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
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Hockeria manii
Narendran, 1989
(
Figures 39, 40
)
Hockeria manii
Narendran, 1989
Material examined
INDIA
:
Goa
,
Dharbandora
,
Mollem National Park
,
9 February 2019
,
2 females
,
yellow pan trap
, coll
.
Sandesh Gawas
;
Ambedem
,
12 March 2019
,
2 females
,
yellow pan trap
, coll
.
Sandesh Gawas
;
20 June 2019
,
2 females
,
yellow pan trap
, coll
.
Sandesh Gawas
;
9 February 2019
,
4 females
,
yellow pan trap
, coll
.
Sandesh Gawas
;
Honda
,
3 September 2019
,
1 female
,
yellow pan trap
, coll
.
Sandesh Gawas
.
Description
Female, length of the body 2.5–
3 mm
.
Colour.
Body largely black with following pale brown: scape, pedicel, tegulae, fore tarsi, mid-leg except for coxa, hind tarsi, apex and base of the hind femur, hind tibia dorsally.
Head.
Triangular, wider than long. Scrobe shallow and not reaching anterior ocellus. Scape 8× as long as broad. Antennae long and slender. POL 5× OOL.
Mesosoma
.
Pronotum, mesoscutum and scutellum densely punctate with interstices narrower than the distance between punctures. Scutellum emarginate with weak lobes. Fore wing with 2 brown infuscations and a hyaline spot in between. Post-marginal vein shorter than marginal and stigmal vein.
Metasoma.
Metasoma longer than mesosoma. T1 with 3 basal carinae.
Distribution
INDIA
.
Goa
(new record),
Kerala
(
Emiliyamma 2016
)
.