Epitranus oxytelus Boucek 1982
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
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).
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Additional details
Identifiers
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.