Cratojoppa maculata is reported as new record to the fauna of

Ichneumoninae from Malaysia. Five specimens was collected from

malaise trap during field work sampling in Pasoh Forest Reserved in

Negeri Sembilan between May 2002 until March 2003. The species

was first time described by Cameron in 1907 based on specimen

from Sikkim, India. The discovery of this species contributed to the

fauna of the genus Cratojoppa in Malaysia apart from two species

namely Cratojoppa ornaticeps and Cratojoppa maculiceps. In

oriental region it has previously been found in China, India and

Myanmar only. Key to three species of genus Cratojoppa found in

Malaysia is provided

Idris A.B.,

Norhafiza A.F.,

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Serangga 19(2): 45-53ISSN 1394-5130 © 2014, Centre for Insect Systematics,Universiti Kebangsaan MalaysiaCRATOJOPPA MACULATA CAMERON(HYMENOPTERA, ICHNEUMONIDAE,ICHNEUMONINAE) NEW RECORD TO MALAYSIANorhafiza, A.F.1 and Idris, A.B.11School of Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences,Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor Malaysia.Corresponding email: idrisyatie@yahoo.com.myABSTRACTCratojoppa maculata is reported as new record to the fauna ofIchneumoninae from Malaysia. Five specimens was collected frommalaise trap during field work sampling in Pasoh Forest Reserved inNegeri Sembilan between May 2002 until March 2003. The specieswas first time described by Cameron in 1907 based on specimenfrom Sikkim, India. The discovery of this species contributed to thefauna of the genus Cratojoppa in Malaysia apart from two speciesnamely Cratojoppa ornaticeps and Cratojoppa maculiceps. Inoriental region it has previously been found in China, India andMyanmar only. Key to three species of genus Cratojoppa found inMalaysia is provided.Keywords: Cratojoppa maculata, Cameron, Malaysia, new recordsABSTRAKCratojoppa maculata dilaporkan sebagai rekod baru kepada faunaIchneumoninae dari Malaysia. Lima spesimen diperolehi daripada46 Seranggaperangkap malaise ketika persampelan dijalankan di Hutan SimpanPasoh di Negeri Sembilan di antara bulan Mei 2002 hingga Mac 2003.Spesies ini pertama kali diperihalkan oleh Cameron pada tahun 1907berdasarkan spesimen dari Sikkim, India. Penemuan spesies inimenyumbang kepada pertambahan fauna daripada genus Cratojoppadi Malaysia selain daripada dua spesies lagi iaitu Cratojoppaornaticeps dan Cratojoppa maculiceps. Di rantau Oriental, sebelumini ia pernah di rekodkan di China, India dan Myanmar sahaja. Kekuncibagi tiga spesies genus Cratojoppa dari Malaysia disediakan.Kata kunci: Cratojoppa maculata, Cameron, Malaysia, rekod baruINTRODUCTIONPasoh Forest Reserve (2.98 N 102.31 E) is a 1840 ha area gazettedby Forestry Department of Negeri Sembilan as a forest research andit is one of the most well-studied remnants of lowland tropical forestin Southeast Asia and has been the focal point for international fieldstudies since the 1970’s. Pasoh Forest Reserve is a remote forestarea surrounded by palm oil plantations and other land use areas withcommonly found small trees from family Euphorbiaceae andAnnonaceae apart from some Dipterocarpaceae, Leguminosae andBurseraceae. The most abundant plant species is Xerospermumnoronhianum (Sapindaceae) which dominated almost 2.5% of totaltrees in the area (www.frim.gov.my).During a study of the subfamily Ichneumoninae in the Centre forInsect Systematic (CIS), UKM Bangi, Malaysia we discovered fivespecimens of the genus Cratojoppa collected from Pasoh ForestReserve, Negeri Sembilan, central region of peninsular Malaysia.  Mostproved to be Cratojoppa maculata Cameron 1907 based on colourpattern on its face, small and narrow areola and smaller medianlongitunal carination. This record is the first for Malaysia, representan extension to the known range of the species and its nearest knownoccurrence before is in several parts of China, India and Myamnar(Yu et. al., 2012).In this paper, we provide the taxonomy, morphology anddistribution map of Cratojoppa maculata found in Malaysia. GivenNorhafiza & Idris 47the scarcity of these data we can, however, expect a significantnumber of additional species discoveries in the future.MATERIAL AND METHODSA total of 344 specimens from the collection of Centre for InsectSystematics at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (CIS-UKM) andRaffles Museum of Biodiversity Research at National University ofSingapore were examined. The specimen was identified by referenceto material in The Natural History Museum, London and key to genusby Baltazar (1964). Taxonomic history was referred to Gupta (1987).Descriptive terminology generally follows Townes (1969) andTereshkin (2009). Using Carl Zeiss AxioCam MR (Version 5.05.10)Image Analyzer, photographs of the habitus (lateral view), head(anterior view), mesonotum (dorsal view), mesopleurum, post-petiole(dorsal view), tergite II, propodeum (dorsal view), wings and antennawere taken. Measurements of specimens are in millimetres (mm).Specimens examined are deposited in the collections of Centre forInsect Systematics at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (CIS-UKM).RESULT AND DISCUSSIONCratojoppa Cameron is one of the genus of the ichneumonine tribeHeresiarchini with six species that distributed in China, Bhutan, India,Myanmar, Malaysia and Indonesia (Yu et. al., 2012). This genera arerelatively big size species of Ichneumoninae with strong coarsely bigpunctured propodeum, wide and thick apical transverse carina andmatte mesonotum which strongly punctured. Cratojoppa maculatacould be identified by no line on its face, small and narrow areola andits narrower median longitudinal and apical transverse carination. TheMalaysian specimen photographs are showed in Figure 1.Cratojoppa maculata previously recorded in several parts ofChina, India and Myanmar whilst C. nigritarsis and its subspeciesC. nigritarsis bonthaina only found in Indonesia, C. ornaticep inMalaysia, C. maculiceps in Malaysia and Indonesia and C. robustain Bhutan, India and Myanmar. This lack and limited discovery ofspecies obviously underestimates their actual diversity in the oriental48 Seranggaregion, reflecting how little taxonomic work has been done regardingthis genera in this region. Distribution record of Cratojoppa maculatashowed in Figure 2.Figure 1. Cratojoppa maculata. a. habitus (lateral); b. head(anterior); c. mesonotum (dorsal); d. mesopleurum; e. post-petiole &tergite I; f. propodeum (dorsal); g. wings; h. antenna. Scales: 1mm.ab c de f hgNorhafiza & Idris 49Figure 2. Distribution map of Cratojoppa maculata based on Yu et.al., 2012 and the present paper.Key to Malaysian Cratojoppa species1. Propodeum with strong , deep, irregularly punctures, third lateralarea small; First lateral area smooth; Mesonotum with 2 spots orline in the middle..................................................................2Propodeum with strong, deep, irregularly punctures, third lateralarea small; First lateral area strongly deeply punctured; Areolaelongate, wide and smooth; Mesonotum with 2 longish lines inthe middle; Post-petiole with fine, closely striated in the middleand large scaterred punctures at sides; Face with a broad line ofequal width down in the middle............Cratojoppa ornaticeps50 Serangga2. First lateral area smooth with some strong punctures at sides;Post-petiole smooth; Areola elongate, narrow with two elongatedclosely puntured spots in the middle; two black lines wider belowrun onto area of clypeal fovea............Cratojoppa maculicepsFirst lateral area smooth with some strong punctures at sides;Post-petiole smooth; Areola small, elongate, very narrow andrugose; no line on face..........................Cratojoppa maculataDESCRIPTIONCratojoppa maculata CameronCratojoppa maculata Cameron, 1907. Tijdschr. V. Ent., 50: 74. F.key, des. Type: F, India: Sikkim (LONDON).Cratojoppa maculata: Morley, 1915. Revision of the Ichneumonidaein the British Museum, 4: 110. M, F. des. India: Assam: Mangaldai.Sikkim. Burma: Mergui. Hainan Is.: Mt. Wuchi. Hong Kong.Cratojoppa maculata: Heinrich, 1937. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., (10)20: 262. F. syn. notes.Cratojoppa maculata: Townes, Townes & Gupta, 1961. Mem. Amer.Ent. Inst., 1: 411. Burma. India. Hainan Is. Hong Kong.Cratojoppa maculata: Heinrich, 1969. Ent. Tidskr., 90: 104. M, F.key, des. India: Sikkim. China: Hainan I. Hong Kong. Burma:Mergui; Maymyo, 800 m.; Mt. Victoria, 1400 m.Material examined: 1♂: Malaysia, Negeri Sembilan, Pasoh ForestReserve, 12.v.2002, Ng, Y.F & Ruslan. 1♂: Malaysia, Negeri Sembilan,Pasoh Forest Reserve, 20.v.2002, Ng. Y.F & Ruslan. 1♂: Malaysia,Negeri Sembilan, Pasoh Forest Reserve, 13.vii.2002, Ng. Y.F &Ruslan. 1♂: Malaysia, Negeri Sembilan, Pasoh Forest Reserve,10.xii.2002, Ng. Y.F & Phua G.K. 1♂: Malaysia, Negeri Sembilan,Pasoh Forest Reserve, 15.iii.2003, Ng. Y.F & Phua G.K.Paratype: 1 Mt. Wuchi, Hainan. 13.6.03 1911-288 (Collection ofBritish Natural History Museum, London).Norhafiza & Idris 51Male.Head. Entirely almost triangle, polished with puncture. Face 1.75Xwider than high, slightly elevated at the middle and lateral areaproducing a groove between middle and lateral area, puntureincreasingly clear and strong to the middle; clypeus transverse, 1.8Xwider than high, flat, apical margin rather thick, weakly curved andpointed in the middle, with sparsely moderate puncture; clypeal foveadistinct medium size; mandible moderately punctured, not pointed tothe apex with sparsely long hairs; labrum rather big, clearly extendingbeyond the clypeus, the base almost same length with the base ofapical clipeus; malar space 1.67X smaller than mandible base; sulcusgenalis granulous; frons, vertex and temple smooth; Vertex withposterior section steeply declivous behind ocelli; ocelli aboutequilateral, diameter lateral ocelli is smaller than the distance betweentwo lateral ocelli; hypostomal and occipital carinae meet beforemandibular base; Genae not convex from anterior view; antennafiliform, 44 flagellomeres, not enlarge at the middle, tyloid exist atsegmen 9-11; scapes punctured with fine, medium long and straighthairs.Mesosoma. Pronotum polished, smooth with evenly puncture marks;epomia strong and heading towards back line; mesopleurum polished,smooth with evenly fine and densed punctures near subalarum andlower half: speculum smooth; metapleuron punctured; mesonotummatte with strong big punctures especially in the middle; notaulusdistinctly exist; scutellum flat with strong big punctures except smoothnear margin, without lateral carina, not elevated from post-scutellum;post-scutellum flat and smooth; axillary trough of mesonotum wideand deep with longitudinal carina; propodeum fully carinated, fromlateral view weakly convex but slightly slope from the middle to theapex; apophysis absent; basal area smooth, small and seems dividedinto two smaller section; areola obviously small and narrow, elongated,rugose; first lateral area smooth with some punctures at side; secondlateral area with uneven strong big punctures; third lateral area verynarrow with horizontal striate; petiolar area horizontally striate; coxalcarinae present; propodeal spiracle elongate, almost 4X longer thanwidth.52 SeranggaMetasoma. Elongate with pointed apex. Petiole flat and smooth,without median carina; Post-petiole smooth with randomly weak smallpunctures; tergite II with distinctly strong punctures, vertically aciculatefrom area between both thyridia-gastrocoelus to the apical margin;tergite III with the same punctures and with some weak aciculate inthe middle at base; tergite IV and the rest with weakened puncturesto the apex and with evenly short hairs; apical band present in tergiteII and III; anal marks absent; latero-apical marks exist in tergites IV-VII; gastrocoelus shallow with weakly vertical striate marks; thyridialooks like transverse triangle, deeply wide, area between thyridia flatand smaller than the area of thyridia; lunula small.Wing. Transparent with dark veins; areolet closed like diamond shape,mediella very short; stigma dark brown, narrow; radius curved, strongnear mediella; nervulus not parallel to the basal vein; ramulus short;external vein of a base (second intercubitus) with a bulla; branchiellaand discoidella not developed to the apical margin.Leg. Slender with evenly coarse hairs; claws of hind tarsus simple.Measurement. Body length: 16.84mm; front wing: 11.7mm;Flagellum: 13.75mm.Color: Body as a whole blackish brown with yellowish. Followingpale yellow: Flagellum annulus on segmen 12-32, dorsal of scapes,face, clypeus, mandibles except teeth, vertical and frontal orbit, partsof dorsal and ventral coxae of hind leg, latero-apical marks, apicalband, coxae and trochanter front and hind leg, ventral femur and tibiaof front and middle leg, ventral tarsus I of middle leg, half of tarsus Iand rest of hind leg tarsus, the rest of the leg are dark brown.  Followingyellow: pronotal rige, subalarum. ½ of lower mesopleurum, two smallnarrow elongated patches on mesonotum, small parts on side of apicalmargin of mesonotum, lateral and apical margin of scuttelum, part ofnear upper area of propodeal spiracle, post-scuttelum, areola, basalarea, third lateral area, posterior parts of median longitudinal carinaand apical transverse carina.Female: unknown.Norhafiza & Idris 53ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSWe are very grateful to Dr. Gavin Broad for allowing the visit anduse of specimen in the collection of British Natural History Museum,London in order to identify the species. We also thank to all of staffand postgraduate students of Centre for Insect Systematic, UniversitiKebangsaan Malaysia for help in this study.REFERENCESBaltazar, C.R. 1964. The genera of parasitic Hymenoptera in thePhilippines, Part 2. Pacific Insects. 6(1): 15-67.Gupta, V.K. 1987. The Ichneumonidae of the Indo-AustralianArea (Hymenoptera) (Part 2. Subfamilies Metopiinae toIchneumoninae). Memoirs of the America EntomologicalInstitute 41(II).Cameron, P. 1903. Descriptions of New Genera and Species ofHymenoptera taken by Mr. Robert Shelford at Sarawak, Borneo.Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 39:89-181.Cameron, P. 1907. Descriptions of New Species of Hymenopterafrom Borneo. Journal of the Straits Branch of the RoyalAsiatic Society 48: 1-26.FRIM, 2015. http://www.frim.gov.my/about-us/field-research-stations/pasoh-frim-research-station-negeri-sembilan/?lang=msDikemaskini pada: Jumaat, Mac 6, 2015.

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