Review of the subtribe Spinariina van Achterberg (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Rogadinae) from India with description of one 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 Achterberg, Cornelis Van Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, the Netherlands Author Reddy, P. Maheshwara 0000-0002-8337-7094 pasammaheswarareddy@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 & 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 2024-01-15 5399 4 347 364 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5399.4.3 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5399.4.3 1175-5326 10517038 7C4361B9-627B-4CED-B6AF-124DF18A1D10 Spinaria indica Gupta & van Achterberg , sp. nov. ( Figs 1–4 ) Type material. Holotype . Female on card (antennae partially broken and hind legs missing); India : Nagaland : Medziphema ; handpicked from fruit of Litchi chinensis Sonn. ; 12.vi.2023 ; coll. P. Maheshwara Reddy ; code— NIM/ NBAIR / Hym / Brac / Spin /120623-H (NIM). Partaype- one male on card; same data as holotype; code—NIM/ NBAIR /Hym/Brac/Spin/80723-P1 (NIM). Female ( holotype ). Body length of body 12.8 mm , of fore wing 12.4 mm , ovipositor 0.7 mm . Head.—Length of scapus 1.4 × as long as its maximum width ( Fig. 2A ), 1.9 × as long as third antennomere; third and fourth antennomeres almost subequal in length; diameter of lateral ocellus (OD) 1.1 × as long as POL and about 0.7 × as long as OOL; diameter of antennal sockets about twice distance between them and 1.9 × as long as distance from socket to eye margin; distance between tentorial pits 1.6 × as long as distance from pit to eye margin; malar space 0.4 × as long as height of eye and about equal to basal width of mandible; width of face 1.2 × as long as height of eye and 1.3 × as long as height of face and clypeus combined. FIGURE 2. Spinaria indica sp. nov. Female (holotype).A. Head in frontal aspect, B. Head in dorsal aspect, C. Last three tergites in dorsal view, D. Wings, E. Head and mesosoma in dorsal aspect, F. Head in lateral aspect and mesopleuron, G. Metasoma in dorsal aspect, H. Metasoma in lateral aspect. FIGURE 3. Spinaria indica sp. nov. Male (paratype) in lateral aspect. FIGURE 4. Spinaria indica sp. nov. Male (paratype). A. Head in dorsal aspect, B. Mesosoma and metasoma in dorsal aspect. Mesosoma.—Spine on pronotum robust and strongly curved ( Fig. 2F ); notaulus deep anteriorly, wide and shallow posteriorly; scutellar sulcus about 0.74 × as long as length of scutellum; mesopleuron polished and smooth; propodeum with median carina in majority, baso-lateral areas of propodeum smooth and its apical half rugose ( Fig. 2E ). Wings.—Fore wing: vein 2-SR 2.5 × as long as vein r, 0.7 × as long as 3-SR and about 0.4 × as long as SR1; vein r-m almost straight ( Fig. 2D ); vein cu-a about 1.9 × as long as 1-CU1. Hind wing with vein 2-SC+ R as long as wide; vein M+CU subequal to vein 1-M. Metasoma.—Dorsal face of first tergite 0.6 × as long as its apical width and 1.2 × as long as second tergite ( Fig. 2G ); first tergite with a median carina dorsally; first–third tergites with dense rugosity and coarse granulation; length of ovipositor sheath 0.7 mm in length. Colour.—Yellow; antenna blackish brown, but scape and pedicel yellowish brown; ocelli with brownish black margins; fore and middle telotarsus dark brown; hind leg of male entirely black except for light brown trochantellus; parastigma, and veins 1-SR and 1-SR+M basally, black; apical third of wing membrane dark brown (marginal cell, second and third submarginal cells fully infuscated or nearly so); propodeum with lateral and apical margin brown; large round median patch on first and second tergites dark brown, dark patch on second tergite narrowed posteriorly, first and second tergite whitish yellow laterally; third and fourth tergites black; fifth tergite white ( Fig. 2C ). Male ( paratype ( Figs 3 , 4 ). Body length of body 14.4 mm , of fore wing 11.2 mm . Head.—Length of scapus 1.2 × as long as its maximum width, 1.2 × as long as third antennomere; third and fourth antennomeres almost subequal in length; diameter of lateral ocellus (OD) 3.5 × as long as POL, lateral ocelli touching the eye margins; diameter of antennal sockets about 1.4 × as long as distance between them and 5.7 × as long as distance from socket to non-indented eye margin and 1.9 × as long as distance from socket to indented eye margin; distance between tentorial pits 2.1 × as long as distance from pit to eye margin; malar space 0.2 × as long as height of eye and 1.5 × as long to basal width of mandible; width of face (at indented eye margin) 0.8 × as long as height of eye and 0.7 × as long as height of face and clypeus combined. FIGURE 5. Spinaria westwoodi Cameron. Male in dorsal aspect. FIGURE 6. Spinaria westwoodi . A. Head in frontal aspect, B. Head in dorsal aspect, C. Legs in focus, D. Mesosoma in dorsal aspect, E. Wings, F. Metasoma in dorsal aspect, G. Body in lateral aspect. Mesosoma.—Spine on pronotum robust and gently curved apically; notaulus deep; mesopleuron polished and smooth; propodeum with median carina in basal one-third, large median areola in posterior two third and irregular coarse rugosity. Wings.—Fore wing: vein 2-SR 2.0 × as long as vein r, 0.7 × as long as 3-SR and about 0.5 × as long as SR1; vein r-m almost slightly bent. Hind wing with vein M+CU 0.9 × as long as 1-M. Metasoma.—Dorsal face of first tergite 0.6 × as long as its apical width and 1.2 × as long as second tergite; first tergite with a median carina dorsally; first–fourth tergites with coarse longitudinal striations. Hind legs.—Hind femur 5.0 × as long as its maximum width ( Fig. 3 ); hind tibia 1.1 × as long as hind femur and as long as hind tarsus; hind basitarsus 0.4 × as long as hind tarsus; second hind tarsal segment 0.47 × as long as basitarsus; fourth tarsal segment 0.5 × as long as hind telotarsus. FIGURE 7. Batotheca nigriceps (Cameron) - Female in dorsal aspect. FIGURE 8. Batotheca nigriceps - Female in lateral aspect. Colour.—Eyes large and bulbous, brownish black. Antenna blackish brown, but scape and pedicel yellowish brown. Lateral ocelli almost touching eye margins (in dorsal view); ocelli yellowish brown, inter-ocellar region blackish brown; mesosoma yellowish brown, propodeum with dark brown tubercles and lateral dark brown patch; wings colouration similar to female; first and second tergite dark brownish black (darker region wider when compared to that of female) with thin whitish yellow lateral margin; third and fourth tergites black; fifth tergite white. Comments. Spinaria indica differs from S. vietnamica in having diameter of antennal sockets about twice as long as distance between them ( vs 1.4 × in S. vietnamica ); malar space nearly as long as basal width of mandible ( vs 0.4 × in S. vietnamica ), vein cu-a of fore wing about 1.9 × 1-CU1 ( vs 2.3–2.5 × in S. vietnamica ); ovipositor sheath 0.7 mm ( vs 1.2 mm in S. vietnamica ); marginal cell, second and third submarginal cells fully infuscated ( vs basal half of marginal cell and second submarginal cell yellowish in S. vietnamica ).