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Antrocephalus phaeospilus Waterston 1922

  • 1. School of Sciences (SoS), Jain University, Bangalore, India;
  • 2. Division of Germplasm Collection and Characterisation, ICAR - National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru, India

Description

Antrocephalus phaeospilus Waterston, 1922

(Figures 13, 14)

Antrocephalus sinicorum Masi, 1932

Material examined

INDIA: Goa, Tiswadi, Old Goa, 17 July 2015, 1 female, yellow pan trap, coll. Ankita Gupta; Sattari, Ambedem, 9 February 2019, 1 female, yellow pan trap, coll. Sandesh Gawas; Honda, 13 Novemebr 2015, 1 female, yellow pan trap, coll. Sandesh Gawas.

Description

Female, length of the body 4.8–5.4 mm.

Colour. Body largely black with following reddish brown: tegulae, fore leg except for coxa, mid and hindleg entirely.

Head. Triangular, slightly wider than high. Scrobe deep and striate reaching anterior ocellus. Antennae long and slender. Genotemporal furrow present. POL 5× OOL.

Mesosoma. Pronotum, mesoscutum and scutellum punctate with interstices narrower than puncture diameter. Interstices smooth and shiny. Scutellum weakly emarginate at apex.

Metasoma. Metasoma longer than mesosoma. T1 smooth and shiny with a pair of short basal carinae which are shorter than the distance between them.

Distribution

INDIA. Goa (new record), Kerala, Uttar Pradesh (Emiliyamma 2016; Basak et al. 2020).

Notes

Published as part of Gawas, Sandesh M. & Gupta, Ankita, 2024, Taxonomic studies on chalcid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Chalcididae) of Goa, India, with an illustrated key to genera and species, pp. 342-381 in Journal of Natural History 58 (9 - 12) on pages 351-353, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2024.2315671, http://zenodo.org/record/11059701

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2015-07-17 , 2019-02-09
Verbatim event date
2015-07-17 , 2019-02-09
Scientific name authorship
Waterston
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Chalcididae
Genus
Antrocephalus
Species
phaeospilus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Antrocephalus phaeospilus Waterston, 1922 sec. Gawas & Gupta, 2024

References

  • Emiliyamma KG. 2016. Studies on the taxonomy of Chalcididae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Kerala and adjacent areas with a review of known Indian species [PhD Thesis]. Department of Zoology, Mahatma Gandhi University.
  • Basak N, Rameshkumar A, Saroj S, Kazmi SI. 2020. On the collection of Chalcididae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from Dadra and Nagar Haveli, India. Rec Zool Surv India. 120 (3): 257 - 262. doi: 10. 26515 / rzsi / v 120 / i 3 / 2020 / 150304.