treatments-xml/data/19/16/87/19168793FF89FF94FF5DFC3270780A85.xml
2024-06-21 12:30:30 +02:00

352 lines
53 KiB
XML
Raw Blame History

This file contains ambiguous Unicode characters

This file contains Unicode characters that might be confused with other characters. If you think that this is intentional, you can safely ignore this warning. Use the Escape button to reveal them.

<document ID-DOI="10.1080/00222933.2022.2134059" ID-ISSN="1464-5262" ID-Zenodo-Dep="7340886" checkinTime="1669021260227" checkinUser="plazi" docAuthor="Binoy, C., Nasser, M. &amp; Santhosh, S." docDate="2022" docId="19168793FF89FF94FF5DFC3270780A85" docLanguage="en" docName="JNATHIST.56.41-44.1627-1655.pdf" docOrigin="Journal of Natural History 56 (41 - 44)" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2022.2134059" docStyle="DocumentStyle:3C762F9783B768A90048B82ACD135A62.3:JNatHist.2017-.journal_article.0cover" docStyleId="3C762F9783B768A90048B82ACD135A62" docStyleName="JNatHist.2017-.journal_article.0cover" docStyleVersion="3" docTitle="Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar 2018" docType="treatment" docVersion="1" lastPageNumber="1644" masterDocId="E52FFFEBFF85FF85FFA3FFCA716B0F4D" masterDocTitle="The Western Ghats, a biodiversity hotspot: the example of Chalcididae (Hymenoptera) with the description of a new species of Phasgonophora Westwood and a review of the regional species" masterLastPageNumber="1655" masterPageNumber="1627" pageNumber="1639" updateTime="1669728853454" updateUser="diego" zenodo-license-document="CLOSED">
<mods:mods xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
<mods:titleInfo>
<mods:title>The Western Ghats, a biodiversity hotspot: the example of Chalcididae (Hymenoptera) with the description of a new species of Phasgonophora Westwood and a review of the regional species</mods:title>
</mods:titleInfo>
<mods:name type="personal">
<mods:role>
<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
</mods:role>
<mods:namePart>Binoy, C.</mods:namePart>
</mods:name>
<mods:name type="personal">
<mods:role>
<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
</mods:role>
<mods:namePart>Nasser, M.</mods:namePart>
</mods:name>
<mods:name type="personal">
<mods:role>
<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
</mods:role>
<mods:namePart>Santhosh, S.</mods:namePart>
</mods:name>
<mods:typeOfResource>text</mods:typeOfResource>
<mods:relatedItem type="host">
<mods:titleInfo>
<mods:title>Journal of Natural History</mods:title>
</mods:titleInfo>
<mods:part>
<mods:date>2022</mods:date>
<mods:detail type="pubDate">
<mods:number>2022-11-18</mods:number>
</mods:detail>
<mods:detail type="volume">
<mods:number>56</mods:number>
</mods:detail>
<mods:detail type="issue">
<mods:number>41 - 44</mods:number>
</mods:detail>
<mods:extent unit="page">
<mods:start>1627</mods:start>
<mods:end>1655</mods:end>
</mods:extent>
</mods:part>
</mods:relatedItem>
<mods:location>
<mods:url>http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2022.2134059</mods:url>
</mods:location>
<mods:classification>journal article</mods:classification>
<mods:identifier type="DOI">10.1080/00222933.2022.2134059</mods:identifier>
<mods:identifier type="ISSN">1464-5262</mods:identifier>
<mods:identifier type="Zenodo-Dep">7340886</mods:identifier>
</mods:mods>
<treatment LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:19168793FF89FF94FF5DFC3270780A85" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/19168793FF89FF94FF5DFC3270780A85" lastPageId="17" lastPageNumber="1644" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">
<subSubSection box="[254,1061,1016,1042]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" type="nomenclature">
<paragraph blockId="12.[160,1156,1016,1115]" box="[254,1061,1016,1042]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">
<taxonomicName authority="Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018" authorityName="Sureshan and Girish Kumar" authorityYear="2018" box="[254,1061,1016,1042]" class="Insecta" family="Chalcididae" genus="Megachalcis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kannapuramensis">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[254,1061,1016,1042]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[254,631,1016,1042]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">Megachalcis kannapuramensis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="Sureshan PM &amp; Girish Kumar P &amp; Charesh C" box="[639,1061,1016,1042]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" pagination="180 - 184" refId="ref12554" refString="Sureshan PM, Girish Kumar P, Charesh C. 2018. Description of a new species of Megachalcis Cameron (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Chalcididae) from India with a revised key to species. Halteres. 9: 180 - 184." type="journal article" year="2018">Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018</bibRefCitation>
</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection box="[160,1156,1053,1079]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" type="reference_group">
<paragraph blockId="12.[160,1156,1016,1115]" box="[160,1156,1053,1079]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">
<treatmentCitationGroup box="[160,1156,1053,1079]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">
<taxonomicName authority="Sureshan and Girish Kumar" authorityName="Sureshan and Girish Kumar" box="[160,830,1053,1079]" class="Insecta" family="Chalcididae" genus="Megachalcis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kannapuramensis">
<emphasis box="[160,508,1053,1079]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">Megachalcis kannapuramensis</emphasis>
Sureshan and Girish Kumar
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis box="[835,856,1053,1079]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">in</emphasis>
<treatmentCitation author="Sureshan PM &amp; Girish Kumar P &amp; Charesh C" box="[863,1151,1053,1079]" page="181" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" year="2018">
<bibRefCitation author="Sureshan PM &amp; Girish Kumar P &amp; Charesh C" box="[863,1151,1053,1079]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" pagination="180 - 184" refId="ref12554" refString="Sureshan PM, Girish Kumar P, Charesh C. 2018. Description of a new species of Megachalcis Cameron (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Chalcididae) from India with a revised key to species. Halteres. 9: 180 - 184." type="journal article" year="2018">
Sureshan
<emphasis box="[977,1025,1053,1079]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">et al</emphasis>
. 2018: 181
</bibRefCitation>
</treatmentCitation>
.
</treatmentCitationGroup>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection box="[472,842,1089,1115]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" type="description">
<paragraph blockId="12.[160,1156,1016,1115]" box="[472,842,1089,1115]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">
(
<figureCitation box="[480,630,1089,1115]" captionStart="Figure 8" captionStartId="13.[160,225,878,901]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,844]" captionTargetId="figure-219@13.[163,1153,142,846]" captionTargetPageId="13" captionText="Figure 8. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 holotype ♀. (a) Habitus, lateral view; (b) metasoma (excluding ovipositor sheath), dorsal view; (c) head, frontal view; (d) head and mesosoma, dorsal view; (e) type labels." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340904" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340904/files/figure.png" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">Figures 8ae</figureCitation>
,
<emphasis box="[643,842,1089,1115]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">
<figureCitation box="[643,657,1089,1115]" captionStart="Figure 9" captionStartId="14.[160,225,877,900]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,843]" captionTargetId="figure-253@14.[163,1153,142,845]" captionTargetPageId="14" captionText="Figure 9. Habitus of ♀ Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340906" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340906/files/figure.png" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">9</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation box="[679,751,1089,1115]" captionStart="Figure 10" captionStartId="15.[160,225,1588,1611]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,1554]" captionTargetId="figure-3@15.[163,1153,142,1556]" captionTargetPageId="15" captionText="Figure 10. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 ♀. (a) Head, lateral view; (b) clava,enlarged view; (d) head,frontal view;(e) lower face and clypeus, frontal view; (e) head, dorsal view; (f) mesosoma, dorsal view; (g) mesosoma, lateral view; (h) propodeum." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340910" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340910/files/figure.png" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">10ah</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation box="[764,833,1089,1115]" captionStart="Figure 11" captionStartId="16.[160,225,1587,1610]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,1554]" captionTargetId="figure-3@16.[163,1153,142,1556]" captionTargetPageId="16" captionText="Figure 11. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 ♀. (a) Wings; (b) fore leg; (c) hind leg; (d) hind leg, inner view (arrow indicating inner-basal tooth); (e) metasoma (excluding ovipositor sheath), dorsal view; (f) metasoma, lateral view; (g) metasomal terga (excluding ovipositor sheath) enlarged, lateral view; (h) ovipositor sheath." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340912" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340912/files/figure.png" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">11ah</figureCitation>
)
</emphasis>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" type="materials_examined">
<paragraph blockId="12.[160,1155,1178,1308]" box="[160,324,1178,1204]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,324,1178,1204]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">Type material</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="12.[160,1155,1178,1308]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2018-05-13" collectionCode="ZSIK, ZSI, WGRC" collectorName="C. Charesh &amp; Regd. No." country="India" latitude="11.5835" location="Kannapuram" longLatPrecision="7" longitude="75.1817" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-female="1" stateProvince="Kerala" typeStatus="holotype">
<typeStatus box="[160,263,1214,1239]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">Holotype</typeStatus>
<specimenCount box="[269,289,1214,1237]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" type="female"></specimenCount>
(
<figureCitation box="[302,433,1214,1239]" captionStart="Figure 8" captionStartId="13.[160,225,878,901]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,844]" captionTargetId="figure-219@13.[163,1153,142,846]" captionTargetPageId="13" captionText="Figure 8. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 holotype ♀. (a) Habitus, lateral view; (b) metasoma (excluding ovipositor sheath), dorsal view; (c) head, frontal view; (d) head and mesosoma, dorsal view; (e) type labels." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340904" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340904/files/figure.png" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">Figure 8ae</figureCitation>
),
<collectingCountry box="[451,509,1214,1239]" name="India" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">India</collectingCountry>
:
<collectingRegion box="[518,589,1214,1239]" country="India" name="Kerala" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">Kerala</collectingRegion>
, Kannur district,
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:19168793FF89FF94FF5DFC3270780A85:9460605EFF89FF89FCA0FB7472F90B9A" box="[771,914,1214,1239]" country="India" latitude="11.5835" longLatPrecision="7" longitude="75.1817" name="Kannapuram" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" stateProvince="Kerala">Kannapuram</location>
mangroves (
<geoCoordinate degrees="11.5835" direction="north" orientation="latitude" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" precision="5" value="11.5835">11.5835° N</geoCoordinate>
and
<geoCoordinate box="[233,347,1248,1273]" degrees="75.1817" direction="east" orientation="longitude" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" precision="5" value="75.1817">75.1817°E</geoCoordinate>
),
<date box="[362,507,1248,1273]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" value="2018-05-13">
<collectingDate box="[362,507,1248,1273]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" value="2018-05-13">13 May 2018</collectingDate>
</date>
, coll.
<collectorName box="[568,688,1248,1273]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">C. Charesh</collectorName>
,
<collectionCode box="[698,747,1248,1273]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">ZSIK</collectionCode>
<collectorName box="[753,861,1248,1273]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">Regd. No.</collectorName>
<collectionCode box="[867,902,1248,1273]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">ZSI</collectionCode>
/
<collectionCode box="[909,982,1248,1273]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">WGRC</collectionCode>
/ IR/ INV/ 11417 (examined).
</materialsCitation>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="12.[160,1157,1354,1483]" box="[160,514,1354,1380]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,514,1354,1380]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">Additional material examined</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="12.[160,1157,1354,1483]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2021-03-25" country="India" county="Figures" elevation="110" latitude="11.931" location="Kurukkanpuzha" longLatPrecision="77" longitude="75.836" municipality="Aaralam Wildlife Sanctuary" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-female="1" stateProvince="Kerala">
<specimenCount box="[160,180,1389,1412]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" type="female"></specimenCount>
(
<collectingCounty box="[200,283,1389,1414]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">Figures</collectingCounty>
9,10ah,11ah)
<collectingCountry box="[480,539,1389,1414]" name="India" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">India</collectingCountry>
:
<collectingRegion box="[555,628,1389,1414]" country="India" name="Kerala" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">Kerala</collectingRegion>
, Kannur district,
<collectingMunicipality box="[833,1153,1389,1414]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">Aaralam Wildlife Sanctuary</collectingMunicipality>
,
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:19168793FF89FF94FF5DFC3270780A85:9460605EFF89FF89FF03FA5A70250AE4" box="[160,334,1424,1449]" country="India" county="Figures" latitude="11.931" longLatPrecision="77" longitude="75.836" municipality="Aaralam Wildlife Sanctuary" name="Kurukkanpuzha" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" stateProvince="Kerala">Kurukkanpuzha</location>
(
<geoCoordinate box="[348,452,1424,1449]" degrees="11.931" direction="north" orientation="latitude" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" precision="55" value="11.931">11.931°N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate box="[463,562,1424,1449]" degrees="75.836" direction="east" orientation="longitude" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" precision="55" value="75.836">75.836°E</geoCoordinate>
; alt.
<quantity box="[613,686,1424,1449]" metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.1" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" unit="m" value="110.0">
<elevation box="[613,686,1424,1449]" metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.1" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" unit="m" value="110.0">110 m</elevation>
</quantity>
),
<date box="[705,875,1424,1449]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" value="2021-03-25">
<collectingDate box="[705,875,1424,1449]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" value="2021-03-25">25 March 2021</collectingDate>
</date>
, coll
</materialsCitation>
<materialsCitation box="[928,959,1424,1449]" collectingDate="2021-03-25" country="India" county="Figures" elevation="110" isTailEnumeration="true" latitude="11.931" location="Kurukkanpuzha" longLatPrecision="77" longitude="75.836" municipality="Aaralam Wildlife Sanctuary" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Kerala">. D</materialsCitation>
<materialsCitation collectionCode="ZSI, LTEO, ZSIK" country="India" location="Ghosh" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Kerala">
.
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:19168793FF89FF94FF5DFC3270780A85:9460605EFF89FF89FC69FA5A757E0AE4" box="[970,1045,1424,1449]" country="India" name="Ghosh" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" stateProvince="Kerala">Ghosh</location>
,
<collectionCode box="[1056,1155,1424,1449]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">ZSI LTEO</collectionCode>
team. (
<emphasis bold="true" box="[238,292,1458,1483]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">
<collectionCode box="[238,292,1458,1483]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">ZSIK</collectionCode>
</emphasis>
)
</materialsCitation>
<materialsCitation box="[307,367,1458,1483]" country="India" location="Regd" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Kerala">
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:19168793FF89FF94FF5DFC3270780A85:9460605EFF89FF89FE90FA7870040A86" box="[307,367,1458,1483]" country="India" name="Regd" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" stateProvince="Kerala">Regd</location>
</materialsCitation>
.
<materialsCitation box="[377,412,1458,1483]" country="India" location="No" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Kerala">
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:19168793FF89FF94FF5DFC3270780A85:9460605EFF89FF89FEDAFA7870F70A86" box="[377,412,1458,1483]" country="India" name="No" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" stateProvince="Kerala">No</location>
</materialsCitation>
.
<collectionCode box="[422,459,1458,1483]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">ZSI</collectionCode>
/
<collectionCode box="[466,543,1458,1483]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">WGRC</collectionCode>
/IR/INV.22004.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection lastPageId="17" lastPageNumber="1644" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639" type="description">
<paragraph blockId="12.[160,1155,1529,1728]" box="[160,301,1529,1555]" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,301,1529,1555]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">Recognition</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="12.[160,1155,1529,1728]" lastBlockId="13.[160,1156,1044,1381]" lastPageId="13" lastPageNumber="1640" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">
Antenna attached at lower margin of clypeus (
<figureCitation box="[687,805,1565,1590]" captionStart="Figure 8" captionStartId="13.[160,225,878,901]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,844]" captionTargetId="figure-219@13.[163,1153,142,846]" captionTargetPageId="13" captionText="Figure 8. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 holotype ♀. (a) Habitus, lateral view; (b) metasoma (excluding ovipositor sheath), dorsal view; (c) head, frontal view; (d) head and mesosoma, dorsal view; (e) type labels." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340904" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340904/files/figure.png" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">Figures 8c</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation box="[815,858,1565,1590]" captionStart="Figure 10" captionStartId="15.[160,225,1588,1611]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,1554]" captionTargetId="figure-3@15.[163,1153,142,1556]" captionTargetPageId="15" captionText="Figure 10. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 ♀. (a) Head, lateral view; (b) clava,enlarged view; (d) head,frontal view;(e) lower face and clypeus, frontal view; (e) head, dorsal view; (f) mesosoma, dorsal view; (g) mesosoma, lateral view; (h) propodeum." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340910" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340910/files/figure.png" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">10d</figureCitation>
); scrobal margin distinctly carinate, forming sharp conspicuously produced angle in front of eye; postorbital carina distinct, obsolete at genotemporal margin (
<figureCitation box="[646,763,1634,1659]" captionStart="Figure 8" captionStartId="13.[160,225,878,901]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,844]" captionTargetId="figure-219@13.[163,1153,142,846]" captionTargetPageId="13" captionText="Figure 8. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 holotype ♀. (a) Habitus, lateral view; (b) metasoma (excluding ovipositor sheath), dorsal view; (c) head, frontal view; (d) head and mesosoma, dorsal view; (e) type labels." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340904" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340904/files/figure.png" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">Figures 8a</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation box="[772,813,1634,1659]" captionStart="Figure 10" captionStartId="15.[160,225,1588,1611]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,1554]" captionTargetId="figure-3@15.[163,1153,142,1556]" captionTargetPageId="15" captionText="Figure 10. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 ♀. (a) Head, lateral view; (b) clava,enlarged view; (d) head,frontal view;(e) lower face and clypeus, frontal view; (e) head, dorsal view; (f) mesosoma, dorsal view; (g) mesosoma, lateral view; (h) propodeum." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340910" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340910/files/figure.png" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">10a</figureCitation>
); pronotum subquadrate, with two raised projections medially (
<figureCitation box="[550,675,1669,1694]" captionStart="Figure 8" captionStartId="13.[160,225,878,901]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,844]" captionTargetId="figure-219@13.[163,1153,142,846]" captionTargetPageId="13" captionText="Figure 8. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 holotype ♀. (a) Habitus, lateral view; (b) metasoma (excluding ovipositor sheath), dorsal view; (c) head, frontal view; (d) head and mesosoma, dorsal view; (e) type labels." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340904" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340904/files/figure.png" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">Figures 8d</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation box="[691,726,1669,1694]" captionStart="Figure 10" captionStartId="15.[160,225,1588,1611]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,1554]" captionTargetId="figure-3@15.[163,1153,142,1556]" captionTargetPageId="15" captionText="Figure 10. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 ♀. (a) Head, lateral view; (b) clava,enlarged view; (d) head,frontal view;(e) lower face and clypeus, frontal view; (e) head, dorsal view; (f) mesosoma, dorsal view; (g) mesosoma, lateral view; (h) propodeum." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340910" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340910/files/figure.png" pageId="12" pageNumber="1639">10f</figureCitation>
); hind coxa without any dorsobasal protuberances or tooth; hind femur ventrally with 910 teeth, basal one subequal in size to succeeding one (
<figureCitation box="[436,555,1044,1069]" captionStart="Figure 8" captionStartId="13.[160,225,878,901]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,844]" captionTargetId="figure-219@13.[163,1153,142,846]" captionTargetPageId="13" captionText="Figure 8. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 holotype ♀. (a) Habitus, lateral view; (b) metasoma (excluding ovipositor sheath), dorsal view; (c) head, frontal view; (d) head and mesosoma, dorsal view; (e) type labels." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340904" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340904/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="1640">Figures 8a</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation box="[567,606,1044,1069]" captionStart="Figure 11" captionStartId="16.[160,225,1587,1610]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,1554]" captionTargetId="figure-3@16.[163,1153,142,1556]" captionTargetPageId="16" captionText="Figure 11. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 ♀. (a) Wings; (b) fore leg; (c) hind leg; (d) hind leg, inner view (arrow indicating inner-basal tooth); (e) metasoma (excluding ovipositor sheath), dorsal view; (f) metasoma, lateral view; (g) metasomal terga (excluding ovipositor sheath) enlarged, lateral view; (h) ovipositor sheath." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340912" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340912/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="1640">11c</figureCitation>
); Rs vein of fore wing indicated as a pigmented fold (
<figureCitation box="[221,342,1078,1103]" captionStart="Figure 8" captionStartId="13.[160,225,878,901]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,844]" captionTargetId="figure-219@13.[163,1153,142,846]" captionTargetPageId="13" captionText="Figure 8. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 holotype ♀. (a) Habitus, lateral view; (b) metasoma (excluding ovipositor sheath), dorsal view; (c) head, frontal view; (d) head and mesosoma, dorsal view; (e) type labels." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340904" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340904/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="1640">Figures 8a</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation box="[355,395,1078,1103]" captionStart="Figure 11" captionStartId="16.[160,225,1587,1610]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,1554]" captionTargetId="figure-3@16.[163,1153,142,1556]" captionTargetPageId="16" captionText="Figure 11. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 ♀. (a) Wings; (b) fore leg; (c) hind leg; (d) hind leg, inner view (arrow indicating inner-basal tooth); (e) metasoma (excluding ovipositor sheath), dorsal view; (f) metasoma, lateral view; (g) metasomal terga (excluding ovipositor sheath) enlarged, lateral view; (h) ovipositor sheath." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340912" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340912/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="1640">11a</figureCitation>
); mesosoma with raised rasp-like sculpture in profile; propodeum with large irregular and smooth variably sized areola; metasoma with a short petiole visible dorsally (
<figureCitation box="[352,479,1148,1173]" captionStart="Figure 8" captionStartId="13.[160,225,878,901]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,844]" captionTargetId="figure-219@13.[163,1153,142,846]" captionTargetPageId="13" captionText="Figure 8. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 holotype ♀. (a) Habitus, lateral view; (b) metasoma (excluding ovipositor sheath), dorsal view; (c) head, frontal view; (d) head and mesosoma, dorsal view; (e) type labels." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340904" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340904/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="1640">Figures 8b</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation box="[494,537,1148,1173]" captionStart="Figure 10" captionStartId="15.[160,225,1588,1611]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,1554]" captionTargetId="figure-3@15.[163,1153,142,1556]" captionTargetPageId="15" captionText="Figure 10. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 ♀. (a) Head, lateral view; (b) clava,enlarged view; (d) head,frontal view;(e) lower face and clypeus, frontal view; (e) head, dorsal view; (f) mesosoma, dorsal view; (g) mesosoma, lateral view; (h) propodeum." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340910" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340910/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="1640">10h</figureCitation>
); Gt1 smooth, largest, occupying 0.5× of metasoma (excluding ovipositor); Gt2 telescopic behind Gt1; Gt3 distinctly pitted on anterior half; Gt4Gt6 regularly pitted, laterally setigerous; surface shiny on Gt1Gt4, Gt5Gt6 with matt surface; Gt6 coarsely punctate with six rows of punctures, spiracle rounded, prominent, peritreme well expanded from surface; syntergum distinctly pitted (
<figureCitation box="[960,1084,1286,1311]" captionStart="Figure 8" captionStartId="13.[160,225,878,901]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,844]" captionTargetId="figure-219@13.[163,1153,142,846]" captionTargetPageId="13" captionText="Figure 8. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 holotype ♀. (a) Habitus, lateral view; (b) metasoma (excluding ovipositor sheath), dorsal view; (c) head, frontal view; (d) head and mesosoma, dorsal view; (e) type labels." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340904" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340904/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="1640">Figures 8b</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation box="[1100,1142,1286,1311]" captionStart="Figure 11" captionStartId="16.[160,225,1587,1610]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,1554]" captionTargetId="figure-3@16.[163,1153,142,1556]" captionTargetPageId="16" captionText="Figure 11. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 ♀. (a) Wings; (b) fore leg; (c) hind leg; (d) hind leg, inner view (arrow indicating inner-basal tooth); (e) metasoma (excluding ovipositor sheath), dorsal view; (f) metasoma, lateral view; (g) metasomal terga (excluding ovipositor sheath) enlarged, lateral view; (h) ovipositor sheath." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340912" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340912/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="1640">
<quantity box="[1100,1142,1286,1311]" metricMagnitude="-2" metricUnit="kg" metricValue="1.1" pageId="13" pageNumber="1640" unit="g" value="11.0">11g</quantity>
</figureCitation>
); ovipositor sheath long, 1.26× as long as metasoma (excluding ovipositor sheath) (
<figureCitation box="[168,286,1356,1381]" captionStart="Figure 8" captionStartId="13.[160,225,878,901]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,844]" captionTargetId="figure-219@13.[163,1153,142,846]" captionTargetPageId="13" captionText="Figure 8. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 holotype ♀. (a) Habitus, lateral view; (b) metasoma (excluding ovipositor sheath), dorsal view; (c) head, frontal view; (d) head and mesosoma, dorsal view; (e) type labels." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340904" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340904/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="1640">Figures 8a</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation box="[296,310,1356,1381]" captionStart="Figure 9" captionStartId="14.[160,225,877,900]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,843]" captionTargetId="figure-253@14.[163,1153,142,845]" captionTargetPageId="14" captionText="Figure 9. Habitus of ♀ Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340906" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340906/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="1640">9</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<caption ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340904" ID-Zenodo-Dep="7340904" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340904/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="1640" startId="13.[160,225,878,901]" targetBox="[164,1151,143,844]" targetPageId="13">
<paragraph blockId="13.[160,1157,878,960]" pageId="13" pageNumber="1640">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,252,878,901]" pageId="13" pageNumber="1640">Figure 8.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName authority="Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018" authorityName="Sureshan and Girish Kumar" authorityYear="2018" box="[262,902,878,901]" class="Insecta" family="Chalcididae" genus="Megachalcis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="13" pageNumber="1640" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kannapuramensis">
<emphasis box="[262,557,878,901]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="1640">Megachalcis kannapuramensis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="Sureshan PM &amp; Girish Kumar P &amp; Charesh C" box="[566,902,878,901]" pageId="13" pageNumber="1640" pagination="180 - 184" refId="ref12554" refString="Sureshan PM, Girish Kumar P, Charesh C. 2018. Description of a new species of Megachalcis Cameron (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Chalcididae) from India with a revised key to species. Halteres. 9: 180 - 184." type="journal article" year="2018">Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
holotype ♀. (a) Habitus, lateral view; (b) metasoma (excluding ovipositor sheath), dorsal view; (c) head, frontal view; (d) head and mesosoma, dorsal view; (e) type labels.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph blockId="13.[160,1155,1425,1520]" box="[160,320,1425,1451]" pageId="13" pageNumber="1640">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,320,1425,1451]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="1640">Redescription</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="13.[160,1155,1425,1520]" pageId="13" pageNumber="1640">
<specimenCount box="[160,180,1460,1483]" pageId="13" pageNumber="1640" type="female"></specimenCount>
(
<figureCitation box="[193,294,1460,1485]" captionStart="Figure 9" captionStartId="14.[160,225,877,900]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,843]" captionTargetId="figure-253@14.[163,1153,142,845]" captionTargetPageId="14" captionText="Figure 9. Habitus of ♀ Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340906" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340906/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="1640">Figures 9</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation box="[305,376,1460,1485]" captionStart="Figure 10" captionStartId="15.[160,225,1588,1611]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,1554]" captionTargetId="figure-3@15.[163,1153,142,1556]" captionTargetPageId="15" captionText="Figure 10. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 ♀. (a) Head, lateral view; (b) clava,enlarged view; (d) head,frontal view;(e) lower face and clypeus, frontal view; (e) head, dorsal view; (f) mesosoma, dorsal view; (g) mesosoma, lateral view; (h) propodeum." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340910" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340910/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="1640">10ah</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation box="[385,453,1460,1485]" captionStart="Figure 11" captionStartId="16.[160,225,1587,1610]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,1554]" captionTargetId="figure-3@16.[163,1153,142,1556]" captionTargetPageId="16" captionText="Figure 11. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 ♀. (a) Wings; (b) fore leg; (c) hind leg; (d) hind leg, inner view (arrow indicating inner-basal tooth); (e) metasoma (excluding ovipositor sheath), dorsal view; (f) metasoma, lateral view; (g) metasomal terga (excluding ovipositor sheath) enlarged, lateral view; (h) ovipositor sheath." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340912" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340912/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="1640">11ah</figureCitation>
) Body length
<quantity box="[608,718,1460,1485]" metricMagnitude="-2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.029" pageId="13" pageNumber="1640" unit="mm" value="10.29">10.29 mm</quantity>
(including ovipositor sheath); length of fore wing
<quantity box="[275,376,1495,1520]" metricMagnitude="-3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="5.12" pageId="13" pageNumber="1640" unit="mm" value="5.12">5.12 mm</quantity>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="13.[160,1156,1564,1728]" pageId="13" pageNumber="1640">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,245,1564,1590]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="1640">Colour.</emphasis>
Body black with the following parts variably coloured: eyes and ocelli reflective red-gold, radicle liver-brown, flagellar segments brown-black, tegula liver-brown, wing lamina brown, veins deep brown; all coxae brown-black, trochanters liver-brown, fore and mid femora and tibiae red-brown with base and apex paler, all tarsi red-brown, metasoma black with posterior margin of terga brown.
</paragraph>
<caption ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340906" ID-Zenodo-Dep="7340906" box="[160,1026,877,900]" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340906/files/figure.png" pageId="14" pageNumber="1641" startId="14.[160,225,877,900]" targetBox="[164,1151,143,843]" targetPageId="14">
<paragraph blockId="14.[160,1026,877,900]" box="[160,1026,877,900]" pageId="14" pageNumber="1641">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,250,877,900]" pageId="14" pageNumber="1641">Figure 9.</emphasis>
Habitus of ♀
<taxonomicName authority="Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018" authorityName="Sureshan and Girish Kumar" authorityYear="2018" box="[393,1021,877,900]" class="Insecta" family="Chalcididae" genus="Megachalcis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="1641" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kannapuramensis">
<emphasis box="[393,685,877,900]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="1641">Megachalcis kannapuramensis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="Sureshan PM &amp; Girish Kumar P &amp; Charesh C" box="[693,1021,877,900]" pageId="14" pageNumber="1641" pagination="180 - 184" refId="ref12554" refString="Sureshan PM, Girish Kumar P, Charesh C. 2018. Description of a new species of Megachalcis Cameron (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Chalcididae) from India with a revised key to species. Halteres. 9: 180 - 184." type="journal article" year="2018">Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph blockId="14.[160,1156,975,1209]" pageId="14" pageNumber="1641">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,265,975,1001]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="1641">Setation.</emphasis>
Face with moderately dense white setae arising from both punctae and interspaces; golden setae on vertex, clypeus and mandible (
<figureCitation box="[769,888,1011,1036]" captionStart="Figure 10" captionStartId="15.[160,225,1588,1611]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,1554]" captionTargetId="figure-3@15.[163,1153,142,1556]" captionTargetPageId="15" captionText="Figure 10. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 ♀. (a) Head, lateral view; (b) clava,enlarged view; (d) head,frontal view;(e) lower face and clypeus, frontal view; (e) head, dorsal view; (f) mesosoma, dorsal view; (g) mesosoma, lateral view; (h) propodeum." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340910" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340910/files/figure.png" pageId="14" pageNumber="1641">Figure 10d</figureCitation>
); adpressed white setae on scape; gena densely pubescent; pronotum anteriorly with moderately dense yellowbrown setae, remainder with sparse suberect setae throughout mesosoma; tuft of long white setae on axilla; propodeum with moderately dense setae on dorsum; legs with short, moderately dense white setae; metasoma with long white pubescence laterally arising from pits.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="14.[160,1156,1269,1711]" pageId="14" pageNumber="1641">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,229,1269,1295]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="1641">Head.</emphasis>
Head distinctly wider than mesosoma in dorsal view (1.13×), coarsely rugosepunctate; OOL 1.17× POL, 1.45× OD; POL with short raised humps; occiput with similar sculpture to that on vertex (
<figureCitation box="[466,583,1339,1364]" captionStart="Figure 10" captionStartId="15.[160,225,1588,1611]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,1554]" captionTargetId="figure-3@15.[163,1153,142,1556]" captionTargetPageId="15" captionText="Figure 10. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 ♀. (a) Head, lateral view; (b) clava,enlarged view; (d) head,frontal view;(e) lower face and clypeus, frontal view; (e) head, dorsal view; (f) mesosoma, dorsal view; (g) mesosoma, lateral view; (h) propodeum." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340910" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340910/files/figure.png" pageId="14" pageNumber="1641">Figure 10e</figureCitation>
); in frontal view, head 1.42× as wide as long, rugose punctate with large shiny setigerous areola; preorbital indicated; scrobal margin distinctly carinate, scrobal margin prominently angulate in profile in front of dorsal and ventral margin of eye, scrobal surface reticulate, maximum width of scrobe 0.5× median interocular width; scrobe at most meeting anterior ocellus; interantennal projection finely punctate, 0.36× as long as scrobe (
<figureCitation box="[584,740,1512,1537]" captionStart="Figure 10" captionStartId="15.[160,225,1588,1611]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,1554]" captionTargetId="figure-3@15.[163,1153,142,1556]" captionTargetPageId="15" captionText="Figure 10. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 ♀. (a) Head, lateral view; (b) clava,enlarged view; (d) head,frontal view;(e) lower face and clypeus, frontal view; (e) head, dorsal view; (f) mesosoma, dorsal view; (g) mesosoma, lateral view; (h) propodeum." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340910" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340910/files/figure.png" pageId="14" pageNumber="1641">Figure 10c, d</figureCitation>
); mandible bidentate (
<figureCitation box="[1015,1142,1512,1537]" captionStart="Figure 10" captionStartId="15.[160,225,1588,1611]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,1554]" captionTargetId="figure-3@15.[163,1153,142,1556]" captionTargetPageId="15" captionText="Figure 10. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 ♀. (a) Head, lateral view; (b) clava,enlarged view; (d) head,frontal view;(e) lower face and clypeus, frontal view; (e) head, dorsal view; (f) mesosoma, dorsal view; (g) mesosoma, lateral view; (h) propodeum." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340910" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340910/files/figure.png" pageId="14" pageNumber="1641">Figure 10d</figureCitation>
); antenna inserted slightly below ventral margin of eye; scape not attaining median ocellus; two anelli indicated; clava 2-segmented; genotemporal margin carinate, straight; postorbital carina distinct, moving along outer eye margin onto occiput (
<figureCitation box="[934,1053,1616,1641]" captionStart="Figure 10" captionStartId="15.[160,225,1588,1611]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,1554]" captionTargetId="figure-3@15.[163,1153,142,1556]" captionTargetPageId="15" captionText="Figure 10. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 ♀. (a) Head, lateral view; (b) clava,enlarged view; (d) head,frontal view;(e) lower face and clypeus, frontal view; (e) head, dorsal view; (f) mesosoma, dorsal view; (g) mesosoma, lateral view; (h) propodeum." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340910" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340910/files/figure.png" pageId="14" pageNumber="1641">Figure 10a</figureCitation>
); relative length of scape, pedicel, anellus, funiculars and clava = 6.7: 1.1: 0.8: 2.0: 2.2: 2.1: 2.0: 1.9: 1.6: 1.3: 1.7: 2.9.
</paragraph>
<caption ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340910" ID-Zenodo-Dep="7340910" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340910/files/figure.png" pageId="15" pageNumber="1642" startId="15.[160,225,1588,1611]" targetBox="[164,1151,143,1554]" targetPageId="15">
<paragraph blockId="15.[160,1157,1588,1670]" pageId="15" pageNumber="1642">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,264,1588,1611]" pageId="15" pageNumber="1642">Figure 10.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName authority="Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018" authorityName="Sureshan and Girish Kumar" authorityYear="2018" box="[271,901,1588,1611]" class="Insecta" family="Chalcididae" genus="Megachalcis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="15" pageNumber="1642" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kannapuramensis">
<emphasis box="[271,564,1588,1611]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="1642">Megachalcis kannapuramensis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="Sureshan PM &amp; Girish Kumar P &amp; Charesh C" box="[571,901,1588,1611]" pageId="15" pageNumber="1642" pagination="180 - 184" refId="ref12554" refString="Sureshan PM, Girish Kumar P, Charesh C. 2018. Description of a new species of Megachalcis Cameron (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Chalcididae) from India with a revised key to species. Halteres. 9: 180 - 184." type="journal article" year="2018">Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
♀. (a) Head, lateral view; (b) clava, enlarged view; (d) head, frontal view; (e) lower face and clypeus, frontal view; (e) head, dorsal view; (f) mesosoma, dorsal view; (g) mesosoma, lateral view; (h) propodeum.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<caption ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340912" ID-Zenodo-Dep="7340912" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340912/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="1643" startId="16.[160,225,1587,1610]" targetBox="[164,1151,143,1554]" targetPageId="16">
<paragraph blockId="16.[160,1156,1587,1698]" pageId="16" pageNumber="1643">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,264,1587,1610]" pageId="16" pageNumber="1643">Figure 11.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName authority="Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018" authorityName="Sureshan and Girish Kumar" authorityYear="2018" box="[270,897,1587,1610]" class="Insecta" family="Chalcididae" genus="Megachalcis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="16" pageNumber="1643" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kannapuramensis">
<emphasis box="[270,563,1587,1610]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="1643">Megachalcis kannapuramensis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="Sureshan PM &amp; Girish Kumar P &amp; Charesh C" box="[570,897,1587,1610]" pageId="16" pageNumber="1643" pagination="180 - 184" refId="ref12554" refString="Sureshan PM, Girish Kumar P, Charesh C. 2018. Description of a new species of Megachalcis Cameron (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Chalcididae) from India with a revised key to species. Halteres. 9: 180 - 184." type="journal article" year="2018">Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
♀. (a) Wings; (b) fore leg; (c) hind leg; (d) hind leg, inner view (arrow indicating inner-basal tooth); (e) metasoma (excluding ovipositor sheath), dorsal view; (f) metasoma, lateral view; (g) metasomal terga (excluding ovipositor sheath) enlarged, lateral view; (h) ovipositor sheath.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph blockId="17.[160,1156,142,584]" pageId="17" pageNumber="1644">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,295,142,168]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="1644">Mesosoma.</emphasis>
Pronotum quadrate, 3.75× as long as wide, with varyingly sized areola, anteriorly small becoming large posteriorly, margins conspicuously rugate, forming submedian tubercles, posterior margin of pronotum deeply emarginate inwards; mesoscutum 2.9× as long as wide, with irregular variable sized punctures, anteriorly small, becoming large posteriorly, middle lobe of mesoscutum punctate, margins carinate; lateral lobe of mesoscutum punctate with margin conspicuously rugate; scutellum small, 1.41× as long as wide with large areola, basad of axilla with prominent tuft of pale yellow setae, apical margin of scutellum conspicuously emarginated (
<figureCitation box="[1025,1142,386,411]" captionStart="Figure 10" captionStartId="15.[160,225,1588,1611]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,1554]" captionTargetId="figure-3@15.[163,1153,142,1556]" captionTargetPageId="15" captionText="Figure 10. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 ♀. (a) Head, lateral view; (b) clava,enlarged view; (d) head,frontal view;(e) lower face and clypeus, frontal view; (e) head, dorsal view; (f) mesosoma, dorsal view; (g) mesosoma, lateral view; (h) propodeum." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340910" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340910/files/figure.png" pageId="17" pageNumber="1644">Figure 10f</figureCitation>
); lateral lobe of pronotum coarsely rugose; propleura engraved reticulate; meso and metapleura with similar sculpturing to that of thoracic notum (
<figureCitation box="[878,1000,455,480]" captionStart="Figure 10" captionStartId="15.[160,225,1588,1611]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,1554]" captionTargetId="figure-3@15.[163,1153,142,1556]" captionTargetPageId="15" captionText="Figure 10. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 ♀. (a) Head, lateral view; (b) clava,enlarged view; (d) head,frontal view;(e) lower face and clypeus, frontal view; (e) head, dorsal view; (f) mesosoma, dorsal view; (g) mesosoma, lateral view; (h) propodeum." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340910" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340910/files/figure.png" pageId="17" pageNumber="1644">
Figure
<quantity box="[958,1000,455,480]" metricMagnitude="-2" metricUnit="kg" metricValue="1.0" pageId="17" pageNumber="1644" unit="g" value="10.0">10g</quantity>
</figureCitation>
); propodeum gradually declining onto metasoma, with dense white setae along the costula; spiracles subhorizontal, bean-shaped and well exposed; transverse and sublateral carina prominent; lateral teeth distinct (
<figureCitation box="[466,586,559,584]" captionStart="Figure 10" captionStartId="15.[160,225,1588,1611]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,1554]" captionTargetId="figure-3@15.[163,1153,142,1556]" captionTargetPageId="15" captionText="Figure 10. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 ♀. (a) Head, lateral view; (b) clava,enlarged view; (d) head,frontal view;(e) lower face and clypeus, frontal view; (e) head, dorsal view; (f) mesosoma, dorsal view; (g) mesosoma, lateral view; (h) propodeum." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340910" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340910/files/figure.png" pageId="17" pageNumber="1644">Figure 10h</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="17.[160,1156,643,808]" pageId="17" pageNumber="1644">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,219,643,669]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="1644">Legs.</emphasis>
Fore coxa wide, as long as wide (
<figureCitation box="[621,744,644,669]" captionStart="Figure 11" captionStartId="16.[160,225,1587,1610]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,1554]" captionTargetId="figure-3@16.[163,1153,142,1556]" captionTargetPageId="16" captionText="Figure 11. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 ♀. (a) Wings; (b) fore leg; (c) hind leg; (d) hind leg, inner view (arrow indicating inner-basal tooth); (e) metasoma (excluding ovipositor sheath), dorsal view; (f) metasoma, lateral view; (g) metasomal terga (excluding ovipositor sheath) enlarged, lateral view; (h) ovipositor sheath." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340912" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340912/files/figure.png" pageId="17" pageNumber="1644">Figure 11b</figureCitation>
); hind coxa smooth with numerous setigerous punctures, no dorsobasal tooth or protuberance; outer disc of hind femur smooth and shiny with numerous setigerous pits, inner basal protuberance present (
<figureCitation box="[168,292,748,773]" captionStart="Figure 10" captionStartId="15.[160,225,1588,1611]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,1554]" captionTargetId="figure-3@15.[163,1153,142,1556]" captionTargetPageId="15" captionText="Figure 10. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 ♀. (a) Head, lateral view; (b) clava,enlarged view; (d) head,frontal view;(e) lower face and clypeus, frontal view; (e) head, dorsal view; (f) mesosoma, dorsal view; (g) mesosoma, lateral view; (h) propodeum." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340910" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340910/files/figure.png" pageId="17" pageNumber="1644">Figure 10d</figureCitation>
); ventrally with 910 teeth, basal one larger than rest of subequal teeth; hind tibia coarsely pitted (
<figureCitation box="[456,573,783,808]" captionStart="Figure 10" captionStartId="15.[160,225,1588,1611]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,1554]" captionTargetId="figure-3@15.[163,1153,142,1556]" captionTargetPageId="15" captionText="Figure 10. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 ♀. (a) Head, lateral view; (b) clava,enlarged view; (d) head,frontal view;(e) lower face and clypeus, frontal view; (e) head, dorsal view; (f) mesosoma, dorsal view; (g) mesosoma, lateral view; (h) propodeum." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340910" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340910/files/figure.png" pageId="17" pageNumber="1644">Figure 10c</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="17.[160,1156,868,963]" pageId="17" pageNumber="1644">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,241,868,894]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="1644">Wings.</emphasis>
Lamina infumate brown; fore wing with PMV 1.8× MV, SMV 2.7× MV, STV 0.2× PMV; lamina densely setose; Rs vein clearly indicated, present as a pigmented fold (
<figureCitation box="[168,287,938,963]" captionStart="Figure 10" captionStartId="15.[160,225,1588,1611]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,1554]" captionTargetId="figure-3@15.[163,1153,142,1556]" captionTargetPageId="15" captionText="Figure 10. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 ♀. (a) Head, lateral view; (b) clava,enlarged view; (d) head,frontal view;(e) lower face and clypeus, frontal view; (e) head, dorsal view; (f) mesosoma, dorsal view; (g) mesosoma, lateral view; (h) propodeum." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340910" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340910/files/figure.png" pageId="17" pageNumber="1644">Figure 10a</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="17.[160,1156,1022,1360]" pageId="17" pageNumber="1644">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,292,1022,1048]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="1644">Metasoma.</emphasis>
Metasoma (excluding ovipositor sheath) longer than combined lengths of head and mesosoma (1.2×), metasoma including ovipositor 2.64× as long as lengths of head and mesosoma combined; short petiole visible dorsally; Gt1 with basal fovea, 0.5× as long as combined length of remaining tergites, dorsum shiny with scattered shallow pits medially, posterior 1/3rd smooth; Gt2 telescopic beneath Gt1; Gt3 with 67 rows of pits on anterior half, posterior half smooth, shiny; Gt4 distinctly pitted, a median impunctate strip on dorsum; Gt5 and Gt6 densely pitted, with a distinct median carina; spiracle on Gt4 prominent, peritreme distinctly produced laterally; syntergum 1.56× as long as Gt6, pitted anteriorly, posteriorly smooth; ovipositor sheath 0.56× as long as entire length of metasoma, 1.26× as long as metasomal terga combined (
<figureCitation box="[749,897,1335,1360]" captionStart="Figure 11" captionStartId="16.[160,225,1587,1610]" captionTargetBox="[164,1151,143,1554]" captionTargetId="figure-3@16.[163,1153,142,1556]" captionTargetPageId="16" captionText="Figure 11. Megachalcis kannapuramensis Sureshan and Girish Kumar, 2018 ♀. (a) Wings; (b) fore leg; (c) hind leg; (d) hind leg, inner view (arrow indicating inner-basal tooth); (e) metasoma (excluding ovipositor sheath), dorsal view; (f) metasoma, lateral view; (g) metasomal terga (excluding ovipositor sheath) enlarged, lateral view; (h) ovipositor sheath." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340912" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7340912/files/figure.png" pageId="17" pageNumber="1644">Figure 11eh</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="17.[160,275,1419,1480]" box="[160,218,1419,1445]" pageId="17" pageNumber="1644">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,218,1419,1445]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="1644">Male</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="17.[160,275,1419,1480]" box="[160,275,1455,1480]" pageId="17" pageNumber="1644">Unknown.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
</document>