A taxonomic revision of the genus Yelicones Cameron (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from India with description of two new species
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
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.
rohitppattar5@gmail.com
Author
Hemanth Kumar, H. M.
0000-0003-0176-7396
ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India.
hemanthgowda9752@gmail.com
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.
snsushil@yahoo.co.uk
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-09-18
5512
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35
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5512.1.3
journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.5512.1.3
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Genus
Yelicones
Cameron, 1887
Yelicones
Cameron 1887: 387
;
van Achterberg, 1995: 147
;
Quicke
et al
. 1997
.
Type
species.
Yelicones violaceipennis
Cameron
, designated by
Viereck (1914)
.
Rhopalotoma
Cameron 1911: 318
.
Type
species,
Rhopalotoma crassitarsis
Cameron
, monotypic.
Pectenopius
Fischer 1961: 156
.
Type
species,
Pectenopius paradoxus
Fischer
, original designation.
Diagnosis.
Following
van Achterberg,1995
and
Quicke
et al.
, 1997
, the genus
Yelicones
can be recognized by the following combination of characters—mandibles with a small accessory third tooth; hind wing with vein 2m-cu (
Figs 3B
,
5B, 5C
,
6
,
7D
,
10D
,
11
,
12C
); shortened fore tarsi (
Figs 6
,
7D
,
10A
); second, third and fourth tarsal segments very short, telotarsus enlarged (
Fig. 10D
); hind basitarsus laterally compressed (
Fig. 10D
); claws pectinate; ovipositor not or hardly exserted (
Figs 3A
,
5G
,
10D
).