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
10.1080/00222933.2024.2315671
1464-5262
11059701
Antrocephalus decipiens
(Masi, 1929)
(
Figures 3, 4
)
Haltichella decipiens
Masi, 1929
Figure 1–6.
Habitus: 1–2,
Antrocephalus cariniaspis
; 3–4,
Antrocephalus decipiens
; 5–6,
Antrocephalus dividens
.
Material examined
INDIA
:
Goa
,
Sattari
,
Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary
,
15 May 2019
,
2 females
,
sweep net
, coll
. Sandesh Gawas
.
Description
Female, length of the body 4–4.2 mm.
Colour.
Body black with following parts reddish or brownish: scape, pedicel, F1, tegulae, fore and mid-leg except for coxae, hind femur at base and apex, hind tibia dorsally, hind tarsi. Fore wing with two dark brown infuscations.
Head.
Wider than high in frontal view. Scrobe deep, striate and reaching anterior ocellus. Antennae long and slender. POL 6× OOL.
Mesosoma
.
Pronotum, mesoscutum and scutellum densely punctate with interstices narrower than puncture diameters. The apex of scutellum emarginate and bilobed. Post-marginal vein equal to the marginal vein. Hind coxa with a dorsal tooth.
Metasoma.
Metasoma longer than mesosoma. T1 smooth and shiny with a pair of short carinae, carinae as long as the distance between them.
Distribution
Goa (new record),
Kerala
,
Tamil Nadu
(
Sheela
et al
. 2003
;
Stanley
et al
. 2009
;
Emiliyamma 2016
).