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Epitranus oxytelus Boucek 1982

  • 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

Epitranus oxytelus Bouček, 1982

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Epitranus oxytelus Bouček, 1982

Material examined

INDIA: Goa, Sattari, Ambedem, 11 March 2019, 1 female, yellow pan trap, coll. Sandesh Gawas.

Description

Female, length of the body 3.4 mm.

Colour. Body largely black. Scape, pedicel, fore leg and hindleg (except coxae) and hind tarsi yellowish brown. Hind tibia reddish brown dorsally and black ventrally. Hind femur black apical and basal reddish-brown region. Metasoma black dorsally and laterally and yellowish-brown on the ventral and apical region.

Head. Triangular, wider than high in frontal view. Scrobe flat with striations. Antennae stout with apical half swollen. Scape 5× longer than its width. Clava 2× longer than its basal width.

Mesosoma. Pronotum, mesoscutum and scutellum thickly punctate, with interstices narrower than the diameter of punctures. Fore wing without post-marginal vein and stigmal vein.

Metasoma. Petiolated with longitudinal carinae. Petiole more than 3× long as broad. Petiole shorter than metasoma in length.

Distribution

INDIA. Goa (new record), Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu (Emiliyamma 2016; Gowriprakash 2019).

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 page 366, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2024.2315671, http://zenodo.org/record/11059701

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2019-03-11
Verbatim event date
2019-03-11
Scientific name authorship
Boucek
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Chalcididae
Genus
Epitranus
Species
oxytelus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Epitranus oxytelus Boucek, 1982 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.
  • Gowriprakash J (2019). Morphology versus molecular phylogeny in diagnosing Indian Chalcididae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) [PhD thesis]. Department of Entomology, Annamalai University.