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
1464-5262
11059701
Epitranus oxytelus
Bouček, 1982
(
Figures 35, 36
)
Epitranus oxytelus
Bouček, 1982
Material examined
INDIA
:
Goa
,
Sattari
,
Ambedem
,
11 March 2019
,
1 female
,
yellow pan trap
, coll
. Sandesh Gawas
.
Description
Female, length of the body 3.4 mm.
Colour.
Body largely black. Scape, pedicel, fore leg and hindleg (except coxae) and hind tarsi yellowish brown. Hind tibia reddish brown dorsally and black ventrally. Hind femur black apical and basal reddish-brown region. Metasoma black dorsally and laterally and yellowish-brown on the ventral and apical region.
Head.
Triangular, wider than high in frontal view. Scrobe flat with striations. Antennae stout with apical half swollen. Scape 5× longer than its width. Clava 2× longer than its basal width.
Mesosoma
.
Pronotum, mesoscutum and scutellum thickly punctate, with interstices narrower than the diameter of punctures. Fore wing without post-marginal vein and stigmal vein.
Metasoma.
Petiolated with longitudinal carinae. Petiole more than 3× long as broad. Petiole shorter than metasoma in length.
Distribution
INDIA
.
Goa
(new record),
Karnataka
,
Kerala
,
Tamil Nadu
(
Emiliyamma 2016
;
Gowriprakash 2019
).