Parasitoids of Hesperiidae from peninsular India with description of a new species of Dolichogenidea (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) parasitic on caterpillar of Borbo cinnara (Wallace) (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)
Author
Gupta, Ankita
Author
Lokhande, Swapnil A.
Author
Soman, Abhay
text
Zootaxa
2013
3701
2
277
290
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3701.2.8
9a113815-f9cf-4110-a4ce-652e03246ce9
1175-5326
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Ichneumonid wasp
Leptobatopsis indica
(
Cameron
, 1897)
from Andaman Islands
(
Fig. 20
)
During the recent surveys of the Andaman &
Nicobar islands
undertaken in the month of February-March, 2012, the ichneumonid wasp
L. indica
(
Ichneumonidae
: Banchinae), a known parasitoid of
Parnara guttatus
(Bremer & Grey)
(
Lepidoptera
:
Hesperiidae
) (Yu, 2012), was collected from malaise traps and yellow pan traps.
FIGURES 10–13. 10.
Parasitized caterpillar of
Borbo cinnara
(Wallace)
with
D. cinnarae
sp. nov.
cocoons.
11.
Healthy caterpillar of
B. cinnara
.
12.
Dorsal view of
B. cinnara
adult with upper side of fore wing.
13.
Lateral view of
B. cinnara
adult with underside of fore wing.
FIGURES 14–16. 14.
Cotesia erionotae
(Wilkinson)
, female in profile view.
5.
Infected caterpillar of
Udaspes folus
(Cramer)
.
16.
Adult butterfly of
U. folus
.
FIGURES 17–19. 17.
Cocoon of
Charops plautus
Gupta & Maheshwary
along with carcass of
U. folus
caterpillar.
18.
Frontal view of head of
C. plautus
.
19.
Profile view of female of
C. plautus
.
Brief diagnosis
: Head shining; frons punctate; tip of mandible black; maxillary and labial palp white; antenna white ventrally, apically brown. Mesosoma black except prothorax in front, sides of mesonotum at base, tegula, scutellum, mark on apex of the metapleuron over coxa white. Scutellum impunctate.
Hind
coxa, trochanter and basal half of femur red; apex of hind femur, tibia and tarsus black except white basitarsus. Apex of fore wing infuscated. Petiole white on basal half; base of second tergite and apex narrowly white; base and apex of third and fourth tergite broadly white; metasoma ventrally white in major portion.
Specimens examined
: Two females, Port Blair, Sippighat, Andamans,
India
; N11
o 36.566
E092 0
.40,
08.iii.2012
, Malaise traps, coll. Ankita Gupta; NBAII/Ichneu/Banch/Lepto/indi/08312. Three females. Port Blair, Central Agricultural Research Institute, Andamans,
India
; N11
o
36.56
E0920.67,
10.iii.2012
, yellow pan traps, coll. Ankita Gupta; NBAII. NBAII/Ichneu/Banch/Lepto/indi/10312. All specimens deposited in NBAII.