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D e s c r i p t i o n:
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. Head: Shining, impunctate with setigerous punctures; head width 2.36x least interocular distance (
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); eye with erect setae; ocelli forming acute triangle (
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); POL 1.06x LOL and 0.47x OOL; lower front just above antennal toruli weakly coriaceous and above that with few small irregular droplet like structures; clypeus with convex swelling in middle, lower portion with transverse lineolate markings (
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); mandible long, curved and upper and lower margin with sparse and almost uniformly spaced setae, with ridges or grooves, and with a small subapical teeth; antennae 12-segmented, stout, covered with setae, becoming slightly and very gradually thickened towards apex (
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); pedicel not concealed; length of scape: pedicel: F1: F2: F3: F4: F5: F6: F7: F8: F9: F10 = 0.161: 0.087: 0.109: 0.112: 0.111: 0.110: 0.095: 0.088: 0.087: 0.087: 0.089: 0.140 measured in profile view.
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Mesosoma: Mesosoma smooth and polished with scattered setigerous punctures (
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); collar irregularly striated, with few reticulations antero-medially; prothorax, mesothorax, and metathorax-propodeum forming three distinct, similar, and almost equal regions; striated constrictions present in between pronotum and mesonotum and also in between mesonotum and metanotum; pronotum 0.56x head width and 1.39x propodeal width; disk of scutum 1.47x as wide as long; mesopleuron smooth and with long white setae; propodeum smooth, with setigerous punctures and with few transverse striations towards posterior margin. Legs long, slender and covered with setae, tibial spurs comb-like dorsally.
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Metasoma: Smooth with scattered setigerous punctures (
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); metasoma 1.5x as long as mesosoma; T1 0.93x as long as wide and T2 0.63x as long as wide; third to last metasomal tergites and sternites basally bare; apical tergite without pygidium (
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).
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<paragraph id="8BC1982D8633A717FF40FF6EFED2BC18" blockId="2.[178,1085,219,270]" pageId="2" pageNumber="65">all tarsi brown. Body setae silvery white except dorsal aspect dull white mixed with dark brown coloration.</paragraph>
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D i s c u s s i o n: The female of this new species distinctly differs from the female of
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(CAMERON, 1897) from
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in having: (1) Basal segment of the abdomen black (Basal segment of abdomen is rufous in
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) and (2) Legs black to blackish brown except mid and hind coxae ventrally, all trochanters, base of all tibiae, all tibial spurs and all tarsi brown (Legs black in
<emphasis id="B90A443F8633A717FD71FDE0FD5BBF7F" box="[643,750,596,618]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="65">M. bicolor</emphasis>
).
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This new species also differs from the female
<emphasis id="B90A443F8633A717FD77FDCCFCE7BF98" box="[645,850,633,654]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="65">
<taxonomicName id="4C7EE3AE8633A717FD77FDCCFD5FBF98" box="[645,746,633,654]" class="Insecta" family="Tiphiidae" genus="Methocha" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="64" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Methocha</taxonomicName>
ceylonica
</emphasis>
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from
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in having: (1) Apical margin of clypeal lobe rounded (in
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, apical margin of clypeal lobe slightly emarginated); (2) POL 1.06x LOL (in
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, POL 2x LOL); (3) POL 0.47x OOL (in
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, POL 1.1x OOL); (4) Scutum and scutellum with scattered punctures as that of pronotum or propodeum (in
<emphasis id="B90A443F8633A717FBD3FD5AFEA6BE37" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="65">M. ceylonica</emphasis>
, scutum and scutellum with more scattered punctures than either pronotum or propodeum); and (5) Vestiture on thoracic dorsum dull white mixed with dark brown (in
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, vestiture on thoracic dorsum silvery).
</paragraph>
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E t y m o l o g y: The species name is derived from ̒
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̕ from which the
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is collected.
</paragraph>
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D i s t r i b u t i o n:
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:
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.
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