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
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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
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Batotheca nigriceps
(
Cameron, 1897
)
(
Figs 7–11
)
Spinaria nigriceps
Cameron, 1897: 37
.
Batotheca nigriceps
; Shenefelt, 1978: 1459; van Achterberg, 2005: 68-69.
Material
examined.—
One female
and
one male
on card;
India
:
Karnataka
:
Rajankunte
; ex caterpillar feeding
on
Psidium guajava
L.;
30.x.2008
; coll.
NBAIR
; code—NIM/
NBAIR
/Hym/Brac/Bato/301008 (NIM)
.
Brief diagnosis.—Head and propodeum blackish; mesoscutum and scutellum yellowish-brown; fore and middle femora brownish-yellow; hind femur and tibia dark brown or blackish; propodeum with large punctures with some reticulate sculpture; metasoma with a blackish pattern.
Distribution.—
China
,
India
(
Bihar
,
Karnataka
, Kolkata,
Sikkim
),
Sri Lanka
, and
Vietnam
.
Biology. Both
B. nigriceps
specimens were reared from two separate caterpillars feeding on guava leaves which later turned into two solitary brown mummified caterpillars (
Fig. 12
).