral process lamellate, concave on apical margin, and with short setae on mesal margin ( Fig. 12F, G View Fig ).

Distribution. Thailand, Vietnam (Northwestern).

Remarks. This species is recorded from Vietnam for the first time. All characters agree with the diagnosis of H. sutepensis by Cockerell (1929) and the male sterna VII–VIII and gonostylus are consistent with Lieftinck (1974: figs. 44, 45). Floral associations. The females were collected on flowers of Pogostemon cablin (Blanco) Benth. ( Lamiaceae : Lamioideae) and males from flowers of Hedyotis capitellata Wall. ex G.Don ( Rubiaceae : Rubioideae) along the trail into the forest ( Fig. 20C, D View Fig ).