Taxonomic studies on chalcid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Chalcididae) of Goa, India, with an illustrated key to genera and species
Author
Gawas, Sandesh M.
School of Sciences (SoS), Jain University, Bangalore, India;
Author
Gupta, Ankita
Division of Germplasm Collection and Characterisation, ICAR - National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru, India
text
Journal of Natural History
2024
2024-03-22
58
9 - 12
342
381
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2315671
journal article
10.1080/00222933.2024.2315671
1464-5262
11059701
Haltichella clavicornis
(Ashmead, 1904)
(
Figures 41, 42
)
Haltichella clavicornis
(Ashmead, 1904)
Haltichella macroclava
Roy and Farooqi, 1984
Stomatoceras clavicornis
Ashmead, 1904
Figure 37–42.
Habitus: 37–38,
Hockeria argentigera
; 39–40,
Hockeria manii
; 41–42,
Haltichella clavicornis
.
Material examined
INDIA
:
Goa
,
Sattari
,
Ambedem
,
16 April 2019
,
1 female
,
yellow pan trap
, coll
.
Sandesh Gawas
;
7 January 2019
,
1 female
,
yellow pan trap
, coll
.
Sandesh Gawas
.
Description
Female, length of the body 3–3.2 mm.
Colour.
Body black with following rufous: scape, pedicel, F1–F4, tegulae, fore and mid-leg except for coxae, hind femur and tarsi, hind tibia except for interior carinae.
Head.
Triangular, wider than high in frontal view. Scrobe deep with striae. Antennae strongly clavate. POL 5× OOL.
Mesosoma
.
Pronotum, mesoscutum and scutellum densely punctate with interstices carinate. Scutellum bidentate and with median longitudinal fovea.
Metasoma.
T1 large occupying four-fifths length of metasoma in dorsal view, T1 with 3 or more basal carinae.
Distribution
INDIA
.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
,
Goa
(new record),
Kerala
,
Rajasthan
,
Tamil Nadu
,
Uttar Pradesh
,
West Bengal
(
Gowriprakash
et al
. 2018
)
.