Discovery of the chelonine tribeAdeliini Viereck, 1918 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from the Indian subcontinent with the description of a new genus from south India Author Ranjith, A. P. Insect Ecology and Ethology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Calicut, Kerala, Pin: 673635, India Author Achterberg, C. Van 0000-0002-6495-4853 Department of Terrestrial Zoology, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, the Netherlands kees @ vanachterberg. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6495 - 4853 kees@vanachterberg.org Author Samartsev, K. G. 0000-0002-9920-7583 Laboratory of Experimental Entomology, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1 Universitetskaya naberezhnaya, Saint Petersburg 199034, Russia. k. samartsev @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9920 - 7583 k.samartsev@gmail.com Author Nasser, M. 0000-0002-6460-1839 Insect Ecology and Ethology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Calicut, Kerala, Pin: 673635, India & drnasher @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6460 - 1839 drnasher@gmail.com text Zootaxa 2021 2021-02-04 4926 1 1 25 journal article 8321 10.11646/zootaxa.4926.1.1 42f6270b-393f-491a-aa48-78f60f28eeec 1175-5326 4500470 F151B4E4-26FD-42CE-9F4D-0D8931AAF93F Paradelius de Saeger, 1942 Figs 12–14 Type species : Paradelius ghesquierei de Saeger, 1942 . FIGURE 12. Paradelius ghesquierei de Saeger, 1942 , holotype, female A) Fore and hind wing, B) Mesosoma and propodeum, dorsal view, C) Head, dorsal view, D) Hind leg, E) Apical hind tarsomeres, F) Labial and maxillary palps, G) Metasomal tergites 1–3, dorsal view, H) Habitus, lateral view, I) Head, anterior view. Diagnosis . Antenna of female slender submedially, with 20 antennomeres; maxillary palp with 3–5 segments ( Figs 12F , 13B & E ) ( 3 in type species); clypeus almost as wide as face ( Figs 12I , 13B ); eyes short setose ( Figs 12I , 13B ); prepectal carina present ( Fig. 12H ); vein 1-SR of fore wing absent ( Figs 12A , 14C ); dorsal areola of propodeum wide ( Figs 12B , 13F ); first and second metasomal tergites largely longitudinally sculptured ( Figs 12G , 13F , 14B ); first and second metasomal sutures distinct and crenulate ( Fig. 12G ). Distribution . Afrotropical, East Palaearctic, Oriental. Included species . Paradelius chinensis He & Chen, 2000 , P. ghesquierei de Saeger, 1942 , P. ussuriensis Belokobylskij, 1988 .