Description of three new species of Encyrtidae Walker (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from India Author Krishnachaitanya, T. Author Manickavasagam, S. text Zootaxa 2016 2016-03-02 4085 2 285 295 journal article 31432 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.2.9 716afd95-102f-4e64-b2ba-b320501eeae6 1175-5326 1052631 43700E6D-A03A-45C0-82ED-01D9C2213DDF Pseudectroma annamalaicus Chaitanya & Manickavasagam sp. nov. ( Figs 1−6 ) Diagnosis. Female body ( Fig. 1 ) yellowish brown; eye in frontal view 1.6× as high as wide; scape slightly flattened, 2.7× as long as wide; pedicel 1.9× as long as wide; F1 smallest funicular, 1.5× as wide as long; F5 1.8× as wide as long; clava 1.7× as long as broad. Fore wing 2.9× as long as wide; costal cell 15.6× as long as wide; hind wing 5.8× as long as wide; legs with all trochanters, femora and tibiae flat; ovipositor 3.6× as long as mid tibia. Female . Holotype . Length, 1.9 mm . Female body yellowish brown; head light brownish yellow; antenna dusky brown except clava basally brown; mesosoma with brown setae; forewing infuscate as in ( Fig. 5 ); gaster with venter yellow, dorsum of TI brown across base and TII–TVI each with a distinct brown cross-band; ovipositor sheath brownish yellow. Head ( Fig. 2 ) in frontal view, 1.1× as wide as high and subprognathous; mandible with two acute teeth; posterior ocellus separated from eye by less than its own diameter; antennal torulus situated below lower margin of eye and 2× as long as wide; eye in frontal view1.6× as high as wide; frontovertex 0.4× head width. Antenna ( Fig. 3 ) with scape slightly flattened, 2.7× as long as wide; pedicel 1.9× as long as wide; funicle segments all transverse, width and length gradually increasing, F1 smallest, 1.5× as wide as long; F5 1.8× as wide as long; clava 1.7× as long as broad; apically more or less round and longer than F1−F5 combined. Relative measurements : (slide mounted @ 400×)—head height:width, 86:99; antennal toruli length:width, 20:10; eye height:width, 37:23; frontovertex width 40; POL 26; OOL 3; OCL 3; AOL 11; scape length:width, 35:13; pedicel length:width, 19:10; funicle length:width, F1, 4:6; F2, 4:7; F3, 4:8; F4, 5:10; F5, 7:13; clava length:width, 35:21. Mesosoma ( Fig. 4 ) imbricate, 1.6× as long as wide; mesoscutum 1.4× as long as wide, with 35−38 setae; each axilla with 7 setae; scutellum as long as wide, with 28−35 setae. Propodeum with 6−8 setae on each side distad spiracles. Fore wing ( Fig. 5 ) 2.6× as long as wide; costal cell 15.6× as long as wide; stigmal vein long, postmarginal vein absent; hind wing 5.8× as long as wide; legs with all trochanters, femora and tibiae flat. Relative measurements : (card mounted @ 80×)—mesosoma length:width, 18:11; mesoscutum length:width, 15:11; scutellum length:width, 10:10; (slide mounted @ 400×)—fore wing length:width, 225:85; costal cell length:width, 78:5; stigmal vein length 15; hind wing length:width, 151:26; (slide mounted @ 100×)—mid tibia length 15; mid basitarsus length 4; mid tibial spur length 3. Metasoma longer than mesosoma (24:18); hypopygium extending to apex of gaster; ovipositor ( Fig. 6 ) originating from about level of posterior margin of TI, and ovipositor 3.6× as long as mid tibia. Relative measurements : (card mounted @ 80×)—gaster length 24; (slide mounted @ 100×)—ovipositor length 55. Material examined . Holotype female (on slide under 5 cover slips) labeled “ INDIA : Tamil Nadu , Chidambaram , Annamalainagar ( N11 23 ; E079 43 ), 18.vii.2014 , Coll. T. Krishnachaitanya & S. Manickavasagam , through yellow pan traps .” ( EDAU , Registration. No. Enc /013/2015). FIGURES 1−3. Pseudectroma annamalaicus sp. nov. , ♀ holotype: 1, lateral habitus; 2, head, frontal view (paratype); 3, antenna (paratype). FIGURES 4−6. Pseudectroma annamalaicus sp. nov. , ♀ holotype: 4, dorsolateral view of nota; 5, fore wing; 6, ovipositor. Paratypes ( 9 females ): 1♀ with same data as holotype (dissected, head and antenna on slide under 2 cover slips, remainder on card); 1♀ with same data as holotype (dissected antenna on slide under 1 cover slip, remainder on card); 7♀ on card, labeled “ INDIA : Tamil Nadu , Vellore (N12 92; E079 13 ), 05.v.2011 , Coll. S. Manickavasagam & A. Rameshkumar , through yellow pan traps ” ( 8 females in EDAU , Registration No. Enc /013/ 2015; 1 female , on card to be deposited in NBAIR ) . Host . Unknown. Male . Unknown. Comments . Females of this species can be easily separated from those of the two other known species, P . samare and P . indicum by the characters given in the key. Etymology . The species epithet is derived after the type locality, Annamalainagar of Chidambaram.