Brachymeria jambolana Gahan 1942
Authors/Creators
- 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).
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Additional details
Identifiers
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.