A revision of the Indian species of Oligosita Walker (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae)
Author
Begum, Salma
Author
Anis, Shoeba Binte
Author
Khan, Mohd Talib
text
Zootaxa
2015
3973
3
401
424
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3973.3.1
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6.
Oligosita gilvus
Yousuf & Shafee
(
Figs 19, 20
)
Oligosita gilvus
Yousuf & Shafee, 1984
: 17
–18,
Holotype
, ♀,
India
, Uttar Pradesh, Bulandshahr (ZDAMU, examined).
Oligosita gilvus
Yousuf & Shafee: Yousuf & Shafee, 1988
: 145, 152, ♀, ♂, key, figures, Aligarh record.
Hayat, 2008
: 10
, 13, ♀, figures, key, taxonomy.
Begum & Anis, 2013
: 45
, list. Begum & Anis, 2014: 9, checklist.
Redescription.
Female
. Length,
0.68 mm
. Body pale yellow; eye dark. Antenna yellow. Mandible with tip golden yellow. Mesosoma with pronotum brown; mesoscutum, scutellum, metanotum pale yellow. Fore wing hyaline, with slight infuscation beneath stigmal and parastigmal veins. Legs with hind femora brown; last tarsal segment brown. Gaster yellow.
Head with transversely elongated reticulation on occipital area; eye height 1.81× as long as malar space (29:16). Mandible tridentate. Antenna (
Fig. 19
) with scape 2.90× as long as broad (32:11); funicle 1.3−1.5× as long as broad; clava about 2.6× as long as broad (34:13); apical segment of clava with rod-like structure.
Mesosoma. Mesoscutum with scale-like reticulation; mid lobe of mesoscutum 1.1× as broad as long (44:40); scutellum 1.9× as broad as long (40:21); propodeum 3× as long as metanotum (15:5); mesophragma extending up to TII of gaster. Fore wing (
Fig. 20
) 3.24× as long as broad (240:74); marginal fringe short, 0.60× wing width (45:74); hind wing 20× as long as broad (180:9); marginal fringe 5.22× as long as wing width (47:9).
Metasoma. Gaster 1.6× as long as broad (144:90); ovipositor 1.64× as long as hind tibia (128: 78) and 1.88× as long as mid tibia (128:68), originating from TII of gaster.
Male
. Unknown.
Type
material examined
.
Holotype
, ♀ (on 2 slides), labelled “89A
Oligosita gilvus
M. Yousuf Bulandshahr
10.x.1983
”, and a small ticket with ‘Holotype’ written in red ink (
ZDAMU
, HYM.
CH
.256).
Additional material examined
.
INDIA
:
ASSAM
: Kamrup, Boodapahar, 1 ♀,
30.i.2008
, coll. F. R. Khan (
ZDAMU
).
Distribution
.
India
: Assam; Uttar Pradesh.
Comments
. The original description of this species was based on a single female. The
holotype
is on two slides, one slide with one antenna, one fore wing and one hind wing under a large coverslip, and the rest of the body on another slide under a small coverslip. See key to species for characters differentiating it from other species.