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<paragraph id="FDF438A52B23BC0E57EBB8201DA9F067" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chalcididae</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="53AAF581AADF8E1D4B4962B6B3285EAA" ID-CoL="MXDR" authority="Cameron, 1897" authorityName="Cameron" authorityYear="1897" class="Insecta" family="Chalcididae" genus="Brachymeria" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Brachymeria bengalensis" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bengalensis">Brachymeria bengalensis (Cameron, 1897)</taxonomicName>
Figs 29-30
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<paragraph id="9F452E8CE2EDCFD2D90252CBFE0DDE97" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">
<taxonomicName id="ECB6F5881FEC6C045938F2CA13497F57" class="Insecta" family="Chalcididae" genus="Chalcis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Chalcis bengalensis" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bengalensis">Chalcis bengalensis</taxonomicName>
Cameron, 1897: 39 (♀, India (BMNH) (examined)).
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<paragraph id="14B8735B05F7EB7C1F00598EB2E3B58D" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">
<taxonomicName id="507E757F04F2C4A5E2D297B3EB8ADD59" class="Insecta" family="Chalcididae" genus="Brachymeria" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Brachymeria bengalensis" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bengalensis">Brachymeria bengalensis</taxonomicName>
;
<bibRefCitation id="14F0DD5D0C63AF49F49A147540C43236" author="Mani, MS" journalOrPublisher="Delhi" pageId="146" pageNumber="147" title="Catalogue of Indian insects - Part 23 - Chalcidoidea" year="1938">Mani 1938</bibRefCitation>
: 54;
<bibRefCitation id="CC882C6C81E9883381A4B48534FCA095" author="Narendran, TC" journalOrPublisher="Department of Zoology, University of Calicut, Kerala" pageId="147" pageNumber="148" pagination="1 - 441" title="Oriental Chalcididae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea)." volumeTitle="Zoological Monograph" year="1989">Narendran 1989</bibRefCitation>
: 243, 261.
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<taxonomicName id="5C6F37D8E9DE59D7443AE5E611B01FDF" class="Insecta" family="Chalcididae" genus="Brachymeria" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Brachymeria yasumatsui" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yasumatsui">Brachymeria yasumatsui</taxonomicName>
Habu, 1963 (holotype ♀, Japan (KYUN); (synonymised with
<taxonomicName id="B46B501A0B856CA81F50A6A39502987B" class="Insecta" family="Chalcididae" genus="Brachymeria" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Brachymeria bengalense" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bengalense">Brachymeria bengalense</taxonomicName>
(Cameron) by Joseph, Narendran &amp; Joy, 1973)).
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<paragraph id="F197D91593CD44A29EB36F8F4D71635D" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">
<taxonomicName id="526AFE1BE9D711991E58733F20DF09B3" class="Insecta" family="Chalcididae" genus="Brachymeria" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Brachymeria scrobatae" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="scrobatae">Brachymeria scrobatae</taxonomicName>
Joseph, Narendran &amp; Joy, 1970: 286-289 (♀, holotype, India (DZUC); synonymised with
<taxonomicName id="86488EBC002971DE1D27ABF6C3D543F7" class="Insecta" family="Chalcididae" genus="Brachymeria" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Brachymeria bengalense" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bengalense">Brachymeria bengalense</taxonomicName>
(Cameron) by Joseph, Narendran &amp; Joy, 1973).
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<paragraph id="09B0ADBB1EB36AFC8DA1583EA7D041B9" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">
<taxonomicName id="410F55AFD1D9F53F37BDC72368AC9E63" genus="Stypura" lsidName="Stypura variabilis" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" rank="species" species="variabilis">Stypura variabilis</taxonomicName>
Mani, 1935: 250 (♀, lectotype (NZSI) (designated and synonymised with
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(Cameron) by
<bibRefCitation id="77FEE349AF1A85D65805488851FC0812" author="Narendran, TC" editor="Subba Rao, BR" journalOrPublisher="Entomon" pageId="147" pageNumber="148" title="Oriental Insects 20: 11 - 41" url="10.1080/00305316.1986.10433716" year="1986">Narendran 1986</bibRefCitation>
).
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<paragraph id="63ACFC1DA127B4F0F62D20B0420659CC" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Material.</paragraph>
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1 ♀ + 1 ♂ (RMNH, IEBR), &quot;Vietnam: Ninh
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,
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<normalizedToken id="D6FD40DC78471DC8504B75D43897C6BC" originalValue="Chúa">Chua</normalizedToken>
N. P., northeast part, Malaise traps, 90-150 m., 23-30.v.2007, C. v. Achterberg &amp; R. de Vries,
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; 1 ♂ (RMNH), &quot;S. Vietnam:
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Nai,
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N. P., c 100 m, 13-20.v.2007, Botanical Garden, Mal[aise] traps 14-19, C. v. Achterberg &amp; R. de Vries,
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; 3 ♀ (BPBM), &quot;Vietnam, 8.xii.1960, C.M. Yoshimoto&quot;.
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<paragraph id="5C1F522CD225083AFCE3927B13394711" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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This species comes near
<taxonomicName id="E6AC158BE027D11E8ECB49E78BAB9E7C" class="Insecta" family="Chalcididae" genus="Brachymeria" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Brachymeria deesensis" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="deesensis">Brachymeria deesensis</taxonomicName>
(Cameron, 1905) in the key to species by
<bibRefCitation id="2DC0CDF2379F8D8A0D804BDC2C2AF734" author="Narendran, TC" journalOrPublisher="Department of Zoology, University of Calicut, Kerala" pageId="147" pageNumber="148" pagination="1 - 441" title="Oriental Chalcididae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea)." volumeTitle="Zoological Monograph" year="1989">Narendran (1989)</bibRefCitation>
but differs in having the hind femur reddish or orange brown (often with dark patches) with the apex yellow whereas in
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the hind femur is black with the apex yellow. The shape of the apical emargination of the scutellum is also a little different in both species. It is possible that
<taxonomicName id="DC725DD57996D17113EFB55333D7C675" class="Insecta" family="Chalcididae" genus="Brachymeria" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Brachymeria deesensis" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="deesensis">Brachymeria deesensis</taxonomicName>
Cameron will become a form of
<taxonomicName id="456BB2056C22B5EC7BCB62B0A991AC64" class="Insecta" family="Chalcididae" genus="Brachymeria" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Brachymeria bengalensis" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bengalensis">Brachymeria bengalensis</taxonomicName>
when it is better known.
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<paragraph id="A9F895CC71AF71E20EA8F933B7D0F93D" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="7113DE0599A76F04AF212201FC2691F9" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">♀, length of body 4.5-4.6 mm.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="A053DCF75652BF214E9EAF466E64F84C" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Colour. Black with following parts as follows: tegula yellowish brown; distal half of fore femur, fore tibia and fore tarsus, distal margin of mid femur, mid tibia and mid tarsus yellow or pale yellow. Coxae black or blackish brown, occasionally reddish brown or blackish red; hind trochanter reddish brown or blackish brown; hind femur red or brownish red with apex yellow and ventral row of teeth black; hind tibia yellow with base black or reddish brown which extends to distal end along ventral margin with a slightly increased width in middle part; tarsi pale yellow or whitish yellow with telotarsi black; metasoma black with lateral part reddish or brownish. Wings hyaline with veins dark brown; pubescence silvery.</paragraph>
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Head. Width of head in anterior view a little wider than its height; wider than mesosoma in dorsal view; surface distinctly and shallowly pitted, interstices carinate; scrobe reaching anterior ocellus, smooth and shiny; POL 3.3
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OOL; width of ocellar area three-fourths as wide as interocular space; interocellar space twice as wide as major axis of hind ocellus; face with pre-orbital carina absent; post-orbital carina present connecting geno-temporal margin and malar ridge; height of malar space 0.09-0.25
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height of eye in profile. Antenna not longer than mesosoma; scape not exceeding anterior ocellus; as long as F1, F2 and F3 combined; F1 a little wider than long or hardly a little wider than long; F1 to F5 almost equal in length; F6 and F7 equal in length and each slightly shorter than F5; clava a little less than twice length of F7.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="DFD268ADC00F7668E3B4D55D197542E3" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Mesosoma. Mesosoma compactly pitted dorsally, interstices narrow and somewhat carinate, shagreened throughout; scutellum apex explanate and reflexed, distinctly emarginated and bi-lobed, with dense pubescence; propodeum with an obtuse, rather distinct tooth behind spiracle on either side.</paragraph>
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Wings. Fore wing 2.5
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longer than wide; relative lengths of fore wing veins: SMV = 37; MV = 21; PMV = 8.
</paragraph>
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Legs. Hind coxa pubescent on ventral side, without an inner ventro-mesal tooth; hind femur 1. 8
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longer than wide, outer side finely punctate, not reticulate, with dense relatively short pubescence, inner side without a protuberance or tooth at base, outer ventral margin with a row of 11 to 12 black differently sized teeth.
</paragraph>
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Metasoma. Metasoma a little shorter than pronotum, mesoscutum and scutellum combined, high in profile, widest a little before middle, abruptly declined posteriorly;
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1 smooth, T2 with dense small pits with large setigerous pits at dorso-basal, latero-dorsal and dorso-lateral areas; T6 with close pits, interstices carinate and shagreened. Ovipositor sheath visible in dorsal view.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="591DE9C5DBCDFA086A89C68A8C7C315B" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Male. Resembles female in almost all features except width of head equal to mesosoma and antenna slightly stouter.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8E9AFB5D4716505F8EFD060E6414B3D3" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Hosts.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="B4D9D2447989231569F107481126AE77" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">
<taxonomicName id="D998F33905A2578C0AEBD4886FFB7137" class="Insecta" family="Pieridae" genus="Pieris" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pieris brassicae" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="27" pageNumber="28" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="brassicae">Pieris brassicae</taxonomicName>
(Linnaeus) (
<taxonomicName id="29C70169B61F00036EBAFBE77AABB0C8" lsidName="Chalcidoidea" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="27" pageNumber="28" rank="order">Lepidoptera</taxonomicName>
:
<taxonomicName id="EAEE6682B0BBF0C244691E510CF8ABE1" family="Pieridae" lsidName="" pageId="27" pageNumber="28" rank="family">Pieridae</taxonomicName>
) (
<bibRefCitation id="B2000B075D00718E435FFE6DAD06232C" author="Devi, HS" journalOrPublisher="Uttar Pradesh Journal of Zoology" pageId="143" pageNumber="144" pagination="191 - 196" title="Larval population trend of Pierisbrassicae Linn. (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) and its associated natural enemies on Brassicaepekinensis (Hubn.)." volume="22" year="2002">Devi and Singh 2002</bibRefCitation>
),
<taxonomicName id="2C42948CDC8319498A4DA6A46292DBB2" genus="Erias" lsidName="Erias vitella" pageId="27" pageNumber="28" rank="species" species="vitella">Erias vitella</taxonomicName>
Fabricius (
<taxonomicName id="560B6C2253E20F885119107908F126E7" lsidName="Chalcidoidea" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="27" pageNumber="28" rank="order">Lepidoptera</taxonomicName>
:
<taxonomicName id="B3B3350E2FFF294CDF11AED1270955D4" family="Noctuidae" lsidName="" pageId="27" pageNumber="28" rank="family">Noctuidae</taxonomicName>
) (
<bibRefCitation id="2B5809E8EAB96960C9EEBDFEEBCAF183" author="Narendran, TC" journalOrPublisher="Department of Zoology, University of Calicut, Kerala" pageId="147" pageNumber="148" pagination="1 - 441" title="Oriental Chalcididae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea)." volumeTitle="Zoological Monograph" year="1989">Narendran 1989</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="B2C81FA9C8CB1CB7E2FB5238800CDE33" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="7CEF54AE6DE547AD913305CF98D83986" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">
India, Malaya, Indonesia, New Guinea, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Japan (including Ryukyu Islands), China (Taiwan) and Philippines (Joseph, Narendran &amp; Joy 1973;
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).
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="29998384548B90B0CB323B5D191DAC85" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Variation.</paragraph>
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The hind femur often has a black patch on outer disc and in some specimens a weak carina is found produced from ventral scrobal margin as in
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Joseph, Narendran &amp; Joy.
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