New braconid species of the Euphorinae genus Syntretus Foerster and a first report of the Alysiinae genus Heratemis Walker from India
Author
Gupta, Ankita
ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560
Author
Achterberg, Cornelis Van
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, the Netherlands.
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
Author
Ajaykumara, K. M.
Department of Plant Protection, College of Horticulture and Forestry, CAU (Imphal), Pasighat 791102, Arunachal Pradesh, India.
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
snsushil@yahoo.co.uk
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-04-11
5437
1
131
138
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5437.1.10
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5437.1.10
1175-5326
10959228
AC2589D0-7D13-445D-834C-95B1A77F659A
Heratemis
(
Heratemis
)
near
filosa
Walker
(
Figs 6–7
)
Material examined.
Female
on card;
India
:
Arunachal Pradesh
:
West Siang district
:
Aalo
;
Yellow pan trap
;
05.i.2019
; coll.
NBAIR
; code-NIM/
NBAIR
/Hym/Brac/Hera/50119
.
Key characters:
Pedicel pale yellowish as scape; antennomeres 25
th
–28
th
white; eye length 4.4 × as long as temple; third antennomere 0.8 × as long as length of fourth. Scutellum spine straight; spine of scutellum in dorsal view 1.6 × as long as median carina of scutellar sulcus. Pterostigma more or less elliptical. Tarsal claws slender, longer than arolium (
Figs 7D, 7E
). First tergite 1.2 × as long as its apical width. Ovipositor sheath 0.8 × as long as hind tibia.
Comments.
This species is very close to
H. filosa
; however, more specimens need to be collected and examined to ascertain that the main difference (stout first tergite) is not just clinal variation. In
H. filosa
it is known to vary at least 20% (1.5–1.8 ×); colour is variable, so preferably some structural differences in several specimens can confirm the status of the species.