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Brachymeria jambolana Gahan 1942

  • 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

Brachymeria jambolana Gahan, 1942

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Brachymeria jambolana Gahan, 1942

Material examined

INDIA: Goa, Dharbandora, Mollem National Park, 21 November 2019, 2 females, yellow pan trap, coll. Sandesh Gawas.

Description

Female, length of the body 3.5–3.8 mm.

Colour. Body black with following yellow: tegulae, the apex of fore and mid femur, fore and mid tibia, all tarsi, lateral and dorsal surface of hind tibia and apex of the hind femur.

Head. Distinctly wider than high. Pre-orbital carina absent and postorbital carina present. POL 2× OOL.

Mesosoma. Pronotum, mesoscutum and scutellum densely punctate, interstices carinate. Scutellum rounded at apex. Fore wing with post-marginal vein shorter than marginal vein and longer than stigmal vein. Ventral margin of hind femur with 10 teeth of distinct sizes.

Distribution

INDIA. Goa (new record), Kerala, Karnataka, Meghalaya, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal (Sheela et al. 2015; Emiliyamma 2016).

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 358-360, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2024.2315671, http://zenodo.org/record/11059701

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2019-11-21
Verbatim event date
2019-11-21
Scientific name authorship
Gahan
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Chalcididae
Genus
Brachymeria
Species
jambolana
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Brachymeria jambolana Gahan, 1942 sec. Gawas & Gupta, 2024

References

  • Sheela S, Kazmi SI, Girish Kumar P. 2015. Insecta: chalcididae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Fauna Uttar Pradesh, State Fauna Series. 22 (2): 597 - 617.
  • 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.