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(Fabaciae) coleopteran complex (Coleoptera) with description of two new species from India + + + +Author + +Gupta, Ankita +ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India + + + +Author + +Belokobylskij, Sergey A. +Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg 199034, Russia; + + + +Author + +Achterberg, Cornelis Van +Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, the Netherlands. + + + +Author + +Pattar, Rohit +0000-0002-2243-3777 +ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India + + + +Author + +Broad, Gavin R. +Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, UK; + + + +Author + +Gracy, R. G. +0000-0002-6764-5167 +ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India + + + +Author + +Sushil, S. N. +0000-0002-5718-1629 +ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India + +text + + +Zootaxa + + +2024 + +2024-09-09 + + +5506 + + +3 + + +402 +427 + + + + +http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5506.3.6 + +journal article +10.11646/zootaxa.5506.3.6 +1175-5326 +13747250 +DBA3F333-4FD9-4E87-9E21-54974E9E0BA4 + + + + + + +Key to Indian species of the subgenus + +Leluthia +( +Euhecabolodes +) + + + + + + + + + +1. Body distinctly depressed, 2.2–3.6 × longer than its maximum height. Mesoscutum (lateral view) weakly and roundly elevated above pronotum. Neck of prothorax rather long, with a wide and more or less distinctly convex dorsal lobe (lateral view)................................................................................... Subgenus + +Leluthia + +s. str. + + + + +- Body not or weakly depressed, 1.5–1.8 × longer than maximum height. Mesoscutum (lateral view) distinctly and almost perpendicularly elevated above pronotum. Neck of prothorax short, with narrow and usually weakly convex dorsal lobe (lateral view). (Subgenus + +Euhecabolodes +Tobias, 1962 + +)............................................................. 2 + + + + + + +2. Fifth metasomal tergite not enlarged, only partly finely sculptured anteriorly and not covering following segments. First flagellomere thick, 5.2–5.3 × longer than its apical width. Median length of second metasomal tergite 0.3–0.4 × its anterior width. Body length +2.1–2.5 mm +.— +India +( +Karnataka +)................................. +L. + +( +Eu +.) +pongamiacola + + +sp. nov. + + + + + +– Fifth metasomal tergite enlarged, entirely sculptured and almost entirely covering following segments. First flagellomere slender, 6.3–8.0 × longer than its apical width. Median length of second metasomal tergite 0.4–0.6 × basal width. Body length +3.5–3.8 mm +.......................................................................................... 3 + + + + + + +3. Propodeum without areola. First flagellomere 8.0 × longer than its apical width. Mesosoma long, 1.8 × longer than high. Hind coxa transversely striate dorsally. Ovipositor sheath 0.7 × as long as fore wing. +India +(Goa).......................................................................................... + +L. (Eu.) indica +Belokobylskij & Ranjith, 2021 + + + + + +– Propodeum with areola. First flagellomere 6.3 × longer than its apical width. Mesosoma short, 1.5 × longer than high. Hind coxa smooth dorsally. Ovipositor sheath as long as fore wing. +India +( +Kerala +)....... +L. (Eu.) areola +Ranjith & Belokobylskij, 2021 + + + + + + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/data/81/0C/87/810C87C1FF8BFFF6D485F9311699FE94.xml b/data/81/0C/87/810C87C1FF8BFFF6D485F9311699FE94.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..66f02691bbe --- /dev/null +++ b/data/81/0C/87/810C87C1FF8BFFF6D485F9311699FE94.xml @@ -0,0 +1,294 @@ + + + +Parasitoid complex of doryctine wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) reared from Pongamia pinnata (L.) (Fabaciae) coleopteran complex (Coleoptera) with description of two new species from India + + + +Author + +Gupta, Ankita +ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India + + + +Author + +Belokobylskij, Sergey A. +Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg 199034, Russia; + + + +Author + +Achterberg, Cornelis Van +Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, the Netherlands. + + + +Author + +Pattar, Rohit +0000-0002-2243-3777 +ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India + + + +Author + +Broad, Gavin R. +Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, UK; + + + +Author + +Gracy, R. G. +0000-0002-6764-5167 +ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India + + + +Author + +Sushil, S. N. +0000-0002-5718-1629 +ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India + +text + + +Zootaxa + + +2024 + +2024-09-09 + + +5506 + + +3 + + +402 +427 + + + + +http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5506.3.6 + +journal article +10.11646/zootaxa.5506.3.6 +1175-5326 +13747250 +DBA3F333-4FD9-4E87-9E21-54974E9E0BA4 + + + + + + +Genus + +Leluthia +Cameron, 1887 + + + + + + + + + + +Leluthia +Cameron, 1887: 392 + + +; + +Shenefelt & Marsh 1976: 1315 + +; + +Belokobylskij 1994b: 22 + +; + +Marsh 2002: 119 + +; + + +Belokobylskij +et al. +2004: 62 + + +; + +Belokobylskij & Maetô 2006: 693 + +; + + +Kula +et al. +2010: 246 + + +; Belokobylskij +et al. +2021: 1034. + + + + + + +Doryctosoma +Picard, 1938: 142 + + + +( +type +species: + +Doryctosoma paradoxum +Picard, 1938 + +); + +Shenefelt & Marsh 1976: 1298 + +; + +Belokobylskij 1992: 915 + +(as synonym of + +Leluthia + +); + +Belokobylskij & Maetô 2006: 695 + +. + + + + + +Euhecabolodes +Tobias, 1962: 1190 + + + +( +type +species: + +Euhecabolodes minutus +Tobias, 1962 + += + +Hecabalodes ruguloscolyti +Fischer, 1962 + +); + +Shenefelt & Marsh 1976: 1354 + +; + +Belokobylskij & Tobias 1986: 34 + +(as synonym of + +Doryctosoma + +); + +Belokobylskij & Maetô 2006: 694 + +(as subgenus). + + + + + +Russellia +Muesebeck, 1950: 78 + + +(not + +Russellia +Vargas + +) + +( +type +species: + +Heterospilus astigmus +Ashmead, 1896 + +); + +Shenefelt & Marsh 1976: 1315 + +. + + +Russelella +Muesebeck and Walkley, 1951: 178 +(replacement name); +Shenefelt & Marsh 1976: 1315 +. + + + + + +Type +species. + + +Leluthia mexicana +Cameron, 1887 + +, designated by Viereck (1914). + + + + +Host. +Larval parasitoids of beetle larvae of the families +Bostrichidae +, +Buprestidae +, +Cerambycidae +and +Curculionidae +( +Coleoptera +) ( + +Yu +et al. +2016 + +). + + + + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/data/81/0C/87/810C87C1FF8DFFF9D485F9A510BCF9AE.xml b/data/81/0C/87/810C87C1FF8DFFF9D485F9A510BCF9AE.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..a8f63b2eebe --- /dev/null +++ b/data/81/0C/87/810C87C1FF8DFFF9D485F9A510BCF9AE.xml @@ -0,0 +1,481 @@ + + + +Parasitoid complex of doryctine wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) reared from Pongamia pinnata (L.) (Fabaciae) coleopteran complex (Coleoptera) with description of two new species from India + + + +Author + +Gupta, Ankita +ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India + + + +Author + +Belokobylskij, Sergey A. +Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg 199034, Russia; + + + +Author + +Achterberg, Cornelis Van +Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, the Netherlands. + + + +Author + +Pattar, Rohit +0000-0002-2243-3777 +ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India + + + +Author + +Broad, Gavin R. +Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, UK; + + + +Author + +Gracy, R. G. +0000-0002-6764-5167 +ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India + + + +Author + +Sushil, S. N. +0000-0002-5718-1629 +ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India + +text + + +Zootaxa + + +2024 + +2024-09-09 + + +5506 + + +3 + + +402 +427 + + + + +http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5506.3.6 + +journal article +10.11646/zootaxa.5506.3.6 +1175-5326 +13747250 +DBA3F333-4FD9-4E87-9E21-54974E9E0BA4 + + + + + + + +Ipodoryctes signipennis +( +Walker, 1860 +) + + + + + + + +( +Figs 1–4 +) + + + + + + + +Spathius signipennis +Walker, 1860: 309 + + +. + + + + + +Rhaconotus signipennis + +: + +Shenefelt & Marsh 1976: 1341 + +. + + + + + +Ipodoryctes +( +Ipodoryctes +) +signipennis + +: + +Belokobylskij & Zaldivar-Riveron 2021: 44 + +. + + + + + + +Dendrosotinus flavistigmus +Belokobylskij, 1983: 184 + + +; + +2001: 134 + +(as synonym). + + + + + +Material examined +. + + +SRI LANKA + +: “Type” (round label with green border), “63 52”, + +“ +signipennis + +” (handwriting by Walker?), “ +B.M. Type Hym. +3c 1394”, “ +NHMUK010635962 +”, +1 female +( +holotype +) ( +NHMUK +) + +. + + + +FIGURE 1. + +Ipodoryctes signipennis +(Walker) + +(holotype, NHMUK). (A) Habitus, lateral view. (B) Head, mesosoma and metasoma, dorsal view. (C) Head, front view. (D) labels. + + + + +FIGURE 2. + +Ipodoryctes signipennis +(Walker) + +(Karnataka, NIM). (A) Head, front view. (B) Head, dorsal view. (C) Mesonotum, dorsal view. (D) Mesosoma, lateral view. (E) Wings. (F) Propodeum. (G) Metasoma, dorsal view. + + + + +FIGURE 3. + +Ipodoryctes signipennis +(Walker) + +(Karnataka, NIM). (A) Habitus, lateral view. (B) Metasoma and ovipositor, dorsal view. + + + + + +INDIA + +: +1 female +, “N 22 – 583, ex larva of + +Acigona steniella + +[= + +Bissetia steniellus +(Hampson, 1899) + +, +Lepidoptera +: +Crambidae +], C.I.E/A. 15440”, “India, Jalandhar, Selkiana, 20. VIII. [19]83”, “ +NHMUK012857653 +” ( +NHMUK +) + +; + +1 female +, “ +Dehra Dun +[= +Dehradun +, +Uttarakhand State +], U.P., J.C.M. +Gardner +, + +22.IV.1930 + +”, “ex dry stems.”, “Cage No.195”, “1110”, “1939-227”, “ + +Rhaconotus signipennis +Walk., G. Nixon + +det. 1939”, “ +NHMUK012857654 +” ( +NHMUK +) + +. + +2 females +, [ +India +: +Karnataka +; +Bengaluru +], + +23.VIII.2023 + +, ex cerambycid beetles infested + +Pongamia pinnata + +(L.) wood logs, coll. +R + +. + +Pattar +, Code- NIM/ +NBAIR + +/ + +Hym +/ +Brac +/ +Rhac +/230823 ( +NIM +) + +. + + +Re-description +. Female ( +holotype +). Body length +2.7 mm +; fore wing length +2.4 mm +. + + + +FIGURE 4. + +Ipodoryctes signipennis +(Walker) + +(A, C: NHMUK012857653; B, D: NHMUK012857654). (A) Habitus, lateral view. (B) Habitus, dorsal view. (C) Body, dorsal view. (D) Body, lateral view. (E) Labels. + + +Head width 1.6 × its median length (dorsal view). Head behind eyes (dorsal view) strongly and roundly narrowed; transverse diameter of eye 3.3 × length of temple (dorsal view). Ocelli medium-sized, arranged in triangle with base 1.1 × its sides; POL almost equal to Od, 0.5 × OOL. Eye glabrous, weakly emarginated opposite antennal sockets, 1.15 × as high as broad. Malar space 0.3 × as height as eye, about as long as basal width of mandible. Face with rather wide median vertical and weakly convex area. Face width 0.85 × height of eye and 1.3 × height of face and clypeus combined. Malar suture absent. Clypeus with distinct ventral flange; upper margin of clypeus distinctly above lower level of eyes. Hypoclypeal depression subcircular, its width 0.9 × distance from edge of depression to eye, 0.4 × width of face. Occipital carina not fused ventrally with hypostomal carina being narrowly obliterated above base of mandible. Vertex weakly convex. Head below eyes distinctly and almost linearly narrowed (front view). Maxillary palpi 1.2 × longer than height of head. +Antennae slender, weakly setiform, with 24 antennomeres, 1.2 × as long as body. Length of scape 1.6 × its maximum width. First flagellomere 4.0 × longer than its apical width, 1.1 × longer than second flagellomere. Penultimate flagellomere 4.0 × longer than wide, 0.7 × as long as first flagellomere, 0.9 × as long as apical flagellomere; the latter acuminate apically and without spine. +Mesosoma. Length about twice its height. Pronotum anteriorly straight or weakly convex (dorsal view), dorsally almost straight (lateral view). Pronotal carina distinct, distances from carina to both (anterior and posterior) sides of pronotum subequal. Mesoscutum elevated above pronotum in rather high, gradual curve. Notauli complete, relatively deep and crenulate. Median lobe of mesoscutum without median furrow. Prescutellar depression rather deep, weakly and roundly directed postero-laterally, with three carinae, almost smooth. Precoxal sulcus rather deep, straight, weakly oblique, coriaceous, running along anterior 0.7 of lower part of mesopleuron. Subalar depression rather shallow, narrow, crenulate with granulation. Metanotum with short and pointed posteriorly tooth (lateral view). Metapleural lobe distinct, relatively narrow and rounded distally. + +Wings. Length of fore wing 2.8 × its maximum width. Radial (marginal) cell not shortened. Metacarp (1- +R +1) 1.2 × longer than pterostigma. Radial vein (r) arising weakly before middle of pterostigma. First radial abscissa (r) forming distinct obtuse angle with second abscissa (3- +SR +). Second radial abscissa (3- +SR +) almost twice longer than first abscissa (r), 0.55 × as long as the straight third abscissa ( +SR +1), 1.3 × longer than first radiomedial vein (2- +SR +). Second radiomedial (submarginal) cell very weakly widened distally, 2.5 × longer than wide, 1.4 × longer than narrow brachial (subdiscal) cell. First medial abscissa (1- +SR ++M) weakly sinuate. Recurrent vein (m-cu) postfurcal. Mediocubital vein (M+ +CU +1) weakly curved to anal vein (1-1A) in distal half. Distance (1- +CU +1) from nervulus (cu-a) and basal vein (1-M) equal to nervulus (cu-a) length. Brachial (subdiscal) cell distally strongly and almost linearly closed very weakly behind recurrent vein (m-cu); posterior abscissa of anal vein (3-1A) (behind brachial vein (CU1b)) shortly present. Hind wing 4.7 × as long as wide. First costal abscissa (C+SC+ +R +) 0.7 × as long as second abscissa (1- +SC ++ +R +). First abscissa of mediocubital vein (M+CU) 0.7 × as long as second abscissa (1-M). Recurrent vein (m-cu) present, unsclerotised, weakly curved towards base of wing, antefurcal. + +Legs. Hind coxa with distinct baso-ventral tubercle, about 1.5 × longer than wide (with tubercle). Hind femur with low and wide dorsal protuberance, length of femur 2.8 × its maximum width. Hind tarsus about as long as hind tibia. Hind basitarsus 0.6 × as long as combined length of second to fifth segments. Second tarsal segment 0.5 × as long as basitarsus, twice longer than fourth segment, 1.3 × longer than fifth segment (without pretarsus). +Metasoma almost as long as head and mesosoma combined, with six dorsally visible tergites. First tergite without subbasal lateral processes. Maximum width of first tergite about twice its anterior width; its length about equal to posterior width. Second tergite with distinct and smooth anterior area separated by coarse sculpture, without transverse sub-posterior furrow; with distinct, narrow and weakly curved smooth posterior area, this area 0.4 × as long as remaining anterior part of tergite. Median length of second tergite 0.45 × its anterior width, 1.1 × length of third tergite. Second suture deep, rather wide, distinctly regularly curved. Sixth tergite moderately enlarged, weakly evenly curved on posterior margin, without median emargination and latero-posterior lobes. Sixth tergite 0.8 × as long as fifth tergite, 1.15 × longer than fourth tergite. Ovipositor sheath 0.45 × as long as metasoma, 1.7 × longer than first tergite, 0.65 × as long as mesosoma, 0.3 × as long as fore wing. +Sculpture and pubescence. Vertex and frons entirely densely granulate, without rugosity; face densely granulate, almost smooth on narrow vertical median stripe and below; temple coriaceous, almost smooth below. Mesoscutum entirely densely granulate, without additional rugosity along notauli, densely rugose in medio-posterior area. Scutellum densely granulate. Mesopleuron medially widely coriaceous, granulate dorsally, almost smooth below precoxal sulcus. Propodeum with basolateral areas delineated by distinct carinae and finely densely coriaceous, with median carina in basal 0.4; remaining part of propodeum rugose, with incompletely delineated wide areola. Hind coxa entirely densely granulate and without rugosity dorsally. Hind femur densely granulate dorsally, coriaceous laterally, almost smooth ventrally. First metasomal tergite with widely separated and subparallel dorsal carinae. First tergite entirely, second tergite mainly (except smooth anterior and posterior areas), and third to fifth tergites in anterior 0.7–0.8 (but almost entirely laterally) coarsely and rather sparsely striate and partly with fine rugulosity; third to fifth tergites smooth posteriorly. Sixth tergite densely and distinctly semi-circularly striate and rugosegranulate medio-basally. Second to fifth tergites laterally coarsely striate and with very fine rugulosity between striae. Vertex with rather short and relatively sparse semi-erect pale setae directed forward. Mesoscutum entirely with very dense short and semi-erect pale setae. Metapleural lobe with dense white pubescence. Hind tibia dorsally with dense semi-erect pale setae; length of these setae about 0.5 × maximum width of hind tibia. +Colour. Head yellow. Mesosoma light reddish brown, infuscate posteriorly. Metasoma reddish brown, only reddish laterally, sixth tergite reddish yellow.Antenna brownish yellow, infuscate toward apex, almost black apically. Palpi pale yellow. Legs yellow, their fifth tarsal segments infuscate. Ovipositor sheath black. Fore wing very faintly and evenly infuscate. Pterostigma entirely pale yellow. +Male. Unknown. + +Main variation on the basis of new reared Indian material. +Body length +4.1 mm +, fore wing +3.7 mm +. Head width 1.4 × its median length (dorsal view). Transverse diameter of eye 2.5 × length of temple. Ocelli arranged in triangle with base 1.2 × its sides; POL 1.3 × Od, 0.8 × OOL. Malar space height 0.4 × height of eye, 1.3 × basal width of mandible. Hypoclypeal depression 0.6 × as wide as face. Antennae with 29 antennomeres. Scape 1.8 × longer than its maximum width. First flagellomere 4.8 × longer than its apical width. Penultimate flagellomere 3.4 × longer than wide, 0.5 × as long as first flagellomere. Mesosoma 1.8 × longer than high. Length of fore wing 3.2 × its width. Second radial abscissa (3- +SR +) 1.8 × longer than first radial abscissa (r). First abscissa of mediocubital vein (M+CU) of hind wing 0.6 × as long as second abscissa (1-M). Legs. Hind femur almost 3.0 × longer than wide. Hind basitarsus 0.65 × as long as second-fifth segments combined. Second tarsal segment 1.2 × longer than fifth segment (without pretarsus). Median length of second metasomal tergite 0.4 × its basal width. Ovipositor sheath 0.6 × as long as metasoma, 2.0 × longer than first tergite, 0.8 × as long as mesosoma, 0.4 × as long as fore wing. Sculpture and pubescence. Hind coxa rugose dorsally, reticulate laterally. Hind tibia setae length 0.7 × maximum width of hind tibia. Colour. Head and proximal two-thirds of antenna yellowish brown. Mesosoma reddish brown. + + + + +Hosts +. The possible host of this species could be any of the coleopteran species which emerged from the same infested logs of + +Pongamia pinnata + +(L.), viz. + +Niphona + +nr. +obscura +Breuning, 1938, indeterminate taxon from the tribe +Acanthocinini +, or + +Moechohecyra +sp. + + +Ipodoryctes signipennis + +was previously reared in +India +from + +Acigona steinella + +( +Lepidoptera +) ( +Fig. 4E +). Hence, to clear the doubt on coleopteran hosts, post-emergence of beetles and wasps the infested logs were kept in rearing cages and observed for another two months in the laboratory; however, no lepidopteran emergence was noticed. + + +Previous reported hosts of + +Ipodoryctes signipennis +(Walker) + +are the larvae of + +Chilo auricilius +Dudgeon, 1905 + +and + +Scirpophaga incertulas +(Walker, 1863) + +( +Crambidae +) ( + +Rao +et al. +1968 + +; + +Yu +et al. +2016 + +) ( +Figs 3 +, +4 +), which bore into and feed on the stems of various grasses ( +Poaceae +), including sugarcane, rice and maize. These larvae remain hidden inside grass stems. There are some examples in +Doryctinae +of species attacking hosts of different insect orders ( +Belokobylskij 1996 +), for example, in the genera + +Rhoptrocentrus +Marshall, 1897 + +, + +Rhaconotinus +Hedqvist, 1965 + +, + +Rhaconotus +Ruthe, 1854 + +, etc., therefore it might not be too surprising if + +I. signipennis + +is a parasitoid of both concealed +Lepidoptera +and +Coleoptera +, although the difference in host substrate is intriguing. + + + + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/data/81/0C/87/810C87C1FF9CFFEDD485FDD2111CFA29.xml b/data/81/0C/87/810C87C1FF9CFFEDD485FDD2111CFA29.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..1917cd12232 --- /dev/null +++ b/data/81/0C/87/810C87C1FF9CFFEDD485FDD2111CFA29.xml @@ -0,0 +1,352 @@ + + + +Parasitoid complex of doryctine wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) reared from Pongamia pinnata (L.) (Fabaciae) coleopteran complex (Coleoptera) with description of two new species from India + + + +Author + +Gupta, Ankita +ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India + + + +Author + +Belokobylskij, Sergey A. +Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg 199034, Russia; + + + +Author + +Achterberg, Cornelis Van +Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, the Netherlands. + + + +Author + +Pattar, Rohit +0000-0002-2243-3777 +ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India + + + +Author + +Broad, Gavin R. +Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, UK; + + + +Author + +Gracy, R. G. +0000-0002-6764-5167 +ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India + + + +Author + +Sushil, S. N. +0000-0002-5718-1629 +ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India + +text + + +Zootaxa + + +2024 + +2024-09-09 + + +5506 + + +3 + + +402 +427 + + + + +http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5506.3.6 + +journal article +10.11646/zootaxa.5506.3.6 +1175-5326 +13747250 +DBA3F333-4FD9-4E87-9E21-54974E9E0BA4 + + + + + + + +Sycosoter ordinarius +Gupta & Belokobylskij + +, +sp. nov. + + + + + + +( +Figs 11 +, +12 +) + + + + +Type material +. + +Holotype +: female, +INDIA +: +Karnataka +: +Bengaluru +, + +1.ix.2023 + +, ex + +Pongamia pinnata + +(L.) logs infested with beetle larvae, coll. +R +. Pattar, Code- NIM/ +NBAIR +/Hym/Brac/Syco/10923-H; P1 ( +NIM +). + + + + +Paratype +. Same label, +1 female +and +1 male +( +NIM +) + +. + + + + +Description +. Female. Body length +1.3 mm +; fore wing length +1.4 mm +; exserted ovipositor +0.6 mm +. + +Head width (frontal view) 1.3 × its median height, head width (dorsal view) 1.5 × its median length, 1.1 × width of mesoscutum. Head behind eyes (dorsal view) convex-roundly narrowed; transverse diameter of eye 1.4 × length of temple. Ocelli small, arranged in triangle with base 1.3 × its sides; POL 3.4 × Od, 0.45 × OOL. Eye glabrous, 1.1 × as high as broad (lateral view). Malar space about 0.5 × height of eye, about 2.0 × basal width of mandible. Face width 1.2 × height of eye and 1.3 × height of face and clypeus combined. Hypoclypeal depression round, its width 0.6 × distance from edge of depression to eye, 0.35–0.40 × width of face. Head below eyes (front view) curvedly narrowed. +Antenna slender, filiform, with 13 antennomeres, 1.3 × longer than body. Scape 1.3 × longer than its maximum width, 1.5 × longer than pedicel. First flagellomere 5.0 × longer than its apical width, 0.65 × as long as second flagellomere. Penultimate flagellomere 5.5 × longer than wide, 1.4 × as long as first flagellomere, as long as apical segment; latter weakly acuminate apically. +Mesosoma. Length 1.5 × its height. Pronotum (dorsal view) with anterior margin straight and with pointed antero-lateral angles. Pronotal carina present. Mesoscutum (lateral view) almost perpendicularly elevated above pronotum; median lobe with shallow longitudinal median furrow in posterior half (dorsal view). Notauli distinct in anterior 0.3, fine to absent posteriorly. Prescutellar depression (scutal sulcus) deep, rather short, with mid carina, mostly smooth, 0.4 × as long as scutellum. Scutellum weakly convex. Precoxal sulcus deep, straight, smooth, running along anterior 0.5 of lower part of mesopleuron. Metapleuron lobe distinct, wide, rounded apically. +Wings. Fore wing 3.7 × its maximum width. Pterostigma rather narrow, 5.0 × longer than its maximum width. Radial (marginal) cell wide, 3.5 × longer than wide. Metacarp (1-R1) 1.1 × longer than pterostigma. Radial vein (r) arising before middle of pterostigma, first abscissa (r) 1.2 × longer than maximum width of pterostigma. Second radial abscissa (3-SR + SR1) almost straight in apical half and weakly curved at basal half, 6.3 × longer than first radial abscissa (r), 3.1 × longer than first radiomedial vein (2-SR). First radiomedial vein (2-SR) curved, 1.8 × as long as first radial abscissa (r), 1.9 × as long as recurrent vein (m-cu). First medial abscissa (1-SR+M) weakly sinuate. Discoidal (discal) cell 1.3 × longer than wide. Second (posterior) abscissa of basal vein (1-M) 1.4 × longer than first (anterior) abscissa (1-SR), 1.1 × longer than recurrent vein (m-cu). Mediocubital vein (M+CU1) curved. Hind wing 7.6 × longer than wide. +Legs. Hind femur with dorsal protuberance, length 5.0 × maximum width. Hind tarsus subequal to hind tibia. Hind basitarsus weakly thickened, 0.7 × combined length of second to fifth segments. Second segment of hind tarsus 0.3 × as long as basitarsus, 0.9 × as long as fifth segment (without pretarsus). +Metasoma 0.7 × as long as head and mesosoma combined. First tergite short, evenly widened from base to apex, with distinct dorsope. Maximum width of first tergite 1.8 × anterior width; length 0.8 × posterior width, 0.9 × length of propodeum. Second suture absent. Median length of second and third tergites combined 0.6 × anterior width of second tergite. Ovipositor sheath (lateral view) 1.1 × as long as metasoma, 1.1 × as long as mesosoma, and 0.5 × as long as fore wing. + + +FIGURE 11. + +Sycosoter ordinarius +Gupta & Belokobylskij + +, + +sp. nov. + +(A) Habitus, lateral view (female, holotype). (B) Habitus, lateral view (male, paratype). + + + + +FIGURE 12. + +Sycosoter ordinarius +Gupta & Belokobylskij + +, + +sp. nov. + +(holotype, female). (A) Head, front view. (B) Head and mesosoma, dorsal view. (C) Apical segments of antenna. (D) Body in part, lateral view. (E) Propodeum and metasoma. (F) Wings. + + +Sculpture and pubescence. Vertex and temple smooth. Face mostly smooth. Mesoscutum weakly and finely granulate-reticulate. Scutellum and mesopleuron smooth. Propodeum with undulate median longitudinal carina in anterior half, areola present, lateral transverse carinae adjacent to areola and sublateral longitudinal carinae present. Hind coxa dorsally finely rugulose, mainly smooth. First tergite striate, with complete, submedian converging dorsal carinae. Second and following tergites smooth. Vertex with short and very sparse yellow setae, otherwise almost glabrous. Mesoscutum with sparse and semi-erect pale setae arranged in narrow stripes along notauli and marginally. Hind tibia dorsally with short, rather dense and semi-erect pale setae; length of these setae 0.7 × maximum width of hind tibia. +Colour. Body mainly yellowish brown or light reddish brown, apex of mandibles and vertex with dark brown tint; mesoscutum with darker tint laterally; second and following tergites darker, brown. Antenna with scape, pedicel, first and second flagellomeres yellowish, remaining segments dark brown. Palpi pale yellow. Legs yellow, hind leg infuscate. Ovipositor sheath dark brown. Fore wing infuscate near many veins. Pterostigma pale brown but distinctly brownish in distal third, pale yellow in proximal half. + + +Paratype +(female) + +. Body length +1.5 mm +; fore wing length +1.6 mm +; exserted ovipositor +0.8 mm +. + + +Male. +Body length +1.8 mm +; fore wing length +1.3 mm +, antenna +1.5 mm +. Antenna with 14 antennomeres. First flagellomere 5.0 × longer than its apical width, 0.74 × as long as second segment. Metasoma narrow and elongate. Otherwise similar to female. + + +Comparative diagnosis. + +Sycosoter ordinarius + + +sp. nov. + +differs from the only other known Indian + +Sycosoter + +, + +S. topali +( +Papp, 1993 +) ( +Papp 1993 +) + +, by the following characters: 1) eye 1.4–1.5 × as long as temple in dorsal view (1.2 × in + +S. topali + +); 2) antenna with 13 antennomeres (with 15 antennomeres in + +S. topali + +); 3) mesosoma 1.5 × longer than high (almost 2.0 × in + +S. topali + +); 4) first medial abscissa (1-SR+M) arising before middle of basal (1-M) vein (almost from middle in + +S. topali + +); 5) pterostigma pale yellow, brownish only in distal third (brownish with pale basal spot in + +S. topali + +); 6) precoxal sulcus smooth (crenulate-rugulose in + +S. topali + +). + + +The new species is similar to the Western Palaearctic + +S. caudatus +(Ruschka, 1916) ( + +Gebiola +et al. +2015 + +) + +but differs from the latter in the following features: 1) ovipositor long, about as long as the metasoma (short, less than half the length of the metasoma in + +S. caudatus + +); 2) second abscissa of medial vein (2-SR+M) of fore wing very long, longer than first radiomedial vein (2-SR) (short, distinctly shorter than first radiomedial vein (2-SR) in + +S. caudatus + +); 3) first abscissa of basal vein (1-SR+M) arising before middle of basal vein (1-SR + 1-M) (arising from middle in + +S. caudatus + +); 4) radial vein (r) arising distal to middle of pterostigma (arising from middle in + +S. caudatus + +); 5) mesoscutum mainly smooth in posterior half (weakly granulate in + +S. caudatus + +). + + +Finally, + +S. ordinarius + + +sp. nov. + +also resembles the Eastern Palaearctic + +S. arephini +( +Belokobylskij, 1993 +) ( +Belokobylskij 1993 +) + +( +Figs 13 +, +14 +), especially in the fore wing venation, but differs from the latter in the following characters: 1) first metasomal tergite short, distinctly less than its maximum width posteriorly (equal to maximum width in + +S. arephini + +); 2) precoxal sulcus rather distinct (almost absent in + +S. arephini + +); 3) proximal one-third of fore wing less narrow (distinctly narrow and elongate in + +S. arephini + +); 4) prescutellar depression with only median carina, no lateral carinae (two lateral carinae also present in + +S. arephini + +); 5) anterior margin of mesoscutum (dorsal view) curved and without distinct lateral corners (almost straight with distinct lateral corners in + +S. arephini + +). + + + + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/data/81/0C/87/810C87C1FF9CFFEED485FF311767FE02.xml b/data/81/0C/87/810C87C1FF9CFFEED485FF311767FE02.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..b25d25ab3ed --- /dev/null +++ b/data/81/0C/87/810C87C1FF9CFFEED485FF311767FE02.xml @@ -0,0 +1,169 @@ + + + +Parasitoid complex of doryctine wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) reared from Pongamia pinnata (L.) (Fabaciae) coleopteran complex (Coleoptera) with description of two new species from India + + + +Author + +Gupta, Ankita +ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India + + + +Author + +Belokobylskij, Sergey A. +Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg 199034, Russia; + + + +Author + +Achterberg, Cornelis Van +Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, the Netherlands. + + + +Author + +Pattar, Rohit +0000-0002-2243-3777 +ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India + + + +Author + +Broad, Gavin R. +Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, UK; + + + +Author + +Gracy, R. G. +0000-0002-6764-5167 +ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India + + + +Author + +Sushil, S. N. +0000-0002-5718-1629 +ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India + +text + + +Zootaxa + + +2024 + +2024-09-09 + + +5506 + + +3 + + +402 +427 + + + + +http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5506.3.6 + +journal article +10.11646/zootaxa.5506.3.6 +1175-5326 +13747250 +DBA3F333-4FD9-4E87-9E21-54974E9E0BA4 + + + + + + +Genus + +Sycosoter +Picard & Lichtenstein, 1917 + + + + + + + + + + +Sycosoter +Picard & Lichtenstein, 1917: 285 + + +; + + +Gebiola +et al. +2015: 607 + + +(restoration from synonymy); + +Yu +et al. +2016 + +; + +Belokobylskij & Lin 2020: 24 + +. + + + + + + +Type +species. + + +Sycosoter lavagnei +Picard & Lichtenstein, 1917 + +. + + + + + +Hosts. +Coleoptera + +: +Bostrichidae +, +Curculionidae +( +Scolytinae +). + + + + +Distribution. +Australasian, Oriental and Palaearctic Regions. + + + + \ No newline at end of file