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 text Zootaxa 2024 2024-09-18 5512 1 35 52 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5512.1.3 journal article 303896 10.11646/zootaxa.5512.1.3 969f245c-f0da-4acf-b367-1624c77535c7 1175-5326 13848409 DCD7BAA2-43BE-4EDB-92A2-EF33C50A68D6 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 ).