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
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10.1080/00222933.2024.2315671
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Antrocephalus ryukyuensis
Habu, 1966
(
Figures 15, 16
)
Brachymeria
(
Matsumurameria
)
rykuensis
Habu, 1963
Material examined
INDIA
:
Goa
,
Sattari
,
Ambedem
,
21 November 2019
,
1 female
,
yellow pan trap
, coll
. Sandesh Gawas
.
Description
Female, length of the body
4 mm
.
Colour.
Body black with following parts rufous: pedicel, F1 and F2, tegulae, fore leg except for coxa, mid and hindleg. Fore wing with a yellowish-brown spot under marginal vein.
Head.
Wider than high in frontal view. Scrobe deep, striate and reaching anterior ocellus. Antennae long and slender. Genotemporal furrow shallow. POL 5× OOL.
Mesosoma
.
Pronotum, mesoscutum and scutellum densely punctate with interstices narrower than puncture diameters. Scutellum weakly emarginate at apex. Post-marginal vein longer than marginal and stigmal vein.
Metasoma.
Metasoma equal to mesosoma. T1 smooth and shiny with a pair of basal carinae.
Distribution
INDIA
.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
, Goa (new record), Kerala, Tripura (
Gupta and Joshi 2013
)
.