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1.
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Hayat
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<paragraph id="8BB7F75EFFD1FFA33DCB24BBFEAD502E" blockId="1.[151,620,978,1038]" box="[151,281,1013,1038]" pageId="1" pageNumber="260">(Figs 110)</paragraph>
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Body colour was noted from card mounted specimens. After clearing and mounting on slides in
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balsam, the brown or pale brown colour has faded.
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. Length (from slide),
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. Head pale yellow; frontovertex, in card mounted specimen, with two broad longitudinal pale brown bands; occiput and malar space pale brown. Antenna with scape yellow; pedicel yellow, upper surface brown; funicle yellow to pale brownish yellow; clava brown. Mesosoma yellow; mesoscutum and scutellum each with two pale brown diffuse bands. Fore wing rudiment infuscate (Fig. 5); hind wing hyaline. Legs yellow. Metasoma yellow; TITV each with a narrow, pale brown cross-band (Fig. 1); exserted part of ovipositor sheaths dark brown.
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Head (
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) dorsal width 1.75× as broad as median length; frontovertex width 0.5× head width; vertex with 3 longitudinal pale lines/grooves, meeting in front of anterior ocellus; ocellar triangle with apical angle acute; AOL 1.36× POL; OOL 0.5× POL, and 2.2× OCL; head, in frontal view (
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), with a slightly curved groove connecting toruli, and 3 grooves—one median and two lateral, with each lateral groove extending from mouth margin and ending below torulus; inter-torular distance slightly greater than torulus mouth-margin distance; head dorsum and face with fine reticulation (
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); setae short, hyaline, except a longer seta on each side between eye margin and posterior ocellus; eye setose, setae hyaline, and each seta shorter than a facet; occiput with setae on each side of foramen (
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). Maxillary palp 3-segmented, labial palp 2-segmented (
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). Antenna (Figs 1, 4) with scape 3.8× as long as broad; pedicel slightly more than 0.5× scape length, and slightly longer than F1F3 combined; funicle segments all transverse; F1 longer ventrally than dorsally, and narrower (0.87×) than F2; F2F5 subequal in length, and 1.9× to 2.2× as broad as long; F6 large, 2.18× as long as F5, and 1.41× as broad as long; clava about 2× as long as broad, slightly longer than preceding five segments combined; clava with a single, very fine, incomplete suture.
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(
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, slide at 100×)—head dorsal width, 28; head dorsal length (excluding upper occiput which is seen in slide mount), 16; frontovertex width, 14; antennal scape length, 9.5.
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Mesosoma (Figs 2, 3). Pronotum long, 1.23× as long as mesoscutum and 2.29× as broad as long; mesoscutum 3.16× as broad as long; scutellum 1.58× as broad as long, without circular sensilla (one circular sensillum in one
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); sculpture and setation as in Fig. 2; mesoscutum with 16 setae; scutellum with 13 setae; propodeum medially very narrow, about one-tenth scutellum length, but laterally expanded; propodeal spiracle equidistant from both margins. Fore wing (Fig. 5) extending to about basal third of TI of gaster; right fore wing 2.43× and left fore wing (Fig. 5) 2.3× as long as broad; hind wing (Fig. 6) 3.18× as long as broad, and 0.55× right fore wing length. Mid tibia 4× as long as mid basitarsus.
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(
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)—(at 100×) mesosoma length, 27. (at 400×) pronotum length (width), 37 (85); mesoscutum length (width), 30 (95); scutellum length (width), 31 (49); propodeum median length, 3; mid tibia length, 67; mid basitarsus length, 17; mid tibial spur length, 16.
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<paragraph id="8BB7F75EFFD2FFA03D9B263EFC1F55F0" blockId="2.[151,1436,151,464]" pageId="2" pageNumber="261">Metasoma (Fig. 1), on slide, 2.85× as long as mesosoma; exserted part of ovipositor 0.17× metasoma length; petiole large, rectangular, located in space between lateral expanded parts of propodeum (Fig. 3); second valvifer 1.34× as long as third valvula. [Ovipositor 2.97× as long as mid tibia.]</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B97C2B4CFFD2FFA03DCB2015FE885351" bold="true" box="[151,316,1883,1906]" pageId="2" pageNumber="261">FIGURES 18.</emphasis>
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Hayat
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,
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Female: holotype, except Figs
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<th id="76E99C60FFD2005D3DCB2034FDD453B0" box="[151,608,1914,1936]" gridcol="0" gridrow="1" pageId="2" pageNumber="261">view; 2, thorax; 3, metanotum, propodeum</th>
<td id="76E99C60FFD2005D3F352034FC4B53B0" box="[617,1023,1914,1936]" gridcol="1" gridrow="1" pageId="2" pageNumber="261">and petiole, 4, antenna; 5, fore wing;</td>
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<th id="76E99C60FFD2005D3DCB20D7FDD4538F" box="[151,608,1945,1967]" gridcol="0" gridrow="2" pageId="2" pageNumber="261">EH.1799); 8, hind wing, slide No. EH.1799).</th>
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<emphasis id="B97C2B4CFFD3FFA13DCB2291FEFD51D5" bold="true" box="[151,329,1503,1526]" pageId="3" pageNumber="262">FIGURES 9, 10.</emphasis>
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Hayat
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,
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Female: 9, head dorsal view, holotype; 10, head frontal view, paratype (slide, No. EH.1802).
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The three
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show some variation in the number of setae on the mesoscutum and scutellum, length and width of the fore wing and hind wing, relative lengths of the ovipositor (= second valvifer plus third valvula) and mid tibia, and the relative lengths of the second valvifer and third valvula. The body length in the three
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,
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, and
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. The setae on mesoscutum and scutellum in two
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(the third
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(slide, EH.1799) the fore wing extends to about basal half of TII of gaster and is of a different shape and venation (Fig. 7) from that of the
<typeStatus id="54B349FCFFD3FFA1390B205AFB08530D" box="[1111,1212,1812,1837]" pageId="3" pageNumber="262" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
; the right fore wing 2.61× (Fig. 7) and left fore wing 2.77× as long as broad; right hind wing 5.16× (Fig. 8) and left hind wing 4.75× as long as broad. The ovipositor in the three
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is 2.76×, 2.86× and 3.06× as long as mid tibia; and second valvifer 1.28×, 1.42× and 1.5× as long as third valvula.
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<emphasis id="B97C2B4CFFD3FFA13D9B20EAFEBC539C" box="[199,264,1956,1980]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="262">Male.</emphasis>
Unknown.
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<emphasis id="B97C2B4CFFD4FFA63D9B27D9FE0C5490" bold="true" box="[199,440,151,176]" pageId="4" pageNumber="263">Material examined.</emphasis>
<typeStatus id="54B349FCFFD4FFA63C9A27D9FD855490" box="[454,561,151,176]" pageId="4" pageNumber="263" type="holotype">Holotype</typeStatus>
, ♀ (on slide under 2 coverslips, slide No. EH.1801), labelled “
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: KARNATAKA: Chikkaballapur, Nandi Hills,
<date id="FFB6D19EFFD4FFA63FC727F2FCAF54F5" box="[667,795,188,213]" pageId="4" pageNumber="263" value="2014-12-27">27.xii.2014</date>
(YPT), Coll. K. Veenakumari” (
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, registration No.
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/
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/EN.39)
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<emphasis id="B97C2B4CFFD4FFA63D9B264BFEF5553C" box="[199,321,261,284]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="263">
<typeStatus id="54B349FCFFD4FFA63D9B264BFE88553C" box="[199,316,261,284]" pageId="4" pageNumber="263" type="paratype">Paratypes</typeStatus>
:
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3 ♀ (on 3 slides, Nos. EH.1799, EH.1800, EH.1802), with data same as
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. (1 ♀, slide EH.1800, in
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, registration No.
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/
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/EN.40; 2 ♀, in
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, registration No. HYM.
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.721).
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<emphasis id="B97C2B4CFFD4FFA63D9B2602FED45545" bold="true" box="[199,352,332,357]" pageId="4" pageNumber="263">Distribution.</emphasis>
<collectingCountry id="F31FB7CEFFD4FFA63C3B2602FE115545" box="[359,421,332,357]" name="India" pageId="4" pageNumber="263">India</collectingCountry>
: Karnataka.
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<subSubSection id="C312A4D5FFD4FFA63D9B2621FE98558D" pageId="4" pageNumber="263" type="etymology">
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<emphasis id="B97C2B4CFFD4FFA63D9B2621FEFA55A8" bold="true" box="[199,334,367,392]" pageId="4" pageNumber="263">Etymology.</emphasis>
Latin,
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<emphasis id="B97C2B4CFFD4FFA63CC3263EFE4055A7" box="[415,500,368,391]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="263">eximius</emphasis>
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= uncommon, exceptional; and refers to the uncommon occurrence of brachyptery in this genus.
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C312A4D5FFD4FFA63D9B26F9FE075688" pageId="4" pageNumber="263" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8BB7F75EFFD4FFA63D9B26F9FE075688" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,680]" pageId="4" pageNumber="263">
<emphasis id="B97C2B4CFFD4FFA63D9B26F9FEFB55F0" bold="true" box="[199,335,439,464]" pageId="4" pageNumber="263">Comments.</emphasis>
This is the first record of a brachypterous species in
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<emphasis id="B97C2B4CFFD4FFA63EC326F6FB9055F0" box="[927,1060,440,464]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="263">Astymachus</emphasis>
Howard. The
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new species differs from all the five known macropterous species, not only in having very short wings, but also in having the maxillary palp 3-segmented, and labial palp 2-segmented, and in the presence of 5 brown cross-bands on tergites 15 of the gaster. The gaster is yellow or with various brown suffusions but without any brown cross-bands, and the palp formula is either 43 or 4
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the macropterous species (see
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;
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;
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;
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). The figure given by
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is that of a labial palp of
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<emphasis id="B97C2B4CFFD4FFA639CA2522FB5156A4" box="[1174,1253,620,644]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="263">A. felix</emphasis>
Singh &amp; Hayat
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, not of the maxillary palp.
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