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 295778 10.1080/00222933.2024.2315671 54d0fd71-451f-44e8-91a9-411fad681b45 1464-5262 11059701 Brachymeria euploeae (Westwood, 1837) ( Figures 23, 24 ) Chalcis euploeae Westwood, 1837 Brachymeria euploeae Joseph, Narendran and Joy, 1973 Chalcis hearseyi xanthopterus Waterston, 1922 Brachymeria flavotibialis Husain and Agarwal, 1982 Material examined INDIA : Goa , Dharbandora , Mollem National Park , 31 November 2019 , 1 female , yellow pan trap , coll . Sandesh Gawas . Description Similar to B. jambolana but differs in having subglobose metasoma in lateral view (acuminate in B. jambolana ) and ovipositor sheath not visible in dorsal view (visible in B. jambolana ). Distribution INDIA . Andaman and Nicobar Islands , Arunachal Pradesh , Bihar , Goa (new record), Haryana , Jharkhand , Karnataka , Kerala , Madhya Pradesh , Manipur , Odisha , Punjab , Tamil Nadu , Tripura , Uttar Pradesh , Uttarakhand , West Bengal ( Sheela et al . 2015 ; Emiliyamma 2016 ; Gowriprakash et al . 2016 ; Daniel and Ramaraju 2017a , 2017b ).