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 10cb3020-9362-45f2-bfb6-f198a1a8e4b7 1175-5326 240122 53D28E52-BE1A-480F-AD7D-6043D0DB9D77 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.